02 Sep 2023
I will never look at street art and graffiti the same way again after taking this tour!
Our tour guide, Susana Vasquez Torres, was brilliant. She is a Peruvian artist living in Berlin and she has a master's in Art in Context from the Berlin University of Art. She brought her incredible expertise to this tour, showing us a carefully curated selection of different pieces by a large diversity of artists around the city. We saw everything from graffiti and street art (thanks to Susana I know the difference!), to paste-ups, stickers, and sculptures, to political activist art and art that is just here to spark joy. Her tour style is very interactive - she asked us questions and prompted us to offer our own interpretations of the work.
After this tour, I find myself walking around Berlin noticing the works of the different artists she showed us. I see how 1UP is tagging everywhere they can. I notice how CMYKdots brings little pops of color to the gray cement and steel landscape. I stop to admire the incredible letterwork of a piece of graffiti by Paradox or how a tiny piece of street art drawn in a corner complements its context.
I cannot wait to return to my home city and explore street art there, now that I know more about how to look at it.
Go on this tour!