Flat­stock

The Poster Institute in cooperation with Reeperbahn Festival and VISIONS presents: 

Congratulations – we’re celebrating 20 years of Flatstock at Reeperbahn Festival! Alongside the usual carefully curated line-up of posters, Flatstock is presenting an exhibition featuring photographs, old posters, and anecdotes from our shared and – above all – eventful history. After all, Flatstock began in 2006 at the first Reeperbahn Festival with a single tent at Spielbudenplatz, weathered the rainy second iteration with just eight artists, and has since become an indispensable part of the festival – from 2021 onwards in the Festival Village at Heiligengeistfeld.

Flatstock itself was launched in 2002 with an exhibition in a warehouse in San Francisco – organised entirely by the poster artists themselves in true DIY style – and has developed over the years into a successful series of poster exhibitions in Austin, Seattle, Mexico City, and London. Originally, Flatstock celebrated the concert poster; since 2024, the team have also been focusing on film, politics, comedy, theatre, tourism, and the visual arts. Handcrafted, limited edition, diverse, international.

Additional program:

• Exhibition »20 years of Flatstock at Reeperbahn Festival« // Daily, 14.00 – 21.00 
• Live Screen printing // Daily, 17:00 - 19:00  
• Reading with Matthias Hufnagel // Saturday, 15:45 - 16:30 
• Talk & Tour // Saturday, 14:30 - 15:15  

Artists: 

714 Creative (Georgetown, US) 
Antighost (Mannheim, DE) 
Apes of Doom (Hamburg)
Gavin Beattie (Delgany, IRL) 
The Bicycle Press (Barcelona, ES)
Black Hole Heart Club (Hamburg) 
Crosshair (Chicago, US) 
Joris Diks (Zeist, NL)
Garavato (Bogotá, COL)
Giov’ (Liége, BE) 
Giraffentoast (Hamburg) 
Lisa Goebel (Saarbrücken, DE) 
Grace Helly (Hamburg)
Line Hoven (Hamburg)
Janta Island (Leipzig, DE)
Monostereo (Barcelona, ES) 
My Name is Bri (Rom, IT) 
Lina Rieck (Magdeburg, DE) 
Luis Schenk (Hamburg) 
Falk Schwalbe (Leipzig, DE) 
Señor Burns (München, DE) 
Sieb-Er (Leipzig, DE)
Spiegelsaal (Hamburg/Düsseldorf)
Studio Zum Heimathafen (Hamburg) 
We Three Club (Cambridge, UK)