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No instructor standing at the front, no fixed steps: your Zurich team paints with wax crayon, spray can and acrylic, loosely steered, never dictated.
Price tiers per person, net: 15–20 €129 · 21–25 €109 · 26–50 €99 · 51–100 €89 · from 101 €79 · from 251 on request.
No pressure, no performingWhat action painting means with us
An empty canvas, spray cans and wax crayons are waiting for you, our guide sets the frame, and from there your team decides what happens on the canvas.
That is exactly where action painting starts with us: guided enough that a picture comes out at the end instead of tipping into brown, and free enough that everyone does what they want. As a company event that means no run sheet to sign off before you book.
Anyone who has done a team event where everyone stands in a circle and plays guided games knows the feeling: grown adults treated like they are back in school. With us, that pressure falls away and the painting stays.
There is no paint-by-numbers here, no template, no fixed order, no „red first, blue after“. A guide keeps paint, surface and tool working together, the canvas itself stays entirely your call. From €79 per person, net, and cost per head drops as the group grows.
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The craft
Freedom on the canvas still obeys how paint actually behaves. Three simple rules keep the result a picture, not a muddy brown patch:
Wax does not take paint. Anyone who works with a wax crayon before the paint goes on keeps that area free. No matter how many layers come on top later, the spot stays clear. Patterns appear this way without anyone needing to be able to paint.
Spray paint cracks on fresh acrylic. If the acrylic layer underneath has not fully cured, spraying over it creates a craquelé effect: fine cracks that make the picture look years old. Anyone who has seen it once never paints without this trick again.
Paint dosing is the real craft. Too much paint at once runs together and turns dark green to brown: the moment a picture becomes a mess of colour. The guide steps in right before that happens, not after.
These three rules are why guided does not mean restricted with us. The guide takes care of the material, you take care of the decisions.
References
Real action painting dates, Hamburg first, plus two dates from Munich that show the same format at a different scale. Each group works at its own canvas, paint in motion, nobody just watching.
For HANSAINVEST we set up a graffiti wall and an action painting setup side by side on the pier at Hamburg's Museumshafen, right under the old loading doors of the MS Bleichen. Small groups worked on their own canvases, and all the pieces were presented at the end.
For Toyota, an influencer team painted action painting on canvases together with our crew at the Fotostudio Ottensen.
At the BAT Neon Afterwork by the Alster, an office space turned into a club for one evening: action painting under blacklight with neon colours.
Rapid Data brought around 120 people to Hamburg and split into small groups, each working on its own canvas.
A company team event with around 80 people painted freely in Hamburg's HafenCity, with a view of the Elbe.
GKM celebrated a summer day at the Botanikum in Munich with action painting, graffiti and abstract painting, barefoot on the grass. The pieces now hang as a keepsake in the offices of several departments.
At IFCO in the Werksviertel, the group pierced cans and sprayed one large word together: a sunny day with around 15 to 20 participants, where everyone took home a randomly drawn single piece with a passe-partout edge.
Travel and material transport to Zürich and the surrounding area sit inside the price per person, so nothing is added later. Up to 30 days before the date you cancel free of charge, after that the full sum falls due.
The steps behind an action painting team event in Zürich
We don't talk much, we get to work early. We barely interfere with your pictures — the result should come from your hand, not ours.
A session runs two to three hours, and the order makes the difference: if everyone paints at once, the colours run into each other and turn brown. That is why your piece grows in layers, with short breaks in between. What that means for your group is laid out step by step below.
No venue yet? We point you to a spot we have used before, though the booking itself stays with you, side programme and drinks included. Got your own room? We simply show up once the surface is ready.
Our crew covers every surface on site with protective sheeting before a drop of paint falls, and takes liability for it. Anything that risks staining stays covered. Clothes stay on, a poncho and gloves do the job.
Der Guide erklärt zuerst das Material: Sprühfarbe, Wachsmaler, Acryl, Lack. Sprühfarbe reißt auf noch feuchtem Acryl auf, es entsteht Craquelé. Deshalb liegt am Ende Schicht auf Schicht.
We break large groups into units of about fifty, each with its own guide. While one pair paints, the rest take on a short side task, and the guide calls the rotation.
Each layer has to set before the next colour lands, so groups take turns: paint, step back, wait, hand over. That pause is craft, not downtime.
One canvas each, or one shared piece the whole team builds together, layer on layer: that choice gets made at booking, not on the day.
We leave the surface exactly as we found it. Everything painted is yours from that second on, no shipping, no follow-up delivery, you carry it out the door that same day.
Google reviews from Zürich
Three teams who worked with us in Zürich, quoted from our Google profile.
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“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.“
“[…] 28 colleagues aged between 20 and 60, and all of us completely clueless. […] In the end we were really proud of ourselves. […] As a keepsake, Luca gave us photos taken with the drone.”
Original (German):“[…] 28 colleagues aged 20 to 60, all complete beginners. […] In the end we were really proud of ourselves. […] As a keepsake, Luca sent us photos taken with the drone.”
“[…] What surprised me was that you don't have to be an artist, because everyone gets individual attention and is encouraged to try things out. […] By the end we had created a great artwork and had a big grin on our faces.”
Original (German):“[…] What surprised me is that you do not have to be an artist: everyone is met where they are and encouraged to experiment. […] In the end we had created a great piece of art and had a big grin on our faces.”
The larger your team, the cheaper per person
Drag your team size to the right value. You see straight away what that means net per person and what ends up on the invoice. Applies to graffiti and action painting in Zürich.
Netto 2.725 € · zzgl. 19 % MwSt 518 €
Request a quote for this sizeFor groups smaller than 15 people we do not accept an enquiry, because the setup does not carry itself. Travel to Zürich, materials and guidance 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 the weather turns in Zürich, that only decides the format, graffiti on canvas or action painting in the greenhouse keeps running.
What is already included
Materials, guidance, set-up and take-down sit inside the price, along with travel to Zürich. For a legal wall we might use we obtain the permit, at no extra charge.
What does a team event in Zürich cost?
A team event in Zürich starts at €79 (approx. CHF 74) per person net, and small groups sit at €129 (approx. CHF 121).
The price per head falls as the group grows, and that is plain arithmetic. Travel to Zürich, setup and crew happen once, whether twelve are spraying or two hundred. Two hundred spread the same fixed costs across more shoulders. The price includes travel, transport of all materials, all the paint, protective covers and guidance from our people on site. For a legal wall we might use we obtain the permit, at no extra charge. The only thing you pay for is the location, if you do not have one. For groups smaller than 15 we do not accept an enquiry, because the setup does not carry itself. 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.
Where can you hold a team event in Zürich?
In Zürich we come to your team, wherever your offices sit, plus any rented space that fits the group.
Zurich's company sites spread across a handful of well-known clusters: Zürich-West around the Viadukt and the former Industriequartier, where converted factory halls now host tech firms and event spaces; Oerlikon with its office towers and exhibition halls around the Messe; the Seefeld district along the lake, home to smaller agencies and boutique venues; and the City/Bahnhofstrasse banking quarter in the centre. We bring material, guides and setup to any of these, or to your own site elsewhere in the canton. If you already have a space in mind – a loft, courtyard, rooftop or an empty office floor – tell us at the enquiry and we check whether it works. If not, a rented event space will do too, as long as there is room, a surface that holds and power – we handle the permit for the space ourselves, you only book and pay for the venue itself. Whether your date is called a company outing or a corporate event changes nothing here. If you are unsure whether your space works, attach a photo to the enquiry. Then we settle it beforehand rather than on the day.
What do you do in Zürich in bad weather?
Bad weather does not cancel a date in Zürich, it only decides whether you work at a wall or under glass.
The covered route runs through a rented indoor space with room, a surface that holds and power – your own office floor, a hall or, as for the HANSAINVEST date, a photo studio such as the one in Ottensen. Indoors the forecast does not decide the date, because there is no forecast to check. The second route runs through the material: graffiti on a wall is always an outdoor format, while the same technique on canvas runs indoors as well as outdoors. Action painting works both ways in any case. In practice that means: tell us at the enquiry whether your date can move. If it cannot, we pick a format from the start that needs no forecast. If it can, we hold the outdoor option open and come back to you as soon as the forecast is reliable.
We also come to these cities
Zürich is one of our locations — we work across Europe. If your date is not in Zürich, this list takes you straight to the city closer to your team.
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