Welcome to Vagabundler!
A wonderful ragbag for alternative travelers and fans of creativity, especially urban art. On this platform you can find interesting reportages, detailed country or city maps and coverages on awesome artists. There is a whole section about interviews with unique people and their amazing work, as well about crazy events and interesting sustaining projects from all around the world. Meanwhile we have more than 240.000 photos in our archive and we try to preserve some of this creativity with our documentation. All respect to the artists! As well to all the numerous people involved in this non profit project. We do this voluntarily because we love it and we want to support the art scene in general and socio-cultural understanding between us on this planet. If you find any mistakes or missing information, just send us a message. We are creating, building and changing on this website all the time – but – of course! If there is free time…. we travel and explore!!!
LATEST POSTS
Britain / Comic / Events / IllustrationThe illustrator and graphic designer Junior Tomlin from London did some of the most iconic and legendary cover artworks for the rave and electronic music scene back in the 80s and 90s up till today. On 5th of June his new book “Junior Tomlin: Flyer & Cover Art” will get released which documents across 160 premium paper pages his work with commentary and draft sketches about thirty years of party scene. Junior is of course still doing his fabulous artworks and visuals, but meanwhile he can look on a huge variety of projects in many different fields like movies or covers for the music branch, he colored comics for Marvel, DC or Panini, was involved in Action Man and Judge Dredd animations, designed vector arts, invented innovative logos and even started sculpturing.
>>> READ MORE [...]
Read more...
Music / SwitzerlandHalf gangster, half jogging pants hero. BIGMaa. combines both and raps to musical blends of various electro and rap subgenres. „BIGMaa.“ basically means „Big Man“, a mixture of English and the Swiss German word for man. The Lord is indeed great and he raps in Swiss German. Sometimes funny, sometimes provocative, sometimes silly and often critical. Over the last few years, the eloquent musician has published a number of works written in Bernese studios or during his many stays abroad. „De Boca A River“ was recorded in Buenos Aires and brings Spanish influences into the beats, with „Nom de Dieu“ is played with French phrases.
>>> READ MORE [...]
Read more...
Spain / StreetartIn our “Graffitipedia” we try to document just everything in terms of urban creation and art in general, from good to bad and from big to small. But it makes little sense to locate every tag and every sticker with a marker for the small works on the maps, still these great works should nevertheless be presented and we have sorted them by genre for the whole of Barcelona.
>>> READ MORE [...]
Read more...
Atelier / Events / SpainOn November 28th in 2024 the exhibition „Borrowed Times“ with great works by the artist ABDUL VAS opened with a beautiful vernissage at the Madrid gallery E CIENTO VEINTE. His works can be admired in the art space at Calle Antonio Maura 18 until February 8th in 2025. For ABDUL VAS, the overwhelming power of AC/DC’s music has displaced linear and routine time. He has decided to portray a set of writers who inhabit a dimension, where delicacy and loyalty to aesthetics intertwine, with the greatness of music from a time lent by eternity. Check out the new exhibition!
>>> READ MORE [...]
Read more...
Egypt / Painter / StreetartOn a mission to pass on motivation, hope and heartfelt energy through colors and creativity. The great artist MAHA GAMIL from the Egyptian city of Luxor is meanwhile well known across the country, she had more than 50 exhibitions and can make a living from her art. But she has chosen in new ways to dedicate her colors not only for demarcated galleries and museums, but for the people and the neighborhoods of her country by creating art in urban space.
>>> READ MORE [...]
Read more...
Egypt / HistoryThe catacombs of Kom el Shoqafa are considered one of the best archaeological sites in Alexandria. They were discovered at the beginning of the 20th century and are considered to be one of the largest Roman burial sites. These tombs were excavated in the Mother Rock at the time of Emperor Antoninus in the 2nd century A.D. These tombs represent the last major existing construction in the interest of the ancient Egyptian religion.
>>> READ MORE [...]
Read more...
Events / Germany / StreetartThe old Buntfarbenfabrik in Flöha, or „Colored Paint Factory“ in English, was founded in 1878, but even before that it housed the former Strobel spinning mill. The industrial site has now been derelict for many years and has become an exciting lost place and urbex spot. Urban artists have also discovered this, especially the organizers of the great festival series IBUG, short for „Industriebrachenumgestaltung“, which means in English „Industrial Brownfield Redevelopment“. The 16th and 17th editions of the event took place on the abandoned factory site in 2021 and 2022 and countless great works were created.
>>> READ MORE [...]
Read more...
Streetart / TurkeyAround 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.
>>> READ MORE [...]
Read more...
Cambodia / Culturists / Events / MusicBetween the cultural treasures in the Cambodian inner country and the heaps of paradiseful islands by the sea there is Sihanoukville located on the Southern Coast of the Thailand Gulf. It´s headquarters for planing and starting a wonderful relaxing time on one island or do a hopping over several ones. Depening on the time you have, but for sure, you don´t want to leave. For the party people there is as well a cool nightlife provided including super nice sea side places with DJs and nightlong dancing on the beach till sunrise. One of those places with good cocktails, fine music and awesome partys is JJ’s Playground. We spoke with manager Jose and team members Justin and Dave in an interview about the place and the party at JJ’s, as well we did a short walkaround video during daylight.
>>> READ MORE [...]
Read more...
Illustration / Painter / USAI always loved to read comics and I still do, the shelves are packed with X-Men, Thundercats and Ascensions and heaps of boxes are stored in the cellar. While scrolling through social media some month ago I stumbled over this creative guy here from Ohio and checked out his digital abstract comic styled artworks which took my attention. You could say some of his artworks are abstract freak out comics sketches for adults. I loved it and wanted to get in contact with the artists for an interview, so here we go!
>>> READ MORE [...]
Read more...
Chile / Events / StreetartAs ZEN has already done many times in the past in the city of Angol, this time this great local creative once again held a graffiti workshop for artists who are just starting out in streetart and graffiti or have been doing it for a short time. Most of them are still in high school and they are teenagers. The workshop attendees seemed very enthusiastic, and ZEN was always giving tips and helping these young promises, until they finished their work. In this workshop jam named „Villa Los Ríos“, also KUSH accompanied ZEN and they did a cool collaboration wall.
>>> READ MORE [...]
Read more...
Chile / Culturists / StreetartWhen 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.
>>> READ MORE [...]
Read more...
Chile / Culturists / StreetartPhotographer, 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.
>>> READ MORE [...]
Read more...
Germany / StreetartThe Hall of Fame of the Mierendorf Insel is a legal graffiti space at Lise-Meitner Street 50 in the Berlin district Charlottenburg. At this spot continously magnificent works of art are getting created by the top artists. During the last years we photographed heaps of awesome creations and documented numerous jams and spray sessions. Check out the huge archive with more than 130 artists and several thousand photos.
>>> READ MORE [...]
Read more...
Argentina / StreetartChascomús is a city in eastern Argentina on Lake Chascomús in the interior of the province of Buenos Aires. The city dates back to the famous Fortín de San Juan Bautista fortifications from 1779. Photographer Analá Pertusi aka Perts Jam had visited Chascomús several times and documented extensively the fascinating urban art. Nearly 700 great photos came together at 150 spots, enough to make an individual map which is dedicated to Chascomús. Dive into the creative world and when you are around, go exploring yourself!
>>> READ MORE [...]
Read more...
Germany / Photography / StreetartToday we are going to introduce you to a terrific website that had a great impact on me and basically was together with some other important platforms and magazines an inspiring factor to start this Vagabundler project. For more than ten years now, the platform Dosenkunst by photographer Jörg Rudolph has been delivering fantastic graffiti material from the Rhine-Main area in Germany or from overseas, with awesome making-of reports, extensive background information and adventurous Urbex stories.
>>> READ MORE [...]
Read more...
France / PainterGERAUD DELTEIL paints comic-like portraits as abstracted cult figures, celebrities or simply fantasy creatures. The fantastic artist creatively interprets colorful portraits of famous icons in his very own way. Long time ago, he started with spray cans doing graffiti, but meanwhile he has developed his special unique style, which gets implemented mostly on canvas. We spoke with the artist in an interview.
>>> READ MORE [...]
Read more...
Greece / StreetartAfter the first days in Thessaloniki I just had no idea anymore how to categorize, sort or edit the pictures later. I just had thousands of pics and the whole city is literally a huge street gallery. On every alley, on every house, on every something, even on the trees – Yes on trees! – you can find spray can doings and marker writings. Altogether it is one social art phenomenon, a way of expression and nice to observe, to document, to read and to understand how the habitants change their surrounding. If you look closer you can divide this huge house and wall painting cover which lies like a curtain over the whole city. There are areas where it is more packed, like at the university, downtown and in the center, as well you can find in between whole concept houses, high quality group artworks and of course the brilliantly made and enormous mighty murals, which cover the walls of whole 10-level apartment buildings and even higher.
>>> READ MORE [...]
Read more...
Germany / StreetartFranzösisch Buchholz is a part of the Berlin district Pankow and in this neighbourhood exists a fabulous graffiti wall at the Rosenthaler Weg. Thanks to the GRAFFITI LOBBY BERLIN the spray space is legalized for creative activities since 2021. The organization has done a great job again to set this place free. One more colorful playground for artists and interested visitors! Check out the huge archive with numerous fantastic artworks.
>>> READ MORE [...]
Read more...
Architecture / Photography / USAThe artist and photographer CHARLES SAMUEL WAIT is not only represented on our website as a painter with an interview, he has also contributed many articles on graffiti and urban art from the United States. As well he is a passionate photographer and has a preference for street photography and urban life, often industrial landscapes, construction sites or interesting architecture, but also just simple motifs or everyday objects.
>>> READ MORE [...]
Read more...
Georgia / Painter / StreetartToday we present you a great artist from Georgia. VAZHA KAVLELASHVILI has an incredibly beautiful imagination of beings and figures, he sees the world through his creative eyes and brings these inspirations to light with works of art. On canvas or other materials, and of course on walls in urban spaces. We spoke with this interesting artist in an interview, check out the article!
>>> READ MORE [...]
Read more...
Nature / VenezuelaToas Island is an island belonging to Venezuela, located in the Almirante Padilla municipality of Zulia State, south of the San Carlos Peninsula, at a distance of 2.5 kilometers from it and 5 kilometers from the eastern front of San Rafael de El Moján, city from which the island is distinguished. It covers an area of ??3 km².
>>> READ MORE [...]
Read more...
Architecture / History / JapanMany of the temples, shrines and ruins in Nara form the “Historic Monuments of Ancient Nara”, which is announced as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The complex includes the T?dai-ji, the K?fuku-ji, the Kasuga taisha, the Gang?-ji, the Yakushi-ji, the T?sh?dai-ji, and the Heij? Palace. The nearby Kasugayama Primeval Forest is also identified as part of the world heritage site and worth a visit.
>>> READ MORE [...]
Read more...
Germany / PhotographyWe had the artist Niko Neuwirth in the studio at Radio X as a guest. A talented photographer and busy actor in the Frankfurt scene. Niko is a member of the Syndikat Artists, takes photos for the Landungsbrücken, is a studio neighbor of the Tanzhaus West, is currently rebuilding the Blaue Haus and continuously fills his creative photo series “Frankfurter Nächte“, “FACING EUROPE” and “Analog Frankfurt” with new ones works. The WILD exhibition was also in the Haus am Dom. Here is the podcast of the interview (in German), in the article you will find quotes and more information about Nikos work. In the Infothek at the end are all contact details.
>>> READ MORE [...]
Read more...
>>> INTERNATIONAL COLLECTIVE <<<
Many more awesome urban art loving photographers, documentors, creatives and Vagabundlers joined, we have every day heaps of new articles and photos. Still non-profit, still non-commercial, just because we like to do it. All the people involved in this project are listed on our Vagabundler Collective Map
Frank Hofmann is working on the enourmous Hamburg Streetart Map with meanwhile 1200 spots and more than 8000 photos!
Salvador Seda (GraffiPreBicentenario) from Chile joined and keeps on creating the Streetart Map of Angol and the Santiago Map
Patrice Loranger (PLoranger4417) from Canada joined and is building up the Streetart Map of Montreal.
Holger Peter (PeterEatAndArt) from Berlin joined and is building up the Streetart Map of Berlin with extensive infos about the artists and meanwhile with over 9700 pages and more than 84.000 photos. He is also doing the map for Rheine and the Island Poel
Analiá Pertusi aka Perts Jam joined and is building up a fantastic archive for the Argentinian capital Buenos Aires and as well for the Chascomus Map.
World traveller Mazzanti from Sweden contributes great photos for the Stockholm Map and for numerous places from all around the world.
Bart Hagel aka Street Art Damsko and Killer Leentje contribute awesome material for the Amsterdam Map.
Gail Lochner from Ecuador joined and is building up the map of Cuenca with fantastic artworks.
Agnieszka Pisarska (Piece of Streetart) contributes great galleries of cities in Poland and is building up the Streetart Map of Wroc?aw!
The Nomads on Wheels are travelling around the world in their van and sending awesome photos. Meanwhile we have great collections from 72 places.
Fiona Lu (City.Features) from Canada joined and is building up the Streetart Map of Vancouver.
Caley Costley (BobBleu) from California, USA joined and is building up the Streetart Map of Los Angeles.
Matthias Busch joined and is building up the Streetart Map of Austin in Texas, USA.
Luigi Savoia from Italy joined and is building up the Streetart Map of Turin.
Milau Lutumba (Delutu) from France joined and is building up the Streetart Map of Paris
Julien Canadas from France joined and contributes great photos and also videos for the Toulouse Map.
Natalie Pomeroy aka Street Art Wombler is part of the team and contributes awesome material from Australia and especially Melbourne.
Mike Hennessey aka See Some Streetart joines our collective and works on the map for Almaty in Kazakhstan.
Irxnschmoiz is our city ambassador for the Hannover map and contributes continously new material. He also takes photos from other interesting places in Germany.
Frankfurt Map reached 2000 spots and offers more than 27.000 photos to explore! As well there are lots of new updates to several places.
