…..on tour….
The great artist NICOLAS MARVEL creates fantastic canvases, primarily portraits and meanwhile also surreal abstract works. His paintings are breathtaking in themselves, but they become even more astonishing when you know how he creates them: with a fork! Originally from Tbilisi, Georgia, he now lives in Nice, France, where he regularly exhibits his work. We were fortunate to attend one of these events and admire his magnificent pieces. Check out the interview!
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At the entrance of the Gothenburg suburb of Landvetter, close to the main road Gamla Partillevägen and directly at the idyllic lake Landvettersjön, there is a legal graffiti wall which is open for spraying. It is not a special building neither beautiful, but just a set up row of plates. Still you can paint well on it and there it is allowed, besides, the surrounding lake and wood landscape is magnificent. Perfect for a combination of swimming, barbecue and painting.
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Olhão is located in southern Portugal on the Algarve coast and has approximately 14.000 inhabitants. Worth seeing are the impressive 17th-century Baroque church, Igreja Matriz de Nossa Senhora do Rosário, and the replica of the historic fishing boat Caíque Bom Sucesso in the harbor, which undertook a legendary voyage from Portugal to Brazil in 1808. Urban art enthusiasts will also find plenty to enjoy, as the entire town is covered in graffiti, portraits and murals, especially by the fantastic artist DARIO SILVA aka SEN, who has almost single-handedly painted the streets with countless works and even a whole old church. This is why it is often nicknamed „SEN CITY“.
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The great artist SHPIRA from the Serbian city of Novi Sad loves to create graffiti, streetart and characters in a three-dimensional style. Countless works adorn the walls of his home town, but his latest and most exciting project is the AVIJATICARSKA GALERIJA. It is not a hall of fame, but rather an urban art gallery where local and international artists can add murals by arrangement. It started with one building in the neighborhood, but after the great results, the residents of the buildings around also wanted such murals. Check out the interview!
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The fantastic MEMUR FESTIVAL took place in Oldenburg on the railway embankment wall along the Bundesbahnweg from August 12th to 14th in 2022. The title is a combination of memorial and mural. More than 30 regional and international artists designed a 280-meter-long wall with magnificent works depicting experiences and impressions of recent years, such as the pandemic, war, conflicts, and other areas of social and political tension. The common denominator of the artworks was thus the experience and reflection of collective memory.
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The Razvigorche kindergarten in Mosha Pijade in Kumanovo is not only an educational institution for very young children, it is also a real urban art museum. The graffiti crew FORMA took on the facades in 2023 and 2024, creating fantastic works around the main building and on other walls on the premises. The crew members MOLERAJ, SKIDAR and TRENDO carried out the work. The result was individual works with motifs of children based on original photos and two themed scenarios depicting an underwater world and a jungle landscape.
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The magnificent artist INDIAN from Bad Vilbel has created a wonderful open air gallery on the sound barrier wall along Federal Highway B3 over many years, featuring countless fantastic and thought-provoking murals. His works are mostly a combination of portraits and poetic stories. He himself calls his art “philosophical graffiti,” and the respective works are created as part of the series “Was ist Liebe” or “What is Love” in English. In his works, he deals with life, humanity, and empathy, but also our connection to earth and the problems that arise from our alienation from nature.
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The cultural meeting and creative space KULTURNI CENTAR DORĆOL regularly organizes various events from a wide range of areas, like exhibitions, presentations, readings, lectures or discussions. Of course, there are also a lot of art events and the center functions as a gallery. But not only inside the rooms, also on the outside facades, where you can find various great murals. Some of the wall paintings are from the exhibition „Betonska Poezija“, which was curated by the great graffiti store BEOWALLZ. On display were works from 2008 to the present day, created by artist friends from the local urban art scene.
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With its flowing and tilting walls, the MARTA MUSEUM in Herford, East Westphalia, is one of the most unusual museum buildings in the world. For the facade, the American star architect FRANK GEHRY chose dark red bricks, which contrast with the bright stainless steel roof and the white plastered core of the building. The development of the museum’s collection began with the construction of the MARTA, which opened in 2005. It comprises around 500 works by approximately 170 artists, many of them large-format pieces of contemporary art.
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The „Jízdárny Savarin“ or „Savarin Equestrian Centre“ is a former riding school from the mid-18th century, which now offers a space for concerts, exhibitions, performances and site-specific installations organized by the alternative opera and flashmob collective RUN OPERUN. There are several walls full of graffiti and urban art on the surrounding V Cípu street. It is a small hidden hot spot and new works can be found here regularly.
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