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!!!

LATEST POSTS

CANADA: Saint-Adolphe-d’Howard – Abandoned surveillance base – The Castle

Canada / StreetartThe Castle is a fascinating lost place graffiti spot about 50 minutes from Montréal by car. Actually it is a former military NORAD surveillance base which is meanwhile decommissioned. The area is located on top of a hill at the end of a small road in the woods. A perfect place to go to spend a beautiful day in the countryside while practicing art. >>> READ MORE [...] Read more...

GERMANY: Streetart Berlin – Hellersdorf – Marktplatzcenter – Kunsttage – Urban Art Exhibition

Events / Germany / StreetartFrom October 16th till November 11th in 2023, the great urban art exhibition KUNSTTAGE took place in the Marktplatzcenter in Berlin’s Hellersdorf district. “Kunsttage” means “Art Days” in English. The event was organized by STEREOHEAT and SKENAR 73 together with the art agency FRAMELESS STUDIO. The location is a mall with many different stores, but there are currently a lot of empty spaces. For this project numerous artists have painted fantastic colorful pieces on the walls. >>> READ MORE [...] Read more...

CYPRUS: Ayia Napa Mural Festival – High scale artworks in paradise

Cyprus / Events / StreetartThe first Ayia Napa Streetart Festival took place in 2012 and was launched by local creative master PAPARAZZI. In the years that followed, other editions of the event took place and there will certainly be some more grandiose editions coming in the future. Check out the great artworks from the previous jams. >>> READ MORE [...] Read more...

GERMANY: Streetart Berlin – Marzahn – Märkische Allee 181 – Graffiti Wall at the Fire Department

Germany / StreetartAfter a long process, the GRAFFITI LOBBY BERLIN and the youth culture center DIE KLINKE were able to inaugurate a new Hall of Fame in Berlin’s Marzahn district in May 2021. The outer wall of the local fire station department was cleared for artistic designs and has been a legal hall ever since. The wall surface is around 4 meters high and around 30 meters long, ideal for graffiti jams and fantastic concept walls, which are created there again and again. The works in this creative space are usually masterpiece quality and well worth a visit. >>> READ MORE   [...] Read more...

SRI LANKA: Nuwara Eliya – Tea Plantations, Agriculture & Lake Gregory

Nature / Sri LankaNuwara Eliya is located roughly in the middle of Sri Lanka and also in the middle of the hilly tea plantations. Everything looks completely different again, not just the nature but also the architecture. The place seems like an enclave of rich landowners who have built a racecourse, cricket fields, chic residential complexes and hotels, and who have converted Lake Gregory into a small recreational and leisure park. The hills around are completely filled exclusively with the best tea plantations. A walk through the groves is really impressive and the mountain views are outstanding. >>> READ MORE [...] Read more...

SWEDEN: Tattoo and Graffiti Artist TONY B – Unikum Studio – Characters, Anime and New School

Streetart / Sweden / TattooThe Swedish artist TONY B started with drawing on paper, followed by painting on human skin as a tattoo artist and finally also creating on walls as a graffiti sprayer. In Gothenburg he runs the magnificent tattoo studio UNIKUM with a team of six other great tattooers. His love is with the body decorations, but he kept on doing all of the other connected art genres too, so it is drawing, illustrations, tattoos and wall paintings. Check out the interview! >>> READ MORE [...] Read more...

SRI LANKA: Matara – Temple Island, Monuments and Street Life

Architecture / History / Sri LankaMatara is a town in southern Sri Lanka with around 43.000 inhabitants and famous for its historic monuments. The Parewi Duwa Temple is located on a small island in front of the city and is one of the most important sights, including the interesting bridge. Matara is also home to one of the largest educational centers in the country, the University of Ruhuna, an extensive complex with various faculties. >>> READ MORE [...] Read more...

SINGAPORE: Streetart Singapore – Urban Art Collection from the Island State

Singapore / StreetartSingapore is an island and city-state south of Malaysia. Small but golden. It is a global financial center with a tropical climate and a multicultural population. In the colonial center of the city you can find the Pandang, which has been used as a cricket ground since the 1830s and is now surrounded by glorious buildings such as the town hall with its 18 Corinthian columns. In the Chinese quarter Chinatown from around the 1820s is the red and gold Buddha Tooth Relic Temple, in which a tooth of Buddha is said to be. And in the streets there is as well wonderful urban art! >>> READ MORE [...] Read more...

SWEDEN: Streetart Stockholm – Kulturkvarter Snösätra – Graffiti Wall Of Fame – […meanwhile demolished…]

Streetart / SwedenThe Kulturkvarter Snösätra with its Graffiti Wall of Fame was one of the greates open art galleries in Europe, unfortunately it has been torn down in September 2020, but here in our archive are a lot of photos of the great works on this former awesome colorful lost place. The streetart hot spot was located in the remote south of Stockholm in a disused industrial park near Rågsved. This building complex lay fallow for years and gradually fell apart. It was a small deserted ghost town that was avoided. But that should change completely. In 2014, a group was able to convince the landowners that certain walls can be painted. This started a transformation of this area into one of the largest graffiti exhibitions in Europe. >>> READ MORE [...] Read more...

EGYPT: History and Architecture – The Bent Pyramid aka South Pyramid of Dahshur

Egypt / HistoryThe ancient Egyptian Bent Pyramid is the southern of the two great pyramids at Dahshur and differs from all other Egyptian pyramids because of its unique shape caused by construction problems. It was built around 2650 BC under Pharaoh Snofru, the first king of the 4th Dynasty. >>> READ MORE [...] Read more...

CHILE: Streetart Angol – Stencil Works – Art, Adds, Slogans, Protest – Collection Page

Chile / StreetartStencils are found throughout the city of Angol, in the most incredible places and corners. Many of those stencils have a political connotation, such as those related to the International Women’s Day, which are scattered across many walls in Angol. There is a stencil against the Discovery of America on 12th October 1492. There is also an enigmatic stencil of Che Guevara. We also found a stencil against Rodrigo Hinzpeter, a former Minister of the Interior under President Piñera. >>> READ MORE [...] Read more...

GERMANY: Stencil Streetart at its Best – TONA

Germany / StreetartYou can find the small to large children figures made by stencil artist TONA meanwhile all around the globe on house walls and corners. Again and again the sprayed faces in somtimes simple as well in odd and bizarre places surprise and refresh the street image. The sprayer and stencil artist from Hamburg began graffiti art early on, but then focused more and more on stencil work. Whether on screenprint, on stickers or even on the wall in an urban space, TONA decorates his surroundings and, when travelling, the surroundings of others with small interesting brighteners and artistic delicacies. All you have to do is keep your eyes open as you walk through the city. >>> READ MORE [...] Read more...

GERMANY: Alexander Grauberger – ART Archiv

Atelier / Germany / PainterBeing able to exhibit as an artist in a gallery or even in a museum is a long and difficult journey. Due to socio-culturally shaped exclusivities such doors are opened to a few. Through relationships, the academic career, the finances, by luck or really the absolutely outstanding talent and a lot of hard work it already works, but there are not so many galleries and exhibition venues. This is also due to the high maintenance costs, the low subsidies and the conditional demand for art objects in general. >>> READ MORE [...] Read more...

GERMANY: Graffiti Artist TYSN – West Berlin Wild Style, Hip Hop and Authentic Crew Roots

Germany / StreetartGraffiti, hip-hop, rap, and the sound of Harley-Davidsons on Berlin’s streets – TYSN lives right where street culture isn’t just an image, but everyday life. For over 25 years, he has been leaving his mark on walls, trains, and murals far beyond the city limits with his unmistakable West Berlin Wildstyle. Deeply rooted in the scene, shaped by crews, nights out and real consequences, his name stands for consistency, technique and attitude. This interview is not a retrospective from a safe distance, but an honest insight into a life between letters, beats and asphalt. We spoke with the artist, check it out! >>> READ MORE [...] Read more...

SERBIA: Streetart Belgrade – Stari Grad – Cetinjska 15 – Old Brewery Urban Art Space

Gastro / Serbia / StreetartThe former Beogradska Industrija Piva brewery, or BIP for short, was founded in 1839 and flourished to become one of the largest beer suppliers in the country. At its peak in the 1970s, BIP provided over a quarter of the Yugoslav beer market. In September 2015, the company filed for bankruptcy and ceased operations in December 2021, leaving the large factory site derelict. Shortly afterwards various artists, creative spaces and music bars moved in and it’s meanwhile an alternative art hot spot. The walls of the building complex are also filled with great urban artworks of course! >>> READ MORE [...] Read more...

CABO VERDE: Streetart Santa Maria – Ilha do Sal – Urban Art Project Arte D’Zone

Cabo Verde / StreetartSanta Maria is a coastal town in the south of the island of Sal in Cape Verde with around 17.000 inhabitants and was originally founded in the 19th century as a small fishing village and transshipment point for salt exported from the island’s salt flats. Worth seeing are the church Nossa Senhora das Dores, the pier of Santa Maria or the historical salt mining pans of Pedra de Lume in an old volcanic crater. The streets also have some great urban art to offer, and the creative organization and artist collective ARTE D’ZONA regularly embellishes the walls with new murals. >>> READ MORE [...] Read more...

GERMANY: Urban Art Rüdersdorf – Old Phosphate Plant Coswig Rüdersdorf – Urbex Collection

Architecture / Germany / StreetartThe old animal feed factory with the disused phosphate plant of the VEB Coswig Rüdersdorf company is an abandoned place that nature is reclaiming piece by piece. Filmmakers have also discovered this fantastic scenario and the area has already been the backdrop for some great movies, including „Manifesto“, „The Monuments Men“ or „Enemy at the Gates“. A perfect place for creative projects and of course interesting graffiti gets done here. We have some photos of the old chemical plant, who knows how long it will be around. >>> READ MORE [...] Read more...

LITHUANIA: Vilnius Open Gallery – Menu Fabrikas Loftas – The Murals Factory Land

Lithuania / StreetartIf you go to Vilnius and you like huge fantastic murals, you have to visit the OPEN GALLERY at the Menu Fabrikas Loftas in the quarter Naujamiestis. This space is a fantastic streetart paradise which is open all around the clock. It is a little industrial quarter, just a small block between some streets with several factories, but over the years a great collection of creations from national and international artists developed. Check out the gallery and the artworks! >>> READ MORE [...] Read more...

SOUTH KOREA: Daegu – VØID GALLERY – Exhibition Vol. 4 – Black Comics – HONG JONGGI

Comic / Events / Illustration / South KoreaThe great drawing artist and illustrator HONG JONGGI presents from 12nd May till 30th July 2025 a special collection of his artworks in the solo exhibition „Black Comics“ at the VØID GALLERY in Daegu. This is the 4th creative venue in this art space. If you are around the city during that time, be sure not to miss it. There are several pieces on the walls from series made during the previous years like „The Villains“ or „Motorcycle Diaries“ and also animated drawing videos are shown on projection screens. >>> READ MORE [...] Read more...

SRI LANKA: Streetart Nuwara Eliya – Mountain Graffiti and Urban Art Collection

Sri Lanka / StreetartThe small town of Nuwara Eliya with 27,000 inhabitants is located in the middle of the country in the mountainous area. The region is famous for the many tea plantations, the beautiful green nature and the relaxing Lake Gregory. While travelling along the warm beach climate on the coast, this idyllic and colder region is an pleasant contrast. And as everywhere else, of course you can also find great urban artworks here, from small pieces to larger murals. >>> READ MORE [...] Read more...

CANADA: Streetart Montréal – Vieux-Rosemont – Canettes de Ruelle – Urban Art Festival – 7th Edition 2023

Canada / Events / StreetartIn 2023 the fantastic urban art festival CANETTES DE RUELLE took place for the 7th time in Montréal. On September 2nd, 3rd and 4th more than 50 artists created fabulous artworks around the Vieux-Rosemont district and beautified the neighborhood. Check out the page about this awesome event with numerous murals from big to small, as well there are new pages for the previous editions. >>> READ MORE [...] Read more...

SOUTH KOREA: Seoul – GoTo Mall – Underground Urban Art – 24 Hours Project – Raemian One Bailey Streetart Gallery

South Korea / StreetartThe underground shopping center at Gangnam Terminal in Seoul is also known as “Goto Mall” and is directly connected to the subway lines. There are more than 600 shops, restaurants, and boutiques located beneath the surface. Along an around 500-meter-long walkway passage, the magnificent “24 Hours Project” was created at the RAEMIAN ONE BAILEY STREETART GALLERY, in which 24 renowned Korean urban artists each created a work that deals with a specific hour of the day. Pedestrians can experience Seoul’s vibrant rhythm through creative and also amusing artworks. >>> READ MORE [...] Read more...

GERMANY: Photographer Jörg Rudolph – Dosenkunst – Graffiti in the Rhine-Main-Area

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. >>> READ MORE [...] Read more...

EGYPT: Temples of Abu Simbel – Honorable Memorials of Ramses II – The moved Temples Project

Egypt / HistoryThe temples of Abu Simbel are two rock temples on the western shore of Lake Nasser. They are located in the Egyptian part of Nubia near the town of Abu Simbel and were built in the 13th century BC under Pharaoh Ramses II of the 19th dynasty of the ancient Egyptian New Kingdom. Between November 1963 and September 1968, a world-wide collaborative project took place to relocate and save the historic and architecturally important site. >>> READ MORE [...] Read more...

>>>  INTERNATIONAL COLLECTIVE <<<

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.