Street art appeared in Europe in the 1980s and immediately gained immense popularity. Today, frescoes and graffiti are found everywhere: in the central squares and outskirts, on the facades of abandoned houses and in prestigious galleries. Due to the popularity of street art, large art galleries and city authorities began to organize street art festivals, where artists from around the world were invited to paint buildings for a decent fee.
Thousands of people who want to observe the work of the masters, visit conferences and have fun at the time of festivals. And after the festival there are frescoes that decorate the city and attract tourists. We will tell you where this summer you can see the work of the best street artists, listen to lectures, learn to draw graffiti ourselves, and then relax at parties and concerts.
Miau in Fansar, Spain
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When: 5-8 July
Fansara is a town near Valencia, the majority of the inhabitants of which are pensioners. In 2014, the municipal council proposed inviting artists from all over Europe to attract tourists and revive quiet streets. This idea resulted in the MIAU street art festival (which translates as an unfinished street art festival),
Where 21 artist from Europe came. 4 years later, Fansara turned into an open -air gallery with hundreds of colorful frescoes, which thousands of tourists come to see. This year, 150 street artists from around the world will come to the festival, and concerts and lectures will be held in the squares.
Upfest Europe in Bristol, Great Britain
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When: July 28-30
UPFEST is the largest street art festival in Europe, where more than 350 artists come every year. For three days of the festival, they have to paint 10,000 square meters of surfaces in the Dalminster area: a former tobacco factory, walls and roofs of houses, galleries, pubs, two -story buses and even a church. This will be observed by 50,000 spectators for whom conferences, workshops, reggae concerts, hip-hop, Funka and Soul will be held. Upfest also has a social mission: part of the money earned at the festival will go to the NACOA fund, which helps children with alcohol dependence.
Stockholm Urban Art in Stockholm, Sweden
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When: July 14 – August 4
The Stockholm Urban Art festival is one of the components of the huge Stockholm Street Fest Stockholm Street Festival, which will be 7 times in Stockholm. On the streets of the city, musicians will play, clowns, illusionists and acrobats will perform, as well as theatrical productions. In cinemas, free shows of films of young Scandinavian directors are organized. 160 European artists will come to paint the walls of three regions of the city. A huge number of master classes for children and adults will also take place. Everyone will be able to create graffiti, stencil fresco or make a sculpture.
Bloop International Proactive Art Festival on Ibiza, Spain
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When: August 23 – September 8
Bloop is an independent festival of street art, music, digital art and gastronomy in the town of San Antonio on Ibiza. Every year, the organizers come up with the theme of the festival, and the participants should create a work of art in free technology. It can be street art or installation, sculpture, picture, photography or even a virtual exhibition, which can be visited with virtual reality glasses.
The motto of the festival is “Art for everyone!”, Therefore, all concerts, exhibitions, parties and master classes are free. One of the most popular places of the festival is the Open Air Gallery Gallery, which every year provides several walls for painting to the best artists of the festival, thanks to which there are already 20 murals from world famous street artists in the gallery collection.
Ibug in Hemnitsa, Germany
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When: August 24-26, August 31-September 2
IBUG is an independent festival of contemporary art and street art, where about 80 artists from 10 countries come to 2 weekends and create interesting work in abandoned buildings of the Hemnitsa industrial region. The purpose of the festival is to revive the industrial areas of the city, to turn them into galleries in open -air art. The festival is interesting in that it offers the participants not to work separately, but to create collaborations, to mix techniques and styles, so that unusual compositions are obtained: sculptures made of wood and metal next to frescoes, installations next to graffiti and huge light projections to electronic music.
Nuart in Stavanger, Norway
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When: September 6-9
The Nuart festival has been held in Stavanger since 2001. Several dozen artists from around the world come to him, who are offered to create work on a certain topic that the organizers keep secret before the start of the festival. Artists are provided with sites of all sizes: from facades of high -rise buildings to telephone booths and shop windows. Many frescoes do not destroy after the end of the festival. Thanks to this, for 18 years so many works appeared in the city that walks with the guide in places with the best street art became popular in the city. Nuart attracts the audience not only of street art, but also cultural events: film screenings, master classes, master classes, conferences, lectures and round tables on history, sociology, urbanism, the influence of media and the role of art in the life of the city will be held at the festival. And the festival will end with a party in the Tou Scene brewery.
Label Valette Fest in Presin-Le-Pen, France
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When: September 7-9
La Bel Valette distinguishes from other festivals that invited artists create frescoes throughout the summer, living in a residence for artists, which is located near the castle, and then during the 3 days the festival represent their viewers. More than 100 artists with 4 continents participate in the festival, which provide 10,000 square meters for self -expression. Most of them are engaged in street art, but there are also sculptors, musicians, painters and multimedia artists. The most interesting site is La Valette Castle, which is painted every year, including the facade. In the castle, chapel and adjacent rooms there will be exhibitions, lectures and master classes, and in the park there are concerts of jazz and hip-hop.
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