COLOMBIA: Streetart Medellin – San Javier District – Comuna 13 – Urban Art Collection

With 2.6 million inhabitants, Medellin is the second largest city in the country and is divided into 16 municipalities, one of those is the notorious district San Javier, or just “Comuna 13,” which for years was a veritable war zone between competing parties and gangs. A very interesting source about this topic is the book “District 13 of Medellín: The Drama on the Armed Conflict in Medellin” by author YONI ALEXANDER RENDÓN. Besides that you can find numerous artworks in the streets. The district as a whole is just decorated all over with grandiose murals and colorful graffiti.

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CHILE: Streetart Santiago -San Miguel – Museo a Cielo Abierto – Open Sky Museum – Murales Gallery

The great mural project MUSEO A CIELO ABIERTO in San Miguel, a suburb city in the Santiago greater province Región Metropolitana, was born in March 2009. Today this open sky museum project has become the largest collective expression of streetart in Chile with meanwhile 64 fantastic huge artworks on more than 6000 m² in one neighborhood. During the years numerous national and international artists contributed and intermingled their techniques of muralism and graffiti on high scale building walls with amazing creations.

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ARGENTINA: Urban Photography – Mar del Plata – Rocca & Roll – Open Sky Museum – GABRIEL ROCCA

GABRIEL ROCCA witnessed the explosion of Argentine National Rock at the beginning of the 1980s and photographically documented great events, festivals and the musicians’ presentations with his Minolta G9 camera. Four decades later, he inaugurated the open-air exhibition ROCCA & ROLL with his best photographs of that time in Mar del Plata.

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ECUADOR: The love for Urban Art, Photography and a bit of Crazyness – Gail Lochner

The marvelous streets of Cuenca are paved with bright colors, grandiose architecture and astonishing Graffiti. On our platform you can see and learn more about the individual works of art from this great place in Ecuador on the Cuenca Map. The photographer of all these works is the loving-chaotic GAIL LOCHNER, a fabulous member of our Vagabundler collective. Check out her profile page and the map with numerous fantastic creations.

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ARGENTINA: Streetart Mar del Plata – Parque San Martín – Urban Art Festival – PINTURA GOURMET

From 27th till 29th January in 2023 the fantastic art happening PINTURA GOURMET was held in Mar del Plata city, an urban art event with the participation of outstanding artists from the national urban art scene. The event took place at four points in the city, which you can verify with the provided GPS coordinates. The movement was organized by NAHUEL, a great artist from the local scene. Check out the great artworks!

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BRAZIL: Urban Creations from São Paulo – Masterpiece Graffiti, Wildstyle and Pixação – OTITO & DOIS MIL FAMÍLIA®

The fantastic graffiti artist OTITO is certainly one of the Kings in São Paolo, his artworks are masterpieces and so are the creations of his crew DOIS MIL FAMÍLIA or 2milfamilia. The walls he paints with other writers are always just phenomenal! Bright, bold colors and finely crafted lettering. In the article you will get more about Otito‘s art, about graffiti in Brazil and also about the extravagant style Pixação.

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CHILE: Streetart Angol – Muralismo and Graffiti in Angol – Urban Map Tutorial

Photographer, urban historian and documenter SALVADOR SEDA has been filling the street art map for the city of Angol in Chile for a long time. Countless great artworks with lots of background information and interviews with artists are already in the Vagabundler archive. Together with the Department of Cultural Extension (Centro Cultural) of the illustrious municipality of Angol he has now created an explanatory tutorial video on how to use the maps and the website.

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ARGENTINA: Streetart Buenos Aires – Ciudad Autónoma – Parque Ferroviario Palermo – Urban Spray Space

The “Parque Ferroviario” or in English “Railway Park” in the Buenos Aires district of Palermo is a two-kilometer long aerobic path with walking trails,  slopes, an exercise island, a skateboarding area, a sensory garden and several playgrounds for sports. As well you can find great urban art around that space! The numerous walls along the highways and the boundaries have meanwhile become a graffiti hot spot and a creative hall of fame.

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CHILE: Urban Art Angol – DYRE’s Graffiti Workshop at John Kennedy – Taller de Graffiti

This large mural wall with lots of graffiti is the result of a workshop for youth and children that DYRE devised a year ago in the Chilenean city of Angol. The great local artist managed and obtained sponsorship and materials for the students of the workshop, in addition to also directing the theoretical and practical classes for five days. Check out the photos from the wall and the previous artworks.

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