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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!!!
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Ireland / StreetartThe artist collective around the Icon Factory has transformed the alleys and streets in the Tempel Bar district into attractive art venues with color and creativity. The Icon Walk runs through the district with innovative and interesting works and in Bedford Lane, just around the corner from the Icon Factory, there is a special project wall on which the artist and project member Kevin Bohan creates grandiose murals at regular intervals with changing artists. Here is a history of the fabulous works of art and creators involved over the past few years.
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BelizeIn between a little photo gallery about the city of Chan Chen where you can cross the frontier from México to Belize. The small border town with just around 700 residents is located in the Corozal District and consists mainly of indigenous inhabitants who speak Yucatecan Maya. The name „Chan Chen“ origins from the Mayathan language and means „small spring“ in English.
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Architecture / Argentina / HistoryCan you imagine a city that breathes music, history, and passion at every step? Rosario is just that! This Argentine gem, the cradle of tango and Rosario’s trova, surprises us with a unique mix of culture, sports, and natural beauty. Hop on this journey and discover why Rosario is a must-see destination! We already have a whole streetart map for the city with numerous pages, but this article is especially about the archtecture and sights of Rosario.
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Germany / StreetartAfter a long process, the GRAFFITI LOBBY BERLIN and the youth culture center DIE KLINKE were able to inaugurate a new Hall of Fame in Berlin’s Marzahn district in May 2021. The outer wall of the local fire station department was cleared for artistic designs and has been a legal hall ever since. The wall surface is around 4 meters high and around 30 meters long, ideal for graffiti jams and fantastic concept walls, which are created there again and again. The works in this creative space are usually masterpiece quality and well worth a visit.
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Greece / StreetartThe former spa town of Loutrá Eleftheró with its thermal springs used to be a popular destination for healing therapies and relaxation. The spa was closed many years ago, the small village is meanwhile almost abandoned and the buildings are half in ruins, but this „ghost spa“ is still well worth a visit. The lost place offers a magical atmosphere in a mysterious valley, just like in enchanted fairyland. And of course there are some great graffiti and urban artworks here.
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Malta / StreetartOn the island of Malta in the neighbourhood Msida we found an interesting graffiti area. If you walk through a small tunnel on the north side of the Msida Skate Park, you don’t get out directly on one of the other sides of the road. There is again an open space, from where the paths branch out again and lead into further tunnels. The entire walls of this small plaza are of course all painted and frequently there apear new fantastic ones. Check out the photos of the great artworks we captured at this hidden little art space.
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Illustration / USABesides the awesome painting artworks made by creative mind CHARLES SAMUEL WAIT, we show you now a collection of digital artworks in graphic style with an interview. Of course new canvas paintings get continously painted too, but also those new digital collages and the funny, graphic and emojylike characters with interesting little messages.
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Events / Germany / StreetartZehlendorf town hall is getting colorful! From December 5th in 2023 till March 31st in 2024, more than 115 street art exhibits by over 70 artists can be admired on two floors of the Zehlendorf town hall. The exhibition was organized by the VERBUND GRAFFITI & STREETART SZ and the project STREETLIFE 2.0, in initiated by the artists PHILIP NADOLL and JONAS QUENTIN.
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Culturists / Germany / Netherlands / Social / StreetartTravelling 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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Poland / StreetartPhotographer and passionate streetart hunter Agnieszka Pisarska continuously delivers fantastic works of urban art on her Instagram channel Piece of Streetart, not only from her hometown of Wroc?aw, but from all over Poland. There are now more than 1500 photos in her archive, it’s worth taking a look! The eager art lover is constantly on the move and, according to her own words, does “always many things at once.” And when a lot is done, a lot of interesting things are created. Here on the Vagabundler platform, Angnieszka not only works on the Streetart Map Wroc?aw, but also contributes galleries to many Polish cities and countless photos for the maps of Gda?sk, ?ód? and Warsaw. She has several other platforms and accounts about architecture and nature, does interesting collages and designs fabulous selfmade puppets.
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Canada / Events / StreetartToday we show you awesome artworks from several editions of the fantastic event UNDER PRESSURE, which is the oldest street art festival in Montreal, perhaps in America, maybe in the entire world! It was founded by the two local street artists SEAZ and FLOW in 1995 and its primary mission is to encourage community involvement through urban culture, and thus contribute to the development and influence of urban arts at the local and international level. A real great happening!
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Accommodation / Architecture / History / JapanThe few but increasingly growing tourists who travel to Japan first of course visit the major cultural centers or high-tech cities such as Kyoto, Osaka and Tokyo. But if you have a little more time for your trip to Nippon, you have the opportunity to get to know many other sites in the country. Often the smaller villages are hidden and undervalued delicacies. For example, the fishing town of Onomichi (Japanese: ? ? ?, -shi) on the southwest coast of Honsh? Island.
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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.
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Netherlands / StreetartUtrecht 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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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.
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Serbia / StreetartOn the banks of the Danube in Belgrade is a former factory with monumental silos at a height of 28 meters, the so called SILOSI. The building complex is constructed like honeycombs and consists of a total of 64 cells, but work was stopped many years ago and the site has lain fallow ever since. This landmark of brutalist architecture has been given a new lease of life thanks to the GAIA POKRET movement with several creative spaces, but the highlight are certainly the large murals that have gradually been painted in the lofty heights.
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Germany / PainterEverybody in his or hers environment has annoying and stress-inducing people and everyone is determined to deal with these individuals in different strategies and in their own way, which sometimes makes life difficult. One ignores, the next argues, others react in sport. Jessica Marquardt aka Jay Gnomenfrau (=Gnome Woman) has discovered a very creative way of dealing with these so-called “Ass Angels” (=”Arschengel”) and turning that into her passion for painting. Art acts as a valve and serves as a personal exploration of one’s own emotions.
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New Zealand / StreetartWellington, or in Maori “Te Whanganui-a-Tara” is the capital of New Zealand and is located at the southernmost end of the North Island on the Cook Strait. Worth seeing are the waterfront, Lambton Quay, the city cable car or the Wellington Botanic Gardens. Here we have a collection with magnificent urban art creations.
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Argentina / NatureThe Calamuchita region, nestled in the heart of the Córdoba province, unfolds as a stage of contrasts and marvels. Its towns – each with its own unique charm – come together in a symphony of traditions, nature, and tales that have transcended generations. From the tranquility of Villa Rumipal to the vibrant atmosphere of Villa del Dique, not to mention the enchantment of the Embalse and the authenticity of Río Tercero, this territory invites you to rediscover the essence of life in communion with nature.
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Chile / StreetartThe 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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Nature / ParaguayParque das Aves is a theme park located in the city of Foz do Iguaçu, in the Brazilian state of Paraná. Situated near the Iguazu River Falls, the park has 16 hectares of native forest, with 1500 animals including birds, reptiles and mammals, from 140 different species. It is a private institution that works as an integrated conservation center for Atlantic Forest species, researching captive breeding and preserving endangered animals. Its structure has 1,300 meters of trails, where birds are arranged for observation, and environments that mimic natural ecosystems for some species, such as alligators, boa constrictors, marmosets and butterflies.
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Ireland / StreetartAcross the whole city of Dublin, you can always find the usual electrical boxes on street corners, as you know them from any other city. But here do quite a lot of these otherwise rather ugly boxes seem colorful and creative, invite you to have a closer look at them and are a piece of innovative urban art by creative people from the city and community.
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Chile / Nature / SportsHere 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. There are beautiful trails which offer a relatively bleak and monochrome landscape and provide in conjunction with the sun just a stunning picture. Of course, it is not nearly desolate, the mountain formations are just blatant. But the colors change accordingly to the sunlight and the overall scenario is very overwhelming. If you should do the same with a good mountain bike, remember that the “routes” are not always real routes.
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Germany / Photography / StreetartThe photographer Jörg Udo Kuberek, or just “Fotojörg” for short, started documenting Frankfurt graffiti and street paintings at the end of the 1980s. In the beginning there were political slogans on facades or funny slogans on toilet walls, but soon the passionate motivational seeker came across the colorful wild style, characters and just the right graffiti. Over the years, several thousand pictures from the Main metropolis and the region have accumulated – you’d have to print it! The idea for the Mainstyle magazine was born, but initially only seven print editions in black and white were published at the beginning of the 90s. To be exactly, the first one went out on 24th of July in 1990. After a short break with various photo exhibitions on urban street art, but also on other themes such as “Abandoned Places”, Fotojörg went online with Mainstyle in 2011.
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>>> 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.
