mowe Festival for Art and Urban Culture (2025 - 27), Keyvisual, credit: Studio Itch
Exhibition: The Icon Wall by Berlin PasteUp | Ashawo Café
Three exhibitions – Mammy, The Icon Wall, and The Titans – confront racialized care, center Black sex workers, and invoke Afrofuturist her-stories.
10. May 2026
18:00h-20:00h
Ashawo Café
Exerzierstr. 13
13357 Berlin
The Icon Wall is a mural gifted by Berlin PasteUp, featuring portraits of Black Sex Workers across global contexts, with a focus on U.S.-based and European communities. The work uplifts individuals who may not be widely visible but are deeply impactful within their own networks and histories. Installed within Ashawo Café, the mural asserts the space as one shaped by the labor, presence, and cultural contributions of Black Sex Workers. It stands as both tribute and declaration, making clear that this is a space is the house that Black Heaux built. From their influence and legacy.
About the Artist
Berlin PasteUp is a Berlin-based collective of artist-activists founded in 2023. Their work aims to connect beyond the street art community and foster a sense of belonging through accessible public art. Guided by the principle that no space or person should be deprived of art or safety, they create interventions rooted in solidarity and inclusion. Berlin PasteUp operates across languages including English, German, French, and Spanish, and holds a clear stance against racism, homophobia, transphobia, and sexism.