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SPAIN: Madrid Exhibition – Bajo Derecha – Antonio Maura 18 – E Ciento Veinte – ABDUL VAS

On November 28th in 2024 the exhibition „Borrowed Times“ with great works by the artist ABDUL VAS opened with a beautiful vernissage at the Madrid gallery E CIENTO VEINTE. His works can be admired in the art space at Calle Antonio Maura 18 until February 8th in 2025. For ABDUL VAS, the overwhelming power of AC/DC’s music has displaced linear and routine time. He has decided to portray a set of writers who inhabit a dimension, where delicacy and loyalty to aesthetics intertwine, with the greatness of music from a time lent by eternity. Check out the new exhibition!

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GERMANY: Streetart Hannover – HOLA UTOPIA! – Urban Art Festival – Artist Gallery

HOLA UTOPIA! is an international hip hop and streetart festival in Hannover that transforms the city into a space of debate and promotion of progressive values. The socio-cultural festival encourages all Hannoverians to share their ideas for the future of their city during workshops. Leading German and international street artists then implement them into the design of large-scale artworks. Involved in the event is also the HIP HOP KULTUR e.V. and since 2024 the event also takes place in the city of Braunschweig.

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GERMANY: Streetart Braunschweig – HOLA UTOPIA! – Urban Art Festival expands to Braunschweig

The HOLA UTOPIA! urban art festival is actually based in Hannover and enriches the city every year with many great works. There in 2024 it took place from August 19th to 25th, but also for the first time as an offshoot in the city of Braunschweig, around 70 km to the east. From September 16th to 22nd, local and international artists painted Braunschweig’s city facades with colorful murals and wall paintings. Check out the great artworks!

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BULGARIA: Shumen Monument – 1300 Years of Bulgaria – IVAN SLAVOV & KRUM DAMYANOV

The small town of Shumen is located in the north-east of the country and has around 9700 inhabitants. It may be a small town, but an important and artistically impressive memorandum was erected here in 1981. A huge sculputer complex in honor of „1300 years of Bulgaria“ or also titled „Founder of the Bulgarian State“. The oversized monument in a cubic construction was erected on a plateau above the city and designed by the Bulgarian sculptors KRUM DAMYANOV and IVAN SLAVOV.

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BELGIUM: Streetart Brussels – Comic Book Route, Balkan Trafik Festival and La Belle Hip Hop Jam

Around 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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GERMANY: Graffiti Heidelberg – Skatepark Ufer – Ernst Walz Bridge – Hall of Fame – Neckar Orte

One of the hot spots and most important graffiti halls in Heidelberg is located under the Ernst Walz Bridge, where there is also a skate park. The bridge section on the north bank of the Neckar river has been declared a legal graffiti space and you can regularly find countless great graffiti here. The whole area around is overall a creative place because cultural, artistic and musical events take place here time by time, it is one of the NECKAR ORTE. Check out the great urban artworks on the walls, also the painted fishing boat, colourful trailors and even the toilets have their own style.

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SERBIA: Streetart Belgrade – Novi Beograd – Faculty of Dramatic Arts – Creative Art Hot Spot

The Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade was established in 1948 and is a respectable institution focused on education and research in the fields of film, theater, drama, production, culture, radio, acting and medias. Its building at Bulevar Umetnosti 20 in the district Novi Beograd was built in 1974 in brutalist architecture style, and it provides besides regular classrooms also a big theater stage, cinema halls, studios for radio broadcasting, editing, sound recording or for dance classes. From the outside the whole campus area is a packed urban art hot spot with various great works around the large building.

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GREECE: Streetart Athens – Psyri District – Urban Art Collection

Psyri is a district of the Greek capital Athens and famous for it’s avant-garde and alternative scene. This page here is specifically about graffiti and great urban art in this neighbourhood, whose alleys are filled from top to bottom with magnificent works. The murals are often marked by political messages, interspersed with anarchist bookshops or stores for rare records and vintage stuff. The bars and clubs regularly host live concerts of all kinds of music and there is a fun and lively nightlife.

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GERMANY: Streetart Aschaffenburg – JUKUZ, Bavaria Wall & Adenauer Bridge – Graffiti & Urban Art Collection

With a population of 72,000, Aschaffenburg is an independent medium-sized town in the Bavarian administrative district of Lower Franconia and part of the Rhine-Main metropolitan region. Worth seeing are the Johannisburg Castle, King Ludwig I’s Pompejanum, the neoclassical theater, the nationally renowned Hofgarten cabaret stage or the Colos-Saal music club. For some years now, larger murals have also been created here, and the artist HERA in particular has left two magnificent works. But you can also find interesting graffiti at hot spots such as the JUKUZ youth and culture center, the Adenauer Bridge or the Bavaria Graffiti Wall.

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