Welcome to Vagabundler!
A wonderful ragbag for alternative travelers and fans of creativity, especially urban art. On this platform you can find interesting reportages, detailed country or city maps and coverages on awesome artists. There is a whole section about interviews with unique people and their amazing work, as well about crazy events and interesting sustaining projects from all around the world. Meanwhile we have more than 280.000 photos from 100 countries in our archive and we try to preserve some of this creativity with our documentation. All respect to the artists! As well to all the numerous people involved in this non profit project. We do this voluntarily because we love it and we want to support the art scene in general and socio-cultural understanding between us on this planet. If you find any mistakes or missing information, just send us a message. We are creating, building and changing on this website all the time – but – of course! If there is free time…. we travel and explore!!!
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Events / Streetart / VietnamThe first ever street art and graffiti festival in Dà Nang, Vietnam, the NAM JAM is a celebration of creativity and community. The event, organized by local gallery and art collective NOT POP, transformed the village of Ngu Hanh Son in Đà Nang City early this year in spectacular style. In March 2023, the city hosted hot local and international street art talents with a variety of events, including live paintings, a skate jam, a gallery show and a well timed coincidental hip hop dance jam as part of the RF JAM a.k.a. RADIKAL FORZE JAM.
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Netherlands / StreetartIf you like it quiet and tranquil, you are in the right place in Zandvoort. About 30 minutes by train from the vibrant centre of Amsterdam, the coastal town invites you to relax and unwind. If city life is too stressful and hectic, you can stop here. Especially in the summer is busy here. This is on the one hand on the long sandy beach, which is located along the town with only approx. 17,000 inhabitants. On the other hand, almost half of all inhabitants live from tourism.
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Cyprus / StylistWe live in a throwaway society, yes, but you can do something about that. Clothing in particular is discarded far too quickly, even though you could still do very interesting things with it. But often there is simply a lack of ideas. That’s what the sisters CRISPI and KAT from Limassol thought and started their creative upcycling venture: The SOUR SISTERS PROJECT!
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Accommodation / Cyprus / StreetartIf you stay in Larnaka you should definitely choose the RISE STREETART HOTEL at Kimonos 1. The whole building is painted with awesome murals from the outside, as well each room is colourfully designed in an individual theme. On the new roof top bar they integrated a huge can styled artwork for Montana. So for both, the spray paint company and as well Tony Montana from Scarface. We spoke with hotel manager CHARBEL CHALFOUN about his idea of this project and how it came together.
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Streetart / ThailandKhlong Saen Saep is a canal in central Thailand that provides a water connection from the Mae Nam Chao Phraya River to Prachin Buri and Chachoengsao, making it the longest canal in Thailand. It runs partly through the urban area of Bangkok and countless pieces of graffiti are regularly created along the walls. There are also beautiful large murals and wall paintings on the buildings along the water.
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History / JapanDuring our tour of Japan we made a stop in the historical-idyllic city of Kurashiki (Japanese ? ? ?, -shi). The Edo-era merchant town is located in Okayama prefecture and the former Bitch? province of Honshu, the main island of Japan. Kurashiki means something like „village from warehouses“. There are still dozens of buildings (Kura) preserved, which represent a symbol of the city due to their typical facades. It’s worth a visit. It is best to stay for a few days in the nearby Okayama and make a day trip by train to the cultural site.
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Germany / StreetartA former distillery in the Berlin district Reinickendorf is turning into a campus for arts, culture, food, technology and sustainability. The site of the disused Monopol factory is being converted into a cultural venue and various creative companies and artists have now settled there in order to develop a creative location. On the buildings and the site is a large number of artworks and for sure more are going to come. Also several exhibitions and jams already took place like the event „Al Aire, Libres!“
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Streetart / SwitzerlandLugano is a city in the canton of Ticino, Switzerland, on Lake Lugano. It has around 75.000 inhabitants and is the economic and cultural center of the region. Places of interest include the historic 9th-century Cathedral of San Lorenzo with its Renaissance façade, Parco Ciani on Lake Lugano, Monte Brè with its funicular railway and panoramic view of Lugano, and the Arte e Cultura (LAC) cultural center. The Lugano Estival Jazz festival also takes place here every year. Of course, the streets also have a lot to offer, and you can find great artwork on the walls and graffiti.
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Bulgaria / Nature / Sculptor / StreetartProhodna is a karst cave in north-central Bulgaria, located in the Iskar Gorge near the village of Karlukovo in the Lowetsch province. The cave is known for the two eye-like holes in its ceiling, known as God’s eyes. Several stone statues have been placed at the entrance and around the cave area, which, in addition to the cave itself as a natural wonder, are a beautiful addition as creative works of human hands. They are thematically nature-related works with motifs of gnomes, animals or plants. The place really has something magical and is definitely worth a visit.
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Israel / Performance / SocialThis is the story of Shoshke. A super heroine brought to life. And it’s probably one of the weirdest and funniest but above all most motivating stories here on this channel so far. The creator himself, namely the Israeli artist Zeev Engelmayer repeatedly takes on the role of his self-designed comic super heroine. Then he just becomes Shoshke in a special costume. An idea for an artistic performance has developed into an unbridled dynamic of its own and an independent character within Zeev’s psyche. That´s Shoshke. It´s not schizophrenic, more like a symbiosis. Zeev loves it and he frequently is setting her free. Because Shoshke makes always and every few days crazy but fabulous actions. Currently, according to Marker Magazine “She” is one of the 100 most influential people in Israel. And we need some more Shoshkes on this world! She fights for the good and important things. Take some time for this article. It’s going to be strange and complex, but for sure as well funny and super interesting.
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Germany / Photography / StreetartToday we are going to introduce you to a terrific website that had a great impact on me and basically was together with some other important platforms and magazines an inspiring factor to start this Vagabundler project. For more than ten years now, the platform Dosenkunst by photographer Jörg Rudolph has been delivering fantastic graffiti material from the Rhine-Main area in Germany or from overseas, with awesome making-of reports, extensive background information and adventurous Urbex stories.
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Poland / StreetartThe underground passage beneath the square at Plac Spoleczny is a hot spot for urban art and a place where streetart takes on a life of its own. The place is quite busy and frequently new projects happen, graffiti and murals change dynamically here, with artists constantly adding new layers. If you are around Wroclaw, don’t miss this spot. This is a place where you can get some of the pulse of the city’s graffiti scene, from fast bombings to awesome portraits or style writing masterpieces.
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Events / Illustration / StreetartThe TOLERANCE POSTER SHOW is a traveling exhibition and part of the TOLERANCE PROJECT initiated by the artist MIRKO ILIĆ from New York. He was inspired by the third edition of the film festival “House of Tolerance” Ljubljana, Slovenia, in 2017 and asked 28 artists to create a poster about tolerance. After a successful 10-day show in Ljubljana, they decided to tour the posters globally. Now, whenever the exhibition appears in a new city, local designers contribute to the ever-expanding catalogue of artworks. In 2024 they also visited Buenos Aires in Argentina!
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Architecture / ThailandThe BAAN DAM MUSEUM, also known as the BLACK HOUSE MUSEUM, is a private art museum that consists of a mixture of traditional northern Thai buildings with unconventional and contemporary Lanna architecture. The building complex was designed by local artist THAWAN DUCHANEE, who is also called „Thailand’s Emperor of the Canvas“. There are more than 40 different buildings spread across the site on an area of ??around 160.000 square meters. Fantastic artworks are presented within the buildings at permanent exhibitions and creative cultural events are held regularly.
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Nepal / StreetartOn the west side of the Dasarath Rangasala Stadium along the street Kanti Path in Kathmandu, a long mural depicting various sports was completed in 2024. The project was carried out in collaboration between the KATHMANDU METROPOLITAN CITY and the NEPAL ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS, which oversaw the artistic coordination and selected local artist teams. Work began in spring 2024 and was completed by late autumn that year. The long wall painting features various sports genres, but as well local children plays or traditional activities and board games.
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Argentina / StreetartThe beautiful town of Mar de Cobo offers not only idyllic nature and interesting architecture, as well there are numerous creative urban artworks throughout the streets. Check out our collection of murals, graffiti and streetart.
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Cinema / GermanyThe focus is on experimental film, but Cristina Binetti’s visual art project also includes her directorial work, photographs, documentaries and books. The video artist was born in 1976 in Frankfurt am Main, but has her roots in Apulia near Bari. Many of her films have therefore been made in Italy. As a child, she wrote short stories, later screenplays, until she was finally able to sell her screenplay debut “Transire” to an international film production.
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Egypt / StreetartSouth of the city of Aswan on the west bank of the Nile lies the Nubian Village as part of the town of Nagaa Suhayl Gharb. The place is just an astonishing treasure trove of interesting culture and great urban art. Nearly most of the buildings are provided with grandiose works of art or simply completely painted as large complete works. Included are murals by ROMA, RAMY TAG, ROBY, MAHA GAMIL and many more.
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Malta / StreetartOn the island of Malta in the neighbourhood Msida we found an interesting graffiti area. If you walk through a small tunnel on the north side of the Msida Skate Park, you don’t get out directly on one of the other sides of the road. There is again an open space, from where the paths branch out again and lead into further tunnels. The entire walls of this small plaza are of course all painted and frequently there apear new fantastic ones. Check out the photos of the great artworks we captured at this hidden little art space.
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Events / Germany / StreetartZehlendorf town hall is getting colorful! From December 5th in 2023 till March 31st in 2024, more than 115 street art exhibits by over 70 artists can be admired on two floors of the Zehlendorf town hall. The exhibition was organized by the VERBUND GRAFFITI & STREETART SZ and the project STREETLIFE 2.0, in initiated by the artists PHILIP NADOLL and JONAS QUENTIN.
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History / Nepal / StreetartIn Kathmandu and Patan, you often see small stone or terracotta tiles with religious motifs placed near house entrances. These elements are part of traditional Newar architecture and are generally referred to as religious relief panels, protective tiles, or small outdoor household shrines. The handmade artworks often depict deities such as Krishna, Shiwa, Ganesha, Hanuman, Saraswati or Buddha, as well as protective symbols, mandalas, and mythical beings. Besides the numerous tiles, you can also find paste up works, wooden boards or wall paintings around the entrance doors.
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BoliviaTupiza is the central city in the department of Potosí in the south of Bolivia which is located just in the middle of the Andeans. As well it was our start to a fantastic journey through the mountain desert with phenomenal landscape views and amazing meetings with freak out rock formations. The next days could have been as well on planet Mars. We just arrived from Argentina and went to the bus station to check the options for the next steps of our travels. But there was no bus, at least none in the next eight hours.
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Australia / StreetartMelbourne was founded in 1835, is located on the southeast coast of Australia and inherits with 5.2 million inhabitants the capital of the Australian state of Victoria. Worth visiting are the Federation Square complex with cafés, bars and restaurants, the Yarra River and its promenades, the Arts Center or the National Gallery. Of course the streets are filled with creations, here we have a collection of urban art sorted by individual neighborhoods inside Melbourne and its special hot spots, as well to the suburbs around the city.
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South Korea / StreetartBelow the surface of the Korean captial Seoul a vibrant Spanish experience has come to life and since its inauguration during the „Picasso Mural Opening Ceremony“ on 9th July 2024 you can admire this impressive 65-meter-long mural in the underground tunnel One Bayley Public Walking Passage. This spectacular project was brought to life by Spanish artist LALONE, who painted in 17 days the artworks with motifs of Pablo Picasso and typical elements of his works, also sceneries from his life and sights from the city of Malaga.
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Many more awesome urban art loving photographers, documentors, creatives and Vagabundlers joined, we have every day heaps of new articles and photos. Still non-profit, still non-commercial, just because we like to do it. All the people involved in this project are listed on our Vagabundler Collective Map
Frank Hofmann is working on the enourmous Hamburg Streetart Map with meanwhile 1200 spots and more than 8000 photos!
Salvador Seda (GraffiPreBicentenario) from Chile joined and keeps on creating the Streetart Map of Angol and the Santiago Map
Patrice Loranger (PLoranger4417) from Canada joined and is building up the Streetart Map of Montreal.
Holger Peter (PeterEatAndArt) from Berlin joined and is building up the Streetart Map of Berlin with extensive infos about the artists and meanwhile with over 10.000 pages and more than 91.000 photos. He is also doing the map for Rheine and the Island Poel
Analiá Pertusi aka Perts Jam joined and is building up a fantastic archive for the Argentinian capital Buenos Aires and as well for the Chascomus Map.
World traveller Mazzanti from Sweden contributes great photos for the Stockholm Map and for numerous places from all around the world.
Irxnschmoiz is our city ambassador for the maps of Hannover, Bremerhaven, Dortmund, Braunschweig and Hildesheim and contributes continously new material. He also takes photos from other interesting places in Germany.
Bart Hagel aka Street Art Damsko and Killer Leentje contribute awesome material for the Amsterdam Map.
Gail Lochner from Ecuador joined and is building up the map of Cuenca with fantastic artworks.
Agnieszka Pisarska (Piece of Streetart) contributes great galleries of cities in Poland and is building up the Streetart Map of Wroclaw!
The Nomads on Wheels are travelling around the world in their van and sending awesome photos. Meanwhile we have great collections from 72 places.
Fiona Lu (City.Features) from Canada joined and is building up the Streetart Map of Vancouver.
Caley Costley (BobBleu) from California, USA joined and is building up the Streetart Map of Los Angeles.
Matthias Busch joined and is building up the Streetart Map of Austin in Texas, USA.
Luigi Savoia from Italy joined and is building up the Streetart Map of Turin.
Milau Lutumba (Delutu) from France joined and is building up the Streetart Map of Paris
Julien Canadas from France joined and contributes great photos and also videos for the Toulouse Map.
Natalie Pomeroy aka Street Art Wombler is part of the team and contributes awesome material from Australia and especially Melbourne.
Mike Hennessey aka See Some Streetart joines our collective and works on the map for Almaty in Kazakhstan.
Frankfurt Map reached 2000 spots and offers more than 27.000 photos to explore! As well there are lots of new updates to several places.
