Get to know the faces and stories behind this project.
The street art collective Munich Wallflowers was founded out of a desire to create a space for women in the street art scene, fostering creativity, community, and greater visibility for female artists.
Since the summer of 2024, the collective has been creating legal and welcoming spaces where women interested in street art can have their first experiences with this art form. Through workshops and collaborative painting sessions, we encourage experimentation, skill development, and the exploration of different techniques, while building a supportive community of artists at all levels.
CASSIE TUMLINGSON
An American artist now living in Munich, Cassie Tumlinson, known for her surrealist oil paintings, recently discovered a passion for spray paint and street art.
Trained in classical drawing and painting, Cassie combines these traditional techniques with cans to bring surrealistic themes to large-scale street art. She loves spray’s bright, dramatic effects, rapid expression, and its reach to a wide audience.
MARION WILKEN
Marion Wilken, also known as RedFoxHippie, was born in Munich and has been painting since her school days. She associates her childhood in Giesing with the positive aspects of lived cultural diversity. Her art remained a hobby for many years until she joined the Verein zur Förderung urbaner Kunst e. V. (Association for the Promotion of Urban Art) in 2023; a year later, she became part of the Munich Wallflowers.
While her work with the association primarily involves paving the way for urban art in Munich through administrative support, the Munich Wallflowers allow her to fully pursue her passion for creating colorful wall art herself. Some of her works in public spaces can be found at the Kunsttreff Halt 58.
VANESSA HOFFMANN
Vanessa Hoffmann is an artist from Florida, USA. She moved to Germany at age 18, and started her journey as an AuPair. Her work with children continues and has a strong influence on her art, being playful, colorful and comical.
Vanessa focuses on people, the many types of characters there are in our lives with different stories to share, and social topics/issues. Her art often takes form in a Wimmelbild, a German expression for a "Look and find picture. She paints mainly using ink and watercolor but since joining Munich Wallflowers her art is also taking a much larger form.
MELIKE KERPEL
Melike Kerpel / MELIKE is a visual artist originally from Izmir, now based in Munich, working between urban and contemporary art. Her work moves through nature, identity, and perception.
Growing up by the sea, the ocean and its fluidity have remained lasting influences on her work. Her practice was further shaped by more than five nomadic years traveling and painting murals worldwide, where the cultures and landscapes she encountered continue to inform her approach to interconnectedness and empathy toward all living beings.
Through large scale murals, installations, and paintings, she creates visual and spatial experiences that reveal how a single viewpoint can hold multiple meanings at once. Her work builds interactions between image, space, and viewer, encouraging awareness, dialogue, and understanding across differences.
MARCELA GLORIA
Marcela Gloria, also known as marchinmars, is a Mexican graphic designer and illustrator based in Munich. Her artistic practice moves between digital illustration, linocut, and large-scale painting using spray paint and acrylics.
Her work explores femininity, nature, identity, and the relationship between personal experiences and the spaces we inhabit. Moving fluidly between illustration and urban art, she combines bold graphic elements with organic forms, creating playful yet expressive compositions.
For IDentity, she explores the origins of Northern Mexican musical culture through the accordion and polka, tracing their journey from German, Polish, and Czech immigrants to Northern Mexico and the Southern United States. Through her work, she reflects on how these European influences were transformed and absorbed into the cultural identity of the region.
INVITED ARTISTS
We are so happy to host such talented people!
Görsev Bilkay
Born in 1955, Görsev Bilkay began her ceramic studies in 1992 at the İzmir Painting and Sculpture Museum’s ceramics program. In 1998, she co-founded IDOL Sanatevi. Her work has been exhibited in museums and institutions in Turkey and internationally, including the Varaždin Museum in Croatia, and presented in 14 solo exhibitions. She has received eight awards, including from the Rotary Golden Jug Competition and the Turgut Pura Foundation Sculpture Competition. Together with Nuray Erden, she initiated two accessible museum projects: the İzmir Tactile Accessible Modern Art Museum (İZDEM) and the Tactile Archaeology Museum at Yeşilova Höyük and developed exhibition projects specifically designed to be experienced by visually impaired audiences.
Her practice explores the relationship between everyday objects and organic, abstract forms. Buttons recur as a familiar symbol of everyday life, while spherical forms evoke movement and transformation. She works with alternative firing techniques and, more recently, paper clay, combining ceramic with organic materials.
Betül Aydin
Betül Aydin is a visual artist and artistic researcher born in Turkey and based in Germany. She holds a PhD in Media Informatics and Visual Computing from Université Grenoble Alpes, France. Working across photography, film, and text, her practice explores family, care, and belonging through personal narratives, domestic spaces, archives, and material traces. Her work reflects on how identity is shaped across generations and through experiences of displacement.
Since becoming a mother, questions around motherhood and the politics of care have become increasingly present in her practice, particularly the tensions between lived experience and normative ideas of family. Her ongoing artistic research project, Between Homes, began during a Goethe-Institut artist residency in Sofia and developed further through a recent Culture Moves Europe mobility grant, expanding her research into different forms of kinship, care, and belonging.
Sarah Hashmi
Sara Hashmi’s practice explores language, identity, memory, social structures, and lived experience. Working across painting, installation, public art, textiles, performance, and participatory practice, she often begins with familiar materials and everyday situations, transforming them into reflections on vulnerability, belonging, power, and resistance. Her work is particularly interested in the emotional weight of language, the traces carried by materials, and the ways public and private spaces shape individual experience.
Her recent work has also focused on women’s experiences, care, domestic labour, motherhood, resilience, and collective storytelling. Living and working across different cultural contexts has shaped her interest in belonging, displacement, and the tension between tradition and contemporary life. At the centre of Hashmi’s practice is a desire to make visible what is often overlooked and to create space for personal experiences to connect with wider social and collective realities.
Vivian Vu
As a German-Vietnamese Third Culture Kid I am dedicated to authentic images and female empowerment through photography and creating space for those navigating an identity that exists between worlds, yearning for a sense of belonging. My photography project Việt Homeland reflects my own journey on identity and belonging, capturing the in between.
In my work as a street, documentary and film set photographer I aim to make people feel seen and I am committed to challenge the traditional representation through bold, raw and emotional imagery.
While my personal work centers on humans that are often sidelined, my broader mission is about community. I founded Sisterhood in Focus to create space and demand visibility for FLINTA* photographers, proving the collective power of a community that stands together, creates together, and ensures our works are seen.
HUGO
Inspired by his background in traditional graffiti, his works draw on the fluid forms and colors of water and the animal kingdom. At the heart of his artistic practice lies intuitive drawing, as well as a play with forms, letters, and symbols that bridges the gap between language and image and gives rise to new visual relationships.
Inspiriert von seinem Werdegang im klassischen Graffiti, entstehen seine Arbeiten aus den bewegten Formen und Farben des Wassers und der Tierwelt. Im Zentrum der künstlerischen Praxis steht die intuitive Zeichnung, sowie das Spiel mit Formen, Buchstaben und Zeichen, das zwischen Sprache und Bild vermittelt und neue visuelle Beziehungen entstehen lässt.