Clever New Street Art! (10 Photos, Vol. 10)

Ten new murals about nature, folklore, movement, and local memory.

This round starts with a bouquet in Trnava and a portrait rooted in Guadeloupe’s market women and Gwoka tradition. Further down: a fox from Cantabrian folklore, a child swinging across a 35-metre wall, Salvador Dalí melting into a facade, two tangled bodies in Bristol, a giant mastiff, and a fisherman holding a cormorant.

More: New Street Art, Murals and Public Art Vol. 9

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🌺 “Cyanidin & Begonia Semperflorens” — By Fabio Petani in Trnava, Slovakia 🇸🇰

A bouquet of deep magenta begonias floats across the end wall of an apartment block. Gray tree silhouettes rise behind it, and a turquoise ring cuts through the flowers.

Near the top, a tiny framed flower looks like a label for the much larger bouquet below. The mural stands at Nerudova 4 and was painted for Slovakia Street Art Festival 2026.

💡 Plant Fact: Trnava’s culture office describes how Petani pairs plants with chemical compounds. Cyanidin is a reddish-purple anthocyanidin pigment.

💡 Taxonomy Fact: Kew’s Plants of the World Online treats Begonia semperflorens Link & Otto as a synonym of Begonia cucullata var. cucullata, rather than as an accepted species name.

See Fabio Petani’s original post.

Follow Fabio Petani on Instagram and Slovakia Street Art Festival on Instagram.

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🥁 “KIMIA” — By Hopare in Les Abymes, Guadeloupe 🇬🇵

Kimia, dressed in white, sits at the center of the facade. Behind her, a musician plays a Ka drum. Palms and fruit rise through the red background, with loose black lines running across the faces and leaves.

💡 Culture Fact: In his finished-work post, Hopare introduces Kimia as a former soldier and connects her portrait to the women of Guadeloupe’s markets, who carry stories, families, and cultural transmission. In an earlier reel, he describes the mural as a tribute to resistance, dignity, and transmission. The Ka drum is central to Gwoka, which UNESCO describes as Guadeloupean Creole singing, rhythms played on Ka drums, and dance.

💡 Dance Fact: In a traditional léwòz, the public forms a circle called a lawonn; dancers enter its open center one at a time and perform facing the drums.

The mural was painted in Le Raizet for the first WAL FEST. The neighborhood’s housing authority records 12 monumental murals by 15 artists across the festival. Photo by Laure Tarer.

Follow Hopare on Instagram and WAL FEST on Instagram.

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🕶️ Life Imitates Art — By Floyd Mendoza in Bushwick, New York City, USA 🇺🇸

Floyd Mendoza painted Maria Montoya in oversized pink sunglasses beside a huge tattooed hand. Rings, black nails, mirrored beads, and a red graphic background fill the wall at 14 Wyckoff Avenue.

“Life Imitates Art” is written across the raised hand, among smaller symbols, drawings, and bits of lettering.

💡 Mural Fact: Mendoza identifies Maria Montoya as the model. Montoya is a Colombian visual artist who named “Life imitates art” as one of her own mottos in a 2020 interview. The mural was painted for the 15th-anniversary edition of The Bushwick Collective.

💡 Artist Fact: Montoya says her mother gave her first tattoo as a quinceañera gift when she was 15. She later described tattooing as a way to show on the outside of her body what she was inside.

Follow Floyd Mendoza on Instagram, Maria Montoya on Instagram, and The Bushwick Collective on Instagram.

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🦊 “El zorro tentirujo” — By Nina Valkhoff in Torrelavega, Spain 🇪🇸

A fox tumbles backward through mushrooms, moths, moss, and deep-blue leaves. Its paws are up and its mouth is open. A golden bird flies overhead.

💡 Folklore Fact: Nina Valkhoff explains that the character is her animal version of the Trenti, a mischievous forest being from Cantabrian folklore. She chose a fox for her Trenti and surrounded it with fungi, insects, and plants.

💡 Folklore Fact 2: In traditional accounts, the Trenti never drinks water because it is considered poisonous to the creature; it is instead said to drink cow’s or goat’s milk.

Torrelavega’s official magazine records the work on Amancio Ruiz Capillas. It was painted at Calle Amancio Ruiz Capillas 20A for the 2026 Alegra la Vista festival. Photo by Nina Valkhoff.

Follow Nina Valkhoff on Instagram and Alegra la Vista on Instagram.

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🌱 “The Green Gift” — By Chus in Bremen, Germany 🇩🇪

A young girl wearing a red poppy receives a young tree from a green figure whose body grows into branches and roots. Shelf fungi, leaves, and smaller scenes fill the gable around them. Two real windows sit inside the painted circle.

💡 Mural Fact: On the official artwork page, Chus explains that Nature gives the girl a young tree. The gift represents our ability to nurture a greener future. The poppy stands for resilience and remembrance, while the olive tree stands for peace.

💡 Behind-the-Scenes Fact: Chus records that this was his first invitation to paint an entire facade at a street-art festival. After he lost one working day to sunstroke, festival volunteers helped him complete the wall on time.

Painted in August 2025 at Gnesener Straße 11 for MURAL CITY 2025 under the festival theme “Beauty of Nature.”

Follow Chus on Instagram and MURAL CITY on Instagram.

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🕊️ “Fly Like a Bird” — By Demut with WandKonzepte in Berlin, Germany 🇩🇪

From the street, the swing chains appear to hang from the roofline. A laughing child flies above a painted mountain landscape, with a blue-and-orange bird overhead. Real trees continue the scene at the foot of the building.

💡 Scale Fact: Demut calls it Berlin’s tallest mural: 35 metres high and painted in only ten days. The commissioner says the scene draws on visual elements from Vincent van Gogh and covers an 11-storey facade at the corner of Randowstraße and Vincent-van-Gogh-Straße in Berlin-Hohenschönhausen. Street Art Cities maps the wall to Vincent-van-Gogh-Straße 24.

💡 Street Fact: Vincent-van-Gogh-Straße received its present name on 30 September 1992. From 1986 until 1992, it was called Erich-Correns-Straße.

Photo by Jeal Berlin.

Follow Demut on Instagram and WandKonzepte on Instagram.

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⏳ Tribute to Salvador Dalí — By Xemayo in Hildesheim, Germany 🇩🇪

Salvador Dalí looks out from the facade with melting gold clocks across his forehead, cheek, and jaw. A dry landscape opens behind him, and real windows cut through the portrait. His moustache still holds its curve.

💡 Project Fact: Xemayo presents the wall as a tribute to Salvador Dalí, created with HildesheimerArt on Marie-Wagenknecht-Straße. The project also supports the local food bank Hildesheimer Tafel e.V.

💡 Scale Fact: According to Hildesheimer Allgemeine, the portrait covers more than 200 square metres of an 18-metre-high wall.

💡 Art History Fact: The mural enlarges imagery associated with Dalí’s 1931 The Persistence of Memory. The original canvas measures only 24.1 × 33 centimetres.

HildesheimerArt’s Street Art Cities listing uses the title “Casa del dali”; Xemayo’s own post presents it simply as a tribute to Salvador Dalí.

Follow Xemayo on Instagram and HildesheimerArt on Instagram.

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🤸 “Simple Acrobatics 2.0” — By Artez in Bristol, UK 🇬🇧

At first, the wall looks like one impossible body. Then the figures separate: one in red, one in gray, caught in a floor roll across the facade. The lone spectator and parking bays below make the scale clear.

💡 Series Fact: “Simple Acrobatics 2.0” continues Artez’s experiments with bodies, balance, and architecture. His 2024 Bristol mural featured a single contorted figure fitted into a gabled wall.

💡 Artist Fact: Artez earned a degree from the University of Belgrade’s Faculty of Architecture in 2013.

This new version was painted from 20 to 29 May 2026 on the Tobacco Factory wall on Raleigh Road for UPFEST 2026. UPFEST’s official mural map confirms the location and painting dates.

More: Artez’s balancing mural in Vol. 9

Follow Artez on Instagram and UPFEST on Instagram.

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🐕 “Sultán” — By JM Brea in Villafranca, Spain 🇪🇸

A giant mastiff lies across the dark building with his head raised and front legs extended. A small group gathered below makes the scale clear.

💡 Artist Fact: In his original post, JM Brea describes Sultán as a livestock mastiff: noble, large, agile, and protective of both animals and family. He also calls the dog a nod to the mastiff in Velázquez’s “Las Meninas.”

💡 Painting Fact: In Velázquez’s 1656 Las Meninas, the mastiff lies beside Mari Bárbola and Nicolásito Pertusato; the Prado identifies Pertusato as the figure provoking the dog.

Villafranca’s official festival program places the wall at Carretera Pamplona 19. It was painted for the sixth edition of 31330 Art Festival.

Follow JM Brea on Instagram and 31330 Art Festival on Instagram.

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🌊 “Sustainable / Sustaining Each Other” — By C0110 in Caorle, Italy 🇮🇹

An elderly fisherman cradles a cormorant while the bird holds a silver fish in its beak. Windows cut through the man’s cap, face, shoulder, and coat, making the portrait part of the building.

💡 Artist Fact: Caorle Sea Festival gives the Italian title “Sostenibile Sostenersi”, pairing the ideas of being sustainable and sustaining one another. The festival explains that C0110 sees a territory as more than geography: it is made from identities, memories, and relationships.

The festival describes the fisherman and cormorant as symbols of the town’s close relationship with the sea and surrounding environment. The mural stands at Via del Rombo 4 and was completed for Caorle Sea Festival 2026.

💡 Local Fact: From September to December, Caorle fishing families once moved into the lagoon’s reed-roofed casoni for the fraìma, a seasonal period when they intercepted fish migrating from the lagoon basins toward the sea.

Follow C0110 on Instagram and Caorle Sea Festival on Instagram.

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