Kategorie: Sports

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FRANCE: Streetart Saint Isidore – Jardiniers Tunnel – Tour de France & OGC Nice – Tribute Murals

On the occasion of the Tour de France passing through Nice in 2020, the tunnel at the Allianz Riviera soccer arena was embellished on both sides with two fantastic murals. The project was organized by the urban art association WHOLESTREET and carried out by the organizing artist OTOM together with his colleagues CESAR MALFI, DZON, KOTEK and NOVO. One side of the wall features motifs relating to cycling and the Tour de France. The other side is dedicated to the local soccer club Olympique Gymnaste Club de Nice Côte d’Azur, or OGC Nice for short.

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SOUTH KOREA: Streetart Busan – Sasang-gu – Monolvgar Indoor Skate Park – Graffiti Hall of Fame

Located in the Busan district Sasang-gu is Korea’s largest skateboarding space. The huge indoor skate hall MONOLVGAR offers professional training for local skaters, product sales and consultation by the skateboard brand and association MONOPATIN, who also founded the skate park and organizes regular skate contests and cool events. The outside facades of this place are also very interesting, because they are covered with numerous graffiti and characters. You can spray here legally, it is one of the few graffiti walls in the city and a Hall of Fame.

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ARGENTINA: Streetart Buenos Aires – Villa General Mitre – Estadio Diego Armando Maradona – MARLEY’s Tribute Gallery

The „Estadio Diego Armando Maradona“ in Buenos Aires is the headquarters of the famous club Asociación Atlética Argentinos Juniors, often just called Argentinos for short. Legends such as Diego Maradona come from this camp, but the great Lionell Messi also played his first game for the Argentinian national team on this pitch. The outside walls of the stadium are decorated with numerous beautiful urban artworks in portrait style by local artist MARLEY. Check out this huge Maradona Tribute Gallery!

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SPAIN: Streetart Barcelona – Tres Xemeneies – Skatepark Graffiti & Hall of Fame Archive

The “Tres Xemeneies” skate park and graffiti hall of fame, located on the edge of the Sants-Montjuic district, owes its name to these three large buildings that belonged to the old “La Canadenca” power station. Although the skate park area is quite huge, it unfortunately only has a few elements, but the graffiti walls are definitely awesome. That’s why this place is the largest and busiest hall in Barcelona.

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GERMANY: Exhibition Berlin – Skateboard Museum, FKKB & Hotel Berlin – WALLRIDE & OUT OF THE BOX

Berlin is well known for its skateboard scene and is also home to the artist and skateboarder CHRISTIAN ROTHENHAGEN aka DEER BLN and the artist PISA 73 – the initiators of the ‘SISSI‘ skateboard club. In cooperation with the curator JÜRGEN BLÜMLEIN from the SKATEBOARD MUSEUM and the FKKB they curated the exhibitions OUT OF THE BOX and WALLRIDE at the Hotel Berlin from 18th April till 17th May with a huge variety of colorfully designed skateboards and a historical photo show.

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SPAIN: Graffiti Barcelona – Poblenou – Picnic DIY Skate Park – Urban Art Collection

A “DIY Skatepark”, or “Do It Yourself”, is a skate spot mostly on abandoned or disused land and local skaters and collectives actually build these spaces, take care of the park and do the administration in self-organization. One such relatively new skate park in Barcelona is the PICNIC DIY in the district Poblenou at Calle de Carmen Amaya close to the beach. The area is an awesome playground for everybody who likes to ride any kind of skate vehicles and as usual with skateparks, also this hot spot is covered with countless great graffiti and new ones are created regularly.

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ARGENTINA: Streetart Buenos Aires – Parque Alberdi – Mataderos Skate Park – Sports & Graffiti

In 2007 a group of local skaters started a movement to have their own space to practice their passion. They presented a project to the local municipality, and in 2011, a mega skate park was inaugurated in the Mataderos neighborhood of Buenos Aires! The design was created by specialized architects, and the construction was supervised by the Argentine Skateboarding Association. Besides the sports fun there are numerous fantastic graffiti and urban artworks around the area.

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ARGENTINA: Streetart Buenos Aires – Tribute to football legend Diego Armando Maradona

Diego Armando Maradona Franco was an Argentine football player and coach. He is one of the “legends of world football” and is considered one of the best football players in history. Already as a younger player he was called „El Pibe de Oro“ – „The golden Boy“. In his career Maradona took part in four World Cup tournaments in 1982, 1986, 1990 and 1994. Altogether the footballist scored 34 goals in 91 international matches. Maradona died on November 25th 2020 in Dique Luján in Argentina. This page is dedicated to the great athlete and shows numerous artworks that have been created as tributes and homages to honorable Maradona across the city of Buenos Aires.

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CHILE: Atacama Sandboarding Adventure

In the north of Chile lies the legendary Atacama Desert with its breathtaking mountains and fascinatingly varying rock colors. From brown to yellow to red or green, you can find a whole rainbow there, especially at sunrise and sunset. We went far into the desert with our mountain bikes and snowboards strapped to our backs to find a special spot for sand boarding.

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MALTA: Msida Skate Park – Pool and Ramp Area

The area of the Msida Skate Park is relatively large and equipped with a variety of ramps, quarters and other skater toys. In the eastern part there is even a small pool. For skaters the visit is all the more worthwhile, here you can get excited. But this place is also a treat for graffiti fans and streetart friends! Not only is the skate park painted from top to bottom, but of course also any adjacent walls. But also all the entrances, tunnels and stairways. Just everything! It’s wonderful! Here’s really a lot of damn good art to find!

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