From 2009 to 2012, this project (originally hosted at urbanartcore.eu) served as one of Europe’s primary hubs for urban art documentation. It chronicled the global explosion of the movement, featuring artist interviews, gallery openings, and photo essays from Berlin to Bristol.
After 2012, the site remained online as a dormant resource until 2016, when the original domain was lost due to an administrative error. The site went offline, and the content was presumed lost.
The Restoration Project
This website is the result of a digital excavation. Using a final backup discovered on an old laptop, the original content has been reconstructed to ensure this chapter of street art history remains accessible.
This is not a reboot. It is a preservation effort. The content appears (almost) exactly as it did during the blog’s active years, serving as a time capsule of the scene during the early 2010s.
The Tech Stack
To ensure longevity and performance, the infrastructure was modernized during the restoration. The site no longer runs on a dynamic CMS. Instead, the original WordPress SQL database was parsed and converted to run on a European JAMstack.
- Generator: Hugo (Static Site Generator)
- Hosting: BunnyCDN (Europe)
- Migration Tools: Python scripts, assisted by AI agents (Gemini & Claude) for data cleaning and Markdown conversion.
The current version lives at urbanartcore.com, a permanent home for the original archive.