Street-Art Tour Hamburg: App-Guided Team Event
Teams that have walked with us TUI Cruises
A street-art tour is a team event where your team walks app-guided from wall to wall in Hamburg, solves a task about the piece at each stop and sets its own pace. Two to three hours through Schanze, St. Pauli and Ottensen, self-guided by default, guided on request.
What the street-art tour is
Self-guided by default: your team splits into small groups, opens the app and walks the route on its own tempo. A guided version runs on request, for example for larger groups that want one shared pace.
The route runs through Schanze, St. Pauli and Ottensen/Altona, past real, publicly visible works: the mural at Hallenbad St. Pauli by Rebelzer & Ismilealot, the Great Wave of Ottensen after Hokusai, the roughly 200 m² GOLIF x Hamburg 25 piece, and the FrauenFreiluftGalerie in Altona. On the way, the Sternschanze station's 1911 Jugendstil facade and the Schulterblatt, named after a whale shoulder blade that hung here as an inn sign around 1700, with its A|H boundary stones between old Altona and Hamburg, give the walk historical stops between the murals.
At each stop, the app asks a question about what is actually in front of you: a colour, a technique, a detail easy to miss. Solve the task, and the app shows the next stop. There is no schedule and no clock, the point is looking closely.
Duration is two to three hours and can run shorter if your schedule needs it. Group size runs from 3 to 1,000 people, split into small walking groups. TUI Cruises has already run the format with us. From €35 per person net, the larger the group, the lower the price per head.
Request your street-art tour in HamburgPrefer to spray yourselves instead of walking? The graffiti workshop in Hamburg runs on a legal wall outdoors, for 10 to 1,000 people.
Where can you find street art in Hamburg?
On our route you find street art in Hamburg in three quarters: Schanze, St. Pauli and Ottensen. At Hallenbad St. Pauli, Rebelzer and Ismilealot painted the facade. In Ottensen, "The Great Wave of Ottensen" shows a motif after Hokusai. GOLIF covered a wall of roughly 200 square metres with "GOLIF x Hamburg 25". The FrauenFreiluftGalerie in Altona shows female dock workers across a whole house wall. In between lie two stops with history: the 1911 Art Nouveau entrance of Sternschanze station and Schulterblatt, named after a whale shoulder blade that hung there as an inn sign around 1700, with the A|H boundary stones between old Altona and Hamburg. Your street-art tour leads you app-guided from piece to piece, with a task at every stop.
Murals, paste-ups, tags: what hangs on the walls and why
The tour works with real walls in the city: every stop shows a piece that is actually there. The app leads your team to the wall, you decide the rest.
You build the route yourselves. In the host login you set the stops and write your own questions; several teams can each build their own. We give you a short guide on how to set a good stop. The finished tour loads into the app under its own code.
The pace is yours. No schedule, no clock. You decide where to linger and where to move on.
The task makes the difference. At each stop your team solves a task about the piece instead of following someone who talks. The host invites the teams, nobody needs an account.
Street art is what we build these tours around. The app (Urban Passport) can carry other themes too, city history, architecture, markets, just say so when you enquire. And if you would rather paint a wall than walk to one, the graffiti workshop is the one.
Examples of stops and artworks you will walk to
Pieces from tours that have run: murals, lettering and large walls, photographed by teams on the way. TUI Cruises walked the tour in Hamburg with 25 people.
In 1985 Loomit was part of the Geltendorf train, Germany's first complete whole train, painted on the S4 line. In the years after he moved his style from flat to three-dimensional. Since 1996 he has had a studio in Werksviertel-Mitte and still curates the walls there.
Richard Mirando, born 1961 in the Bronx, painted the New York subway from 1973, mainly lines 2, 5 and 6. He founded the crew United Artists and moved into galleries with canvases around 1980, but stayed on the trains until 1989. In the scene he is the Godfather of Graffiti, a title nobody just takes in New York.
The white surface was sprayed with a fire extinguisher filled with paint instead of foam, visible in the long drips down to the pavement. On top sit black faces, each drawn in a single continuous line. Who is behind it is not recorded.
Victor Ash sprayed the figure in 2007 with a single stencil, 22 by 14 metres, black and white only. The astronaut floats upside down over the firewall, an image of the Cold War and the space race in a divided city.
Brit Fanakapan painted the piece in March 2019, legally, around 20 metres high. He works in chrome balloon style: photorealistic chrome balloons, painted flat, that only look 3D through reflection and shadow. 1UP stands for One United Power, the crew behind it.
Twins Otavio and Gustavo Pandolfo from São Paulo usually paint their figures yellow. This one started green and has faded over the years; someone else has since painted over the feet. The wall keeps changing since it was made.
Belgian ROA, born 1975 in Ghent, works only in black and white with the spray can, in fine hatching. On this wall a hare, a stork and a roebuck hang dead on ropes across the whole facade. The motif is deliberately unfriendly, no cute animal picture.
Irish artist Fin DAC painted this in 2019 as part of his Hidden Beauty series, his first large mural in Berlin. It shows a geisha in an orange kimono. What looks like a lantern beside her head is actually a window, and the two real balconies belong to the composition.
No lower group limit and no upper limit up to 1,000 people, the app carries the same route regardless of group size. Up to 30 days before the date you cancel free of charge, after that the full sum falls due.
How a street-art tour in Hamburg runs
Two to three hours, self-guided by default. Five steps get your team from the start to the finished tour.
At the start the Urban Passport app shows your team where to go first. Each team puts together which stops belong to the route, so no two tours look alike.
Your team walks to the wall. The piece is really there in the city, not a picture of it. How fast you walk is up to you.
At the stop your team solves a task about the piece. That is the difference to a stroll: you look closely instead of just listening.
Then the app shows the next stop. You set the pace in between, and where you linger and where you move on.
A tour usually takes two to three hours and can run shorter if your group walks briskly. Self-guided is the standard, a guided version is available on request.
Google reviews (across Germany)
We do not have a Google review for Hamburg yet, so the voices here come from other cities, each with its location. All of them were written in German. You read our English translation first, with the original German wording underneath it.
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“With a group of 65 people we spent some great hours at the Bahnwärter Thiel in Munich. […] Thanks to how well he had prepared, the usual scope of the workshop even fitted into our very tight time slot.”
Original (German): „Mit einer Gruppe von 65 Personen verbrachten wir einige großartige Stunden am Münchner Bahnwärter Thiel. […] Dank seiner gelungenen Vorbereitung konnte der übliche Workshopumfang sogar in unser sehr enges Zeitfenster integriert werden.“
“Despite complete lack of talent in the team, we created a result in the end that really everyone is proud of.”
Original (German): „Trotz völliger Talentfreiheit im Team haben wir am Ende ein Ergebnis geschaffen, auf das wirklich alle stolz sind.“
“[…] it is only partly about the end product […] much more about doing it together, laughing together, collectively ‘messing it up’, and the good stories.”
Original (German): „[…] es geht nur partiell um das Endprodukt […] vielmehr auch um die Gemeinschaftsaktion, das gemeinsame Lachen, das kollektive ‘Verkacken’ und die schönen Stories.“
What stays once the tour is over
The pictures were always there. After the tour you notice them on the way back to the station, on walls you walked past for years. You learn where to look: up at firewalls, round the back, on roller doors and junction boxes. The city hangs its things where nobody expects a frame. And a museum closes at six, your city does not.
You take no canvas home. You take the route, and you can walk it again without us. If you still want a piece to keep, combine the tour with the graffiti workshop, for the workshop tier price plus €35 per person net.
Ready-made route or your own route
In fifteen cities a ready-made route is online, in Hamburg through St. Pauli and the Schanze. Everywhere else you build the route yourselves, in a village as much as a metropolis. And if it rains? The walls are outdoors anyway: because your group sets its own pace you can shelter briefly and carry on when it suits. For a Christmas party the tour pairs with an indoor format; price and schedule sit on the page Christmas party for companies in Hamburg.
If you walk the ready Hamburg route
The Hamburg route runs through St. Pauli and the Schanze, along Schulterblatt, past real, publicly visible works. The host invites the teams, the tour loads under its code into the Urban Passport app, nobody needs an account. We agree the starting point when you book.
If you build your own route
A tour you build yourselves is not tied to a city. You place the stops where your team actually is: in the host login you set the stops and write your own questions, several teams can each build their own. We give you a short guide on how to set a good stop.
If you would rather spray than walk, the graffiti workshop in Hamburg is the one; both together cost the workshop tier plus €35 per person net.
Four of you or a hundred, the route stays the same
Tell us the number, we tell you how many routes it sensibly splits into. Three or four people walk just like a thousand, split into small groups. The price per head drops with each tier from €35; from 251 people we prepare an individual quote instead of a list price.
The larger your team, the cheaper per person
Drag the slider to your team size. A street-art tour costs €35 net per person and gets cheaper with each tier. From 251 people we prepare a separate quote because large groups spread over several routes.
Netto 700 € · zzgl. 19 % MwSt 133 €
Request a quote for this sizeThere is no lower group limit for the street-art tour. Travel to Hamburg and the app licence are included, all prices are plus 19% VAT.
How you pay
There are two routes: book directly in the shop, or an invoice to your accounts department. In both cases payment falls due before the date, and that is the rule with us.
If something gets in the way
Up to 30 days before you cancel free of charge, after that the full sum falls due. If it rains in Hamburg, the route stays outdoors and you simply shelter briefly and continue.
What is already included
The app licence, the route and travel to Hamburg sit inside the price. Not included is anything around the location itself, that you book separately.
What does the street-art tour cost?
From €35 per person net, and larger groups pay less: up to 20 people €35, from 176 people €25.
The price per head falls as the group grows. Groups of 3 to 20 pay €35 per person net, 21 to 50 pay €32, 51 to 100 pay €30, 101 to 175 pay €27, 176 to 250 pay €25, and from 251 we send an individual quote. There is no lower group limit and no upper limit up to 1,000 people, the app carries the same route regardless of group size. Combined with the graffiti workshop, the tour costs the workshop staffel price plus €35 per person net. All figures are net, plus 19% VAT. Up to 30 days before the date you cancel free of charge, after that the full sum falls due. We answer your enquiry within 24 hours with a concrete quote.
Fifteen cities with a ready route, the rest on request
In fifteen cities a ready-made route is online. Everywhere else you build the route yourselves; it is not tied to a city and works in a village as much as a metropolis.
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