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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 260.000 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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New Zealand / StreetartDunedin, or „Otepoti“ in Maori, is the second largest city on the South Island of New Zealand with a population of about 120.000 and is located at the tip of the natural harbor Otago. The city is known for its Scottish and Maori cultural heritage, as well as its interesting Victorian and Edwardian architecture, which in some places also features colorful street art. Check out the magnificent creations!
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Events / Germany / StreetartOn 1st and 2nd April 2023 the first PAINT THE PARK jam took place on the walls in the park at Nordbahnhof organized by the GRAFFITI LOBBY BERLIN. The event was dedicated to the theme of “Graffiti Writing” and its facets. More than 40 artists from Berlin’s graffiti history were invited, who showed with different techniques what is possible in letter design. Additionally it was a happening for exchange and networking.
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Mexico / Painter / Streetart / Stylist / TattooThe Mexican visual artist POSK creates fantastic creatures with a mix of mythology and abstract on canvas, on house walls in urban spaces or as a tattoo artist with his project PIEL RITUAL on human skin. The artworks inspire dreams of another world and are breathtaking and fascinating on both a large and small scale. We spoke with POSK in an interview about his great art and his interesting projects.
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Bosnia-Herzegovina / StreetartMostar is the largest city in Herzegovina, the southern part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the sixth largest city in the country with 113,000 inhabitants. Since 2012 great artworks get created throughout the city during the fantastic STREET ARTS FESTIVAL MOSTAR, or SAFMO for short, which is organized annually by the REZON ASSOCIATION. Countless fantastic works have been created since then, from large colorful murals to small filigree works.
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Lithuania / MusicMonday is usually not the best day to party. The week already started, mostly there is still enough satisfaction or headache from the weekend, so you don´t find many people who go out, therefore as well not many places are open and offer long lasting venues. But this is not the case in Vilnius, on Mondays there is always a special program of high quality electronic music at the Minimal Mondays events of minimal.lt. In summer they take place at the Vasaros Terasa, in winter at the indoor Kablys Club. We joined an event and interviewed one of the DJs.
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Cyprus / StreetartBetween the Port of Larnaka and the Larnaka Marina is alongside the coast a huge unpaved parking lot. It’s more of a gravel course. The walls around that parking place are completely covered with awesome graffiti artworks. It’s kind of a Hall of Fame with numerous pieces and also an historic archive. You can find great creations from over ten years ago. Here are the collected urban artworks from that spot.
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Ireland / StylistSometimes if you don´t like what’s available, you have to create something new by yourself. This can happen in many different areas of course, in this article it will be about fashion and clothing. The Dublin designer Ashley Byrne always wanted more color, more intense styles, more creativity, but the products you can get in the average stores are just too boring, mostly unified standards, mass production and without specialty. So Ashley started to create her own fantastic cloth and built up the label called AB Design.
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Painter / SpainThe work of painter Abdul Vasexhibits his quest for an original voice that one must endeavour to hear in order to comprehend his fathom. With a deep obsession about the world of AC/DC he creates a singular dimension, filled with symbols, messages, and cryptograms, some of them ill-intentioned at times. Check out the article about this fabulous creator and his art!
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Events / Germany / StreetartIn July 2023, a colorful paste up, stencil and sticker wall with works of many different styles was created on the east part of the Northside Gallery. The wall was designed by DYSM, TEXTILE STREET ART, SMYRFINK and KASI. Besides their own creations numerous additional artworks were attached from many other artists. Check out the collection!
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Atelier / Illustration / Painter / South KoreaThe DESIGN SQUARE art academy is located in the Beon-gil neighborhood in the Seo-gu district of Busan and classes are held in the building on the fourth floor, but there is also a very interesting creative space in the basement, the GALLERY SQUARE, where students can paint freely and exhibitions are held regularly. We talked to the artist and art teacher BYEONG YONG JEONG about the concept of this great place and took a look at the numerous fantastic artworks, which were made by students, workshop participants or just passing by creatives.
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Hong Kong / StreetartHK WALLS is a non-profit arts organization focused on creating opportunities for Hong Kong and international artists working in the realms of streetart, graffiti and muralism. Since 2014 the collective organizes annual events and besides those amazing jams they made as well numerous fantastic art projects possible.
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Atelier / ItalyDuring the visual design festival „Graphic Days“, which took place in Turin from September 16th till 26th in 2021, local artists, studios, galleries and creative spaces opened their premises with interesting exhibitions as part of the festival section „In the city“. A calendar of free events spread throughout Turin. One station was „THE CHAMBER“ by the collective IL CERCHIO E LE GOCCE. Photographer and streetart hunter Luigi Savoia visited the interessting exhibition, which was a real sensual pleasure after all this time. Check out the story of the event and Luigi’s great photos.
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Germany / StreetartThe “Teufelsberg” or in English “The Devil’s Mountain” is a wonderful creative place above the rooftops of Berlin’s Charlottenburg district. Great art and cultural events have been taking place here for years. The former and half decayed NSA Cold war spy station has been converted into a creative wonderland, awesome parties take place, rousing festivals, interesting film events and of course there is a lot of terrific art. The walls are just bursting with urban art and the Teufelsberg is one of the largest Halls of Fames in Germany.
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Norway / StreetartHarstad is a town in the province of Troms in northern Norway with a population of around 21.000. Worth seeing are the Tv-Tårnet observation tower, the Trondenes Center on the history of the Vikings, and the Trondenes Church, the world’s northernmost medieval stone church, built around 1250. The natural spectacle of the Northern Lights can be seen well from October to March, but the city offers not only colorful skies, but also colorful walls in the streets. Every year, the large music, theater, and art festival FESTSPILLENE I NORD NORGE aka ARCTIC ARTS FESTIVAL takes place and the collective ARCTIC WRITERS are also active time by time.
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Argentina / StreetartChascomús is a city in eastern Argentina on Lake Chascomús in the interior of the province of Buenos Aires. The city dates back to the famous Fortín de San Juan Bautista fortifications from 1779. Photographer Analá Pertusi aka Perts Jam had visited Chascomús several times and documented extensively the fascinating urban art. Nearly 700 great photos came together at 150 spots, enough to make an individual map which is dedicated to Chascomús. Dive into the creative world and when you are around, go exploring yourself!
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Events / Germany / StreetartMoabit shows flag! With cool music, graffiti and creative standing together against racism and discrimination heaps of artists participated at the “Anti Racism Jam 2023”, which took place on 31st March, April 1st and 2nd around the “Center for Art and Urbanism” (ZK/U). The event was organized by MARE, PHET and STEREOHEAT from the 21ER GALLERY and magnificent works of art were created on the three days at several spots.
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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.
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Culturists / Netherlands / StreetartBART HAGEL aka STREETART DAMSKO is a passionate photographer from the Netherlands who has contributed a lot of great material to the Urban Art Map of Amsterdam. An extensive archive has been created over time with small to large works of art, as well as galleries with countless photos of the super-frequented hot spots. He also did a „5 Questions“ interview series with several artists which we show you now here on the website.
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Italy / StreetartThe great murals, canvas paintings and drawings of the Italian artist NICK NEIM can be recognized by female characters with unmistakable large eyes. His murals are scattered around the globe in urban areas, but can also be found on many unique products from well-known brands or even be seen in films. Together with Marco Cominini aka MYSTIC MARK and Claudio Cretti aka ILCLOD he forms the fantastic crew ART OF SOOL.
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Romania / StreetartTimisoara is one of the most important cities in Romania and it is not without reason that it was chosen as the European Capital of Culture in 2023. The city with around 250,000 inhabitants offers an impressive combination of Byzantine, Baroque and Modernist architecture. Of course there is also a lot of great urban art, above all the UNDERTOWN STREET ART GALLERY under a large bridge to Iulius Town is a highlight with works by national and international artists.
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Italy / StreetartIn Turin’s Borgo San Paolo district, between Via Carso and Corso Trapani, lies Giardino de Valle park with various green spaces. In the northern and southern parts of the park, there are two concrete structures that were designed by various local artists as part of PIC TURIN in November 2011. There were also other works in other parts of the city. It was the second edition of the event after 2010, and a third followed in 2012. The project was organized by MURARTE with support of the collectives IL CERCHIO E LE GOCCE and MONKEYS EVOLUTION. Check out the great artworks!
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South Africa / StreetartThe district, or more precisely the “township” of Maboneng, was a run-down area of the city for many decades, but recently a lot of artists and galleries have settled down, also alternative bars and clubs opened and unconventional art projects are happening. The neighborhood has gentrified from a ghetto district to an attractive place where interesting urban art gets created.
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Spain / Sports / StreetartA “DIY Skatepark”, or “Do It Yourself”, is a skate spot mostly on abandoned or disused land and local skaters and collectives actually build these spaces, take care of the park and do the administration in self-organization. One such relatively new skate park in Barcelona is the PICNIC DIY in the district Poblenou at Calle de Carmen Amaya close to the beach. The area is an awesome playground for everybody who likes to ride any kind of skate vehicles and as usual with skateparks, also this hot spot is covered with countless great graffiti and new ones are created regularly.
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Canada / StreetartOn the east side of the Papineau Leblanc Bridge in Montréal’s Sault-au-Récollet neighborhood is a legal graffiti wall, which is filled with great works. Opened in 1969, the bridge was one of the first cable-stayed bridges in North America and is part of the Quebec Autoroute 19, which connects Laval and Montréal across the Rivière des Prairies river. The entire Sault-au-Récollet district was declared a heritage site by the City of Montréal in 1992 and is well worth a visit. Check out the graffiti collection from the open spray spot at the bridge wall.
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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 10.000 pages and more than 89.000 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.
