BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA

 

Street Arts Festival Mostar – SAFMO – Graffiti and Urban Art since 2012

Mostar 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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Prijedor – City of Murals & Paola de Manincor Award

Prijedor or in Serbian Cyrillic “Приједор” has about 80,000 inhabitants and belongs to the entity Republika Srpska in the northwestern part of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Places of interest are the Kozara mountain museum, the city library “Cyril and Methodius”, the city theater and the cultural-artistic Mladen Stojanović Association. Prijedor also has a larger number of fantastic murals in its streets and is aiming to get the name “Town of Murals” which they flourish with the annual “Paola de Manincor Award“.

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Former Olympic Bobsleigh Track Trebević – Lost Place Graffiti

The former Trebević Olympic bobsleigh slope near Sarajevo was an artificial ice track on Mount Trebević, where the competitions for the 1984 Winter Olympics were held. During the war in 1991 parts of the slope were badly damaged and restoration would have been too expensive, so the sports facility has lain fallow ever since and is no longer used by athletes, but all the more by spray can artists. The entire track is painted with graffiti and characters from the summit to the valley! A fantastic and picturesque lost place in the middle of the mountain landscape.

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Banja Luka – Fantastic Flaster Jam & Urban Art Collection

Banja Luka is a city in the north of the country with about 200,000 inhabitants. Worth seeing is the Roman castle on the river Vrbas, the hot springs in Srpske Toplice, the church of Christ the Savior aka “Hram Hrista Spasitelja”, the Ferhadija mosque or the Palace of the Republic. Banja Luka is also the home of the legendary FLASTER JAM, which always brings grandiose artists to the city to decorate the walls together with local creators.

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Streetart Višegrad – Graffiti and Urban Art Collection

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Streetart Jezero Klinje – Graffiti and Urban Art Collection

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Streetart Novi Grad – Graffiti and Urban Art Collection

Sarajevo is the capital city of the cluture mixed country Bosnia-Herzegovina and of course you can find numerous urban artworks of many different styles around that place. A lot are connected to historic events and policitcal issues, also there are artists who try to bring more colour to the neighbourhoods and into the people’s minds.

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