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CYPRUS: Streetart Ayia Napa – Graffiti Garages – House of Youth and Cultural Ensembles

The large parking garage at Archibishop Makarios III Street number 15 near the Ayia Napa city center has served as a spray-painting site for many years and is home to some great graffiti. Especially during the many events of the Ayia Napa Street Art Festival, interesting works of art have been created here time and again. On September 9th in 2023, part of the building was inaugurated by the municipality as the “House of Youth and Cultural Ensembles” and has since officially been a meeting place for creative projects with children and young people.

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SERBIA: Streetart Belgrade – Dorćol – Višnjićeva 10A – Neighbourhood Masterpiece Gallery

At the building at Višnjićeva 10 there is a small concrete forecourt with a few benches. Overall, everything is paved over. That’s why a few artists thought about freshening up the color of this square and the surrounding walls in 2018. They painted great works on the facades, also these in turn have special meanings and a relationship to the neighborhood or to local people and locations like the graffiti shop BEO WALLZ.

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CHILE: Fantastic Artist GUZTOK – Creative Graffiti, Abstract Characters and Tattooism

The great artist GUZTOK was born and raised near Villa Francia in Estación Central, which is part of the region around Santiago de Chile. Since he was a child, GUZTOK was drawn to the political murals and graffiti near his house. He started spraying himself, first letters, later on also with figurative styles and characters. Today he lives in the German capital Berlin and creates fantastic urban artworks and cool tattoos. Check out the interview!

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GERMANY: Streetart Berlin – Reinickendorf – Old Monopol Distillery – Creative Space Conversion

A former distillery in the Berlin district Reinickendorf is turning into a campus for arts, culture, food, technology and sustainability. The site of the disused Monopol factory is being converted into a cultural venue and various creative companies and artists have now settled there in order to develop a creative location. On the buildings and the site is a large number of artworks and for sure more are going to come. Also several exhibitions and jams already took place like the event “Al Aire, Libres!”

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ROMANIA: Streetart Slatina – Munetenian Urban Art at the Olt River – School Spray Days

Slatina is located in southern Romania on the eastern bank of the River Olt, which flows from the Carpathians further south into the Danube. The town, which was first mentioned in a document in 1368, is part of the historic Muntenia region, has a population of around 79,000 and is an important industrial center. Naturally graffiti can also be found here, especially the local schools organize painting events and jams.

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ITALY: Streetart Verona – Santa Lucia Graffiti Wall – Top2Bottom Jam & Tribute to NAPE

Along 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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SWEDEN: Urban Artist SCEB – Abstract Jungle Worlds in the City Landscape of Gothenburg

The fantastic artist CAMILLA BOSTRÖM, better known as SCEB, has been decorating the walls in her city of Gothenburg and beyond for many years. Her works are abstract, colorful formations, often associated with plants or animals, and are created exclusively with spray cans. At least as far as the wall is concerned, because in addition to spraying, the creative artist is also active in other fields, she makes clothing or carpets, paintings on canvas and whatever else comes to mind. We visited SCEB in her studio in Gothenburg, a colorful place filled with interesting stuff.

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UKRAINE: Graffiti Artist RUBAE – Train Writing, Urban Logo Art & Destructivism – One Hundred Wagons

The graffiti writer RUBAE of the LEGZ CREW from the Ukraine has been active with spray cans since 2002 and meanwhile specializes in trains, in particular the country’s typical green Kovalska class freight carriers. His book “One Hundred Wagons” was published in April 2023 in self-release with 132 writing works done between 2018 and 2022. We spoke to the versatile and train-loving artist in an interview about his beginnings in graffiti, the book, events, spray spaces in Kyiv and the graffiti scene in Ukraine. He also told us about the current difficult situation and how painting in urban spaces express itself during a war, whether it happens and how they keep on going.

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GERMANY: Urban Art Bremerhaven – Fischereihafen – Graffiti Jam Wall – SUMMA MADNEZZ

The fantastic graffiti jam SUMMA MADNEZZ has been taking place in Bremerhaven since 2010 and brings together local and international artists every year to create a huge wall. Initially the event took place at different locations, but since 2015 the organizer and artist THOE and his colleagues have been provided with a 400-meter-long wall in Oststraße at the Fischereihafen quarter. The façade of a former shipbuilding hall is ideal for large-scale creations and every year amazing artworks are sprayed here by more than 50 participants under a specific motto.

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SPAIN: Streetart Barcelona – Little Alley Gimmicks & Small Urban Creations

In our “Graffitipedia” we try to document just everything in terms of urban creation and art in general, from good to bad and from big to small. But it makes little sense to locate every tag and every sticker with a marker for the small works on the maps, still these great works should nevertheless be presented and we have sorted them by genre for the whole of Barcelona.

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