Opening hours:
Tue+Thur 10am-3pm, Wed+ Fri 5pm-8pm,
Sat 2-7pm, Sun + public holidays 11am-7pm


Admission: Your adequate contribution in our donation box at the entrance.


Invitation Download (PDF/German):


Curator guided tour
Sun 1. June at 3 pm.
Pre-booking not required.


How to get there: It is not possible to park on the grounds of the Walkmühle by car. There are no public car parks. For this and other good reasons, please use your feet, your bicycle or public transport if possible: Bus line 3 (Bornhofenweg stop) or bus line 6 (Nordfriedhof stop) Please use the upper entrance to the Walkmühle.
Access for people with physical disabilities on request: Please send us an e-mail in advance to mail@walkmuehle.net.


An illustrated documentation of the exhibition with texts and interviews will be published for the finissage on 29 June.




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In the interplay between art and the street, high culture and subculture, a cultural trend has developed in recent years that has been a key focus of Prof Heiner Blum's Experimentelle Raumkonzepte (Experimental Spatial Concepts) course at Offenbach University of Art and Design since 2016.
The focus is on artistic research that draws inspiration from the surfaces of everyday life, from self-commissioned, illegal painting, from anonymous traces in urban zones and explores a new field between the white cube and public space. A young generation of artists is developing experimental strategies in all media between documentation and abstraction, construction and destruction.

In fact, this artistic perspective is a global movement with historical roots, which found a provisional name in 2019 via the Instagram account post_vandalism.
As early as 1974-75, the artist John Divola marked a new path here with his Vandalism project in the form of painterly interventions in empty houses. Artists such as Ann Messner, Gordon Matta-Clark and Martin Barré, as well as Abstract Expressionist painters Janet Sobel, Joan Mitchell and Helen Frankenthaler, were key pioneers of this movement.

In 2022, the Experimental Spatial Concepts department created the Diamant / Museum Of Urban Culture in Offenbach's pedestrian zone as a place for street-oriented artistic research, presentation and communication. In March 2023, art historian Larissa Kikol curated the exhibition Postvandalism here. At the same time, she published the Kunstforum volume Post-Vandalism, the standard work on the subject.

In cooperation with Heiner Blum, his students and Larissa Kikol, the Walkmühle is dedicating an exhibition and a publication to the topic of art in dialogue with the city in May and June, which will be published at the end of the project.