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GERMANY: Streetart Dortelweil – Was ist Liebe – Philosophical Mural Series Gallery – INDIAN

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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SERBIA: Streetart Belgrade – Kulturni Centar Dorćol – Betonska Poezija – Urban Art Space

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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GERMANY: Architecture Herford – Contemporary Art Museum – MARTA – FRANK GEHRY

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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CZECHIA: Graffiti Prague – Jízdárny Savarin – Equestrian Centre – V Cípu Spray Walls

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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PORTUGAL: Madeira Island – Streetart Funchal – Whale Murals, Sea Graffiti and Garbage Art

Funchal is the capital of the Portuguese island of Madeira, which is about 710 km off the Moroccan coast at equator height. Besides the inspirative, famous and unique painted doors at Rua Santa Maria you can find as well fantastic murals throughout the city. The huge Blue Whale made by artist MARCOS MILEWSKI at the parking lot you can see on the title photo is one example. But there are also interesting scultpures made in a quite unconventional way. Like the trash fish on the promenade called „Plastic Mero“ which is completely made out of garbage from the sea. This sculpture was made by BORDALO II.

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CYPRUS: Streetart Limassol – Christaki Kranou Hall of Fame – Amathos Riverbed Graffiti

Certainly the largest Hall of Fame in Limassol is located in the riverbed of the Amathos River, also called Yermasoyia. The river only carries water seasonally during the winter months and has been used as a large parking lot in the summer since the 1980s, but now also hosts regular events, races and parades. The banks and bridges of the river bed are decorated with countless graffiti for several kilometers along the streets Christaki Kranou and Amerikanas up to the mouth into the sea. From big to small, from good to bad, from King to Toy. The creations also look really interesting with running water.

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NORTH MACEDONIA: Streetart Skopje – Boulevard Ilinden Bridge – Goce Delchev Graffiti Space

On the west side of the bridge over the Vardar River from Goce Delchev Boulevard, the Ilinden Boulevard begins. Beneath this bridge and the surrounding walls on the riverbank is a great graffiti spot. It’s not exactly a legal wall, but most of the areas along the riverbanks have been tolerated as creative spaces for many years, where you can find countless graffiti. At this location here the walls are higher and easier to paint, also the bridge provides better protection from the sun and weather, which is why the works can be seen longer around. The pillars beneath the bridge are also covered in graffiti pieces as well.

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GERMANY: Urban Art Wunstorf – B441 Hoch Bridge – Graffiti Hall of Fame – Underrated Gem Spot

This time we’re going to Wunstorf to a Hall of Fame that is hardly in the public eye and should not be underestimated. West of the Wunstorf train station, the span of the railway tracks to the west towards the city of Minden and to the northwest towards the city of Bremen is crossed by an elevated national road Hochstraße (B 441). Between these tracks and below this “urban planning fiasco” there is a small legal spray spot. This little insider tip often surprises with the finest pieces, which (at times) do not have to shy away from a quality comparison with those of the famous halls in the cities around.

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FRANCE: Streetart Nice – Sticker Section – Creative Glue against Removal Collection

The urban space in Nice, especially in the center and along the beach promenade, is kept very conservatively clean and tidy for the tourist; there are hardly any of the small brighteners that are usually found in cities, such as paste-ups, stickers or stencils. But as is often the case, if you take a closer look, you can always find something. In the outer districts and suburbs it’s a different story, there’s more graffiti and therefore also more stickers. Check out the collection sorted by various categories.

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NORTH MACEDONIA: Streetart Skopje – Karpoš – Vojvoda Vasil Chakalarov – Graffiti Hall of Fame

Basically the whole of Skopje is one big graffiti canvas and people just spray paint everywhere. But some works simply require a little more time, especially if they are to be really spectacular. So it’s good that there are also legal areas, and one of these legal spray spaces is located on Vojvoda Vasil Chakalarov in the eastern part of the city, about 300 meters before the road crosses the Vardar River on the way out of town. It is a long concrete wall about 2 meters high, where new works are constantly being created and graffiti spray sessions take place from time to time.

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