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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 255.000 photos 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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Portugal / StreetartChaves is the second largest city in the district of Vila Real, with approximately 41,000 inhabitants, and is located on the northern border of Portugal, 22 kilometers from Spain. Like everywhere also here you can find interesting streetart obvious or hidden in the alleys. Check out the collection of what we found.
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Nepal / PainterIn Kathmandu we visited the artist and art teacher KUMAR LAMA at his art school OLD MONASTERY THANKA AND ART PAINTING SCHOOL, and spoke with him about his creative space and the art presented. Currently 45 teachers work there and more than 100 students are taking part at the program. Also joining the interview was KUSFU TAMANG, who is an artist herself but also works at the art project. This space is an art education program that has been in operation for many generations.
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Germany / StreetartThis time we’re going to Wunstorf to a Hall of Fame that is hardly in the public eye and should not be underestimated. West of the Wunstorf train station, the span of the railway tracks to the west towards the city of Minden and to the northwest towards the city of Bremen is crossed by an elevated national road Hochstraße (B 441). Between these tracks and below this “urban planning fiasco” there is a small legal spray spot. This little insider tip often surprises with the finest pieces, which (at times) do not have to shy away from a quality comparison with those of the famous halls in the cities around.
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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.
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Europe / History / LuxembourgThe Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (Luxembourgish: Groussherzogtum Lëtzebuerg, French: Grand-Duché de Luxembourg) has 602.000 habitants and is the last remaining Grand Duchy or Grand Princedom of formerly twelve existing ones in Europe. The state borders to Belgium, France and Germany and forms the Benelux or Low Countries with Belgium and the Netherlands. The mainly rural shaped region is marked by the compact forests and natural reserves of the Ardennes in the north, in the east there are the rocky gorges of the Müllerthal and in the southeast the Moselle Valley. A dream for all nature lovers and hiking fans. The capital is called Luxembourg as well and is famous for its medieval old town which is located on a hill.
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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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France / StreetartThe Tête de Chien is a 550 meter high promontory near the small town of La Turbie which offers a spectacular view over Monaco and the French Riviera with the Côte d’Azur. The summit is also home to the Fort Masséna from the 18th century, which is well worth a visit if you are interested in history. But for urban art fans, the old barracks „Ruines de la Garnison de la Tête de Chien“ next to it are much more exciting. The walls of this lost place are filled with great graffiti, characters and abstract paintings.
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Greece / StreetartPsyri is a district of the Greek capital Athens and famous for it’s avant-garde and alternative scene. This page here is specifically about graffiti and great urban art in this neighbourhood, whose alleys are filled from top to bottom with magnificent works. The murals are often marked by political messages, interspersed with anarchist bookshops or stores for rare records and vintage stuff. The bars and clubs regularly host live concerts of all kinds of music and there is a fun and lively nightlife.
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France / StreetartRennes has about 223,000 inhabitants and is the capital of Brittany in northwest France. It is known for its medieval half-timbered houses, the magnificent cathedral, the Parc du Thabor and the Espace des Sciences with its planetarium. There are also great urban artworks in the streets, here is a collection with awesome creations.
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Architecture / History / VenezuelaMaracaibo is a port city on the Lago de Maracaibo in the northwest of Venezuela. It is the capital of the state of Zulia, with more than two million inhabitants after Caracas, the second largest metropolitan area in the country and is one of the largest cities in the Caribbean. Besides the interesting lively city the nature around is also astonishing. Lake Maracaibo is the largest lake in South America and one of the oldest lakes in the world at over 30 million years old.
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Poland / StreetartLeszno is a beautiful, medium-sized town in south-western Greater Poland (Wielkopolska), near the border with Silesia with a multinational and multicultural character. Many open-air events are organized throughout the year like the Glider Picnic, the Baroque Plus music festival or Leszno Delights. The City Theater, which is the first new public theater in Poland in 40 years, has also been operating here since 2016. And of course the city is also peppered with grandiose murals and beautiful street art.
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Photography / SwitzerlandThe great photographs of MARIE FORMICA aka MATA HARIE are breathtakingly honest, they fascinate with their intimate moments that we all know but can never see ourselves like this. The creative artist from the Swiss city Lausanne at the Lake Geneva photographed these people in their most human moments, sometimes laughing, sometimes sad, sometimes angry, or just pensively daydreaming. As well she has a special fable for hands, their structures and anatomical conditions. In an intersting interview she tells us about her photography art and creative doings.
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Germany / StreetartThe Graffiti Zone at the Berlin Mauerpark is an open spray area on the former east-west border in the district Prenzlauer Berg. The spot is very busy and fantastic pieces get painted here every day. They are often only visible for a short time because continously new artworks appear on top of the older ones. We have therefore considered a categorization by creators with chronological updates for the archive. Check out the artist gallery with meanwhile already 500 artists and more than 7000 photos.
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Sri Lanka / StreetartMirissa is one of the hot spots for the surf community in the country and a popular tourist destination with good waves and fine sandy beaches. Visitors from all over the world come to Mirissa, and of course including many creative artists from the field of graffiti, which is why you can see really a lot of cool pieces on the walls here. Western-style graffiti with letters, because mostly you tend to see figurative murals on the island which are also around, but in Mirissa there is a comparatively large amount of graffiti.
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Greece / StreetartThe former spa town of Loutrá Eleftheró with its thermal springs used to be a popular destination for healing therapies and relaxation. The spa was closed many years ago, the small village is meanwhile almost abandoned and the buildings are half in ruins, but this „ghost spa“ is still well worth a visit. The lost place offers a magical atmosphere in a mysterious valley, just like in enchanted fairyland. And of course there are some great graffiti and urban artworks here.
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Accommodation / Albania / EuropeDo you need some nice advice for a short trip or long term holiday destination? We already wrote something about a roadtrip through Albania and presented you the country as a new secret hint (Let´s go to Albania). The New York Times voted the country in the newcomer list of soonly be in demand places of interest. Our trip was definitly classic, we learned a lot, had fun and it was (still) quite cheap. The whole country is paved with UNESCO heritages, one of the most impressive cities is certainly Berat. We stood there for a few days in Skotis Backpacker Hostel. The born Scot is an enthusiastic person, excited about travelling and get to know other countries and cultures. Here in Berat in Albania her realized his long wished dream about opening a hostel. When he came to Albania in 2008 there existed just one hostel in the capital Tirana. (We wrote as well something about that place with interviews with the owners). The city Berat is just a historical and as well an architectonical sight, where you should spend some days. The river Osum divides the city in a valley, the houses are built in hills and into the mountain. All the buildings are constructed and presented mostly in the same style and clustered into the hills and valley walls. But actually you don´t see a lot of any walls. There are just window. A lot of windows. That´s why Berat is called as well the „City of the thousand windows“.
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Design / FranceOld times, old captures, old cameras. During a visit of the beautiful capital of France we encountered a kind of open car fair or a meeting of exquisit car and oldtimer passionates. They gathered with their automobiles at the Carrousel du Louvre, that´s the park complex in front of the famous museum where you can admire the Mona Lisa of Leonardo da Vinci.
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Austria / StreetartThe Flex Hall of Fame is one of the first legal graffiti areas in Vienna and is located on the Danube Canal near Schottenring. This spot has been legal since around 1994, when the city of Vienna opened up the area for legal graffiti art. The name “Flex” comes from the legendary techno and electro club Flex. As well the various riverbank spaces and promenades around are open walls and approved for legal spraying, it’s a huge open-air gallery. The Donaukanal is also regularly a part of the awesome urban art festival CALLE LIBRE.
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Germany / StreetartWith a population of 72,000, Aschaffenburg is an independent medium-sized town in the Bavarian administrative district of Lower Franconia and part of the Rhine-Main metropolitan region. Worth seeing are the Johannisburg Castle, King Ludwig I’s Pompejanum, the neoclassical theater, the nationally renowned Hofgarten cabaret stage or the Colos-Saal music club. For some years now, larger murals have also been created here, and the artist HERA in particular has left two magnificent works. But you can also find interesting graffiti at hot spots such as the JUKUZ youth and culture center, the Adenauer Bridge or the Bavaria Graffiti Wall.
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Chile / NatureNahuelbuta is a word from Mapudungun that means Great Puma. Mapudungun is the language of the Mapuches, the inhabitants who lived in this region before the arrival of the Spanish in mid-16th century. The park that is only 37 km from the city of Angol, was created in 1939, and comprises a section of the Nahuelbuta Range, which in turn is part of Chile’s Coastal Mountain Range.
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Argentina / StreetartIf you calculate the whole area together, then the city is not much bigger than Frankfurt in Germany. But therefore it has a habitation of about three million people. And if you count all the suburbs and connected districts as well you will be fast cross the ten million line. So many people and so many interessting stories. In Buenos Aires live a lot of different folks from all around Argentina and Southamerica, it´s the little New York of the South wth all its different styled quarters. Here we go now for the neighbourhood Palermo.
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Brazil / StreetartBelo Horizonte is a major city in southeastern Brazil and the capital of the state of Minas Gerais, with a population of around 2.5 million inhabitants. Founded in 1897 as one of the first planned cities in Brazil, the city is widely recognized for its architectural heritage, especially the modernist works of Oscar Niemeyer, with the iconic Pampulha Modern Ensemble standing out as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. A key highlight of the urban art scene is the annual festival CIRCUITO URBANO DE ARTE or in short CURA, which invites local and international artists since 2017 to create monumental murals. Meanwhile it is one of the most important urban art events in the country.
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Canada / MusicWe had again a very nice studio visit. A band from Toronto was announced. Before the show I did a little research and listened to some songs on the internet. Very nice, funny and interesting music. I could not assign the singers voice to the person, wasn´t sure who, and if this „Ronley“ was a man or a woman, a bandplayer or this incredible frontwoman. I just communicated with this person via Email. But she (so means a woman) runs the show (means the band, not the radio show, this should I do), but she´s the boss and the networker of the music collective. It´s a nice and great network of musicians who connect for projects, jam-sessions, concerts or bigger tours.
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France / StreetartThe urban space in Nice, especially in the center and along the beach promenade, is kept very conservatively clean and tidy for the tourist; there are hardly any of the small brighteners that are usually found in cities, such as paste-ups, stickers or stencils. But as is often the case, if you take a closer look, you can always find something. In the outer districts and suburbs it’s a different story, there’s more graffiti and therefore also more stickers. Check out the collection sorted by various categories.
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>>> 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 9800 pages and more than 87.000 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.
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 Wroc?aw!
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.
Irxnschmoiz is our city ambassador for the Hannover map and contributes continously new material. He also takes photos from other interesting places in Germany.
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.
