Overkill

A graffiti magazine founded in 1992 has become a shop of two hundred square metres on two floors at Schlesisches Tor. Downstairs hold more than five hundred sneaker models, upstairs the streetwear, plus a graffiti department with cans and markers. As a gift for men there is the house label and digital gift cards.

Overkill at Schlesisches Tor: sneakers, streetwear and graffiti supplies

The shop sits on Köpenicker Strasse, a few metres from the underground station Schlesisches Tor, and has been part of the neighbourhood since 2003. Overkill did not begin as a shop at all, though. It started in 1992 as a magazine out of the Berlin graffiti scene, followed first by a mail order business in a small office in Treptow. The first shop measured sixty square metres, today it runs to two hundred across two floors.

The ground floor holds the shoes, by the shop’s own count more than five hundred models from Adidas, Nike, New Balance, Asics, Puma, Saucony and Salomon through to smaller labels such as Karhu and Li-Ning. Prices mostly sit between just under fifty and three hundred euros. The first floor carries the clothing, from Carhartt WIP and Fred Perry through Gramicci to Aries, along with bags, caps and jewellery. Since the end of 2025 the women’s range has moved back into the main shop, having previously had a store of its own next door.

Graffiti supplies and vouchers as a gift for men in Kreuzberg

What sets Overkill apart from other sneaker shops is the graffiti department, still a main category in its own right. Cans by Molotow, Montana, MTN and Loop stand side by side in every pressure grade, together with paint, ink and squeezer markers, caps, sketchbooks, books and magazines. Anyone buying for someone who paints or draws will find marker sets here that no department store carries. The shop has put on exhibitions, concerts and art events in its own rooms from the beginning, and the interior still shows it.

The house label also works well as a present. Hoodies and shirts carrying the Overkill logo cost 89.95 and just under 50 euros, alongside collaborations with Adidas, Asics, New Balance and the German Football Association. Anyone unsure about sizing takes the digital gift card, available in several amounts and delivered as a code by email straight away. In the courtyard sits Gate, a concept store where fashion, art and music come together.