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SWEDEN: Streetart Borås – No Limit – Fantastic Urban Art Festival since 2014

The NO LIMIT urban art festival is an awesome event that has brought countless great artists from Sweden and from all over the world to the city of Borås since it’s first edition in 2014. The event was initiated by the artist SHAI DAHAN together with the project HEY BORÅS and the city of Borås. The town with 114.000 inhabitants is filled with countless works of creativity in urban space, whether huge-scale murals, filigree works on street corners or sculptures and monuments. In 2020 they also collaborated with ARTSCAPE and organized an even bigger event. Check out the awesome artworks from the previous years!

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SERBIA: Streetart Belgrade – Dor?ol – Dunavski Kej 46 – Magnificent Silosi Murals

On the banks of the Danube in Belgrade is a former factory with monumental silos at a height of 28 meters, the so called SILOSI. The building complex is constructed like honeycombs and consists of a total of 64 cells, but work was stopped many years ago and the site has lain fallow ever since. This landmark of brutalist architecture has been given a new lease of life thanks to the GAIA POKRET movement with several creative spaces, but the highlight are certainly the large murals that have gradually been painted in the lofty heights.

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GERMANY: Streetart Berlin – Moabit – Concept Wall – 21er GALLERY – THE BRANDMAUER

On February 23th in 2025, federal elections will be held in Germany at a time when the shift to the right is on the rise again in the country and around the world. Due to these events the three artists TOMSTA, JAZZ and SHAW organized a great spray action on the concept wall of the 21ER GALLERY the days before to make a statement against right-wing attitudes, discrimination and racism. 15 artists took part in this creative campaign and painted fantastic works under the motto „THE BRANDMAUER“ to show that our society is colorful and open. If you are from Germany, go vote on February 23th 2025!

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ITALY: Streetart Turin – Barriera di Milano – NAPE Memorandum Wall – MurArte Closing Party

In October 2018 various graffiti artists from around the city came together to create a great collaboration tribute wall for the legendary sprayer NAPE, who died in 2018. The event with dedicated memorandum artworks took place as a MURARTE CLOSING PARTY and was organized by the creative collectives IL CERCHIO E LE GOCCE and MONKEYS EVOLUTION. The graffiti artist PIERO SPADAROTTO aka NAPE lived from 4th August 1980 to 6th September 2018 and was one of the most important graffiti writers from Italy.

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SERBIA: Streetart Belgrade – ?umi?evo Soka?e – Belgrade Design District – Urban Art Mall

The Belgrade Design District is often considered the fashion mecca for designers and serves as a source of inspiration and an art center. With a variety of studios, galleries and stores, the creative space offers unique fashion pieces, accessories, jewelry, decorations, paintings and art objects, also events are held regularly. On the walls around you will of course find a lot of urban art and graffiti, there are numerous works of different styles.

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FRANCE: Streetart Paris – Spot 13 – International Jam – 400 Writers from 17 Countries

On November 2nd in 2024 the great INTERNATIONAL JAM took place at the graffiti oasis and hall of fame SPOT 13, with almost 400 writers from 17 countries and 47 cities transforming the area under the spray theme „Silver Chrome“. The fantastic super event was organized by KRACO, ZOYER and KOMO. Check out the numerous pieces from this fantastic event!

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GERMANY: Artist Special – DAVE THE CHIMP – Human Beans are saving the day

You simply have to love them – the „Human Beans“ in RAL 2000 color by the British and currently in Hamburg living artist DAVE THE CHIMP. Cheeky, funny, intelligent, effectively reduced to a maximum, with the highest recognition value. An ingenious „trademark“ that always makes you smile, amuses you uninhibitedly, but also makes you think, makes you reflect. Whenever I discover his works in hidden corners of cities, my day is saved. Check out the collection with numerous artworks from Hamburg and Berlin.

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SERBIA: Streetart Belgrade – Runaway Street Art Festival – Annual Mural Project

The RUNAWAY STREET ART FESTIVAL is a project launched by local artist ANDREJ JOSIFOVSKI aka PIJANISTA and is organized annually in selected locations in Belgrade. The first edition of this great happening took place in 2016 and new works have been created every year since. Although it is called a „festival“, it is actually more of a project and the exclusively large-scale murals are created by local and international artists on buildings in Belgrade throughout the year.

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GERMANY: Streetart Flöha – Augustusburger 118 – Old Colored Paper Factory – Urban Art Festival – IBUG

The old Buntfarbenfabrik in Flöha, or „Colored Paint Factory“ in English, was founded in 1878, but even before that it housed the former Strobel spinning mill. The industrial site has now been derelict for many years and has become an exciting lost place and urbex spot. Urban artists have also discovered this, especially the organizers of the great festival series IBUG, short for „Industriebrachenumgestaltung“, which means in English „Industrial Brownfield Redevelopment“. The 16th and 17th editions of the event took place on the abandoned factory site in 2021 and 2022 and countless great works were created.

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FRANCE: Streetart Paris – Gobelins – Spot 13 – Quai d’Ivry Hall of Fame – Graffiti Paradise

The SPOT 13 is undoubtedly the biggest graffiti and streetart oasis in Paris, a complex of bridge piers and numerous large-format walls that are regularly covered with countless pieces, from large murals, cool graffiti and photorealistic streetart to small stencils or paste-ups. According to its name, the creative space is located in the 13th arrondissement, or Gobelins district, between Quai d’Ivry and Rue Bruneseau along and under the highway E15 aka Boulevard Périphérique. Check out the huge artworks gallery!

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