Community Wall by Jumu Monster

As part of the Stadtraum!Plus program, a site-specific mural by artist Jumu Monster was created in the Berlin district of Heerstraße Nord in cooperation with the foundation Berliner Leben and Gewobag. The work is located on the façade of a residential building at Maulbeerallee 31 and was realized in participatory collaboration with children from the Christian Morgenstern elementary school.

The Community Wall is characterized by a colourful, graphically stylized visual language that is anchored in the aesthetics of urban art forms. Formally, the picture is also based on elements of comics and pop art, combined with a symbolic iconography. Abstract fruit shapes, anthropomorphic creatures, floral motifs and stylized everyday objects are central, which are brought together in a sequential order to create a narrative composition. The use of bright primary colors – orange, yellow, green, turquoise – creates a visual dynamic that extends across the entire picture surface and consciously incorporates the architectural context.

A conceptual feature of the work is a segment designed in blackboard paint that invites ongoing appropriation by the neighborhood. This integrative component transforms the mural into an open, process-oriented work of art and expands the traditional concept of the work to include a participatory, dialogical component. The inclusion of children – both in the development of ideas and in the painterly realization – underlines the intergenerational and educational aspirations of the project.

With the work in Maulbeerallee, Jumu Monster succeeds in combining the expressive language of street art with a symbolic visual language influenced by its Latin American roots and a socially committed practice. The Community Wall functions as an interface between art, urbanity and social space – as a place of visibility, participation and aesthetic experience in public space.

Location: Maulbeerallee 31, 13593 Berlin