NETHERLANDSNOMADS ON WHEELS – Travelling and cleaning up the world
Travelling the world, doing helpful things and admire the beauty of exploring, this of course also includes coming across wonderful graffiti. Would be a dream! The two world explorers Thomas Adventurer and Diana Beekvelt aka NOMADS ON WHEELS live this idea to the fullest and also show others how to do it. It is possible to travel the world and also to save the planet, as well to document the wonderful nature, to meet interesting people and to encounter grandiose urban art!
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Amsterdam´s Streetart VR experience
For the past seven years, in collaboration with renown artists worldwide the Street Art Museum Amsterdam – or just SAMA – has built a collection of over 300 pieces that lightens up the walls of one of the most degraded neighborhoods of the city. Many of them are still present in the collection, but around 70% have been removed, demolished or painted over. By the end of this year renovation of the area will start and, even though it is part of the evolution of the urban landscape, the second monumental piece will turn to rubbles. To preserve the artwork long after it will be gone, SAMA together with GRTalk embarked on a project that uses photogrammetry, virtual reality animation and 360° videos to create an experience that merges realities and tell the story of the mural “Fatherhood” from the artist STINKFISH and the already gone artwork “Safety”.
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Streetart Utrecht – Library Murals, Train Artworks and the Subway Skatepark
Utrecht was really fun. Besides the openness and friendliness of the people living there, there is the vibrant urban culture, the art scene and a quite interesting infrastructure. Utrecht has a lot to offer! The city perfectly combines modernity and antiquity and impresses with some old and futuristic buildings. A symbiosis of construction, architecture and street art raises Utrecht to a high quality level. The city absolutely stands for diversity, openness and connection and has a place in my heart. There are also Brouwers at the Albert Heyn. Brouwers is a fantastic beer brand with cult potential in scene circles. And a way beer for the city tour should always be in it. Drinking in public may be expensive in the Netherlands though. If the cops catch you in public, they charge 50 Euros. That’s why it’s always good to have festivals in the city to get around the problem.
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Groningen – Vibrant Student City – Multicultural, Young and Colourful
About 230,000 people live in Groningen and about 50,000 of them are enrolled students, that´s more than 20% oft the population. The city is accordingly young, multicultural, colourful and just very much filled with a lot of life. Historically this is because Groningen has had a university since 1614. In 2014, the university celebrated its 400th birthday. Really not so bad! The student scene definitely shapes the cityscape extremely. Everywhere in cafes and bars, on the canals, the students flits off unabashedly and casually. The cityscape is characterized by buildings in brick Gothic, the striking Gothic church „Martini Toren” built in 1220 and the university. Around the „Grote Markt” which means marketplace there are also wonderful old buildings.
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Zandvoort – Street Art in a Different Way
If you like it quiet and tranquil, you are in the right place in Zandvoort. About 30 minutes by train from the vibrant centre of Amsterdam, the coastal town invites you to relax and unwind. If city life is too stressful and hectic, you can stop here. Especially in the summer is busy here. This is on the one hand on the long sandy beach, which is located along the town with only approx. 17,000 inhabitants. On the other hand, almost half of all inhabitants live from tourism.
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NDSM Wharf – Industrial Murals and Shipyard Graffiti
NDSM is the short form for “Nederlandsche Dok en Scheepsbouw Maatschappij” and this Dutch shipbuilding company existed from 1946 to 1978 in Amsterdam. Part of the old buildings and factory halls are meanwhile reused by other firms from the shipping field, but as well from cultural actors and alternative artists. The huge walls of the complex are peppered with magnificent graffiti masterpieces and regularly there are fabulous events.
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Den Haag – Graffiti and Urban Art Collection
Den Haag, or in English “The Hague”, is a western Dutch city on the North Sea. Although the capital of the country is Amsterdam, the seat of government is in Den Haag. The 16th century Paleis Noordeinde is also the home of the royal family and the city hosts the United Nations International Court of Justice in the Vredespaleis and the International Criminal Court. Also worth seeing are the Madurodam miniature park, the Inner Court and the Hall of the Knights. And of course the great urban artworks!
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Streetart Zeeburg
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Amsterdam – Housboat at the Gracht
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Streetart Amsterdam Downtown
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Streetart Leeuwarden
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Artistic Urban Amsterdam
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Leeuwarden Skatepark
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City Life, Architecture and Street Gallery – Amsterdam
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Lesser Antilles Island Bonaire – Kralendijk – Urban Art in the Caribbean
Kralendijk is the main town of Bonaire, a Dutch island in the Lesser Antilles north of Venezuela. The name “Kralendijk” comes from the word “coral dam” and refers to the coral-bearing soil on which the place was built.
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