In 2022, the Urban Art Biennale will take place for the sixth time at the World Cultural Heritage Site Völklingen Ironworks. Since 2011, new developments and positions in international urban art have been presented. In the meantime, the Biennale at the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site Völklinger Hütte has become an integral part of the urban art world map. The entire area of the Völklingen Ironworks becomes a congenial dialogue partner for the art that has developed from street art and graffiti. Numerous works are created in situ in the World Cultural Heritage Site especially for ‘their’ place in the Völklingen Ironworks. On display are, among others, spatial installations, works on canvas, sculptures, stencil graffiti, paste-ups, augmented reality and murals.
Urban artists from all over the world have visited the Völklingen Ironworks to leave unique works of art in the industrial landscape of the World Cultural Heritage Site, especially in the garden wilderness on the site of the former coking plant: the street art duo Os Gêmeos from São Paulo, Vhils from Lisbon, the French pochoir pioneer Jef Aérosol, Mambo from Los Angeles or the Franco-Brit YZ, to name but a few.
The huge site of the former Völklingen Ironworks offers numerous auratic locations that are predestined to enter into exciting and congenial symbioses with Urban Art – between gigantic machines, reclaimed nature and rust-brown dust walls. In 2022, the city centre of Völklingen will also play an important role in the Urban Art Biennale by making the urban environment of the World Heritage Site its own – back to the roots.
World Cultural Heritage Site Völklingen Ironworks
Urban Art in Völklinger Innenstadt
Röchling-Bank
World Cultural Heritage Site Völklingen Ironworks: Until 31 October: Daily 10 am to 7 pm, From 1 November: Daily 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Röchling Bank: Monday to Friday 3 to 5 pm, Saturday and Sunday 12 to 5 pm.
2022 Artists: Adrien M & Claire B, Brest Brest Brest, Ampparito, Hendrik Beikirch, Benedetto Bufalino, Helen Bur, Codex Urbanus, Hendrik Czakainski, Deih, Maxime Drouet, Frukty, Rouge Hartley, Olivier Hölzl, Ottmar Hörl, Icy & Sot, Jaune, Katre, Mick La Rock, Lek & Sowat, Stéphane Moscato, Obsolettrismes, Pboy, Rero, Daan Rietbergen, Dan Rawlings, Rocco und seine Brüder, Roadsworth, Seth One, Mathieu Tremblin, Jan Vormann, Crystal Wagner, Wild Drawing, Mariusz Waras, Wasted Rita, Wayne Horse, Alain Welter aka Mope, Zevs Older works by: Ammar Abo Bakr, Jef Aérosol, Phillippe Baudelocque, Tarek Benaoum, M. Chat, Drasko Boljevic, Bryan Beyung, Liu Bolin, Case, Cone The Weird, Isaac Cordal, Cranio, Les Frères Ripoulain, Maya Hayuk, Levalet, Mambo, Mardi Noir, Mentalgassi, Pablo Merchante, Filippo Minelli, Mosko, OX, Zane Prater, SpY, Tanc, Vhils, Axel Void, YZ
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