Welcome to Vagabundler!

A wonderful ragbag for alternative travelers and street art fans. On this platform you can find interesting reportages including detailed routes, elaborate country maps and coverages on creative 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. With a special preference and focus on Streetart and Graffiti the colour-on-the-wall-lovers can find an huge area with city maps, location trackers and thousands of photos. We are continuously working on the website, loading up and constructing. All respect to the artists! As well to all the people meanwhile involved in this non profit project. We do this voluntarily because we love it and we want to support the art scene, creativity in general and socio-cultural understanding between us on this planet. If you find any mistakes or missing information, feel free to write us. 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: Streetart Montréal – Muralfestival – Annual Artist Gallery

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

ITALY: Urban Artist Mrfijodor – Childish beauty of nature and ecological criticism

Italy / StreetartMRFIJODOR is the pseudonym of FIJODOR BENZO. He tried for years to have a tag like all writers, but in the end he was satisfied with his first name. As a child with a strong creative vein, he began by making monsters with LEGO bricks and drawing on the walls of his bedroom. In recent years, his production has been very varied, ranging from installations to thematic murals, but also performances and graffiti, which he has been dealing with since 1994. He creates works whose subjects are usually elementary forms that carry direct and ironically responsible messages; at the base a simple reading key, in order to always be able to dialogue with the user. Very often, his works are marked by a social or ecological criticism, using as a weapon a childishly amazed smile and a spontaneous and direct style, free from complex technical elements. >>> READ MORE [...] Read more...

CAMBODIA: JJ’s Playground – Beach Rave in Sihanoukville

Cambodia / Culturists / Events / MusicBetween the cultural treasures in the Cambodian inner country and the heaps of paradiseful islands by the sea there is Sihanoukville located on the Southern Coast of the Thailand Gulf. It´s headquarters for planing and starting a wonderful relaxing time on one island or do a hopping over several ones. Depening on the time you have, but for sure, you don´t want to leave. For the party people there is as well a cool nightlife provided including super nice sea side places with DJs and nightlong dancing on the beach till sunrise. One of those places with good cocktails, fine music and awesome partys is JJ’s Playground. We spoke with manager Jose and team members Justin and Dave in an interview about the place and the party at JJ’s, as well we did a short walkaround video during daylight. >>> READ MORE [...] Read more...

GERMANY: Streetart Berlin – Minimalistix Gallery – OPENING Exhibition

Atelier / Events / Germany / PainterAs the name suggests, the MINIMALISTIX GALLERY & COFFEE run by owner CENGIZ TATAR offers creative art and tasty coffee, but also everyday useful things. This new wonderful free mind space opened its doors on 10th of February 2022 with a great starting event in Bülow Street 11 in the Berlin district Schöneberg. Till 26th of February the gallery is open from 7 till 9 pm and the exhibition organized by GOMEZ and PETRA BRANKE aka MERLIN 007 will end on Saturday with a finissage. The other artists involved were JPS, PZY, MR SASA, BUBBLES,  CASE,  HOMBRE LOPEZ, FEFE, IMED ART, ANDRÉ KROMMER and HARALD HASSI. >>> READ MORE [...] Read more...

GERMANY: Streetart Berlin – Spandau – Old Post Station – URBAN ART HALL – meanwhile demolished

Germany / StreetartThe old post station in the Berlin district Spandau – the URBAN ART HALL – was a creative art space for many years and the outside walls became an urban gallery with wonderful creations. Colorful undertakings happend here, great events took place or frequently spray sessions and you could find masterpieces from local and international artists. The building complex was demolished meanwhile, but here in our archive you can still admire the fantastic artworks in the subpages for each artist. >>> READ MORE [...] Read more...

INDONESIA: Illustrator Fachreza Octavio Zain and RE:ON Comics

Comic / Illustration / IndonesiaThis article is especially for the comic and manga fans. We met one of the illustrators and comic conceptors of the Indonesian media agency RE:ON COMICS for an interview. His name is Fachreza Octavio Zain and he told us about the comic world in Indonesia, the concept of re:on and about his work as an illustrator. >>> READ MORE [...] Read more...

CANADA: Streetart Montréal – Lachine – Duff Court Legal Wall – ARTIST GALLERY

Canada / StreetartThe “Lachine Graffiti Program” by the “Comité Graffiti Lachine et Ville de Montréal” has been working since 2003 to raise public awareness of urban art. It also works to create links between the community, traders, community workers and graffiti artists. Every year, the Lachine Graffiti Program organizes a weekend jam session at the Duff Court Legal Wall. It is located at the noise barrier on highway 20 along the Michel-Ménard Park in Lachine borough. Here is a collection of the great creations from the past years sorted by artists. >>> READ MORE [...] Read more...

NETHERLANDS: Longest Painting in Amsterdam – Foodstrip – KARSKI & BEYOND // BIER EN BROOD

Netherlands / StreetartIn the summer of 2018, KARSKI & BEYOND and BIER EN BROOD joined forces to create the longest painting in Amsterdam. Commissioned by the Caransa group, a design was made for more than 160 meters in length, giving the client a lot of freedom. The entire wall was built especially for the artists. The two artist duos worked closely together to make the different styles flow together smoothly and to tell a continuous story. In a period of about four weeks, the entire painting was made in Southeast Amsterdam along the so-called Foodstrip. >>> READ MORE [...] Read more...

BRITAIN: Comic Illustrator Johnny Trip – Funny, provocative and sometimes pervert

Britain / ComicBy chance I came across the funny short comic strips of Johnny Trip, which he posts on Instagram at regular intervals. Mostly one shots, sometimes a few more, often funny, sometimes disturbing, but always holding the mirror up. Johnny Trip paints about the things nobody wants to talk about, puts them into characters and lets them act in the comic. And in this world it’s no problem, it’s just a comic. But Johnny’s comics often have it in them and go way below the belt. He provokes where necessary, mockes incompetent statesmen and horrible dictators, or skillfully packed criticism of religion and politics into his colourful creations. But often it is just the ordinary human quirks that we all know. >>> READ MORE [...] Read more...

GERMANY: Graffiti & Streetart Berlin – October Jam at North Side Gallery – URBAN ART FOR A BETTER WORLD

Events / Germany / StreetartOn the 6th, 8th and 9th of October 2022 another great jam took place at the North Side Gallery with more than 50 fantastic creators taking part. Local and international urban artists redesigned the walls of the North Side Gallery with the theme “Urban Art for a Better World“. For the protection of the environment, freedom of speech, a life without violence and war, a humanistic attitude and respect for the dignity of each individual! >>> READ MORE [...] Read more...

FRANCE: Reporter and Réalisateur DELUTU aka MILAU K. LUTUMBA

Culturists / France / StreetartMilau Lutumba aka Delutu is a passionate reporter, photographer and réalisateur from Paris, the wonderful capital of France. On his Instagram channel he provides nearly daily new super amazing artworks, mostly from his city, but also from other exciting places in France. As well he runs an interesting Facebook account and a recommendable Youtube channel with heaps of interviews and reportages. This guy is excitingly busy and provides really good stuff! Definitely worth to look at! Here on the Vagabundler website Milau is building up the Streetart Map of Paris with wonderful creations from the city of the Eiffel Tower on the river Seine. >>> READ MORE [...] Read more...

GHANA: Nursing and Health Assistant Training School Teshie

Africa / Ghana / SocialThe Nursing and Health Assistant Training School Teshie (HATS, Teshie) was instituted on 28th January 2008 due to the ministry of health decision to train a middle level cadre to assist the professional nurse in carrying out her duties, and to contribute to the improvement of the staffing situation in the clinical area. One of the tutors – Sandra Opoku – took part at the HITA midwife exchange programme in 2014 and went to Germany for three month. Currently she is teaching at Teshie. As a school their mission is to train competent middle level cadre nurses who will contribute creditably to the health care delivery in Ghana through promotive, preventive and curative services. The school started under a canopy with a teaching staff of four, one non teaching staff and a student numerical strength of seventy-two. Currently, the school has ten staff members with eight teaching staff and three non-teaching staff. The motto for the school is “Service to humanity”. >>> READ MORE [...] Read more...

PARAGUAY: Parque Das Aves – Foz do Iguaçu

Nature / ParaguayParque das Aves is a theme park located in the city of Foz do Iguaçu, in the Brazilian state of Paraná. Situated near the Iguazu River Falls, the park has 16 hectares of native forest, with 1500 animals including birds, reptiles and mammals, from 140 different species. It is a private institution that works as an integrated conservation center for Atlantic Forest species, researching captive breeding and preserving endangered animals. Its structure has 1,300 meters of trails, where birds are arranged for observation, and environments that mimic natural ecosystems for some species, such as alligators, boa constrictors, marmosets and butterflies. >>> READ MORE [...] Read more...

ALBANIA: Durrës – Historic Epidamnos and Dyrrachium

Albania / Architecture / HistoryAfter we had left Tirana our first stop was the big city Durrës at the Adriatic coast of Central Albania. Durrës is the most important port city in the country and therefore an economic centre. In terms of population, Durrës is the second largest city in the country after the capital Tirana, 30 km away, and the official seat of the Qark of the same name. Durrës and Tirana together form a metropolitan region. We could find a lot of nice street art here, but the historic buildings from antiquity and the Middle Ages, mixed with modern architecture, are also quite astonishing. >>> READ MORE [...] Read more...

CYPRUS: Nicosia – Ethnological Museum – House of Hadjigeorgakis Kornesiso

Cyprus / HistoryThe House of Hadjigeorgakis Kornesisois is located at Patriarchou Grigoriou 20 near the Archbishopric in the neighbourhood of Saint Antonios. It was the area where the rich Greek used to live and the mansion is the most important example of urban architecture of the last century of Ottoman rule that survived in old Nicosia. It is quite interesting and worth a visit, the entrance is free. >>> READ MORE [...] Read more...

VENEZUELA: Mérida – Historic architecture and street life in Santiago de los Caballeros de Mérida

History / VenezuelaMérida or with its Spanish full name “Santiago de los Caballeros de Mérida”, is the capital and commercial center of the state of Mérida with 317,410 inhabitants counted in 2013. The city is as well the tourist and university center of the Venezuelan West and located in the begining of the higher levels of the Andes. There are heaps of canyons, little creeks and the mountain landscape offers numerous outdoor activities of all kind. >>> READ MORE [...] Read more...

AUSTRIA: The Universe of Everyday Objects – HNRX

Austria / StreetartIf you find street art murals consisting of comic sausages, bananas or cucumbers, then these food graffitis in pop-up style are most likely made by the fantastic Austrian artist HNRX. In his pieces are often the ordinary things of everyday life which he combines on the motifs in a surreal, funny but also thought-provoking way. However, it is not only limited to fruits, vegetables and food, toothbrushes or dentures are also great on house walls. HNRX is continously developing and reinventing his style. From comic-like poster images to meanwhile detailed and complex abstract murals. Still the preference for everyday objects is a constant theme in his so-called “Deformatyons”. >>> READ MORE [...] Read more...

BRITAIN: Visual Designer, Mixed Media Creative and Texture Collagist – Beth Williams

Atelier / Britain / DesignCreativity slumbers within each of us, you just have to pursue these ideas a little and give your imagination a jolt. You should also keep your eyes open to allow inspiration and conception. Art is timeless, just as there are no prescribed rules, a minimum or maximum age, a condition of academic art training or other certificates. The ideas and creativity come from within yourself, the other elements that are certainly helpful are just building blocks that you can use when the time comes. The artist Beth Williams went her own way and creates beautiful pictures and thought-provoking collages with hidden messages. >>> READ MORE [...] Read more...

IRELAND: The Icon Factory & The Icon Walk – Artist Aga Szot

Atelier / Culturists / Ireland / Painter / SocialThis wonderful story is really one of the “greatest stories ever strolled”, as it is already written in the headline on the website of the Icon Factory in Dublin. This article will take this beautiful story further out into the world, with a readable artist conversation on the making and there is also an interesting podcast waiting for you to listen to. This is the story of the Icon Factory and the Icon Walk told by team member and visual artist Aga Szot in an interview. >>> READ MORE [...] Read more...

SOUTH AFRICA: Unforgettable Encounters – Whale Watching on the Ivanhoe Sea Safari

Nature / South AfricaThis article here will be about one of the most memorable experiences on our travels. It is about an encounter with the biggest living beings on our planet, and this almost on the touch! Also on our unique Whale Watching Tour in South Africa was the fabulous Parxi Deluxe, of whom some great photos are included here, as well as an interview with marine biologist Karla van Zyl from the Ivanhoe Sea Safari. >>> READ MORE [...] Read more...

GREECE: Thessaloniki – Vibrant city built on cities

Greece / HistoryIt doesn´t matter when you go to Thessaloniki, maybe in winter you won´t go swimming, but this city offers just a wonderful combination of the necessary ingredients to have a desired enjoyable quality of life. I could definitely imagine living there for some month or years. The food is fantastic, the people are cool, sympathetic, social and quite open minded. But still stubborn, of course, they are Greek. But stubborn in a nice meaning. They do it their way. And what I observed I really liked, in a lot of aspects a combination of the old with the new, making something different out of it, but without forgetting anything. Everything stays preserved. In Thessaloniki I could meet interesting people who showed me new innovative ideas in which direction Greek culture can go. We went to amazing and entertaining night clubs, one located in an old Hamam, the other homagely named after the German capital Berlin with a taste of its music. And not to mention, the food is just super awesome. >>> READ MORE [...] Read more...

MÉXICO: Chichén Itzá – Maya Trail Site – Yucatan

Mexico / North AmericaPhoto Gallery about the ancient Mayan city, about the leftovers of a magnificent dynasty and the beauty of the beach at the historic site. >>> READ MORE [...] Read more...

POLAND / PORTUGAL: Mural Artist Duo MOTS – Diogo & Jagoda

Poland / Portugal / Social / StreetartDiogo is a graffiti artist from Portugal, Jagoda is originally from Poland. Together they are MOTS and this creative duet is travelling through the countries while leaving awesome and attention drawing artworks in the urban landscapes. They are specialized in making huge murals but love as well to do their colorful remodeling of walls at abandoned places or where it just seems to be needed. >>> READ MORE [...] Read more...

CANADA: Beaming Graffiti and glowing Cartoon Characters – Fantastic artist WÜNA

Canada / StreetartToday we introduce you to an awesome artist of the spray can. She originally comes from Toulouse in France, but is now based in Montreal, Canada, and beautifies the urban walls around the city and actually the whole country. This article is about the fantastic WÜNA, her art and her projects. In WÜNA’s works of art you can always find elements from comics, funny colorful characters. The lettering is just as intense and colorful. Cartoons and comics are important components of her art, as are the refreshing colors and energy that her works of art reflect. >>> READ MORE [...] Read more...

>>>  INTERNATIONAL COLLECTIVE <<<

More Creatives, Streetart Hunters and Vagabundlers joined, we have heaps of new articles and photographs. Especially Frank Hofmann is building up the enourmous Hamburg Streetart Map with meanwhile 1200 spots and more than 7000 photos!

Salvador Seda (GraffiPreBicentenario) from Chile joined and is building up the Streetart Map of Angol!

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 5500 pages and more than 44000 photos.

Milau Lutumba (Delutu) from France joined and is building up the Streetart Map of Paris!

Agnieszka Pisarska (Piece of Streetart) contributes great galleries of cities in Poland and is building up the Streetart Map of Wrocław!

Patrice Loranger (PLoranger4417) from Canada joined and is building up the Streetart Map of Montreal.

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.

Analiá Pertusi aka Perts Jam joined and is building up a fantastic archive for the Argentinian capital Buenos Aires.

Mazzanti from Sweden contributes great photos for the Stockholm Map and for numerous places all around the world.

Julien Canadas from France joined and contributes great photos and also videos for the Toulouse Map.

Bart Hagel aka Street Art Damsko contributes awesome material for the Amsterdam Map.

Gail Lochner from Ecuador joined and is building up the map of Cuenca with fantastic artworks.

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 1800 spots and offers more than 20.000 photos to explore! As well there are lots of new updates to several places.