Kategorie: Norway

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NORWAY: Streetart Bergen – Murals, Graffiti and Urban Art Collection

Bergen is with 290.000 inhabitants Norway’s second largest city and is located on the west coast of the country. The historic Hanseatic quarter of Bryggen with its colorful wooden houses, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is particularly worth seeing, as well the lively fish market, the Bergenhus Fortress or the viewing platform on Fløyen with the Fløibanen funicular. The city has also established itself as a center for modern streetart in recent years, in strong contrast to many other cities in Norway, where there is a zero-tolerance policy towards graffiti. In Bergen, however, the streets are colorful and artists from all over the world came to paint.

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NORWAY: Streetart Tromsø – Arctic Jam Breakdance Festival & Arctic Writers Graffiti Projects

Tromsø is located beyond the Arctic Circle, has around 77.000 inhabitants and is known as the „Gateway to the Arctic“. Recommendable sights are the Arctic Cathedral, the Polar Museum and the views from the Fjellheisen cable car, but Tromsø is also a hub for contemporary urban culture. A particularly significant event is the ARCTIC JAM, which includes a streetart festival organized annually by the artist collective THE ARCTIC WRITERS. The happening encompasses not only streetart and graffiti, but also breakdance battles, hip-hop workshops, and dance performances.

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NORWAY: Streetart Harstad – Arctic Urban Art, Norge Graffiti and Festspillene

Harstad 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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NORWAY: Urban Art Flekkefjord – StreetART Flekkefjord Collective – Murals at the North Sea

Flekkefjord is a small but idyllic municipality in the Norwegian Fylke Agder with nearly 9200 inhabitants. The nature and landscape around this place is relaxing and fabulous, but the village itself also has very special streetart to offer. During the years an enthusiastic collective of creative people around the region has developed, which is named StreetART Flekkefjord and they bring continously colorful works of art into urban space.

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NORWAY: Bjørvika – Barcode, Town Hall, Fortress and the Opera

The centre of Oslo and its new distric Bjørvika is very impressive and a place you shoud definitely visit. Not only villas dominate here, although they appear everywhere in the cityscape, but extremely imposing and futuristic buildings. Impressive buildings of all epochs have gathered and give the cityscape a formative appearance. A mixture of fictional modernity and villas as well as buildings of long past years. Definitely worth seeing and highly interesting! The appearance also shows the immense liveliness and creativity of the city. Here, something is always planned, implemented and presented. Great architecture, art and culture. World class!

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NORWAY: Streetart Grønland – Multi cultural diversity, delicious food and endless art

This district is also simply wonderful and offers its own great multicultural diversity! Together with the district of Tøyen, Grønland is a central area for immigrants and migrants in Oslo. The percentage of migration in Grønland is around 40%. That means there’s something going on here! Here the mixture of cultural diversity, choice and possibilities is right. Here, too, real life takes place on the street. From the main station to the north you can stroll along the river AKERSELVA. In summer, the green areas are full. Many people do sports, drink beer, chill out, picnic, barbecue, listen to music and relax around the river. Of course, some finished figures also run around, because they continuously pop it too pure. It’s noticeable. The atmosphere is still very peaceful. Within five minutes, I had four different leaders who offered their services to me.

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NORWAY: Streetart Oslo -Tøyen Quarter

The district of Tøyen is multi-culturally populated, less prosperous and characterised by a lively neighbourhood. Tøyen offers beautiful green areas such as the BOTA-NISH GARDEN and the Tøyen Park. Life prefers to take place on the streets. There are various ethnic shops, great and trendy bars, cafes and nice restaurants. It is bordered to the south by Grønland. Tøyen has many peculiarities. The district is one of the most fascinating and dynamic urban areas of Oslo. This is where the bear really steps! Tøyen should be at the top of every visitor list in Oslo. Tøyen, Tøyen, we’re going to Tøyen!

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NORWAY: Streetart Oslo – Frogner District – Vigeland Park and „The London Police”

Norway is a rich country where prosperity and quality of life are tangible and visible. The neighbourhood Frogner is the best example of this. Noble and sublime is the central district of Oslo. For us it was the starting point of our ventures in the city and a very good choice. In Frogner we resided and rented for seven days. This had many advantages and good reasons and this choice was really well made in retrospect. Accommodation and flights were in themselves very cheap compared to the cost of living in the city. This was probably a pure stroke of luck in the run-up to the event.

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