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Street Art

Street Art in Amsterdam Zuidoost: Ammar Abo Bakr’s mural and more urban art in Bijlmer

“We should ask Ammar what the traditional games played in Egypt are. Then we teach them to the kids of Bijlmer and arrange a play-day for the vernissage of the mural” I said to Anouk while we were setting the dinner table and a full white moon was shining on the wide, iconic windows of Amsterdam’s buildings.

On that afternoon, Anouk had shown me the ‘ghetto of Amsterdam’ and I couldn’t get over all those kids from various ethnicities playing together, or their laughs echoing over the lake that majestically mirrored the 11-storey wall that soon would have been painted by Ammar Abo Bakr.

3 August 2018

Bristol Featured Festivals Street Art

My overwhelming weekend at Upfest, Bristol street art festival

Bristol street art festival After eight long weeks of sunshine, the infamous English summer has arrived in Bristol. It happened on the opening weekend of the 10th edition of Upfest, the largest street art and graffiti festival in Europe. Hundreds of street artists and thousands of street art hunters gathered in Bristol hoping to stay dry, although the atmosphere of this world famous Bristol street art festival is so chilled and ‘bristolian’ that, in the end, we didn’t mind the water.

31 July 2018

Bristol Street Art

First impressions, mostly pictures, from Upfest 2018

Upfest 2018 is kicking off this weekend.

For me, this was the perfect occasion to come back to Bristol after two years that I’ve left. I arrived on Wednesday and, although the Upfest festival officially opens today, I’ve already spotted several artists at work.

28 July 2018

Lazio Street Art Street Art Guide

Where to find street art in Italy: Acquapendente, a charming village at the heart of Tuscia

‘I’m sending a postcard to my gran’ commented Wasp Elder, looking at the winding streets and the red-ish shades of the postcard-pretty Acquapendente, an enchanting village in that area of Northern Lazio called ‘Tuscia,’ which once was inhabited by Etruscans.

acquapendente tuscia italy

Nestled in the unspoilt nature and not so far from the picturesque Bolsena Lake, this little village is the evidence that you don’t need to go to a metropolis to hunt some great street art in Italy. In Acquapendente, urban art perfectly fits with ceramics, red bricks, and old stones.

21 July 2018

Amsterdam Art Street Art

Icy and Sot’s Retrospective Show at the Moco Museum in Amsterdam

Icy and Sot MOCO Museum Amsterdam Amsterdam is unlike any other city for the Iranian activist-artist brothers Icy & Sot.

Amsterdam is where they had their first solo exhibition abroad in 2011, taking their first step into the international art scene. It was an internationally acclaimed first step at that, which eventually let them to escape the persecution and censorship they experienced in their home country.

3 July 2018

Chemnitz Festivals Street Art

Announcing the media partnership with IBUG 2018 urban art festival

IBUG festival 2017 My time at IBUG festival was among the most exciting weeks of 2017.

The format of this urban art festival held every year in Saxony (Germany) is simple yet one of a kind: take a brownfield, invite 100+ artists and bring along a lot of paint.

12 June 2018