CHILE

Streetart Map Angol – Urban Art Archive and Graffiti Collection

Angol was founded in 1553 by Pedro de Valdivia, the conquistador of Chile, as the last frontier before the Mapuche territory. Today all this land is called Araucania Region. This is reflected in the political graffiti that you can find here. Angol, a small city of around 53,000 people, is located 570 km south of Santiago (capital of Chile). These characteristics of a small place and isolate of big cities, configure special features for the graffiti. For example, graffiti can last easily more than a decade because there isn’t competition to find a wall like in big cities where new graffiti usually is on top of an old one.

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Santiago de Chile – Streetart Map and Graffiti History

According to archaeological investigations, it is believed that the first human groups established in what is now Santiago, was around the 10th century BC. These groups were mainly nomadic hunter/gatherers. Already around the year 800 of our era the first inhabitants began to settle for the formation of agricultural communities next to the Mapocho river. Art and architecture also impregnated the images that emanated from graffiti in Santiago. The allegory of the Mapuche people is always expresses in murals too.

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Valparaíso – Streetart and Graffiti Map

This is how a city should look like! The whole city of Valparaíso is just one big Streetart Gallery. It´s a city of artists and creatives. On the Streetart Map in this article you will find trackers to reportages about interesting people and architecture events, as well podcasts and videos. There are several galleries about graffiti areas sorted by Cerros, which the city on the coast consists of. Cerro means hill.

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Fantastic Artist GUZTOK – Creative Graffiti, Abstract Characters and Tattooism

The great artist GUZTOK grew up around Santiago de Chile and was drawn to the political murals and graffiti near his house since childhood. He studied industrial design and at the same time he went even more into the world of graffiti, from those years on he never stopped. After Chile he moved to France for some time and currently lives in the German capital Berlin, where he continously creates new artworks in the streets or on canvas, also he is working as a tattooist. We asked this great artist some questions in an interview about his art and development.

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Writer SNIP – Pampa Graffiti and Chilean Hip Hop Style – “Remember where you come from”

Graffiti artist SNIP sprays great artworks on Chilean streets, his pieces can be found around Ovalle, Antofagaste, La Serena or Tocopilla and many other places. He is currently based in Angol and is active there in the urban scene. In an interview with photographer Salvador Seda the sprayer tells us about his creative world, his artistic development and the fabulous HMS aka HOMIES crew.

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Graffiti Artist DYRE – Fantastic Wild Style peppered with Tags and Flops

DYRE is a graffiti artist who makes flops and tags. Sometimes he uses DIRE because it fits better with the style he is working on. He lives now in the Chilean city of Angol due to his job as a risk manager working in a forestry company. However, his real passion is graffiti. Check out the interview with the great artist.

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Salvador J. Seda – Historian Streetart Hunter and GraffitiPreBicentenario

When you look on the photographs and the way how Salvador Seda presents and documents his fantastic findings you probably will get quite often the word historian in mind. He definitely is an ambitious street art hunter and as well a wonderful history lover with an excited focus and patient eye for the little details. Salvador is a searcher for the specialties what urban life can offer, gives impulses and tries as well to teach a little bit about the background of wall paintings in the city. At the moment he is building up the Streetart Map of Angol in Chile.

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Maestranza Barón – Festival de Artes y Oficios – Valparaíso

After the great first art event “Festival de Artes y Oficios” in 2023 this year the second edition took place in the historical buidling complex of the Maestranza Barón. Numerous local and national artists created fantastic works in large and small scale. The event was organized by the MARGINAL GALERIA and LA HOGUERA and all the collected funds during the happening went to families affected by the wildfires in Viña del Mar.

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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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Nahuelbuta Graff Jam – Angol’s First Urban Art Festival

ZEN, the father of the character Smile, created the first graffiti festival ever held in Angol! He looked for sponsors, spoke with the Municipality, and with the support of musician OUCLASS and the culture center FRONTERA SUR, he organized and convened the NAHUELBUTA GRAFF FESTIVAL between February 23rd and 24th in 2024. Numerous artists from Angol and the region participated and painted several awesome walls around a soccer field close to the Rehue River. Check out the artworks from this “Encuentro Cultural de Graffiti”.

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Atacama – Trail through the desert mountains

Here we have an fabulous recommendation for bicycle riders, mountainbike fans and off road tourers from the end of the world. While we traveled through Chile from north to south we had a break in San Pedro de Atacama. It´s a good spot to chill in the hot climate, as well you can do a lot of outdoor activities. Like crossing a part of the desert by mountain bike for example.

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Bore Namazu Tattoos – Arica

In Arica on the northern Pacific Coast we made a little stop to do some surfing. The beaches and the waves are quite nice for several month. Next to the harbor we passed the Tattoo-Studio of the artist Bore, who showed us the shop and gave one of our colleagues an ear-piercing-plug for free. So we thought why not write an article about the tattoo studio. In the link you will find an interview with Bore and a video of a tattoo session and his shop.

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Beautiful Araucanía – Nahuelbuta National Park

Nahuelbuta is a word from Mapudungun that means Great Puma. Mapudungun is the language of the Mapuches, the inhabitants who lived in this region before the arrival of the Spanish in mid-16th century. The park that is only 37 km from the city of Angol, was created in 1939, and comprises a section of the Nahuelbuta Range, which in turn is part of Chile’s Coastal Mountain Range.

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Valparaiso – Welcome to Hostal Voyage

During our journey in Chile we made a stop in Valparaiso and could stay in the most interessting Hostel of the city: Hostel Voyage. It´s much nicer to stay at a friends´ place than in a hotel room. A lot of people prefer therefore couchsurfing, it´s a cheaper and as well much more personal way to travel. And at the doors of Hostel Voyage we were welcomed exactly that way. After riding the whole night in a horrible bus through half of the country and searching for over two hours for a place to stay – out of 20 hostels really nobody opened – we finally have been greeted at this nice lodge.

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La Serena – Streetart and Inauguration of a Masterpiece

Another very cool surfers spot in Chile is the second biggest city in the country: La Serena. Here the Elqui-Valley is just around the corner, it´s one of the main producing areas for the Chilenian national drink Pisco. It´s a very nice drink, you can get in Germany as well, but for sure not comparable to the one you can get there at the vineyards. The city is really nice, with the historic center built in the colonial style and if you arrive from the north it is quite pleasant to arrive at this alive and green place after a lot of ghosttowns in the Atacama desert, who remind on the salpeter mining period.

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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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Santiago – City Tours

Maybe you know the series. Where is Wally? It was or still is an animated series about a strange odd guy with some glasses, a bobble cap and a red-white-striped t-shirt. This guy is always somewhere hidden in the series and you have to find him. And then you have to find out other stuff together with him. It´s exactly this little gag what the guys from “Tours 4 Tips” from Santiago de Chile used for their own undertaking.

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Streetart Andes

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Cuevas De Anzonta

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Streetart Arica – Downtown

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Santiago de Chile – Santiago del Nuevo Extremo

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Salar de Atacama – Los Flamencos Reserve and El Tatio Geysir

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Streetart Arica – El Tunnel

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Cajón del Maipo and Laguna Negra

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Streetart Arica – Tortuga

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Arica – City of Eternal Spring

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Streetart Arica – Chinchorro

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San Pedro de Atacama – Desert Oasis in Toconao

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Valparaíso – City of 44 Cerros

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Streetart Arica – Altos del Mar

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Streetart Valparaíso – Cerro Alegre

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Streetart Valparaíso – Cerro Artilleria

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Streetart Valparaíso – Cerro Bellavista

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Streetart Valparaíso – Cerro Carcel

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Streetart Valparaíso – Cerro Concepción

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Streetart Valparaíso – Cerro Cordillera

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Streetart Valparaíso – Cerro Delicias

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Streetart Valparaíso – Cerro Mariposa

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Streetart Valparaíso – Cerro Molino

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Streetart Valparaíso – Cerro Polanco

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Streetart Valparaíso – Cerro Toro

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Streetart Valparaíso – Playa Ancha

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