…..on tour….
A new name, a new location! After seven years of URBAN NATURE in Hannover the organizers changed the name to GLOCKE FESTIVAL and hosted the first edition around the Glocksee Hall of Fame, the Independent Youth and Cultural Center and several other buildings around from 7th till 10th May in 2026. The plan is to paint new surfaces on those walls once a year. Check out the huge gallery from this year’s event and the numerous styles, characters and abstract works.
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The great festival URBAN NATURE in Hannover began in 2018, emerging from an initiative by the city and the local graffiti network to create more legal spaces for urban art. A large open wall area at the IHME HALL near Spinnereibrücke became the festival’s central location, quickly turning into a key meeting point for the graffiti and streetart community every summer. International artists, local writers, and guests from partner cities transformed the walls year after year, accompanied by workshops, jams, music, and community exchange. It developed into an open, non-commercial cultural event with a strong creative identity and growing recognition.
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The SWELL SCULPTURE FESTIVAL is an annual open-air art festival held at Currumbin Beach on the Gold Coast. It typically runs for ten days in September and transforms approximately one kilometer of coastline into a freely accessible sculpture exhibition in public space. The festival was founded in 2001 as an initiative to bring more public art into the urban space of the Gold Coast and to use beaches as exhibition spaces. Since then, it has become a fixture on the regional cultural calendar and is now curated by a nonprofit organization led by NATASHA EDWARDS, with the participation of various artists and groups.
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From 9th till 10th May in 2026, the great CHARACTER JAM took place again at the JUGENDHAUS AM BÜGEL, this time it was the 14th edition of this fantastic event, where several artists redesign and color up the building complex and surrounding facades. This time, the pieces weren’t done on the stage, but instead the entire front building was decorated with a great concept wall by the BORN CREW and KWG CREW aka KIDS WITH GUNZ, also the backyard wall adorns now a collab by the TIF CREW aka THE INFAMOUS FACES, and the youth center has now a new large mural facing the sports field made by EMESA and HERA.
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The fantastic BRISBANE STREET ART FESTIVAL, or BSAF for short, was founded in 2016 and is now one of Australia’s leading public art events. Every year, the festival transforms building facades, underpasses, and public spaces throughout the city into large-scale murals and installations. Since its inception, over 400 works of art have been created by local, national, and international artists. The program includes live murals, exhibitions, workshops, artist talks, and community projects. In 2025, the BSAF celebrated its 10th anniversary.
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In March it was time again for the annual ANTI RACISM JAM in Moabit at the spraygrounds of the 21ER GALLERY with more than 50 creators. Every year the popular jam brings top-class artists to the walls with fantastic concept collaborations to make a colorful statement against racism and discrimination. The event from 25th till 28th March 2026 took place at six locations, namely at the large Concept Wall, at the Hamberger Wall, at the Union Sports Hall, at the Union Park, around the “Center for Art and Urbanism” (ZK/U) and at the Theodor Heuss School.
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From 1st to 3rd August in 2025, the INTERNATIONAL STREETART FESTIVAL WILHELMSHAVEN took place for the 13th time in downtown Wilhelmshaven. In the pedestrian zone and in the Nordsee Passage, 31 artists from eleven countries laid their colorful and ephemeral works of art at the feet of visitors via floor murals. From imaginative motifs to astonishingly realistic depictions, the entire spectrum of street painting was presented in the three categories “Copy,” “3D,” and “Free Art”. The first edition took place in 2011. Since 2024, there has also been the additional SPRAY WATT GRAFFITI FESTIVAL, which is specifically for writers.
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The fantastic DARWIN STREET ART FESTIVAL, or in short DSAF, is an annual street art event in Darwin, founded in 2017 to culturally revitalize the downtown area and artistically transform vacant spaces. The festival usually takes place over several weeks between May and August with key hotspots including laneways and streets in the CBD such as Austin Lane, West Lane, and Shadforth Lane; in addition, the projects have expanded to suburbs like Parap, Nightcliff, and Casuarina. Since its inception, over 130 large-scale works have been created in the city, resulting in Darwin now being virtually covered in murals.
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The first phase of the BHARATPUR STREET ART FESTIVAL took place from 8th to 15th February in 2026. However, this was only the pilot of this extensive project; plans are in place to paint many more walls, ideally at all schools in the city, and then, following a successful implementation, to launch the master project: The painting of the large Pulchowk Narayani Bridge. This could thus become the country’s largest urban artwork and a creative landmark of the city. This amazing festival project is organized by MY FRIEND’S HOSTEL, NEPALU and SPACIO.
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The TOLERANCE POSTER SHOW is a traveling exhibition and part of the TOLERANCE PROJECT initiated by the artist MIRKO ILIĆ from New York. He was inspired by the third edition of the film festival “House of Tolerance” Ljubljana, Slovenia, in 2017 and asked 28 artists to create a poster about tolerance. After a successful 10-day show in Ljubljana, they decided to tour the posters globally. Now, whenever the exhibition appears in a new city, local designers contribute to the ever-expanding catalogue of artworks. In 2024 they also visited Buenos Aires in Argentina!
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