Mural Art

Murals represent the most visible and impactful form of public art, transforming large wall surfaces into accessible galleries that serve diverse communities while beautifying urban environments. These large-scale works span the full spectrum of artistic expression, from photorealistic portraits and political commentary to abstract compositions and cultural celebrations.

Art Monument: Will they dare?

There is still some time until the urban art event “Art Monument 2010” will start in Berlin, but the artists are already in action! The urban artists Honet, Flying Förtress & Sozyone are planning their creative doings by now. In that video, the three talk about their feelings about the “Art Monument” challenge and describe their fears about working with a tiny lift in 46 meters height. ...

Major Graffiti Project: MadC’s 700 Wall

In the last days, graffiti artist MadC started planning and sketching for her upcoming massive graffiti project called “700 Wall”. Her intention is to break her own record and paint her biggest and most elaborate concept wall ever. For that reason, she will work on a gigantic 639m² wall. Just herself, without help. MadC is internationally known for her detailed concept walls and a rough style. She will use 100 liters primer, 140 liters exterior paint and 1392 spray-cans for her new “Stylemachine” graffiti concept. ...

Great Interactive Building Projection

In the last month, I wrote a lot about building projections around the world, but I never saw an better one! The word of future is interactive - People don’t only want to be part of their environment, they want to create their environment with their own actions, they want interact with it. The new creative interaction collective YesYesNo, which is specialized in the creation of engaging, magical installations that combine creativity and artistic visions, recently turned the Auckland Ferry Building in Auckland City into an interactive playground: ...

Art Monument 2010 - Most Spectacular Urban Art Event?

This year, a spectacular urban art event will take place in Berlin: “Art Monument 2010”! For many years, a unique architectural building, a 46 meters high tower called “Bierpinsel”, has been asleep in the center of Berlin. Its paint fades and until yet the tower was only used by students, who studied the futuristic architecture of the 1970th. Between April 1st and May 15th, four famous street artist will repaint the monument! One of the most spectacular open-air galleries of Europe will be created. ...

Iemza - Abandoned Paintings

I love it to see paintings and other artworks at abandoned places like old factory sites or derelict ruins: The power and colorfulness of the artworks in contradistinction to the gray, grungy and lifeless buildings and walls. When I saw photos of Iemza’s abandoned paintings the first time, I was really astonished! The French artist creates fantastic abstract creatures, which bring back life to their brown, gray and dirty walls: ...

Facadeprinter - Urban Print Media

It’s wonderful to get to know, that creative people around the world steadily develop new techniques for making the urban landscape more colorful. A really new and astonishing concept is the so called facadeprinter by Martin Fussenegger and Michael Haas, which was already in use at the urban art fair “Stroke01” in Munich this year. It’s a unconventional machine, which allows to create a new, previously non-existent form of urban print media - it’s an inkdot-printer in architectonical scale: ...

Church Mural Art - Augustine Kofie

Do you know Augustine Kofie? He is an US-American urban artist, who usually paints walls and creates mural artworks. I recently found a nice time lapse video of the making of one of his murals and thought, that you maybe are interested in taking a look at it. In this video, he paints a wall at an old church: “This former church has hosted many a late night event as well as a number of commercials and reality TV shows. The retaining wall is actually the buildings side stairs as well as a handicap ramp, so the shape wasn’t exactly square as most walls I paint are. I worked the shape of the wall into the left side of the mural. ...

Time-lapse Graffiti Mural

Yeah! Some minutes ago, I found a great time-lapse graffiti mural video…There are a lot of graffiti and mural art videos in the internet, but they’re rarely as good as this one! Three crews, the Pirates, Stereofarm and Spring69 got together to create a fantastic colorful masterpiece and a amazing time-lapse video of the making-of for the international “Central Illustration Agency” (CIA). ...

Berlin Wall - Tear Down Tape Art

20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, an American TV channel and a German urban artists collaborate to celebrate the end of separation in an artistic way. “Go Beyond Borders” is a tape art project by Berlin-based street artist El Bocho and CNN. In the last days, El Bocho and his crew created unique art installations using tape at historic sites along the former Berlin Wall and made some videos of their actions. ...

Sam3 Book - Sombras

“Sombras” is the name of the new mural art book by Spanish street artist Sam3! After he printed his own small book, called “Tirá me de la lengua”, at the beginning of this year, he decided to make a real hardcover book about his outdoor artworks. Sam3 is, like many other urban artists too, a globetrotter - his well-known mural artworks can be found all over the world. For this reason, “Sombras” shows not only his impressing works, but also the different locations and cities where he painted. ...