Treasures, chickens and lots of love - Berlin’s most beautiful electricity boxes honoured
The winners of Stromnetz Berlin’s ‘Electricity Box Styling 2025’ competition hail from Reinickendorf, Wedding, Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Steglitz-Zehlendorf, Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, Lichtenberg and Marzahn
21.01.2026
They are often grey, inconspicuous and can be found all over Berlin - Stromnetz Berlin operates more than 18,000 electricity boxes and transformer stations. Every year, schoolchildren in the capital transform 500 of them into real eye-catchers with graffiti during project weeks. Around half of the boxes and stations have already been embellished in this way in recent years. The most creative of these are selected and honoured online and by a jury every year. The prizes for the ‘Power Box Styling 2025’ awards in the categories ‘Projects’, ‘Classic’, ‘Freestyle’ and ‘Transformer Station’ were presented by Tom Rütting, Head of Communications at Stromnetz Berlin on 21 January at the Moabit cogeneration plant. The winners of the competition come from Reinickendorf, Wedding, Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Steglitz-Zehlendorf, Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, Lichtenberg and Marzahn.
Once again this year, a large number of the young artists involved came to the traditional prize-giving ceremony. Ahead of this ceremony, a jury comprising media representatives, citizens, graffiti artists and representatives from Stromnetz Berlin had selected the winning motifs. The prizes were then handed over to the school pupils in the form of vouchers for activities that they were able to choose themselves.
The winners were:
Category "Classic"
| Place | School, motif | Motif location |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Julius Leber School (Reinickendorf) - Motif: Art meets electricity | Medebacher Weg 36, 13507 Berlin |
| 2 | Nordhafen Primary School (Wedding) Motif: My cat in the moonlight | Am Pankepark, 10115 Berlin |
| 3 | Paul Simmel Primary School (Tempelhof-Schöneberg) Motif: The rose | Germaniastrasse 12-13, 12099 Berlin |
| 3 | Max-von Laue School (Steglitz-Zehlendorf) Motif: Love: The most important value in our society! | Tietzenweg 120/corner of Lukas-Cranach-Strasse, 12203 Berlin |
Category "Projects"
| 1 | Kurt Tucholsky Secondary School (Pankow) Motif: Cock-a-doodle-doo - energy in an instant | Trelleborger Strasse 50/ corner of Vinetastrasse, 13189 Berlin |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | Primary school at Hamburger Platz (Pankow) Motif: The mysterious treasure map | Gäblerstrasse 119, 13086 Berlin |
| 3 | School at Falkplatz (Pankow) Motif: The holiday | Gaudystrasse 25, 10437 Berlin |
Category "Substation"
| 1 | Kurt Tucholsky Secondary School (Pankow) Motif: The fruit stand | Neumannstrasse 11, 13189 Berlin |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | Liebmann School (Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg) Motif: Berlin Zoo | Leipziger Strasse 20, 10117 Berlin |
| 3 | Seepark Primary School (Lichtenberg) Motif: Animals in the jungle | Blockdammweg, 10318 Berlin |
Online voting on Insta and on the website: Audience Award goes to Wedding
In the ‘Freestyle’ category, the Under the Rainbow primary school from Marzahn also won with its ‘Colourful dreams’ motif Motif ‘Colourful dreams’. The box is located at Allee der Kosmonauten 108, 12683 Berlin.
After several weeks of voting on Instagram and the Stromnetz Berlin website, the winner of the Audience Award 2025 has also been announced. Here the Motif ‘Sun heart - How beautiful is our world with friends’ of the Brüder-Grimm primary school from Wedding came out on top. The residents of Wedding came out on top with more than 1,000 of the over 4,000 votes cast. This year's audience favourite is located at Tegeler Strasse 32, 13353 Berlin.
