THE ARTISTS
Get to know the faces and stories behind this project.
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 a Freelance Illustrator living in Munich, Germany. She also works at Kinderkunsthaus where she works with kids and art. Originally from Florida, U.S.A, she is living here in Germany since 2013. Her focus is “Wimmelbilder” or in English “Look and find” illustrations.
Combining her love for different kinds of people, colors, and humor she paints busy worlds where one can get lost for hours looking and finding new details, on her large scale Wimmelbilder. Looking to make her Wimmelbilder even bigger, she has joined Munich Wallflowers art collective where she plans to bring her illustrations into much bigger scale into the Street art scene.
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, marchinmars is a Mexican graphic designer and illustrator based in Munich.
Her work focuses on the world of the feminine, often accompanied by elements of nature as well as the Mexican imaginary.