Kategorie: Middle East

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LEBANON: Streetart Beirut – Graffiti and Urban Art in the Lebanese Capital

Beirut is the capital of Lebanon and is located on the Mediterranean coast. The city is the country’s political, economic, and cultural center, as well as its most important port. For the city proper, figures typically range from around 350.000 to 1.9 million residents, while the Beirut metropolitan area is home to approximately 2.3 to 2.4 million people. This means that about one-third of Lebanon’s population lives in the greater capital area. Beirut is characterized by high urban density, strong cultural diversity, and a history shaped by modernization as well as war, reconstruction, and political crises. Of course you can find a lot of urban art around here, reflecting the cities issues.

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ISRAEL: Streetart Ra’anana – רעננה – Graffiti and Urban Art Collection

Ra?anana is a city in central Israel with approximately 83.000 inhabitants, located between Kfar Saba to the east and Herzlia to the southwest. The municipality was founded on 2nd April in 1922, and recently celebrated its centenary in 2022. Recommended places to visit include Ra’anana Park with its various art installations, as well as the Gan Gamla, Uri Gordon, and Hapamonim gardens. Art lovers will enjoy the HaMishkan Music & Arts House or the Raanana Culture & Leisure Center, while skateboarders can head to the Crazy Roller Skatepark and sports enthusiasts to the Sky Jump Arena. And, of course, you’ll also find great urban art in the streets!

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TURKEY: Streetart Istanbul – Azapkap?, Emekyemez & Bereketzade – Graffiti Box & Bombing Collection

In the south of the Istanbul Karaköy district by the water are the neighbourhoods of Bereketzade, Emekyemez and Azapkap?, the Arab quarter with the Arap Cami Mosque. Actually the whole city is a bazaar, but especially here you can find countless handcraft shops, numerous mechanics, little workshops and small technical goods stores. Those neighborhoods are already covered in graffiti from top to bottom, but when the shops close, even more cool works appear on the shutters. Check out the huge graffiti archive!

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TURKEY: Graffiti Tatvan – Train Writing & Yard Urban Art – International Wagon Collection

Tatvan is located at an altitude of 1690 meters on Lake Van in the eastern Turkish province of Bitlis and has around 79,000 inhabitants. Railroad lines also run past the north side of the town and there are sidings for freight wagons. Trains from Eastern Europe arrive here time and again, bringing more than just loaded goods. The wagons are often decorated with great graffiti that has traveled thousands of kilometers across the countries. A moving graffiti gallery!

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TURKEY: Streetart Istanbul – Azapkapi – „The world is a neighbourhood“ – Graffiti Alley Project – MANU CRAZY FOR GRAFFITI & ACBR

Around the Lola Backpacker’s Hostel, the Spanish artist MANU CRAZY FOR GRAFFITI started a great art project together with the traveller and viajero ACBR during April 2023. “The world is a neighbourhood”. With the support of the hostel, the two painted the entire street and transformed the dreary landscape of houses into a small, colorful wonderland. Great scenarios, stylish graffiti and fantastic characters were created. The hostel is a bit hidden in a small alleyway that runs around the corner several times in the large maze of alleyways around the district.

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TURKEY: Streetart Istanbul – Kad?köy – ?clal Karabekir Graffiti Wall – Urban Art Gallery

In the Kad?köy district of Istanbul on the southern part of the city you can find a long urban art wall at ?clal Karabekir Street, which is located between the Erenköy and Suadiye train station. Along that road there are several artworks, but especially around the crossing with Açelya Street is a real spray hot spot with magnificent creations. The area gets frequently visited and decorated by several local artists but also from abroad. The exact location of the artworks is on ?clal Karabekir around house number 11.

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BRAZIL / ISRAEL: Multidisciplinar Artist ALANDER ESPECIE – Paintings, Installations and Macramé

The artist ALANDER ESPECIE is a sculptor, designer and installation creator whose practice of intensive work is based on traditional weaving and macramé with curiousity about how the search for ancestry and his own path intertwine. Born in Brazil and after having an art period with his design art, he moved to Isreal where he discovered abstract painting. A multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural artist. Check out the interesting interview and his great artworks!

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KUWAIT: Streetart Kuwait City – Urban Art in the Capital of the Arab Gulf Emirate

The city of Kuwait (in Arabic: ?????? al-Kuwait or ????? ?????? Mad?nat al-Kuwait) is the capital and also the largest city of the Emirate of Kuwait. Located on the coast of the small state on the shores of the Persian Gulf, the metropolis of about 3 million inhabitants is the cultural, political and economic center of the country. Of course as everywhere in the world and like in all places on this globe, urban art can also be found here. It may not be that much the typical graffiti letters, but beautiful murals and wonderful wall drawings definitely.

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ISRAEL: Zeev Engelmayer – Transformation into a Super Heroine – Becoming Shoshke

This is the story of Shoshke. A super heroine brought to life. And it’s probably one of the weirdest and funniest but above all most motivating stories here on this channel so far. The creator himself, namely the Israeli artist Zeev Engelmayer repeatedly takes on the role of his self-designed comic super heroine. Then he just becomes Shoshke in a special costume. An idea for an artistic performance has developed into an unbridled dynamic of its own and an independent character within Zeev’s psyche. That´s Shoshke. It´s not schizophrenic, more like a symbiosis. Zeev loves it and he frequently is setting her free. Because Shoshke makes always and every few days crazy but fabulous actions. Currently, according to Marker Magazine “She” is one of the 100 most influential people in Israel. And we need some more Shoshkes on this world! She fights for the good and important things. Take some time for this article. It’s going to be strange and complex, but for sure as well funny and super interesting.

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ISRAEL: Painter and Muralist Tamir Shefer – Iconic Mayan Comic Masks

At the beginning of the year, the artist Tamir Shefer from Tel Aviv visited Frankfurt for the fantastic exhibition „Echos” at the Kunstverein Familie Montez. Works by him and nine other artists were shown, five of them from Israel, five from Germany. Tamir paints on canvases but also has a special preference for streetart and large-scale wall design in urban spaces. In the gallery rooms of the exhibition, he even painted some works directly and freshly on the interior façade. Of course we interviewed the creative artist!

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