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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 285.000 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!!!
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Sri Lanka / StreetartNegombo is a town with around 140,000 inhabitants on the west coast of Sri Lanka and is located like a suburb to the north of the capital Colombo. A smaller coty with relaxed beaches and daily fishing life. Ideal for starting a trip if you don’t want to head straight into the hustle and bustle of the big metropolis. Here we have a collection of urban art from the neighbourhood Kudapaduwa which is located in the north of this fishermen town.
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Serbia / StreetartThe Belgrade Design District is often considered the fashion mecca for designers and serves as a source of inspiration and an art center. With a variety of studios, galleries and stores, the creative space offers unique fashion pieces, accessories, jewelry, decorations, paintings and art objects, also events are held regularly. On the walls around you will of course find a lot of urban art and graffiti, there are numerous works of different styles.
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Italy / StreetartAlong the tracks of Verona Porta Nuova station on Stradone Santa Lucia street, there is a huge graffiti wall almost a kilometer long with numerous fantastic works that change again and again. The fantastic TOP 2 BOTTOM graffiti jam organized by the ASSOCIAZIONE STREET SCALIGERA has also been held here in 2019 and 2023, where countless artists came together for a memorial day in honor of the artist NAPE, who died in 2018, and dedicate several works to him. PIERO SPADAROTTO aka NAPE lived from 4th August 1980 to 6th September 2018 and was one of the most important graffiti writers in Verona.
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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: ? ? ?, -shi) on the southwest coast of Honsh? Island.
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Events / Photography / Romania / StreetartEmil Banciu’s online library Banat Media offers virtual portraits of artists, exhibitions and art events in Romania. One book in particular caught our interest, the retrospective work on the great urban art festival FISART, which took place in Timisoara from 2011 to 2020 and attracted countless artists from all over the world. We talked in an interview with the publisher Emil Banciu, with the author Corina Nani and also with the photographer Sergio Morariu.
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Events / Germany / StreetartThis year ‘Das Dreckige Dutzend’ or ‘The Dirty Dozen’ were guests at the ‘Jugendhaus am Bügel’ (Youth Center) in Frankfurt. The fantastic Character Jam takes place there every year, which would have had its 10th anniversary in 2020. A good reason to celebrate, even a year later because of Corona. And so in 2021 both events took place in one great jam at the youth center, and the DD12 made the name of the Character Jam its motto for this year: ‘Focus on Characters’. In contrast to the writer-heavy DD12 events of recent years, this year all pillars of Hip Hop were covered and a jam in the style of the 90s has been offered.
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Denmark / StreetartTórshavn is the capital of the Faroe Islands and with around 23.000 inhabitants the political, economic, and cultural center of the archipelago in the North Atlantic, which is partly autonomous but belongs to Denmark. The name means “Thor’s Harbor” and refers to the Norse god Thor, a nod to the city’s Viking origins whose settlers came here around the 9th century. Cultural attractions include the National Museum of the Faroe Islands and the modern Havnar Kirkja church. And there are several kinds of interesting urban art to be found on the streets.
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Streetart / USARaleigh was founded in 1792 and, with a population of 467,000, is the capital of the state of North Carolina. The booming metropolis with its big city atmosphere and southern charm offers a variety of cabarets and the Martin Marietta Center for the Performing Arts is particularly worth a visit. The 10th Special Olympics World Summer Games were also held here in 1999. Of course, the city also has plenty of urban art to offer. Especially THE RALEIGH MURALS PROJECT has done a lot during the years and the DOWNTOWN RALEIGH ALLIANCE provides a great art map.
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Events / StreetartFrom 25th to 27th of July in 2025, the fantastic HAFEN JAM took place again in Raunheim, with 137 artists expected to attend this year. The long harbor wall with its two underpasses was completely redesigned with magnificent graffiti. The musical lineup was also impressive once again, featuring great hip hop MCs and DJs. Almost 15 years ago, MIAMI NEIß and MASEI ONE launched the first event. In 2019, DJ SAPIKO came on board and TEAM ANTIGRAU was founded, which has been organizing the legendary event annually ever since. Meanwhile it has grown into a huge festival.
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Belgium / StreetartAround 188,000 residents live in Brussels, the capital of Belgium, but the entire metropolitan region comprises around 1.2 million people. There is of course plenty to see, great art and culture, and also urban art. Especially the Comic Book Route shows a collection of murals with famous comic characters and scenes, also during the festivals BALKAN TRAFIK or LA BELLE HIP HOP several great artworks were made. In terms of architecture from older times, you should take a look at the Royal Palace, in contrast to the Atomium as a monument to progress and a remnant of the 1958 World Expo. The Grote Markt is certainly stylish and sublime again, as is the small, roguish Manneken Pis, a urinating landmark of the city that makes you smile.
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Ireland / StreetartThe area around Richmond Street is just a colorful art paradise. At least it once was on a much larger scale. Many buildings have since been demolished and some of the graffiti spots unfortunately no longer exist. But several wall parts are still active and great artworks continously get created here, also in our archive you can marvel at the previous area parts and the works, even if they are gone. It is basically a narrow side street, but this longer alley is filled over and over with graffiti and is one of the hot spots in town.
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Canada / Events / StreetartThe Vancouver Mural Festival, or short VMF started in 2016 with demonstrating the transformative power of art in the city. Meanwhile they cover nine neighbourhoods not only every year during the event, but also have several creative and colorful side projects running. In 2020 during the Corona pandemic they started the initiative #MakeArtWhileApart and curated murals on boarded-up storefronts. In summer of the same year artists contributed on that festival edition about 60 new murals plus three weeks of live performances. Check out the huge gallery!
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Cinema / ItalyIn 2020 on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the opening of the National Cinema Museum at the Mole Antonelliana and the birth of the Turin Piedmont Film Commission, the Piedmontese capital was the ‚City of Cinema‘. At 20 installations throughout Turin you could admire the remarkable and famous movies created between 1914 and 2020 with their filmsets in the local streets. Check out the article and the huge gallery with subpages for each artwork.
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South Korea / StreetartThe Nambusunhwan Urban Art Alley in Seoul’s Gwanak-gu district is a vibrant example of public urban art. Located at 1563 Nambusunhwan-ro, the alley features colorful murals, graffiti, and creative art installations that transform ordinary walls into an open-air gallery. Reflecting Seoul’s contemporary culture and artistic spirit, it offers visitors unique photo opportunities and an authentic glimpse into the city’s dynamic local art scene. Also in the little streets around you can find several more artworks.
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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.
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Israel / Middle East / StreetartWe sneaked away again during the cold months. Overwintering somewhere far more in the south, definitly very recommendable. Of course we brougth a nice collection of street art pictures and graffiti material from the place we went to: Israel. As well we went for an interview to the since 10 years existing Montana can shop in Tel Aviv. The country has a lot to offer and is worth an explorative visit.
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South Korea / StreetartSuseong, or Suseong-gu, is a district in eastern Daegu and is considered one of the city’s most affluent and modern areas and is often referred to as the “Gangnam of Daegu”, with the Suseongmot Lake and the Suseong Valley. For art lovers, Suseong Artpia is highly recommended – a major center for the performing and visual arts. But you’ll also find plenty of urban art in the streets, including entire concept walls and extended open-air galleries. There’s especially much to discover around Muhak-ro Street, which runs through the neighborhoods of Dusan-dong and Jisan-dong.
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Streetart / TurkeyAround the Lola Backpacker’s Hostel, the Spanish artist MANU CRAZY FOR GRAFFITI started a great art project together with the traveller and viajero ACBR during April 2023. “The world is a neighbourhood”. With the support of the hostel, the two painted the entire street and transformed the dreary landscape of houses into a small, colorful wonderland. Great scenarios, stylish graffiti and fantastic characters were created. The hostel is a bit hidden in a small alleyway that runs around the corner several times in the large maze of alleyways around the district.
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Streetart / UzbekistanToday we introduce you to a fantastic artist from Uzbekistan, who has been upgrading and changing the walls in the streets of his country for years with terrific urban art. This article is about INKUZART and his beautiful, reflective and also provocative artworks on Uzbek facades. Check out the interview with the creative artist about his colorful world and his messages.
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Canada / StreetartIn his art LAURENT GASCON has managed to combine the two areas of ceramics and urban art and creates urban ceramic art or street mosaics, so to speak. He did his first objects in the Dominican Republic in 2000, the first mosaic mural in Montréal was done in 2009. During the years many special artworks dedicated to famous Canadian icons from the art and culture scene like singers, actors, writers or humorists followed. Here we have gathered the 13 existing pieces of this great series in Montréal.
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Estonia / StreetartTelliskivi Loomelinnak, or in English “Creative City”, is located in Tallinn west of the Old Town in an old industrial complex and is an art centre with galleries, small shops, various creative businesses, start-ups and catering establishments. The campus hosts more than 800 different cultural events throughout the year. Apart from that, the place is one big urban art museum and the walls are covered with great artworks, from small graffiti to huge murals. As a whole the entire Kalamaja neighbourhood is an artists’ quarter and is painted from top to bottom.
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Events / Spain / StreetartThose great artworks were created close to the Spanish town of Mojácar during the fantastic jam TRAVELGRAFF in 2018. It is a national contest with numerous Spanish artists from the Almeria region and also from other parts of the country. The motto of the jam was „Nuestro medioambiente y el suyo“, which means in English „Our environment and yours“. You can find the graffiti spot at the propane and butan gas station on the A-370 highway northwest of the town in the direction to Garrucha.
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Chile / Events / StreetartAfter the great first art event “Festival de Artes y Oficios” in 2023 this year the second edition took place in the historical buidling complex of the Maestranza Barón. Numerous local and national artists created fantastic works in large and small scale. The event was organized by the MARGINAL GALERIA and LA HOGUERA and all the collected funds during the happening went to families affected by the wildfires in Viña del Mar.
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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.
