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SERBIA: Novi Sad – Graffiti Artist SHPIRA – 3D Murals – Founder of AVIJATICARSKA GALERIJA

The great artist SHPIRA from the Serbian city of Novi Sad loves to create graffiti, streetart and characters in a three-dimensional style. Countless works adorn the walls of his home town, but his latest and most exciting project is the AVIJATICARSKA GALERIJA. It is not a hall of fame, but rather an urban art gallery where local and international artists can add murals by arrangement. It started with one building in the neighborhood, but after the great results, the residents of the buildings around also wanted such murals. Check out the interview!

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GERMANY: Streetart Oldenburg – Bundesbahnweg Graffiti Hall – MEMUR URBAN ART FESTIVAL

The fantastic MEMUR FESTIVAL took place in Oldenburg on the railway embankment wall along the Bundesbahnweg from August 12th to 14th in 2022. The title is a combination of memorial and mural. More than 30 regional and international artists designed a 280-meter-long wall with magnificent works depicting experiences and impressions of recent years, such as the pandemic, war, conflicts, and other areas of social and political tension. The common denominator of the artworks was thus the experience and reflection of collective memory.

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NORTH MACEDONIA: Streetart Kumanovo – Razvigorche Urban Art Kindergarten – FORMA CREW

The Razvigorche kindergarten in Mosha Pijade in Kumanovo is not only an educational institution for very young children, it is also a real urban art museum. The graffiti crew FORMA took on the facades in 2023 and 2024, creating fantastic works around the main building and on other walls on the premises. The crew members MOLERAJ, SKIDAR and TRENDO carried out the work. The result was individual works with motifs of children based on original photos and two themed scenarios depicting an underwater world and a jungle landscape.

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SOUTH KOREA: Gwangju – Chosun College of Art & Design – Professors SEONG-MIN YUN & RYU BEOMEOL

The Korean city of Gwangju is home to one of the country’s most important educational institutions, a center of knowledge for innovation and creativity. The Chosun University opened its doors in 1946 and has currently enrolled around 33.000 students. All of the faculties are certainly exciting, but we are particularly interested in the College of Art and Design. We visited the different themed levels and give you an insight into this interesting world, where fantastic works get created on each floor. In two interviews we spoke with professor SEONG-MIN YUN for Korean painting and RYU BEOMEOL, professor for animation and comic.

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GERMANY: Streetart Dortelweil – Was ist Liebe – Philosophical Mural Series Gallery – INDIAN

The magnificent artist INDIAN from Bad Vilbel has created a wonderful open air gallery on the sound barrier wall along Federal Highway B3 over many years, featuring countless fantastic and thought-provoking murals. His works are mostly a combination of portraits and poetic stories. He himself calls his art “philosophical graffiti,” and the respective works are created as part of the series “Was ist Liebe” or “What is Love” in English. In his works, he deals with life, humanity, and empathy, but also our connection to earth and the problems that arise from our alienation from nature.

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ARGENTINA: Streetart Chascomús – Vieja Estación – Abandoned Train Station – Lost Place Graffiti

These awesome artworks were created at the Vieja Estación, the old abandoned train station in Chascomús in Argentina, which is a great spray place covered with several fantastic artworks. The station opened in 1865 and after more than 150 years of work, it was left abandoned around 2014 when the new railway station opened. Nowadays the old main station building is seat of the CENTRO CULTURAL VIEJA ESTACIÓN, where regularly events and exhibitions take place. Still several buildings of the complex are left for being a lost place, therefore they are a perfect spot for graffiti.

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SERBIA: Streetart Belgrade – Kulturni Centar Dorćol – Betonska Poezija – Urban Art Space

The cultural meeting and creative space KULTURNI CENTAR DORĆOL regularly organizes various events from a wide range of areas, like exhibitions, presentations, readings, lectures or discussions. Of course, there are also a lot of art events and the center functions as a gallery. But not only inside the rooms, also on the outside facades, where you can find various great murals. Some of the wall paintings are from the exhibition „Betonska Poezija“, which was curated by the great graffiti store BEOWALLZ. On display were works from 2008 to the present day, created by artist friends from the local urban art scene.

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GERMANY: Architecture Herford – Contemporary Art Museum – MARTA – FRANK GEHRY

With its flowing and tilting walls, the MARTA MUSEUM in Herford, East Westphalia, is one of the most unusual museum buildings in the world. For the facade, the American star architect FRANK GEHRY chose dark red bricks, which contrast with the bright stainless steel roof and the white plastered core of the building. The development of the museum’s collection began with the construction of the MARTA, which opened in 2005. It comprises around 500 works by approximately 170 artists, many of them large-format pieces of contemporary art.

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CZECHIA: Graffiti Prague – Jízdárny Savarin – Equestrian Centre – V Cípu Spray Walls

The „Jízdárny Savarin“ or „Savarin Equestrian Centre“ is a former riding school from the mid-18th century, which now offers a space for concerts, exhibitions, performances and site-specific installations organized by the alternative opera and flashmob collective RUN OPERUN. There are several walls full of graffiti and urban art on the surrounding V Cípu street. It is a small hidden hot spot and new works can be found here regularly.

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PORTUGAL: Madeira Island – Streetart Funchal – Whale Murals, Sea Graffiti and Garbage Art

Funchal is the capital of the Portuguese island of Madeira, which is about 710 km off the Moroccan coast at equator height. Besides the inspirative, famous and unique painted doors at Rua Santa Maria you can find as well fantastic murals throughout the city. The huge Blue Whale made by artist MARCOS MILEWSKI at the parking lot you can see on the title photo is one example. But there are also interesting scultpures made in a quite unconventional way. Like the trash fish on the promenade called „Plastic Mero“ which is completely made out of garbage from the sea. This sculpture was made by BORDALO II.

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