Company
Christmas
Party
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Graffiti &
Action Painting
in Hamburg
December in Hamburg: instead of menu votes and secret-santa quizzes, your team stands at the legal wall in Florapark or at a canvas in the studio, caps off, paint on, a piece that still hangs in the office in January. Christmas party ideas for small teams from 10 just as much as for the big company party.
Collecting ideas for your team's Christmas party right now? Price, process, the Florapark route and Hamburg references are all on this one page, every bit of it forwardable to the colleague who decides.
Brochure with all formats and pricesWhat a Christmas party costsReferences from HamburgStreet art tour as an alternative
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 performingAction painting as a company Christmas party
Guided, but never prescribed: your team stands in front of a blank canvas, cans and wax crayons, and nobody tells you what to paint.
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.
Nobody paints from A to Z here. There is no template, no set order, no „first red, then blue“. A guide accompanies the group so paint, surface and tool fit together. The decision of what ends up on the canvas stays with you. From €79 per person, net. The larger the group, the lower the price per head.
Request your action painting in HamburgPrefer the can and a real wall? The graffiti workshop in Hamburg runs on a legal wall or on canvas, for 10 to 1,000 people.
The craft
Behind the free painting sits material behaviour that decides the result. Three rules make sure a picture stands at the end instead of a brown blotch:
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. And in December that means: paint becomes a picture that still hangs in the office in January, not a brown blur in the memory.
Graffiti workshop as a Christmas party
The legal wall in Florapark, right in the Sternschanze, is our Christmas spot for this: your team learns can control in small groups and sprays a shared piece, mulled wine in the thermos, market around the corner.
Nobody needs experience: a guide covers grip, distance and line first, then each small group takes its own part of the wall. From 10 people up to 1,000, larger parties simply get more wall and more stations. And if December weather turns nasty, the same workshop runs on canvas in the studio, the Ottensen route our Toyota crew took.
The piece stays in the city, part of the Schanze until someone paints over it. What goes home: the drone shot in front of your wall, and canvases if you spray on canvas.
See the graffiti workshop in HamburgReferences
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 EY-Parthenon we sprayed graffiti on foil banners on a rooftop terrace in the HafenCity, opposite the Elbphilharmonie, three groups, one word each: TAKE OFF, LEAP and a third piece, as the closing part of a seminar day.
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. A day that already called for jackets, and the proof that the format carries a company party when it gets colder outside.
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 Hamburg 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.
How the workshop part of your Christmas party runs
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.
If you do not have a location yet, we suggest a surface we have worked on before. The booking still stays with you, and the same goes for side programme and drinks. We come to your own rooms as soon as you provide the surface.
On site our team covers the area with protective material, and we take liability for it. If a spot gets messy, we leave that area out. No need to change clothes: gloves and a poncho are enough.
The guide first explains the materials: spray paint, wax crayon, acrylic, lacquer. Spray paint cracks open on acrylic that's still wet, which creates a crackle effect. That's why the piece ends up layer on layer.
A guide splits the group into small units, one guide per 50 participants. Whoever is not at the canvas takes on a small two-by-two task, and the guide decides who paints when.
The piece grows in layers that need to dry before the next colour goes on: one group paints, waits, then the next one follows. The drying time in between is part of the technique, not idle time.
Whether everyone takes home their own piece or you work on one shared piece is your call when booking. With a shared piece, the layers build directly on top of each other.
At the end we clean up and the surface goes back the way it was. Whatever was created belongs to you from that moment on; nothing is shipped afterwards. You take your pieces with you right away.
Google reviews
Three teams who worked with us in Hamburg, 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.”
What are good Christmas party ideas in Hamburg?
The city's lists are full of venues, dinners and shows, what's usually missing is a programme where the team actually makes something. A graffiti workshop or action painting is exactly that: two to three hours of working together, a finished piece as the result, food before or after as you like. It carries a whole Christmas party or the highlight before dinner, and needs no booked venue if you have office space or a studio. From €79 per person net, up to €129 depending on group size.
What can you do that's actually cool for a Christmas party?
Cool, for most teams, means: no forced fun, no performing, something not every company does. In action painting every small group works on its own canvas, in a graffiti workshop on its own wall section, nobody goes on stage, and at the end a piece hangs in the office instead of photos nobody looks at again. Want it indoors in December? Take the studio or canvas format; want out? The legal wall. Both run from 10 people (graffiti) or 15 (action painting).
What makes a good Christmas party programme?
A programme works best with one core block instead of many small items: two to three hours of creative work, food before or after without time pressure. The workshop connects straight to the working day and nobody needs experience. Planning needs only a rough headcount and a time window, December dates go early, so fix one now rather than searching in November. Up to 30 days before the date you cancel free of charge.
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