Top street art in Paderborn

Map of street art in Paderborn (Germany)

This North Rhine-Westphalian city, a thousand-year-old bishopric and a university town, carries three pieces all signed Bilmo, which gives the set a rare unity: a spray can handled as a love motif, an Umbrella Harry, and a Che Guevara fitted with the PLOPP logo.

That last device, hijacking a political icon through an element of popular culture, belongs to a well-established German tradition of satirical urban art, where the militant image is turned around rather than celebrated. Che, the most reproduced portrait of the twentieth century, is its most frequent target.

Germany has one of the oldest and densest graffiti scenes in Europe, organised since the 1980s around railway lines and wasteland. Mid-sized cities like this one have their resident painters, whose work circulates little outside the region but holds the walls over time.

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