New Street Art, Murals and Public Art Vol. 9

New walls: 30 fresh street art finds with memory, folklore, satire, pop culture, and wild imagination.

This round moves from Colombia’s high-Andean water memory to a Belgian skatepark pillar, from a playful Utrecht corner to an abandoned airplane painted in Armenia. Expect birds, giant portraits, political bite, ancestral landscapes, calligraphy, video-game heat, mountain stillness, village stories, and public art that carries more history than it first reveals.

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🌊 “Arraigo, memoria del agua” — By Franklin Piaguaje in Villapinzón, Colombia 🇨🇴

Franklin Piaguaje treats the wall as an archive. Two red-toned faces share one sweeping hat. Animals gather around the portrait, and a bright-eyed bird cuts through the warm color. The mural stays close to roots, guardianship, water, and memory.

💡 Nerd Fact: “Arraigo, memoria del agua” means “Roots, memory of water,” and the water reference is concrete. The Bogotá River begins in the Páramo de Guacheneque, near Villapinzón, and Franklin Piaguaje is an Indigenous Siona artist, so the mural connects Indigenous memory with a high-Andean water source.

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🧪 “Breaking Bad” — By Djoels in Kortrijk, Belgium 🇧🇪

Djoels turns the concrete pillar into a stare that follows you. The grayscale portrait is tight and heavy: narrowed eyes, hard shadows, glasses, beard, wrinkles, and a gas mask pushed onto the head. The artist presented it simply as “Breaking Bad!”, and the Walter White likeness makes the skatepark feel like a set.

💡 Nerd Fact: Walter White’s alias “Heisenberg” points to Werner Heisenberg, the Nobel-winning physicist linked to the uncertainty principle. In Breaking Bad, the name works as a criminal mask: the quiet chemistry teacher becomes someone people can no longer measure, predict, or safely read.

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🐦 Wingbeat — By Adrian Aguilar in Puerto de la Torre, Spain 🇪🇸

Adrian Aguilar opens a small forest scene in the concrete. A bird lifts from the shadow, orange-and-gold wings wide, with soft green light behind it.

The raw edges matter. The mural does not cover the whole wall; it cuts a painted window into it.

💡 Nerd Fact: Puerto de la Torre is a district of Málaga, not the postcard center most visitors associate with the city. That makes this little bird feel like a neighborhood pause: a wild signal placed where daily routes, not tourist checklists, do the looking.

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🐢 Spray-Can Turtle — By Chino Graff in Los Santos de Maimona, Spain 🇪🇸

Chino Graff goes full comic-book here. The masked turtle-like character grips a spray can like a weapon, with deep shadows, glossy highlights, and a red blast behind it. Fast, mischievous, and ready for the next surface.

💡 Nerd Fact: LaFábrika detodalavida is more than a venue name. LFDTV describes itself as a participatory cultural space inside an abandoned cement factory in rural Extremadura, built around self-management, culture, and local opportunity. So the turtle is not just guarding a spray can; it is painted inside a community experiment that gave an industrial ruin a new life.

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🏚️ “Dear Old Thing” — By GRAFFMATT in Bristol, UK 🇬🇧

GRAFFMATT piles an impossible home onto an old car. A wooden house, armchair, water tank, windmill, wings, chimney pipes, and a small rooftop figure all balance in one floating stack. It feels like a moving home for someone carrying the past with them.

💡 Nerd Fact: Street Art Cities lists “Dear Old Thing” as an artist-added Upfest work inspired by the antique shop at 107 West Street, Bedminster. That address matters: Upfest’s 2026 programme turns Bedminster and Southville into a walking street-art map, so this “old thing” is also a local portrait of West Street’s second-hand memory.

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🧸 The Secret Corner Shelf — By JanIsDeMan in Utrecht, Netherlands 🇳🇱

JanIsDeMan finds a strange blank corner and makes it useful, at least in painted form. The brick facade becomes an open shelf with a glass, a board game, a plant, a watering can, and a small toy-like figure above the roofline.

💡 Nerd Fact: JanIsDeMan says his murals are inseparably linked to their location, which is why the little details matter here. His post places this wall at Kanaalstraat 196 in Utrecht, and the board game text “Wie is het?” gives the corner a Dutch wink instead of a generic toy-shelf joke.

More: 8 Happy 3D Artworks by Jan Is De Man That Will Make You Smile

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⚜️ “Ceci n’est pas une femme” — By K2B Graff & Naja Calligraphie in Elbeuf, France 🇫🇷

K2B Graff and Naja Calligraphie build the portrait around strength, armor, and ornament. The face looks straight out from the wall. Gold calligraphy crosses the skin like scars, jewelry, mask, and language at once.

💡 Nerd Fact: Street Art Avenue documents the mural as a work made for International Women’s Day after an online call gathered hundreds of testimonies. The title echoes Magritte’s famous “Ceci n’est pas une pipe,” but the twist is political: this is not “a woman” as an object to look at; it is a collective figure built from women’s words, wounds, strength, and resilience.

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🦜 Red Macaw — By Ludbird in Palmas, Brazil 🇧🇷

Ludbird gives the macaw the full portrait treatment. Red, orange, yellow, blue, and green feathers stack around the huge beak and alert eye. The round blue background pushes the bird forward, and the plant beside the wall quietly joins in.

💡 Bird Fact: The bird reads like a red-and-green macaw, a species recorded across much of northern and central South America by Animal Diversity Web. In Brazil, macaws are not just “tropical color” symbols; Instituto Arara Azul highlights habitat loss and illegal capture among the pressures that make these birds part of a conservation story too.

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🕶️ Orange Glasses & Gold Halo — By Maria Juana, Salte Quiróz & Catrin Valadez in Xalapa, Mexico 🇲🇽

This collaboration has the feel of a street shrine built from style. The grayscale face stays cool and still. The orange lenses warm it up, and the gold calligraphy halo brings lettering, fashion, tattoo culture, and mural painting into one frame.

💡 Nerd Fact: This wall is a three-city conversation. The project documentation introduces Maria Juana from Monterrey and Catrin Valadez from Aguascalientes, joining Salte Quiróz in Xalapa. That mix helps explain why the piece feels less like one signature and more like a meeting point between portrait, lettering, and street-fashion language.

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🧩 Building in Motion — By Peeta in Porrentruy, Switzerland 🇨🇭

Peeta makes the apartment block look as if it is folding open. Beige geometric ribbons wrap around the real windows, and painted shadows give the flat facade the weight of a sculptural knot.

💡 Nerd Fact: Peeta is the street name of Italian artist Manuel Di Rita, and Collater.al documents this Porrentruy wall as a POPA Festival project made with Popa Museum and Art From Street. The location is part of the story too: festival coverage places the mural at La Colombière 7, turning an ordinary apartment address into a public-art stop.

More: 6 Photos Of 3D Mural by Peeta in Mannheim, Germany

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🌵 “La guardiana del Canto Oscuro” — By Rocío Darynée in San Pedro Chicozapotes, Mexico 🇲🇽

Rocío Darynée paints a desert ceremony. A woman draws water through her hair while cacti, agave, fruit, roots, and a small animal scene gather around her. The purple and magenta background makes the plants and figures glow.

💡 Nerd Fact: The artist’s text for “La guardiana del Canto Oscuro” frames the piece as a tribute to the environmental richness of the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Biosphere Reserve. That is a serious reference: UNESCO describes the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley as a World Heritage landscape with striking cactus forests, high endemism, and exceptional biodiversity in an arid zone.

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✨ The Spark Between Worlds — By SatAndy, María García-Diéguez & Fresa in Nezahualcóyotl, Mexico 🇲🇽

This long wall works like a portal. On one side, a blue butterfly-like figure leans in from pink and violet. On the other, a girl reaches toward light between two hands. Gold patterns and graffiti structure hold the scene together: fantasy, lettering, and touch in one sweep.

💡 Nerd Fact: Nezahualcóyotl is not just a place name. It comes from the Acolhua ruler and poet Nezahualcóyotl, whose name is often translated as “fasting coyote.” Britannica notes that the modern municipality sits east of Mexico City, on land tied to the former lake basin — so a portal-like mural here sits on layers of Indigenous, urban, and water history. Photo by Gilberto Ruiz.

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😈 Devil in the Details — By SubDude in London, UK 🇬🇧

SubDude goes straight for the poster punch. The suited figure stands inside a red smoky frame with horn-like hair, dark wings, and a tail. Torn paper edges and nearby stickers make it feel freshly pasted and not very polite. Photo by Brian B.

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🎨 “We Weren’t Born To Follow Rules” — By TVBOY in Berlin, Germany 🇩🇪

TVBOY keeps it clean, direct, and billboard-sized. A young figure reaches across the wall with a spray can, writing “We Weren’t Born To Follow Rules” in red. The pale facade gives the words space, and the real windows pull the action back into the neighborhood. Photo by Stefan Henseke.

💡 Nerd Fact: Project 193 Berlin documented the mural at Lewishamstraße / Wilmersdorfer Straße in Berlin-Charlottenburg. TVBOY is the street name of Salvatore Benintende, an Italian neo-pop artist whose public works often use clean, poster-like figures to carry social messages into everyday city space.

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🧛 “Dhampir” — By Wuper Kec in Kumanovo, North Macedonia 🇲🇰

Wuper Kec paints the building as a quiet character study. The seated figure looks across the wall, sunglasses pushed up, tattoos visible, hands glowing with pink light. Real windows cut through the image, but the composition makes room for them.

💡 Folklore Fact: Wuper Kec wrote that “Dhampir” draws on research from the Institute of Folklore and the book Vampires in Macedonian Beliefs. In Balkan folklore, a dhampir is often imagined as a being connected to both human and vampire worlds — sometimes feared, sometimes treated as the one who can recognize and fight vampires. That makes the title a local myth key, not just a gothic mood.

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🪑 Composition of a Human Body with a Metal Chair — By Artez in Kumanovo, North Macedonia 🇲🇰

Artez makes an ordinary folding chair carry a whole building. The figure floats in the brown wall space: one bare foot on the frame, one hand on the seat, lime green top against the muted facade. A small gesture becomes a careful balancing act.

💡 Nerd Fact: Artez identifies this piece as part of his ongoing Simple Acrobatics series, where ordinary domestic objects become tiny tests of balance and body logic. At Egejska Makedonija 14, it sits near Wuper Kec’s “Dhampir” — one wall turns the body into folklore, the other turns it into a quiet physical puzzle.

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🧳 “Czechoslovak Emigration” — By Chemis in Prague, Czech Republic 🇨🇿

Chemis makes the concrete look cracked open, with a frozen migration scene inside. A family stands at the break with documents and luggage. Hands reach from the dark space behind them. It has the weight of a monument, but the street setting keeps it close to daily life.

💡 History Fact: Chemis describes the work as three waves of Czechoslovak exile: before Nazism, after the 1948 communist takeover, and after the Soviet-led invasion of 1968. The address adds another layer: it sits at Československého exilu / Platónova in Prague, where even the street name already carries the word “exile.”

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🐕 “ÉGUA” — By Daniela Guerreiro in Escoural, Portugal 🇵🇹

Daniela Guerreiro paints Joaquim António Lavado, known to friends as “Égua.” On the wall, he sits under a tree with a dog beside him. In front of it, a passerby walks a dog. Painted memory and daily life line up for one neat moment.

💡 Nerd Fact: Guerreiro’s post describes Joaquim as a simple, noble, peaceful, genuinely Alentejan man, often with his staff and his dog Campeão. Created in Escoural for Cotovia Tagarela and curated by Robert Panda, the mural works like a village archive: it preserves the kind of local character who might never appear in a museum, but belongs deeply to the place.

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🌺 “Guacheneque” — By Cris Herrera & Mr. Garek in Villapinzón, Colombia 🇨🇴

Cris Herrera and Mr. Garek fill the pink wall with nature, body, and red lines. A young figure rests among leaves and flowers. A wild feline watches over her shoulder. The lines move through hands, branches, and heart like veins or rivers.

💡 Nerd Fact: Cris Herrera’s post documents “Guacheneque” as a collaboration with Mr. Garek during Festival Guacheneque in Villapinzón. The title points to the nearby Páramo de Guacheneque, where Bogotá’s city government notes that the Bogotá River is born before running through dozens of municipalities.

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🏔️ “Infinite Patience” — By Smug in Jasper, Canada 🇨🇦

Smug paints a mountain pause at monumental scale. The climber sits low across the wall with rope and backpack, chin in hand, eyes turned toward the real mountains behind the building. Painted orange peaks meet the Rocky Mountain backdrop beyond the roofline.

💡 Nerd Fact: UpLift! shared “Infinite Patience” as Smug’s 2026 Jasper piece for Recovery in Colour. Jasper is not just a mountain town backdrop: Parks Canada notes that Jasper National Park is part of the UNESCO Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks World Heritage Site, so the mural sits inside a protected landscape with global heritage status.

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💡 “Inside the Light” — By Alexander Dyomkin in Ryazan, Russia 🇷🇺

Alexander Dyomkin gives the building a quiet glowing figure. There are no facial features, only soft light where the face should be, framed by dark hair and blue shadow. Abstract shapes and industrial forms rise around her.

💡 Nerd Fact: The mural is documented at Sobornaya Square 18 in Ryazan, on a site connected to the city’s first power plant. That makes the title “Inside the Light” read like local memory: a wall about illumination placed where electrical modernity entered the city.

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💎 “Joyau” / “Everyone is a Gem” — By Fabian Bane Florin in Bergerac, France 🇫🇷

Fabian Bane Florin puts a glowing chamber on the side of the building. A veiled figure sits inside warm crystals, hands around a small light. Blue and pink fabric spills toward the lower edge of the wall.

💡 Nerd Fact: Fabian Bane Florin’s post gives the full wording as “Joyau” / “Everyone is a Gem” and says he painted it at a school for children with intellectual disabilities in Bergerac. That context changes the title: the “gem” is not luxury or decoration, but a public message about dignity, visibility, and being valued.

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🐦 “Lo de pueblo” — By Sake ink in Huéneja, Spain 🇪🇸

Sake ink keeps this wall restrained. The portrait uses warm brown tones: a woman in profile, two small birds near her hand and shoulder, and a pale patterned background. The open sky and mountains finish the scene.

💡 Nerd Fact: Sake ink’s post identifies “Lo de pueblo” as a work for the III Festival de Arte Urbano de Huéneja. The title loosely suggests “village things,” which fits the artist’s broader interest: in a FACUA interview, Sake links murals to everyday social and cultural themes rather than gallery-only art.

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🔥❄️ Mortal Kombat Underpass — By Gnasher Murals & Nathan Murdoch in Peterborough, UK 🇬🇧

Gnasher Murals and Nathan Murdoch make the underpass a fighting arena. One side burns orange, with a masked fighter holding a blade. The other side goes blue and icy, with a second warrior holding an energy sphere. The tunnel in the middle becomes the game’s stage.

💡 Game Fact: Nathan “Nyces” Murdoch’s post frames it as Scorpion versus Sub-Zero, with Gnasher Murals on Scorpion and Murdoch on Sub-Zero. Extra arcade lore: The Strong National Museum of Play notes that Mortal Kombat was originally conceived around Jean-Claude Van Damme before becoming its own fighting-game universe.

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🏚️ “Mucho peso pa’ tan poca vivienda” — By Emi Pintor in Campos del Río, Spain 🇪🇸

Emi Pintor says a lot with a small wall. A tired man bends under a tiny house strapped to his back, while iron balls chain his steps. The rough blocks around him make the painted weight feel physical.

💡 Nerd Fact: Emi Pintor’s post gives the title and notes that it was made by hand in Campos del Río, Murcia. The title translates as “Too much weight for such a small house,” and it lands even harder because Emi’s artist bio connects him to Campos del Río itself — this is a local wall talking about a pressure many locals can read instantly.

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🌀 “Mulat Sarira” — By Bosoletti in Kintamani, Indonesia 🇮🇩

Bosoletti packs the wall with bodies, water, shadow, and motion. Grayscale figures twist around a real vent, which becomes part of the image instead of something to hide. Everything pulls inward, then spills back out.

💡 Nerd Fact: Tangi Street Art Festival’s official 2026 page names Mulat Sarira as its theme and explains it as a Balinese phrase about reflecting upon oneself and looking inward with honesty and awareness. That makes Bosoletti’s title less like a caption and more like a festival-wide instruction: look inward first, then look at the wall.

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🎶 “The Three Queens of Ireland” — By ACHES in Dublin, Ireland 🇮🇪

ACHES uses a white wall for a layered tribute to Dolores O’Riordan, Sinéad O’Connor, and Dolores Keane. The portraits overlap in transparent yellow, cyan, green, and red. From one angle the faces appear; from another they blend into color.

💡 Music Fact: Cranberries World reports that ACHES called the work “The Three Queens Of Ireland” and painted it at Hynes’ Bar in Stoneybatter, Dublin. The title pulls together three very different Irish music lineages: Dolores O’Riordan’s rock voice, Sinéad O’Connor’s confrontational pop and protest presence, and Dolores Keane’s deep roots in traditional song.

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🌸 “Sa arrecada de sa mama” — By KAMMA MARLO in Inca, Mallorca, Spain 🇪🇸

KAMMA MARLO paints the profile with softness and precision. The woman’s dark hair is gathered in a flower-filled bun. Her earring, white clothing, and calm gaze keep the piece close to local portraiture, memory, and ornament.

💡 Language Fact: KAMMA MARLO’s own post confirms the title, while festival documentation places the work around Mercat d’Inca. “Sa arrecada de sa mama” uses Mallorcan/Catalan forms: sa for “the,” arrecada for “earring,” and mama for mother — a small title that keeps family memory in the local language.

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📱 “Jackpot” — By Vlek in Stavanger, Norway 🇳🇴

Vlek leaves most of the wall empty, which is why the image lands. A tiny child takes a selfie while a huge black cloud rises above them like smoke, storm, or online attention gone wrong. The yellow wall does the rest.

💡 Nerd Fact: Vlek’s post identifies the work as “Jackpot” in Stavanger. The title does the quiet damage here: “jackpot” is gambling language for a lucky win, but in the context of a selfie it flips into a joke about attention culture, where being seen can look like success even when the cloud above you is the real story. Photo by Ferdinand Feys.

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✈️ “OMG” / “Ascension Day” — By Vierwind at Noy Land Resort, Armenia 🇦🇲

Vierwind takes public art off the wall. From above, the abandoned plane reads as a giant painted figure: arms across the wings, head along the fuselage, black-and-white detail following the aircraft shape.

💡 Nerd Fact: The project post identifies the work as “OMG” / “Ascension Day,” 2026, by Vierwind (Micha Häni), at Noy Land Resort near Chkalovka. DASEIN’s interview adds the deeper layer: the canvas is a decommissioned Soviet Yak-40 by Lake Sevan, and the Ascension Day theme turns aviation, religion, Soviet leftovers, and Armenian landscape into one strange afterlife. Curated by Braaam Agency. Photo by Mattia Coda.

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