Get ready for the much anticipated “best of” selection, it’s been a difficult month when it came to selection our 100-artwork shortlist. Artists still manage to create their beautiful art despite the majority of Europe is sliding back into a lockdown slowly. This month’s top 10 brings us to the UK, Denmark, the Netherlands, Germany, France, Spain, Belgium and Jordan.
#10. “Renaissance” by Adry Del Rocio in Willemshaven, Germany
‘What kind of human beings do we want to be?
We are experiencing a difficult situation throughout the world. The pandemic has affected us all. It is time to question what direction to take, as individuals and as a human race. Our actions affect everyone. Some of the represented species have become extinct and the others are in a critical situation. It is important to become aware and start making big and small changes. It’s everyone’s responsibility.’ shares the Mexican Adry Del Rocio. …
Street Art Cities continues to promote urban art, artists, festival, galleries and more across the globe. Our hunters are the driving force of our initiative, constantly hunting, scanning socials, traveling and more. Even in these strange times they continue to share the best from their city and travels. So we thought the time is right to reboot our infamous ‘hunterviews’: sharing the stories of our hunters, sharing their interest, passion and dedication for urban art. The first in a (hopefully) long series….
1. Who are you? What do you do for a living?
Awesome Athens Experiences or Kalliopi and Thomas. Our favorite quote about jobs is: Don’t pick a job with great vacation time. …
New week, new events: our event calendar is slowly filling up again. New shows, exhibitions, festivals and gallery openings are happening. We’ll highlight a couple of them you certainly shouldn’t miss, but feel free to check our event page to see what’s happening in your city.
VHILS | MOMENTUM at Danysz Gallery, Paris
In his 6th solo show Portugese artist VHILS is breaking new ground around the concepts of light and matter. Like floating elements, the details of his works reveal a tension between a humanistic view and the harsh reality of the world that surrounds us. Through their frozen aspect, as though they were congealed in space and time, these new works are teeming with strong emotions. …
We’ve partnered with Apple to show you Street Art right inside the Apple Maps app
In Apple’s new iOS 14 on iPhone and iPad, the Apple Maps app now will encourage you to explore your city by showing you curated guides, created by publications like Lonely Planet, Time Out, and… Street Art Cities!
We’ve been working with the Apple Maps team to bring the unique street art knowledge and beautiful photographs from our hunter community into the Apple Maps app. This is a great way to allow a new audience of people that might not be as familiar with street art to discover what their city has to offer.
Some of our hunters have already been able to help us build beautiful guides around their cities, some of which are already live and several others that will go live in the coming weeks. If you’re a hunter on Street Art Cities and you’re willing to help create a guide for your city, please send us a message. …
Scanning socials for new artworks always brings new discoveries, cities and artists. This month was no exception. With festivals in Vigo, Cascais, Denver, Sacramento, Imola, Chalyabinsk (Russia), London we we’re yet again treated with a bunch of artworks concentrated in specific areas.
Our top 10 lands in France, Portugal, Sweden, Italy, Belgium and even Switzerland.
10: “Gender diversity” by Medianeras in Cascais, Porugal
‘Gender is diverse, beautiful, complex. It is not limited to pink or blue. The future is non-binary.’ according the artist.
9: “Kobe forever” by Piskv in Rome, Italy
I wanted to paint a tribute to Kobe due to the tragic incident that involved him. I Always played basketball and he was such a great inspiration for me, for sure my favorite player. …
Street Art Cities continues to promote urban art, artists, festival, galleries and more across the globe. Our hunters are the driving force of our initative, constantly hunting, scanning socials, traveling and more. Even in these strange times they continue to share the best from their city and travels. So we thought the time is right to reboot our infamous ‘hunterviews’: sharing the stories of our hunters, sharing their interest, passion and dedication for urban art. The first in a (hopefully) long series….
- Who are you? What do you do for a living?
written by Kristina Kurilaitė
Although Vilnius is more known for its Old Town and Baroque architecture, there are places filled with extraordinary art — you’ll be surprised when you discover these hidden gems. Today urban art hunting will become easy peasy when “Street art cities” launches the first Lithuanian city in their popular app. Just charge your smartphone battery, load the app and go of on a serious street art hunt thanks to our hunter Kristina.
Open Gallery
In Vilnius, you’ll find a unique open-air gallery filled with the most colorful and bright street art masterpieces. “Open gallery” is a unique international outdoor street art gallery open for art lovers all year round 24/7. (just as we like it). Located in the upper part of post-industrial district Naujamiestis, in former ELFA factory block, you’ll find a location filled with amazing murals by various contemporary artists. The main concept of “Open gallery” is awakening. The gallery co-founder Živilė Diawara once said: “Only art can save this place”. All artists in the gallery interpret meanings of transformation, revival and freedom in their way through their art. …
Working passionately with a community of street art fans ourselves, we strongly believe in crowd based value creation. Simply put, together we can achieve more. Something we learned how to do with Street Art Cities.
Once in a while we stumble upon similar communities that know how to collectively share cool stuff in cities across the world. Spotted by Locals is such an initiative and we’re impressed!
We noticed they also mapped out cool spots across the world on a city by city model. We both believe locals are like mayors to these city maps and put them front and center in both development and content generation. …
As chosen by our community
Our new formula proved to be a winner, instead of picking a favorite from 4 artworks, our audience could now choose seperately whether they like an artwork or not. Your response was huge with almost 75k of views of our 100 slelected artworks, our nominees came from all over the world from Japan to South Africa, from Kiev to Bogota. Most artworks are found in Spain thanks to the Artaerorap festival in La Baneza and Gargar in Penelles, but our top 10 this month holds ground in Sweden, Belgium, Spain, France , Australia and Latin American Brasil, Peru and Mexico. …
Since we check IG daily, we might as well share some of the coolest things we come across, so why not make it a recurring post: Wednesdays Walls! 5 walls that caught our attention, and are definitely in our “best of the month” selection.
“CLOSE UP” by Nevercrew in Lugano, Swiss
Nevercrew latest addition continues to dig their whale’s fixation. Admiring the birth of whales, which — as they did a few years ago — is for the artists “a symbol of the relationship between man and nature, because they carry with them their entire history, the excessive power of industry, exploitation, dehumanization, pollution, while maintaining a strong empathic and communicative value as living beings in an absolute, almost iconic and decontextualized sense ». …
