…..on tour….
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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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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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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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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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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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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The “Fakultet Muzi?ke Umetnosti” or in English “Faculty of Music” in Belgrade is the main state and the most prominent higher education music institution in Serbia, continuously existing since its foundation in 1937. The faculty is built with one side of the wall facing Teatar Bojan Stupica and the south side facing Manjež Park. And those facades and walls to the park are covered lengthwise with graffiti and great street art. Check out the artworks collection!
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EMELY QUICKER aka MAZZANTI is a world traveller and a streetart hunter from the Swedish capital Stockholm. She loves to travel around the globe and especially to the interesting places where not everyone goes. At the same time she has a special fable for urban art. What a nice combination, streetart from exotic countries. MAZZANTI shares her photos not only on her Instagram channel, but also here in our Vagabundler project. Meanwhile we have more than 60 articles with numerous photos. Check out the collection!
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From September 13th to September 15th in 2024, the great BÜLOW STREET FESTIVAL took place along Bülowstrasse and around the URBAN NATION headquarters and museum. The entire façade was redesigned with fresh colors by the New York artist LADY PINK, and guests could also admire a colorful and extensive exhibition with “floating murals” on temporarily installed walls. An extensive and diverse program was offered over three days with creative participation activities, music on stage and culinary delicacies at food stalls. Check out the huge gallery with numerous event artworks!
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From August 31st to September 1st in 2024, the fantastic TANDARA MANDARA FESTIVAL took place around the Belgrade Art Pavilion “Cvijeta Zuzori?” in Kalemegdan Park with its third edition and comic lovers, anime fans, cosplayers and gamers encountered a colorful oasis of fantasy and fiction. In addition to booths from publishing houses, illustrators and comic producers, there were also cosplay competitions, board games, collectible figures, toy cars and even a Lego exhibition. We also spoke with VANJA PETROVI? from DARKWOOD COMICS and with the Cosplayer ELION during the event in two interviews.
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