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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 around 150.000 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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Culturists / Germany / StreetartThe innovative traveller, culture seeker and streetart hunter Frank Hofmann contributes regularly to the Vagabundler archive lots of fantastic graffiti images and interesting articles about impressive places. The graffiti seeker is currently filling the Hamburg Streetart Map with beautiful photo material! A big thank you also to Janine Lemke and Dirk Wesenberg for their contribution of heaps of photo footage! The Streetart Map Hamburg has meanwhile 850 spots divided into 12 categories with more than 4000 photos.
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Events / Italy / South America / StreetartAfter its major success at the Milan Central Station, the awesome exhibition “The World of Banksy – The Immersive Experience” went to Turin’s Porta Nuova and can be visited till 29th of May 2022. The exhibition highlights influential pieces from Banksy and can be perceived as the framework of his career. Art lover and photographer Luigi Savoia visited this fantastic place and documented the critical creative artworks, as well the shown short clips and the documentary movie “The Untold Truth Of Banksy” by Grunge magazine.
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Accommodation / Laos / PhotographyDuring our Laos Trip last year we didn´t only come across the wonderful toilet graffitis, we encountered as well several other mysteries in the jungle and the Mekong scenery. The river island Don Det is only accessable by boat, there are no cars, but therefore bicycles and scooters. And as well there is the Baba Guesthouse. This nice lodge was our accommodation on the idyllic place, a perfect little paradise for relaxing. Above all it turned out that the owner is a French artist who is occupied with poems, pixel photography and ambigrams. And what´s this now again? We didn´t know the word either, but you could describe it as some kind of geometrical writing art.
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Asia / Laos / SocialWe found again something interesting, good and worth-to-write-about in the middle of the jungle. It was next to the karst mountains while we were passing with our modified go-karts to a lagoon. We jetted past a sign, but after the short look we had to go back to that place the next day for sure. There was written: „Buy a cocktail and send with your purchase a child to school”. There was as well something about „Need Volunteers”. That sounded interesting. What are they doing there and who is doing what and are they really doing what they wrote? And if yes, how can you support? A lot of questions, so let´s go and check it out…
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South America / Streetart / UruguayOn the first glance you could assume that the place is somewhere around the Baltic or at the Wadden Sea. The architecture doesn´t really look very South American. As well there is this huge but small white lighthouse, which reminds more on Denmark or the German Otto comedy movies. But the palms, the warm climate and the high waves will disabuse you. La Paloma is located at the southeastern coast of Uruguay and it´s covered with awesome paintings, fantastic streetart and hidden graffiti. We brought you nice photo material from our last trip to the little chillspot. It´s an insider tip for surfer, artists and mountainbiker.
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Streetart / SwedenArtMadeThis is an urban art project that showcases female artists in Sweden’s cities. Especially in Gothenburg’s large car park at Drottninggatan 65 you will find countless works of art over 5 parking levels curated for the project. From paintings to textile art to installations, 47 female artists have left fantastic works since 2017 and more are going to come. Check out the great creations!
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Chile / Nature / SportsIn the north of Chile lies the legendary Atacama Desert with its breathtaking mountains and fascinatingly varying rock colors. From brown to yellow to red or green, you can find a whole rainbow there, especially at sunrise and sunset. We went far into the desert with our mountain bikes and snowboards strapped to our backs to find a special spot for sand boarding.
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Croatia / DesignThe Pag Bridge – in Croatian called Paški most – is the bridge that connects the island of Pag to the Croatian mainland. The structure is 301 meters long and 9 meters wide. It has a 201 meters long arch which rises 35 meters above a part of the Adriatic Sea which is called Ljubačka Vrata. It was opened on 17 November 1968, since then it´s an important and helpful infrastructural help for developing the island.
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Streetart / SwedenSödertälje is a Swedish city with approximately 70,000 inhabitants in the historic province of Södermanland southwest of Stockholm. A fantastic Hall of Fame is located at Södertälje Hamn in the harbour neighborhood of Västergård with countless great works of art. Especially impressive are the mystical murals of animals and apocalyptic scenarios by artist and tattooist TOMAS SUNDERSTRAND.
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Atelier / Lithuania / SculptorHuge balloon dinosaurs, wolf skulls or a little Trump figure with a spray can – these are some of the amazing sculptural artworks of Domas Mykolas from Vilnius. We met the creative artist while finishing one of his newest masterpieces at the remodeling spray event at Keulė Rūkė. His freshly made artwork was part of the “make empathy great again” mural at the front. The whole group artwork is just brilliant, Domas contributed with the nice Trump statue.
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Germany / StreetartFrom 2nd till 26th of June in Berlin around the Tauentzien Street the fantastic ALL WE WROTE open air exhibition took place with awesome urban artworks by 36 artists from five countries. You could travel through 50 years of graffiti culture while visiting Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, New York and São Paolo in one journey! With 1200 meters the huge gallery was the longest graffiti expo worldwide! The event was supported by URBAN CONTEMPORARY, CANION and BLVD KU’DAMM.
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Ecuador / StreetartIn the Cuenca district of Sucre you can find a great spray wall at the street Fray Vicente Solano which is covered all over with beautiful urban artworks. New colorful creations emerging at regular intervals, but a special event was the first edition of the graffiti jam JAKE MATE organized by the ZOOSTYLE CREW with many participating local and international artists.
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Denmark / StreetartLocated in the heart of Midtjylland, Brande is a small, manageable municipality in Denmark with around 7.300 inhabitants. What are you doing in this sleepy hollow? In an hour, you could walk around this dump. But what does not sound spectacular at first is very deceptive. Brande is an absolute feast for the eyes. Since 2015, street art festivals have been held regularly in the city and the surrounding area, further reinventing the city visually.
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Ireland / Painter / Social / StreetartKevin Bohan came to art and graffiti via detours, but better later than never. For far too long he was working in unsatisfactory jobs, he didn’t pursue what was inside him, which eventually led to many years of depression. But the way out of the dark corner was finally painting and creative design. Art is his medicine. Over the years Kevin has done countless fantastic murals in Dublin and throughout Ireland, either on his own or in collaboration with other renowned sprayers.
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Events / Germany / StreetartBetween 7th and 9th of October the colorful graffiti event “21 Jam Street” was organized by the 21ER GALLERY and magnificent works of art were created over the three days on the large Concept Wall between Siemens Street and Erna Samuel Street and also on the facades of the Hambacher Wall, which is a new location at the corner of Erna Samuel Street and Siemens Street and managed by the 21 GALLERY. Here are the fantastic works of art sorted by name.
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Germany / StreetartWeißwasser or Oberlausitz is a large district town in north-eastern Saxony. It lies in the midst of a lignite-rich heathland between the Lusatian Lake District and the German-Polish border. With its rise from a rural village to an industrial town, Weißwasser grew from a population of around 1000 in 1885 to over 38,000 in 1988 and then fell back to 16,000 in 2020. The place is now a small town again, but offers great urban artworks in its streets. Here we have a collection of fantastic graffiti and streetart from Weißwasser. The images were contributed by photographer and artist CORS ONE from the crew N3M aka NEW 3RD EYE MOVEMENT.
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Streetart / ThailandIt is actually not that easy to find graffiti or street paintings in Bangkok. At first you wouldn’t think that and the city is also basically just a single “street art”. A mish-mash of humans strolling around, countless food variations and stalls. Everything is packed with stuff, the buildings and walls are full of trinkets, neon signs, advertisements, cable clutter, hanging laundry or any kind of garbage. But that’s why there is not much room for bigger graffitis there. At least in the center. Of course there are tags everywhere and smaller fast made stuff, but large free wall surfaces are rare and bigger artworks are more found in the outer neighbourhoods or at hidden places.
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Germany / MusicThe Teufelsberg Domecast is a podcast series with ambient experimental live performances using the Dome at the top of Teufelsberg in Berlin as a natural parabolic reverb. Their mission is to gather hand picked artists with a deep interest for music experimentation in their distinctive musical background and they look for artists who are dedicated to pushing the boundaries of frequencies and putting the dome to the test of sound. This article here is about this project which was created in a collaboration between DOTS Gallery & 11001 Records.
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Cyprus / StreetartOLAK is a graffiti sprayer from Limassol and has been among the first generation of the graffiti community that helped to establish graffiti and urban arts in the streets of Cyprus. He is still active painting in all kind of situations. As one of the old schoolers of the island over the years he has been involved also in many graffiti projects and events such as the jam JUST HIP HOP and the STREET LIFE FESTIVAL. Meanwhile he works as a graphic and multimedia designer based in Spain with regular visits in Cyprus for work and other projects.
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Cinema / GermanyFilmmaker Bernd Lützeler has been travelling and discovering Indian culture extensively and regularly for almost 20 years, already in the 90s he was a big Bollywood fan. Meanwhile he shoots his very own films and besides presenting his personal style of Bollywood content, the films show as well the real but even more fascinating reality in India. Bernd is present at various film festivals and involved in great projects, as well he is a member of the film collective LaborBerlin. The creative artist told us in an interview at the “Institut für alles Mögliche” at the Teufelsberg in Berlin about his work.
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Accommodation / Architecture / History / JapanThe few but increasingly growing tourists who travel to Japan first of course visit the major cultural centers or high-tech cities such as Kyoto, Osaka and Tokyo. But if you have a little more time for your trip to Nippon, you have the opportunity to get to know many other sites in the country. Often the smaller villages are hidden and undervalued delicacies. For example, the fishing town of Onomichi (Japanese: 尾 道 市, -shi) on the southwest coast of Honshū Island.
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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!
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Events / GermanyAfter several years of grandiose events and spray sessions of DAS DRECKIGE DUTZEND, the first additional only femal writers jam took place on 3rd and 4th of September in 2022 at the local swimming pool in Babenhausen: The fantastic event AEROSOL QUEENS was born and is going to happen from now on annually. That means two fantastic jams every year! DD12 and AEROSOL QUEENS.
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>>> 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 6700 pages and more than 55000 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 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.
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 1900 spots and offers more than 25.000 photos to explore! As well there are lots of new updates to several places.
