Friday, August 5, 2022

Paderborn Secret City Starts this Weekend

Paderborn is becoming a bit more colorful again! From August 6th to 26th, the Paderborn facade festival "Secret City" will take place for the second time. 

As part of this festival, 20 facades and objects will be designed in Paderborn this year. In addition to large facades such as the Musikhaus Dahl, small objects such as pump houses and walls are also artistically processed. 


The selected artists come from all over Germany and bring urban art to Paderborn.

The festival will open on Saturday, August 6 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Paderwiesen with graffiti, street food and DJ sets.

 In addition to the graffiti star, the new toilet building, the pump house and the material house on the beach volleyball courts will also be designed this weekend.

The focus of the second weekend (12th to 14th August) is the Heiga company premises Am Atlaswerk with a 50 meter long wall and a warehouse. 

13 artists from all over Germany design the walls over three days with styles and murals. On the day of completion (14 August) DJs will perform from 10am to 6pm and street food will be on offer.

On the third weekend, from August 19th to 21st, the Musikhaus Dahl will be beautified with a musical graffiti mind map and a large-format mural by the artist collective Studio Aukz. On the day of completion (August 21), DJs will perform from 10am to 6pm; Street food is also offered.

At the end of the festival on August 26th, as part of the Pader Night from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m., all designed facades will be presented in a construction fence banner exhibition on Kardinal-Degenhardt-Platz and the Hamburg artist Chris Campe will present her lettering artwork in the city library.

During the festival, two new and interesting graffiti films by BLACKSTREETS will be shown at Pollux Paderborn:
on Tuesday, August 9, the film “Grenzgebiet” will be shown, and on Tuesday, August 23, “Martha: a picture story”.
Tickets are available at www.cineplex.de/programm/paderborn

In their lecture "Signature and Reduction" on Saturday, August 20th, the two graffiti experts Dr. Harald Hinz and Rahel Grothus at 4 p.m. in the Slider Boardshop Paderborn about the current developments within the graffiti scene.

The schedule for the facade designs and the supporting program as well as a presentation of all artists and facades can be found at www.paderborn.de/secretcity.