Meeting Of Styles (2025)

Backpacks, spray cans, and other equipment hanging from a scaffold in front of a wall with graffiti on it.

Every year the Meeting of Styles takes place at the Theodor-Heuss-Brücke in Mainz-Kastel, Wiesbaden. It's a weekend full of graffiti and music with artists from all around the world traveling here to paint the space under and around the bridge.

A man taking a photo of a grafitti
An artist painting a graffiti
View from below of a artist refilling some can seen during a hatch in the scaffold
A bunch of spray paint cans
An artist spraying on the wall, seen through the guiding rails of a stair
An artist standing in the light looking at his painting of a women on the wall
A notebook with a scatch laying on top of spray paint cans
The same artist as before continuing to paint the women on the wall

The three images above show an artist painting a women on the wall, with his sketchbook in hand and sketchbook laying on the spray paint cans. It's so nice to just observe the artists doing their thing - a rare sight! I'll head back there in the next weeks to look at the finished piece.

Scaffold in front of a wall with some finished pieces and work-in-progress pieces, there are three artists. Prominent is a devilish figure in red
T-shirts with graffiti tags on them for sale
Spray paint cans and Club Mate
A man painting the wall with a shirt reading: Do more of what makes your soul happy
Do more of what makes your soul happy
An artist checking out her graffiti from a few steps back with the design open on her phone

On the left (or top on mobile) you see an artist checking out her design on the wall and her phone.

I'm excited to see the finished piece!

An artist painting a long piece on a climbing wall.
A sort of Robot Donald Duck graffiti behind the scaffold
Old cans standing on a railing
An artist leaning against a railing looking at his work
An artist standing on a ladder painting the wall, seen from behind with a tree on the left

For the photo nerds:

All photos were taken with my trusty old Fujifilm X-Pro1 with the Fujinon 16-80mm f/4 lens.

All shot in JPG and mostly out of camera with a little retouch in exposure here and there.

All day long DJs provided music during the event
Sillhoute of an artist spraying a wall
Spray paints standing on the scaffold
A selfie of me in a reflective surface
Quick selfie while waiting for my coffee
Iced Coffee with a straw in a glass standing on a table
Fresh-made Iced Coffee from Kaffeerösterei Laux
A pride flag with the Kein Bock Auf Nazis logo printed on top
Kein Bock Auf Nazis flag on the bridge
When I arrived the awning was being hung-up, but a strong wind kept it up in the air for a while

I'm already looking forward to next year's Meeting of Styles - and to return in the next weeks to look at the finished pieces!

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