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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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Architecture / Gastro / ThailandMaybe you searched for it already in the internet, but there is not something like “The Floating Market” in Bangkok, actually there are just heaps and numerous ones. It can be observed everywhere along the rivers and water alleys, you can see the daily business all around and it is simply fascinating. Some of these water marktes are more famous and easy to access, therefore you can find more content about it in the internet. But actually there are really numerous places along the river where you can find this kind of floating boat marketing.
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Architecture / Colombia / HistoryBarichara is a municipality in the department of Santander and famous for its “Hormigas” – grilled and spice-flavoured ants. Yes, ANTS! Of course we tried some! The little village is located in the province of Guanentá at an altitude of about 1280 and close to San Gil. It´s a perfect dinner stop when you travel between Venezuela and Colombia. The colonial architecture is unique and well preserved. Here you can imagine how it was some centuries ago, the buildings and plazas didn´t change much. Around the city are wonderful mountains to explore, several hike routes are possible. If you are in a rush, stay the afternoon, try the Hormigas and check out the pueblo. If you have more time, stay for one or two nights.
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Australia / Events / StreetartThe fantastic DARWIN STREET ART FESTIVAL, or in short DSAF, is an annual street art event in Darwin, founded in 2017 to culturally revitalize the downtown area and artistically transform vacant spaces. The festival usually takes place over several weeks between May and August with key hotspots including laneways and streets in the CBD such as Austin Lane, West Lane, and Shadforth Lane; in addition, the projects have expanded to suburbs like Parap, Nightcliff, and Casuarina. Since its inception, over 130 large-scale works have been created in the city, resulting in Darwin now being virtually covered in murals.
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Chile / Events / StreetartAfter the great first art event “Festival de Artes y Oficios” in 2023 this year the second edition took place in the historical buidling complex of the Maestranza Barón. Numerous local and national artists created fantastic works in large and small scale. The event was organized by the MARGINAL GALERIA and LA HOGUERA and all the collected funds during the happening went to families affected by the wildfires in Viña del Mar.
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Canada / Events / StreetartThe Muralfestival in Montréal is the greatest urban art festival in town and provides annually brilliant creations in innercity space. Since 2012 when the first event took place for three days there are local and international artists invited to leave artful beautifications in the city scenery. Every year the area around Saint-Laurent Boulevard changes into a creative festival area.
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Streetart / SwedenThe fantastic artist CAMILLA BOSTRÖM, better known as SCEB, has been decorating the walls in her city of Gothenburg and beyond for many years. Her works are abstract, colorful formations, often associated with plants or animals, and are created exclusively with spray cans. At least as far as the wall is concerned, because in addition to spraying, the creative artist is also active in other fields, she makes clothing or carpets, paintings on canvas and whatever else comes to mind. We visited SCEB in her studio in Gothenburg, a colorful place filled with interesting stuff.
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Germany / StreetartRheine is a Westphalian city on the River Ems near the city of Münster and the Dutch border. It is more of a small town with around 80,000 inhabitants, but still with some beautiful street art and graffiti in the urban space. Well-known artists such as MAD C, VON SCHULZ, BUNTE WÄNDE and INNERFIELDS delivered great murals for the Ems Side Gallery. In addition, the ADL CREW aka ADLETICS is strongly represented here with great graffiti. The open spray area at the Bodelschwing Bridge and the lost place at the old train station with urbex atmosphere are highly recommended. Photographer Holger Peter was visiting Rheine, initially we only wanted to make a smaller article. But then so many photos came together, a total of 634 pics with 83 individual pages, enough to make a map.
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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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Illustration / Music / USAI stumbled over this fantastic and in multiple fields active artist because of his funny and crazy collages. Seeing them over and over, these odd and stupid characters made me just laugh and these artworks became like a little comic strip series. Marc Kennedy did these visual objects by cutting, preparing and replacing photos while he had a little break from recording a row of his songs. He published as well a book and is producing cool t-shirts, but mainly he is a musician.
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Germany / StreetartThe youth center JUGENDHAUS AM BÜGEL in Frankfurt’s Bonames district has been a meeting point for graffiti, breakdance and hip hop for decades. The annual CHARACTER JAM is widely known and attracts both painters and fans of the genre. In a mixture of youth work and creative-social art education, events have been taking place here since the 90s. Check out the huge artist gallery with works from several years and numerous jams.
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Painter / Streetart / VenezuelaThe empathic and finger-pointing shamans are spread across the world, intended to evoke and draw attention, fascinating to look at but also thought-provoking. The Venezuelan artist KOZ DOS and the creative group around him have been creating magnificent murals across the globe for many years. Always with a touching message and a reminder of our connection with nature. We spoke with the great artist in an interview.
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Serbia / StreetartIn Belgrade between the streets Takovska, Vojvode Dobrnjca and Bulevar Despota Stefana, there is a large backyard with a parking lot and a recreation area for residents. Basically, it is a large concreted space with a few benches. Not necessarily nice for relaxing, but ideal for colorful art on the wall. And there is plenty of it here, from characters to numerous graffiti. Especially the artist METOD, who is from around that neighborhood, has painted several fantastic concept scenarios.
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Brazil / StreetartToday we have another colorful, interesting and authentic interview for you with a fantastic artist from São Paulo in Brazil. We introduce you to the heartful painter and creative graffiti sprayer Daniel Bazco, to his art, his thinking and his mission to bring more life and positive energy into the cities and the minds of the people. Daniel Bazco’s motifs are mostly about flora and fauna, but he also likes to paint portraits and characters. In doing so, he often chooses special people whom he would like to remember, but also people who deserve criticism. What all of his works have in common, however, is that they shine with strong color intensity.
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Nature / NorwayNature in Norway is world famous. Many „natural” masterpieces can be admired here. From glaciers, mountains, dense forests, waterfalls over fjords, norways offers everything your heart desires. Nature has an incredible raw power. Here, too, there are no limits to the superlatives. Gigantic, phenomenal, unique to name just a few approximations.
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Streetart / TurkeyTatvan is located at an altitude of 1690 meters on Lake Van in the eastern Turkish province of Bitlis and has around 79,000 inhabitants. Railroad lines also run past the north side of the town and there are sidings for freight wagons. Trains from Eastern Europe arrive here time and again, bringing more than just loaded goods. The wagons are often decorated with great graffiti that has traveled thousands of kilometers across the countries. A moving graffiti gallery!
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Egypt / HistoryThe Double Temple of Kom Ombo is an ancient Egyptian temple complex on the eastern bank of the Nile in Upper Egypt. The historic site was built during the Ptolemaic Dynasty from 180 till 47 BC and is dedicated to the two deities Sobek, the crocodile god, and Horus, the falcon-headed god of kingship, healing, protection, the sun and the sky. The temple complex is located about 3.5 kilometers southwest of the center of Kom Ombo, a town of about 70,000 inhabitants.
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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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Artisani / Japan / StreetartWe started the new year in Osaka, Japan. Konnichiwa! The celebration was great, the food and the sake fantastic, but the Japanese are not very familiar with streetart and graffiti. It is very regularized, officialized, well-signposted, marked and labeled. Streetpaintings which are out of the prevailing rules and raster, get cleaned away fast or cubically painted over. Which is kind of another invitation for some more already framed wish-wash or spray can art.
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Canada / Design / StreetartThe Montreal Metro comprises 68 stations and serves approximately 1.4 million bus and train rides daily. The first 20 stations were inaugurated on October 14th in 1966 and since then, the complex has continued to expand, but in addition to providing transportation, the metro network is also a vast art gallery with countless works, including wall paintings, installations, stained glass windows and sculptures. The transport department Société de transport de Montréal, or STM for short, curates and maintains these works.
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Chile / StreetartThe Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism (FAU) of Universidad de Chile was founded in 1848 and had several locations throughout its history. In 1976, the FAU moved to its current location. Previously, between 1893 and 1933, this property housed the Barracks of the 2nd Cavalry Regiment, which left several patrimonial buildings that are now occupied by the FAU. Around the university building complex are numerous urban artworks of different styles, from graffiti to portraits, abstract paintings or political stencil paroles.
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Illustration / Italy / Streetart„Spazio Portici – Creative Paths“ is a project of the City of Turin, Creative Turin and the Contrada Torino Onlus Foundation. The goal is to open spaces for artistic expression under the arcades of the city, focusing attention on the enhancement of creativity with a particular focus on youth. Along the 12 kilometers of arcades will develop over time installations, exhibitions, temporary exhibitions, artistic happenings in order to create a traveling visual path that will help give new life to the arches and to value creativity. Check out the great creations from the first 36 artists. Till 4th April there is as well an Open Call for the 2022 edition.
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Nature / VenezuelaToas Island is an island belonging to Venezuela, located in the Almirante Padilla municipality of Zulia State, south of the San Carlos Peninsula, at a distance of 2.5 kilometers from it and 5 kilometers from the eastern front of San Rafael de El Moján, city from which the island is distinguished. It covers an area of ??3 km².
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Italy / Music / Photography / StreetartThe Arcano2 Magazine is a great publication from Milan and Venice that has been providing photos, reports and interviews from the world of hip hop and everything that goes with it. At regular intervals since 1997 they give an fantastic insight to graffiti, breakdancing and rapping especially from Northern Italy, but also from all around the globe. Initially launched as Arcano Revue and with the first volume in black and white, 12 issues have now been published, meanwhile each with 218 pages and 6 posters in glossy and color. We spoke with crew member SAT about the history of Arcano2 and his own development as a graffiti artist and MC.
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Nature / VenezuelaCoro, officially Santa Ana de Coro, is the capital of the Venezuelan state of Falcón with about 258,000 inhabitants and is located on the Caribbean Sea at the north coast of Venezuela. In the north you can reach the Paraguaná peninsula via the isthmus of Médanos. In the northwest, the Gulf of Coro extends as a marginal sea of ??the Gulf of Venezuela. Off the coast are the Netherlands Antilles: In the north is Aruba and in the northeast there is Curaçao. In the south begins after a few kilometers, the hills of the Sierra de Coro. The closest major cities are in the south Barquisimeto and in the southeast Valencia.
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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.
