99 Photos of New Beloved and Clever Street Art

September 7, 2026
By Vidar
Seven-panel collage showing Duek Glez and Fresa Bogotá’s masked portrait, K2B Graff and Naja Calligraphie’s flying child, Fran Castro’s Cartujano horse, Lionel David’s resting figure, Damien Mitchell’s pink train, DOPPEL’s overlapping embrace and Rocket01’s astronaut

Ninety-nine works from streets around the world.

A child flies above the Little Prince, a Cartujano horse stands beneath a golden sky, and an entire neighborhood appears inside a soap bubble.

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Lone figure standing in swirling turquoise and coral water in Susurro de mar by Un Jotape in Viña del Mar, Chile

🌊 “Susurro de mar” — By Un Jotape in Viña del Mar, Chile 🇨🇱

A figure stands beneath red and turquoise water, with parts of the body fading into the current. In his caption for the mural, Jotape describes the sunset as a burning tapestry returning the threads of a dream. Created for the Museo de Muralismo in Gómez Carreño, produced by Lira Arte Público and Culturas Viña, and curated by Esteban Barrera Olmedo.

💡 Nerd Fact: Organized mural brigades entered Chilean public life in 1963 during campaigning for the following year’s presidential election. Memoria Chilena records that the practice later spread to Santiago and other cities and became widespread during the 1970 election.

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Child flying through a star-filled sky above the Little Prince and the fox in Au delà des rêves by K2B Graff and Naja Calligraphie in Calais, France

🌠 “Au delà des rêves” — By K2B Graff and Naja Calligraphie in Calais, France 🇫🇷

In Au delà des rêves, a child flies through a star-filled sky while the Little Prince and the fox sit on an asteroid below. K2B says the child represents youth, hope, love and dreams that feel too big. Children at the neighborhood center chose the title. The 9-by-10-metre mural was painted at Résidence du Petit Prince on Rue Henri Matisse for the Calais Street Art Festival. Photo by Mural Rich.

💡 Nerd Fact: A real asteroid named 46610 Bésixdouze commemorates the Little Prince’s home, B-612. The decimal number 46610 becomes B612 when written in hexadecimal notation.

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Blue-and-gold long-haired cat mural titled Le gardien de Calais by Kataction in Calais, France

🐾 “Le gardien de Calais” — By Kataction in Calais, France 🇫🇷

A blue-and-gold long-haired cat watches from the full height of the facade. In a breakdown of the project, Kataction says the 16-by-12-metre mural took eight consecutive days, 45 litres of acrylic and 150 spray cans. Created at 41 Quai du Commerce for Calais Street Art Festival with Les Ateliers du Graff.

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Pale Cartujano horse beneath shafts of golden light, with the Cartuja de Jerez and Puente de la Cartuja behind it, in a mural by Fran Castro in La Asunción, Jerez, Spain

🐎 A Cartujano Horse Beneath a Golden Sky — By Fran Castro (Cosa V) in Jerez, Spain 🇪🇸

A pale Cartujano horse stands beneath shafts of golden light, with the Cartuja de Jerez and Puente de la Cartuja behind it. According to local reporting, the mural is almost 13 meters high. Castro documented the seven-day painting process. The mural was part of a City of Jerez mural program and stands at Calle la Paquera de Jerez 17 in La Asunción.

💡 Nerd Fact: The Cartujano is a strain within the Pura Raza Española, not a separate breed. A pedigree-and-genome study found that seven horses accounted for half of the PRE population’s genetic variability; all seven were 100 percent Carthusian.

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Tear-streaked jester reaching toward a floating gold ball in Tragicomedia by Theo Magma in Seville, Spain

🎭 “Tragicomedia” — By Theo Magma in Seville, Spain 🇪🇸

A tear-streaked jester reaches toward a single gold ball in Tragicomedia. Theo Magma’s wider photo set shows the finished mural inside a stripped-out building in Seville.

💡 Nerd Fact: The word tragicomedy first appears in the prologue to Plautus’s Amphitryon, where it is used because the play includes kings and gods alongside a slave.

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Three overlapping moments of an embrace threaded with berries, flowers and birds in the Nature Immersion mural by DOPPEL in Kajaani, Finland

🌳 “Nature Immersion” Layers Figures, Plants and Birds — By DOPPEL in Kajaani, Finland 🇫🇮

Three moments of an embrace overlap among berries, flowers and birds. In his post for the mural, DOPPEL says “Nature Immersion” was inspired by local flora and fauna. Concreate’s page for the mural says the work is about nature’s cycle and was based on a photograph of the artist’s friend. DOPPEL created it for Concreate Urban Art 2026, organized by Helsinki Urban Art, at Koulukuja 5b.

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Indigenous portrait framed by blue feathers and plants, painted by Wesley Rocha in São Gonçalo do Amarante, Brazil

🪶 Blue Feathers Frame the Portrait — By Wesley Rocha in São Gonçalo do Amarante, Brazil 🇧🇷

Blue feathers, native plants and geometric marks frame a portrait based on a visual reference by Indigenous creator Yãkurixi Xipaya. In his post about the mural, Rocha connects the work to São Gonçalo do Amarante’s Indigenous roots and the Anacé people’s continuing cultural resistance. It was painted on a building intended as a cultural center on Rua Ester Martins.

💡 Nerd Fact: Brazil’s Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office followed the Anacé territorial claim for ten years. A 2013 agreement provided for a 543-hectare reserve and 163 homes while land in their area was being expropriated for the Pecém industrial and port complex.

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Marco Brzozowski mural turning the ten-storey side of an apartment block into stacked open balconies filled with residents in Schwedt/Oder, Germany.

🏢 Ten Storeys, One Shared Roof — Marco Brzozowski in Schwedt/Oder, Germany 🇩🇪

The ten-storey gable is painted as a stack of open balconies. Schwedt residents of different ages and backgrounds appear in scenes of volunteering, conservation, culture, sport, crafts and industry. Commissioned by WOBAG Schwedt for Lindenallee 64–70. WOBAG’s official project record says the mural was inaugurated on August 6, 2025, under the theme “Wir alle wohnen unter einem Dach”—“We all live under one roof.”

💡 Nerd Fact: Bird nesting boxes were also installed on the building through the “Viva la Fauna” programme, and WOBAG received a plaque for supporting it.

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Mural by Seth Globepainter showing a boy wearing Faroese national dress and a puffin mask as he offers a sand eel to a puffin wearing a human mask in Kollafjørður, Faroe Islands

🐧 A Boy and a Puffin Wear Each Other’s Masks — By Seth Globepainter in Kollafjørður, Faroe Islands 🇫🇴

In Seth’s completed mural, a boy in Faroese national dress wears a puffin mask and offers a sand eel to a puffin wearing a human mask. Seth created it for We Need Art in 2026. The mural is at Í Líðini, Kollafjørður.

💡 Nerd Fact: Atlantic puffins use a spiny tongue to press captured sand eels against the roof of the mouth. This lets a parent carry ten or more fish at once to its single chick.

More: Seth’s childhood murals.

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Woman with closed eyes surrounded by reflective gold masks and an anatomical hand in DISOCIATIVO, a mural by Duek Glez and Fresa Bogotá in Morelia, Mexico.

🎭 “DISOCIATIVO” — Duek Glez & Fresa Bogotá in Morelia, Mexico 🇲🇽

A woman closes her eyes as reflective golden masks crowd around her. Duek describes each mask as a different identity. The mural was painted for Futura A.C.’s 15th-anniversary urban-art festival in Morelia. The official call lists the dates as August 14–16, 2026. More by Duek Glez & Fresa Bogotá: their mural in Tláhuac, Mexico.

💡 Nerd Fact: The related Spanish verb disociar means to separate something from what it was joined to.

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Two women appear weightless—one upright and one upside down—among birds and watery reflections in Margay Art’s “EL VUELO” mural in La Bañeza, Spain.

💫 “EL VUELO” — By Margay Art in La Bañeza, Spain 🇪🇸

Margay describes “EL VUELO” as a work about swimming, flying and weightlessness. The mural shows two women floating among birds and reflections. Created at C. Párroco Don Rogelio, 9 for Art Aero Rap 2026. Photograph by Maldita Señora; the artist also credits Víctor Macías for the reference photograph and assistance, and Courtney Moyers as the mermaid.

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Repeated dark-clad figure moving from orange heat toward fractured pale rock in Between a Rock and a Hot Place by Li-Hill on High Road in Ilford, London, UK

🔥 “Between a Rock and a Hot Place” — By Li-Hill in Ilford, London, UK 🇬🇧

A dark-clad figure repeats across the wall, moving from orange heat toward fractured pale rock. Pedestrians walk below the mural. Li-Hill says the title began as a pun when he was asked what the work meant. He painted it live on August 15–16 during Ilford inColour 2026. The wall is on High Road between Popeyes and Boots, and Wood Street Walls helped deliver the festival.

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Two views of Istraille’s coastal mural across a house facade, with a bearded fisherman, lighthouse, boats and gulls in Plogastel-Saint-Germain, France.

⚓ A Fisherman on the Corner — By Istraille in Plogastel-Saint-Germain, France 🇫🇷

Istraille says this was his first time painting a house facade with windows and a door. He chose black and white with burgundy accents to echo the woodwork. The Breton scene—with a fisherman, lighthouse, boat and gulls—continues around the corner.

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Giant iridescent soap bubble reflecting a street scene, with two people standing below for scale, in TEMPONOK’s mural in Calais, France.

🫧 Neighborhood Memory in a Bubble — By TEMPONOK in Calais, France 🇫🇷

A giant soap bubble fills the gable, with the former Chez Isma shop opposite painted in its reflection. TEMPONOK says the mural records memories of Fort Nieulay. Two people stand beneath the bubble. Painted at 118 Rue de Djerba for the Calais Street Art Festival. Photo by TEMPONOK.

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Woman wearing a reflective futuristic visor, with artist Dor Shriner standing beside the mural in Ludwigsfelde, Germany

🥽 The Street Inside the Visor — By Dor Shriner in Ludwigsfelde, Germany 🇩🇪

A woman in a futuristic visor looks out from the wall, with Shriner standing beside her. Buildings and sky are reflected in the curved glass. In his post about the wall, Shriner credits crew member Shaz Spreadlove with helping him paint it. The mural was painted beneath the bridge beside Ludwig Arkaden for Da Bridge Jam 2026. The festival’s seventh edition brought together more than 30 artists.

💡 Nerd Fact: Real spacewalk helmets use a gold-coated sun visor to shield astronauts from strong solar radiation while preserving a clear field of view.

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Person resting with a black dog beside a poem in a mural by Rémi Tournier in Nœux-les-Mines, France

⛈️ “Les orages tombent un peu plus loin” — By Rémi Tournier in Nœux-les-Mines, France 🇫🇷

The 15-by-7-metre mural, painted in acrylic, shows a person resting with a black dog beside Tournier’s short poem. In his post about the mural, Tournier says it is less about dogs than about what they mean to him: the refuge they offer during difficult moments and a place to wait for the storm to pass. Painted at Place d’Arras for Festival Les Petits Bonheurs. The municipality says participants from three local organizations supporting people with disabilities helped create it.

💡 Nerd Fact: Titles and written text are central to Tournier’s work. He says they shape how a piece is read and let him paint less expected images.

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Pale blue face surrounded by coral, pink and orange waves on Mandi Oh’s tall Baltic Mermaid mural in Liepāja, Latvia

🧜‍♀️ “Baltic Mermaid” — By Mandi Oh in Liepāja, Latvia 🇱🇻

A pale blue face fills the tall gable amid coral, pink and orange waves. In a TV Kurzeme interview, Mandi Oh said the mural is part of her “Mermaids” project and draws on the Baltic landscape and Liepāja’s sunsets. Painted at Roņu iela 7 as part of Liepāja’s three-mural street-art project. The mural continues the city’s portrait series begun in 2021. Photo by Edgars Pohevičs.

💡 Nerd Fact: Mandi Oh studied fine arts in Bilbao and Bordeaux and spent eight years based in Berlin before moving to Valencia.

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Turquoise human figure holding a pearl in AÉRO’s Water Mystery mural in Liepāja, Latvia

💧 “Water Mystery” — By AÉRO in Liepāja, Latvia 🇱🇻

In AÉRO’s “Water Mystery”, water takes human form and holds a pearl. The water represents emotion, intuition, cleansing and adaptability; the pearl stands for mystery, wisdom and the subconscious. The mural was painted in late July 2026 at Brīvības iela 33, beside LOC Baseins & SPA, as part of Liepāja’s three-mural street-art project. Photo by Edgars Pohevičs.

💡 Nerd Fact: Lake Liepāja is a lagoon created by the receding Baltic Sea; the Trade Canal still connects the lake to the sea.

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Grayscale portrait of a woman floating on her back in painted water, from ZABOU’s DRIFT mural on O’Brien’s Terrace in Waterford, Ireland.

🌊 “DRIFT” — ZABOU on O’Brien’s Terrace in Waterford, Ireland 🇮🇪

Jazmin floats on her back in grayscale water, her face turned upward. White ripples and foam run along the dark wall around her. Created for Waterford Walls 2026, managed by The Walls Project. ZABOU’s finished-work post names the model and gives the mural’s dimensions as 5 × 3 m. The official festival map places it on O’Brien’s Terrace. More by ZABOU: Clever Art by ZABOU (12 Photos).

💡 Nerd Fact: ZABOU uses photography as part of her mural process. In a 2021 interview, she explained that painting directly from photographs—sometimes without a preliminary sketch—helped her develop her realistic portrait style.

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Mural by Daniela Guerreiro on Cotonou’s port wall showing a woman bathing a baby beside a seated woman and girl, with a motorcycle passing in front.

🛁 A Traditional Ritual for Bathing a Newborn — Daniela Guerreiro in Cotonou, Benin 🇧🇯

A woman bathes a newborn while another woman and a child sit nearby. Guerreiro says the scene is based on a traditional ceremony for bathing a newborn, a ritual of love and care in which the community welcomes a new child. Painted in April 2026, the work also appears in Guerreiro’s Cotonou portfolio. In the same Instagram post, she describes it as one section of a collaborative mural stretching more than two kilometres. Bénin Tourism identifies the project as Marina Boulev’Art Gallery, a linear open-air gallery along Boulevard de la Marina. More by Daniela Guerreiro: “Teachers of Knowledge” in Portugal (4 Photos).

💡 Nerd Fact: Bénin Tourism says Marina Boulev’Art Gallery aims to become the world’s longest graffiti wall. Its murals cover ancestral traditions, national history and contemporary issues.

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Woman’s face crossed by diagonal bands of gray, violet, pink and yellow, in a mural credited to Firme and signed “Perry.”

🎨 A Face Built From Color — Credited to Firme

Bands of gray, violet, pink and yellow cut across a portrait painted beside a metal shutter. StreetArtPedia credits the work to Firme (@firme_graffity), but the mural is signed “Perry.” No reliable source currently confirms the city or explains how the two names are related.

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A red-orange version of Kermit sits on a giant red-and-white spray can lying on its side in a mural by Achezink.

🐸 Kermit With a Spray Can — By Achezink

The artist’s post shows a red-orange version of Kermit balancing on a red-and-white spray can lying on its side.

💡 Nerd Fact: The first Kermit looked more like a lizard than a frog. Created for Sam and Friends in 1955, the original puppet had ping-pong-ball eyes and green felt cut from a coat discarded by Jim Henson’s mother.

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Black-and-white portrait mural of Snoop Dogg with electric-blue reflections in his glasses, by Alex Shot106 in Italy

🕶️ Snoop Dogg in Electric Blue Glasses — By Alex Shot106 in Italy 🇮🇹

The portrait is almost entirely black and white, apart from the electric-blue reflections in his glasses. In his post showing the finished wall, Alex Shot106 identifies Snoop Dogg as the subject and mentions the CDP family.

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Black-line portrait between a teal target and a cluster of arrows by Dyca in Murcia, Spain

🏹 A Portrait Between the Target and the Arrows — By Dyca in Murcia, Spain 🇪🇸

A black-line portrait sits between a teal target and a cluster of arrows. Dyca says the arrows represent the hurt of being made a target by others and how hard it can be to heal afterward.

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Cylindrical still-life mural with a flower-filled pitcher, ceramic tiger, large bird and white-outlined cat by Fintan Magee and Abdul Abdullah in Limassol, Cyprus

🌺 “Still life” Wraps Around the Cylinder — By Fintan Magee & Abdul Abdullah in Limassol, Cyprus 🇨🇾

“Still life” covers the concrete cylinder with a flower-filled pitcher, a ceramic tiger, a large bird and the white outline of a cat. ETKO Cyprus invited the artists to create the mural at 31 Tsiflikoudia in 2026. Fintan Magee documented the collaboration.

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Millo’s diptych Your order is being delivered across two gables, showing a courier carrying a yellow parcel with a red heart to a green door and another figure opening the parcel, in Blois, France

📦 “Your order is being delivered” Across Two Facades — By Millo in Blois, France 🇫🇷

On one end of the U-shaped Jules-Ferry residence, a blue-clad courier carries a yellow parcel containing a red heart to a green door. On the opposite wall, another figure opens the parcel and receives the heart. Millo says residents chose the design from two proposals. The 192-square-meter diptych was painted across two gables of the social-housing complex at 29 Place Jules Ferry, with production by Unik Art Agency.

More: Millo’s Bad Vilbel collaboration.

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Woman in a blue dress reaching toward a hummingbird, with a second bird perched beside her, in A criação do beija-flor by Héu EK in Arapongas, Brazil

🐦 “A criação do beija-flor” — By Héu EK in Arapongas, Brazil 🇧🇷

Héu EK titled the mural A criação do beija-flor. A woman in a blue dress extends one hand toward a hummingbird while a second bird perches beside her. Photographed in Arapongas in 2026 by Lunartty Souta.

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Older woman smelling a pink rose beside a black-capped chickadee in Lynn Welcomes You by JEKS NC and Lynn Public Schools students in Lynn, Massachusetts

🌹 “Lynn Welcomes You” — By JEKS NC and Lynn Public Schools Students in Lynn, Massachusetts, USA 🇺🇸

Lynn Welcomes You shows an older woman holding a pink rose to her nose while a black-capped chickadee perches beside her. Beyond Walls calls the portrait “Everyone’s Grandmother.” Painted at 50 Silsbee St through Beyond Walls’ 2026 Classroom to the Streets program, with students and teachers from Lynn Tech and Pickering Middle School. Photo by The Mural Hunter.

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Wide mural of a bright pink locomotive between a hooded figure seen from behind and a woman in pink sunglasses, by Damien Mitchell in Allen Park, Michigan, USA

🚆 A Pink Train Recalls a 1964 Prank — By Damien Mitchell in Allen Park, Michigan, USA 🇺🇸

The pink locomotive recalls a local 1964 Halloween prank. Mitchell explains that a steam train in Champaign Park was once painted entirely pink. He placed the train between two figures beneath a blue sky. Painted on Champaign Alley Boutique at 8043 Allen Rd for Paint the Park, an Allen Park DDA initiative produced by The Mural People.

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Grayscale faces, gold-rimmed glasses and geometric bands by Djoels on Optiek Sofie Maes in Sint-Eloois-Vijve, Belgium

👓 Two Faces Span the Optician’s Facade — By Djoels in Sint-Eloois-Vijve, Belgium 🇧🇪

One grayscale face in gold-rimmed glasses spans the left side, while a second face fills the lower right. Angular gray, white and gold bands run between the windows and up toward the roofline. Djoels shared the finished facade after painting it for Optiek Sofie Maes. See it at Aloïse Biebuyckstraat 1, Sint-Eloois-Vijve.

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Purple heron broken into bright glitch-like bands across a white building, painted by KAOS in El Carpio, Córdoba, Spain.

🪶 “Glitch3d_G4rza.exe” — KAOS in El Carpio, Córdoba, Spain 🇪🇸

The purple heron is broken into bands of cyan, magenta, yellow and violet across a white facade. Real windows cut through the bird and its colored glitch bars. Created for ELEVARTE 2026. KAOS’s post about the finished mural identifies the bird and says the Guadalquivir basin inspired it. A local report published during the event calls the work Garza_ErrorData.exe, while its later Liga Nacional entry records Glitch3d_G4rza.exe. A later mural listing gives the address as Calle Morente 60.

💡 Nerd Fact: A 2011 census recorded 5,379 breeding pairs of purple herons in Spain, with 70% concentrated in the Guadalquivir marshes. Iberian birds generally winter in sub-Saharan Africa.

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A large blue eye inside a keyhole-shaped opening, surrounded by pale floral scrollwork, in DonDonBerry’s “Gazing at Eden” mural in Estepona, Spain.

👁️ “Gazing at Eden” — By DonDonBerry in Estepona, Spain 🇪🇸

“Gazing at Eden” is one half of a street-art diptych that DonDonBerry created in Estepona in 2026. A large eye fills the keyhole-shaped opening in the wall.

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Two views of Arnaud de Jesus Gonçalves’s red-and-cream “Rhapsodie en rouge” mural, showing two reclining women, white rabbits, records and a gramophone in Bédarieux, France.

🌹 “Rhapsodie en rouge” — By Arnaud de Jesus Gonçalves in Bédarieux, France 🇫🇷

Two women recline among a gramophone, records, playing cards and rabbits. Arnaud de Jesus Gonçalves describes “Rhapsodie en rouge” as an exchange between past and modernity, drawing on motifs from Château Baldy. Painted over four days in April 2026 for the MAJIC cultural center, the 15-by-3-meter mural stands at 1 Avenue Abbé Tarroux. The project also credits L.M. Studio and was coordinated by LineUP Ateliers.

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Blue-toned portrait of a woman peering between flowers and leaves, with a large white-and-red moth, by Macarena Mali and Sake Ink in Baena, Spain.

🦋 Portrait, Moth and Wild Leaves — By Macarena Mali & Sake Ink in Baena, Spain 🇪🇸

The artists’ Baena collaboration shows a blue-toned portrait behind dense flowers and broad leaves, with a large white-and-red moth on the opposite side.

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Woman carrying an olive branch in a rippled mural by Fintan Magee on the Peace Tower in Augsburg, Germany

🕊️ “Woman with Olive Branch” — By Fintan Magee in Augsburg, Germany 🇩🇪

A woman looks into the distance with an olive branch across her shoulder. Magee’s rippled distortion makes her appear to be behind moving glass. In his post about the mural, he says it spans 16 floors and was painted entirely from scaffolding. Painted at Lechhauser Straße 35 for Augsburg’s Peace Tower project, developed by Die Bunten e.V., the Wohnbaugruppe Augsburg and the city’s Peace Office.

💡 Nerd Fact: The Peace Tower’s six mural surfaces measure 288 square metres each—1,728 square metres in total. Augsburg’s official city guide describes the completed project as Germany’s highest mural.

🌿 More: When Nature Becomes Art — 100 murals and sculptures.

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Upside-down duck suspended by one foot in the mural Bounce back by Jack Lack in Emden, Germany

🦆 “Bounce back” — By Jack Lack in Emden, Germany 🇩🇪

An upside-down duck hangs by one foot in Bounce back. Jack Lack writes that falling is sometimes unavoidable, but we can choose how to respond. Created for Hit the Trog at Am Tonnenhof in Emden.

💡 Nerd Fact: The English noun duck comes from Old English dūce. The related verb shares roots with Old High German tūhhan, meaning “to dive.”

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Geometric mural of a woman with black hair and round glasses by Andrii Kovtun at RAW-Gelände in Berlin, Germany

🔷 A Face Built from Angles — By Andrii Kovtun in Berlin, Germany 🇩🇪

Kovtun translated a digital portrait into paint, using sharp planes of turquoise, orange, black and white. He created the mural for Aura Labs, a new-media art centre at RAW-Gelände, Revaler Straße 99.

💡 Nerd Fact: RAW is a railway acronym, not an art term. The site opened in 1867 as the Royal Prussian Railway Workshop Berlin II and later became a Reichsbahnausbesserungswerk, or state railway repair works—the source of the name RAW-Gelände.

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Child holding prayer beads beneath a constellation and beside a flowering stem in a mural by Taylor White in Lynn, Massachusetts, USA

🌸 Looking Up Through the Flowers — By Taylor White in Lynn, Massachusetts, USA 🇺🇸

A child holds prayer beads beneath a constellation and beside a flowering stem. In her post about the mural, White says the design is about finding order in nature, truth, beauty, creativity and faith, as well as strength in difficult times. Painted at the Lynn YMCA, 20 Neptune Boulevard, for Beyond WallsClassroom to the Streets program. White credits Ndesi and students from St. Mary’s for helping with the mural. Photo by ASLY Film.

💡 Nerd Fact: The English word bead originally meant “a prayer”. Its meaning shifted to the small objects strung together and used to count prayers.

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Fox and giant panda portraits by Ircles Graffiti and Jhon RM in Uberlândia, Brazil

🦊 The Fox and the Panda — By Ircles Graffiti and Jhon RM in Uberlândia, Brazil 🇧🇷

A fox and a giant panda fill the wall side by side. Misty trees and warm orange light run through the background of both portraits. The collaboration was created for Jardim Urbano UDI at Beco do Planalto.

💡 Nerd Fact: A giant panda’s “thumb” is not a true digit. It is an enlarged wrist bone covered by a fleshy pad, which the animal uses to grasp bamboo stalks.

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Black-and-white portrait of a woman surrounded by snakes and a red apple in Chiara Loca’s Fantasma mural in Milan, Italy

👻 “Fantasma” — By Chiara Loca in Milan, Italy 🇮🇹

In one post, Chiara Loca says the mural combines Eve and Medusa: snakes surround a woman’s face, with a red apple beside it. In another post, she describes Medusa as a woman punished for violence she did not choose. The wall reads, “THE FEMALE GAZE PETRIFIES THE PATRIARCHY.” Loca later posted the work under the title “Fantasma”.

💡 Nerd Fact: The Book of Genesis never identifies the forbidden fruit as an apple. Rutgers classicist Azzan Yadin-Israel traces the apple tradition to 12th-century France, where Old French pom gradually narrowed in meaning from “fruit” to “apple.”

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Face painted across a brick wall with two oversized hands framing one eye in a mural by Mauricio Vargas in Gönnheim, Germany

👁️ A Face Framed by Hands — By Mauricio Vargas in Gönnheim, Germany 🇩🇪

Two oversized hands frame one eye of a face painted across the brick wall. In his post about the mural, Vargas says he often uses photographs of Antonella as references; while painting her, the work stops feeling like an exercise and becomes a conversation with himself. Created for Gönnheim’s 10th WineStreetArt Festival in July 2026, the work is now documented in the municipality’s Open-Air Gallery.

💡 Nerd Fact: Gönnheim opened its Open-Air Gallery in 2020 with more than 30 works created during WineStreetArt festivals.

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Golden hand holding a wooden spoon from Velázquez’s An Old Woman Cooking Eggs, reinterpreted by Sr.Val in Seville, Spain

🥄 A Detail from Velázquez’s “An Old Woman Cooking Eggs” — By Sr.Val in Seville, Spain 🇪🇸

Sr.Val enlarged the old woman’s right hand and wooden spoon from Diego Velázquez’s 1618 painting An Old Woman Cooking Eggs. In his post about the mural, the artist says he tried to translate the original oil brushwork into spray paint. Created for Fondo Negro 2026 at CEIP Pedro Garfias on February 28, 2026.

💡 Nerd Fact: Velázquez was eighteen or nineteen when he painted the original, shortly after completing his apprenticeship in Seville. It is one of his early bodegones, naturalistic kitchen or tavern scenes. The word comes from bodega, Spanish for a cellar or inn.

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Imaginary lizard and butterfly built from floral and animal forms in The Encounter mural by Anaïs Lera at 165 W 4th Ave in Vancouver, Canada

🌿 “The Encounter” Mixes Plant and Animal Forms — By Anaïs Lera in Vancouver, Canada 🇨🇦

In “The Encounter,” a lizard and a butterfly combine plant and animal forms. The 17-by-75-foot mural was painted in acrylic and spray paint for the 2025 ASTRO Mural Festival. Lera painted it at 165 W 4th Ave for Astro Club Artist Facility and Opal Projects.

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Grayscale aerosol portrait of a hooded woman with tears running from both eyes, titled Virgen by Kovenz in José C. Paz, Argentina

🖤 “Virgen” — By Kovenz in José C. Paz, Argentina 🇦🇷

In his post for “Virgen”, Kovenz says he used only aerosol paint for the portrait and dedicated it to his grandmother, Rosa. The portrait forms the left side of a larger collaboration with Dame and Gordone in José C. Paz.

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Photorealistic black cat Tisbe beside a cartoon monster amid fire and explosives by Mr. Carsa in Parma, Italy

🐈‍⬛ Tisbe Beside a Cartoon Monster — By Mr. Carsa in Parma, Italy 🇮🇹

A photorealistic black cat named Tisbe watches from beside a cartoon monster, with fire, explosives and sparks filling the wall. In the artist’s post from Parma, Mr. Carsa says he painted the wall on Rameist’s birthday.

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Monochrome spray painting “Ofélie” by David Lejsek, showing a pale reclining figure across a long black sheet in the garden beside Liberec Castle, Czech Republic

☁️ “Ofélie” Across a Long Black Sheet — By David Lejsek in Liberec, Czech Republic 🇨🇿

A pale reclining figure stretches across a long black sheet. Lejsek says he made “Ofélie” with spray paint on a sheet. He created it during an August 1 graffiti jam in the garden beside Liberec Castle.

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Mural by Cors One of a breakdancer leaping beside a boombox on a pink wall, with a person copying the pose in front, in Ludwigsfelde, Germany.

📻 “Blast the Ghetto” — Cors One in Ludwigsfelde, Germany 🇩🇪

A dancer leaps beside a boombox as dice, cans and fragments scatter across the pink wall. The background includes a Brooklyn street sign and a hanging traffic light. Created for Da Bridge Jam Vol. 7 beneath the A10 bridge by the Ludwig Arkaden. Cors One’s post about the finished mural confirms Ludwigsfelde and the event. A separate event post captions the work Blast the Ghetto.

💡 Nerd Fact: The “break” in breaking refers to a song’s instrumental break. A Smithsonian Libraries catalog summary links the dance’s early history to the 1970s Bronx and notes that DJ Kool Herc called dancers who reacted to breakbeats “b-boys” and “b-girls.”

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Abe from Oddworld peers from a blue circular hatch beneath the words HELLO and FOLLOW ME in a mural by IsmaelJF at an unconfirmed location.

👋 Untitled Abe (Oddworld) Mural — IsmaelJF — Location Unconfirmed

Abe, the Mudokon protagonist of several Oddworld games, peers through a circular hatch while “HELLO” and “FOLLOW ME” echo the game’s GameSpeak commands. IsmaelJF shared this mural alongside another wall on July 22, 2026. No formal title, event, city or street address was given, so the exact location remains unconfirmed.

💡 Nerd Fact: GameSpeak is part of the controls. Oddworld’s official instructions explain that players use it to get another Mudokon’s attention and make the worker follow Abe—part of the game’s rescue mechanic.

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Grayscale woman with glowing red eyes and torn mechanical sections across her face in Mecha Monster Woman by Migel in Karawang, Indonesia.

🤖 “Mecha Monster Woman” — Migel in Karawang, Indonesia 🇮🇩

A grayscale woman’s face is crossed by torn metal forms, with red light in her eyes and along one cheek. In his original post, Migel calls it “Mecha monster woman” and writes that the monster may be something we fight—or perhaps something we are.

💡 Nerd Fact: Migel labels the work Part VII of “Stress Release.”

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Orange portrait covering a brick wall and arched doorway, with dark scenes painted across neighboring panels and shutters, by J2 near Plaza de las Américas in Bogotá, Colombia.

🔥 Orange Portrait Across a Facade — J2 in Bogotá, Colombia 🇨🇴

An orange face covers the brick wall and arched doorway. Dark scenes continue across the panels and shutters beside it. J2 shared the finished facade from the Plaza de las Américas area in Bogotá and credited the crew who helped.

💡 Nerd Fact: J2 also writes the name as “Jotados”: in Spanish, jota is the name of J, while dos means two.

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Neon portrait of a woman in glasses framed by pink, cyan and violet wildstyle lettering, painted by Nide in Surakarta, Indonesia.

🌀 “Gothic Wild” — By Nide in Surakarta, Indonesia 🇮🇩

Nide’s “Gothic Wild” fills a roller door with a neon-lit portrait and sweeping wildstyle lettering in electric pink, cyan and violet. Nide published the finished mural in May 2026.

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Mother and daughter curled together among sunflowers in INCOMING / CHEGADA by Helen Bur in Ordes, Spain

🌼 “INCOMING / CHEGADA” — By Helen Bur in Ordes, Spain 🇪🇸

A mother and daughter curl together among sunflowers. The festival’s post about the mural says it is about motherhood, family bonds and the uncertainty of change. Created at Rúa da Reverencia 42 for DesOrdes Creativas 2026. Photo by Pedro Galbán.

💡 Nerd Fact: Young sunflowers track the Sun, but mature heads usually face east. In field experiments, east-facing flowers warmed faster and attracted five times as many pollinating insects as west-facing flowers.

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Giant white cat above a neon-lit alley filled with smaller cats in HMS Club!!! by Boris HMS

🐈 “HMS Club!!!” — By Boris HMS — Location Unconfirmed

Boris calls the work HMS Club!!!. A giant white cat fills the space above a neon-lit alley full of smaller cats. HMS is short for Harmlos Spray Club, a Bern-based collective that includes Boris Chiaradia.

💡 Nerd Fact: Domestic cats cannot taste sweetness because Tas1r2 is an unexpressed pseudogene. Tigers and cheetahs have the same genetic defect.

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Vivid portrait mural in hot pink, lime green and orange titled Fire in my Heart by Guillermo S. Quintana in Liepāja, Latvia

🔥 “Fire in my Heart” — By Guillermo S. Quintana in Liepāja, Latvia 🇱🇻

The portrait uses hot pink, lime green and orange to show an identity shaped by places, people, cultures and experiences. Quintana calls it “Fire in my Heart”. Liepāja’s project page also lists it as “Cilvēks, kuru veido satikšanās” (“A Person Shaped by Encounters”) and says the palette draws on Latvia’s forests, sea, dunes and changing seasons. Painted for Red Sun Buffet at Kuģinieku iela 5A. Photo by Edgars Pohevičs.

💡 Nerd Fact: From 2018 to 2023, Quintana served as artistic director and curator of The Art of Banksy Without Limits, an exhibition tour presented in more than 12 countries.

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Full-wall and close-up views of DOSA’s skeletal RATKING carrying a bag and skateboard beside Combolution’s calligraphic lettering at Waalhalla in Nijmegen, Netherlands

🐀 “RATKING” Beside Combolution’s Lettering — By DOSA & Combolution in Nijmegen, Netherlands 🇳🇱

DOSA’s “RATKING” is a skeletal rat carrying a bag and skateboard, painted beside Combolution’s calligraphic lettering. The image shows the full wall and a close-up of the rat. Painted at Waalhalla, Winselingseweg 12.

💡 Nerd Fact: A “rat king” is a group of rats bound together by their tails. About 60 cases have been recorded over the past 500 years. In 2021, a living group of 13 rats was found in Estonia; the rats were then humanely put to sleep, and the specimen was preserved at the University of Tartu Natural History Museum.

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Two recycling containers painted as a creature with yellow eyes, a red mouth and blue clawed arms in Nikita Golubev’s PREDATOR in Moscow, Russia

🗑️ “PREDATOR” — By Nikita Golubev in Moscow, Russia 🇷🇺

Two recycling containers form one creature. Their raised lids frame yellow eyes, the front panels form a red mouth, and the open doors become blue, clawed arms. Golubev called the work “PREDATOR”. When he returned the next day, most of it had already been torn away, leaving only the eyes. The before-and-after post identifies the location as Tyoply Stan, Moscow. More by Nikita Golubev: Dirt Made Into Art (10 Photos).

💡 Nerd Fact: Golubev dates his “Dirty Art” practice to 2017. He describes the dusty-truck series as a dialogue with the city about pollution, using art and humor.

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Spider-Man emerging through red-and-blue graffiti letters by Efraín Orellana in San Salvador, El Salvador

🕷️ Spider-Man Breaks Through the Letters — By Efraín Orellana (TNT) in San Salvador, El Salvador 🇸🇻

Spider-Man pushes through red-and-blue graffiti letters, with webs and sharp highlights across the character and lettering. Orellana painted it during Chrome Wars’ Graffiti Battle Royale, a live free-for-all held at Monumento Hermano Bienvenido a Casa. In his “Battle time” post, he credits photographer Carlos Pérez.

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Resting figure merging with pink-and-white fabric in the mural “Home” by Lionel David in Winterthur, Switzerland

🌸 “Home” in Pink-and-White Folds — By Lionel David in Winterthur, Switzerland 🇨🇭

A resting figure blends into folds of pink-and-white fabric. In his post for “Home”, Lionel David says the fabric refers to Winterthur’s textile history and that the work explores arriving, letting go and feeling at home. David created it in 2026 for House of Winterthur’s annual project on the Bahnmeisterweg wall.

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Silicio, an extra-fingered geometric hand shaping flint, by Basik in Rignano Garganico, Italy

✋ “Silicio,” an Extra-Fingered Hand — By Basik in Rignano Garganico, Italy 🇮🇹

An extra-fingered hand shapes a piece of flint. Basik explains that the unusual anatomy echoes early AI image errors, while the flint’s silicon dioxide connects Paleolithic toolmaking to the silicon behind modern microchips. Basik created it for Museo Paglicci on Via Giacomo Leopardi as part of the 2026 Paleolitica Street Fest.

💡 Nerd Fact: The semiconductor material in a conventional silicon chip is elemental silicon, not silicon dioxide. Electronics-grade silicon is made by thermally decomposing ultra-pure trichlorosilane and then recrystallizing it; tiny additions of boron or phosphorus control its electrical properties.

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Two Apennine wolves looking toward the lights of Morano Calabro in a mural by Alessandro Etsom

🐺 Two Wolves Look Toward Morano — By Alessandro Etsom in Morano Calabro, Italy 🇮🇹

Two Apennine wolves look from the edge of the Pollino toward Morano’s lights. In his post about the work, Etsom says he reversed the usual point of view so the natural landscape appears to look back at us. Completed in 2026 at Via Cappuccini, 4 for Gulìa Urbana. Morano’s municipal documentation notes pine-cone shapes in one wolf’s eye and beech leaves worked into the coat.

💡 Nerd Fact: A 2019 ancient-DNA study identified Italian wolves as the only documented modern wolf population belonging exclusively to mitochondrial haplogroup 2. The lineage was once widespread across Eurasia and North America during the Late Pleistocene.

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RoboCop seen from behind holding a spray can beside the words “All the technical perfection in the world can’t replace a good idea!” in a mural by TASSO

🤖 RoboCop Makes the Point — By TASSO

RoboCop stands with his back to the viewer, a spray can in one hand, beside the line: “All the technical perfection in the world can’t replace a good idea!” TASSO shared the finished work in August 2026.

💡 Nerd Fact: The original RoboCop suit weighed 25 pounds. Before filming, Peter Weller spent four months with mime coach Moni Yakim developing a “Robomovement” style designed to look mechanical without losing the character’s humanity.

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Driverless red motocarro overtaken by tropical fruit and vegetation in MOTOSELVA by Cardo Maleza in Juanjuí, Peru

🛺 “MOTOSELVA”: A Jungle-Filled Motocarro — By Cardo Maleza in Juanjuí, Peru 🇵🇪

Cardo Maleza titled the work MOTOSELVA. He describes the motocarro as part of everyday life in Juanjuí. He writes that its engine mixes with the cicadas while vegetation fills the empty vehicle in the heat and humidity. Painted for Tierra Q’Pinta’s eighth international mural festival, El llamado del Gran Pajatén, in Juanjuí.

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Three people tumbling through flying pillows and feathers in Die Kissenschlacht by Mr. Woodland in Augsburg, Germany

🪶 “Die Kissenschlacht” Covers the Gable — By Mr. Woodland in Augsburg, Germany 🇩🇪

Three people tumble through flying pillows and feathers. Friedensfest Augsburg describes Die Kissenschlacht as a childhood pillow fight—a friendly battle that brings people together instead of dividing them. Mr. Woodland called it one of the trickiest murals he had painted, citing trees, temperatures above 35°C and a difficult surface. Painted at Rechte Brandstraße 6 for the 2026 Augsburg Peace Festival.

💡 Nerd Fact: August 8 is a statutory public holiday only within Augsburg—Germany’s only city-specific public holiday. The festival has been held annually since 1650 to commemorate the parity and confessional equality secured after the Thirty Years’ War. It entered Germany’s Nationwide Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2018.

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Long silver-and-red chrome lettering framing a red male figure in CHRMCTHDRL by Artkor Bagdad in Lille, France

⚡ “CHRMCTHDRL” Stretches Across the Wall — By Artkor Bagdad in Lille, France 🇫🇷

Angular chrome lettering runs the length of the wall around a central figure. Artkor Bagdad’s original post gives the title as CHRMCTHDRL, dates the work to 2026 and credits the photographs to Maurice. The accompanying caption says the chrome keeps watch after the light goes out.

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A face behind reflective glasses and pink three-dimensional forms spanning two facades in Inception by Ed-Mun PDF, Xearte, Adam Illes, CASEM, Ezra Kernen and Void One in Morlaix, France

🕶️ “Inception” Spans Two Facades — By Ed-Mun PDF, Xearte, Adam Illes, CASEM, Ezra Kernen & Void One in Morlaix, France 🇫🇷

A face behind reflective glasses covers one facade, with angular three-dimensional forms on the wall beside it. Inception is a six-artist Mad 3D collaboration measuring 32 by 15 metres, according to Le Télégramme. Painted at 56 Rue de Brest for MX Arts Tour 2026. Photo by AL INFOGRAPHIE.

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Blue Zome lettering and a woman’s portrait by Zome 030 in Ludwigsfelde, Germany

💙 Blue Lettering and a Portrait — By Zome 030 in Ludwigsfelde, Germany 🇩🇪

Deep blue Zome lettering fills one side of the wall, with a woman’s portrait in the same shades on the other. Both sides use bright highlights and deep shadows. Created beneath the A10 beside Ludwig-Arkaden for the 2026 Da Bridge Jam. Photo by Yve.

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Armored creature shown in motion with its outer plates, muscles and skeleton pulled apart in Sudden bliss, a mural by NYCHOS in Vienna, Austria.

🦴 “Sudden bliss” — NYCHOS in Vienna, Austria 🇦🇹

A creature moves across a yellow-and-black background, with its outer plates, muscles and skeleton pulled apart. NYCHOS posted the finished wall on June 16, 2026 and called it Sudden bliss. A StreetArtPedia post of the same wall places it along Vienna’s Donaukanal, though the exact spot is not given. More by NYCHOS: “Primal Truth” in Mannheim, Germany (8 Photos).

💡 Nerd Fact: NYCHOS says his name comes from Deinonychus, whose name means “terrible claw.” In the same 2014 interview, he said he had been writing “Nychos” for about 15 years.

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Glossy apples, pears, citrus fruit, cherries and dark berries covering a gable in a mural by PraviZian in Bijeljina, Bosnia and Herzegovina

🍋 Fruit and Flowers on the Gable — By PraviZian in Bijeljina, Bosnia and Herzegovina 🇧🇦

Glossy fruit, berries and small flowers cover the gable, with realistic highlights, flat spirals and bold outlines. Meraki Mural Fest’s completion post identifies it as the third finished mural of its 2026 edition, painted at Njegoševa 69.

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Faceless hooded figure raises a white flag with a red heart against a bright yellow facade in Nuno Viegas’s mural in Calais, France.

💛 “Writer x Love Flag YTBG” — By Nuno Viegas in Calais, France 🇫🇷

On a 22-by-11-meter concrete wall, a faceless writer plants a white flag marked with a red heart. Viegas calls the 2026 mural “Writer x Love Flag YTBG”. Its message is “LOVE! To all by all!” Created at 2 Rue Vladislav Volkov for the Calais Street Art Festival.

More: Nuno Viegas in Ghent.

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Cartoon-style graffiti writer in a red hoodie and reflective goggles beside layered pastel wildstyle lettering by ROICE 183 in Emden, Germany

🎨 A Writer Inside the Wildstyle — By ROICE 183 in Emden, Germany 🇩🇪

A figure in bright goggles appears inside dense lettering, arrows and splashes of color. Painted by ROICE 183 for Hit the Trog, a project covering roughly 2,100 square metres of concrete with permanent public art at Am Tonnenhof. Photo by Kevin Schulzbus.

💡 Nerd Fact: ROICE began writing graffiti in 1995. He made his first piece on the ground with markers and paint taken from school—without spray paint.

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Portrait of Renato Moll surrounded by orange bee characters in a mural by Miguel Molina and Renato Moll in Brasília, Brazil

🟠 A Portrait Among the Bees — By Miguel Molina and Renato Moll in Brasília, Brazil 🇧🇷

Orange bee characters surround Molina’s portrait of fellow Brasília artist Renato Moll. In the post about the work, Molina says Moll invited him to paint in the street, so he turned their collaboration into a portrait of his friend in Asa Norte.

💡 Nerd Fact: Molina also paints as WOW and is part of ABP, the Brazilian Academy of Characters, a national graffiti crew focused on original figures and murals.

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Vivid classical bust surrounded by black-outlined eyes, teeth and abstract forms by Fluidomental and Santo Arte Mural in Jerez, Spain

🏛️ A Classical Bust Surrounded by Eyes and Teeth — By Fluidomental & Santo Arte Mural in Jerez, Spain 🇪🇸

A brightly colored classical bust stands among black-outlined eyes, teeth and abstract forms. Fluidomental’s finished-work post names both artists as collaborators. Painted beneath the railway bridge over Calle Cartuja as part of Muros Libres, a project of Jerez’s Youth Department documented by Sala Paúl.

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White, gray and pink biomorphic forms in NO LIMIT! by KOMESENNIN9 at YANMAR HANASAKA STADIUM in Osaka, Japan

🧩 “NO LIMIT!” Flows Across the Stadium Wall — By KOMESENNIN9 in Osaka, Japan 🇯🇵

KOMESENNIN9 titled the work NO LIMIT! and identifies it as part of his OKAGESAMA series. White, gray and pink biomorphic forms flow across the long stadium wall. Created for HANASAKA MURAL Vol. 13, produced by WALL SHARE, at YANMAR HANASAKA STADIUM, 1-1 Nagaikoen.

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Frontal portrait of a young sitter framed by blue curves by Pere Blanco Molina in Poblenou, Barcelona

🔵 Blue Curves Frame a Young Face — By Pere Blanco Molina in Poblenou, Barcelona, Spain 🇪🇸

A young sitter faces the viewer against a pale wall, with broad blue curves behind the portrait. The work is signed “PBM 2026” and was documented in Poblenou, Barcelona.

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Two bramblings perched among branches in a mural by Sagie on a residential tower in Gothenburg, Sweden

🪺 Two Bramblings Cover the Tower — By Sagie in Gothenburg, Sweden 🇸🇪

Two bramblings perch among branches on the residential tower. In his finished-mural post, Sagie points to the wordplay connecting the birds’ Swedish name, bergfinkar, the hill and the Bergsjön neighborhood. Painted for Familjebostäder Göteborg at Siriusgatan 120 in Bergsjön.

💡 Nerd Fact: Bramblings can form exceptionally dense communal winter roosts. A review of documented gatherings found densities of about one million birds per hectare and evidence of roosts holding roughly 15 million birds.

🎨 More: 100 Cans of Spray: Lynx Mural in Gothenburg by Sagie.

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Close-up mural of a woman with four dark hair buns and hoop earrings, titled Azul Profundo by Joni Daes in Campillos, Málaga, Spain.

👁️ “Azul Profundo” — Joni Daes in Campillos, Spain 🇪🇸

Four dark hair buns frame a close-up portrait staring straight ahead. Loose blocks of green, blue and orange remain visible around the face. Joni Daes shared the finished wall on August 9, 2026. A later official competition entry gives the title and location and lists the mural in Jornada 7 of Liga Nacional de Graffiti 2026.

💡 Nerd Fact: Jornada 7 was one of seven qualifying rounds in a cumulative national competition. Under the official 2026 rules, points from each round counted toward one season ranking. Three judges assessed technique, originality and style, while public voting could add one point to the top ten figurative entries and top five lettering entries.

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Red horned character mural by Heesco against green smoke in Melbourne, Australia.

🔥 Horned Figure in Green Smoke — By Heesco in Melbourne, Australia 🇦🇺

Heesco shared this repaint of an old Melbourne spot with several other artists in 2026. His red horned figure fills the center, its raised hand glowing hot pink against smoky green.

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Child portrait with a black bird headdress mural by Fabian Scrawl in Bogotá, Colombia.

🪶 A Young Face Beneath Black Wings — By Fabian Scrawl in Bogotá, Colombia 🇨🇴

Fabian Scrawl says the young face beneath black wings honors the free spirit and enduring strength of Afro and Indigenous communities. He describes remembrance as an act of courage and resistance. Painted for the 2026 El Sur Pega festival in Ciudad Bolívar, Bogotá.

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Turquoise feathered serpent mural by Wems MX in San Juan Teotihuacán, Mexico.

🐍 Quetzalcóatl Across the Wall — By Wems MX in San Juan Teotihuacán, Mexico 🇲🇽

Wems identifies the turquoise figure as Quetzalcóatl, the feathered serpent, and describes it as a symbol of transformation, knowledge and balance. The 2026 mural was commissioned for the La Casa de Quetzalcóatl handicraft shop.

💡 Nerd Fact: The identification is debated. Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History says scholars still debate whether Teotihuacan’s Feathered Serpent should be identified as Quetzalcóatl.

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Sharply dressed figure repeated across four colored panels in a mural by Dee Dee in Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA

🎞️ One Figure, Four Frames — By Dee Dee in Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA 🇺🇸

A sharply dressed figure appears four times against panels of mint, pink, chartreuse and orange. Created for the Wooden Walls Project on the Asbury Park Boardwalk. Photo by Street Art Perspectives.

💡 Nerd Fact: Curator Jenn Hampton began seeking funding for the Wooden Walls Project in 2010 and secured it in 2015. Hurricane Sandy helped make the project possible: wooden walls installed around buildings after the storm created ready-made surfaces for public art.

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Elderly face, skull and cracked vessel in Let’s Grow Old Together by SPK38 and DGTL.VNDLSM in Cologne, Germany

💀 “Let’s Grow Old Together”: An Elderly Face and a Skull — By SPK38 & DGTL.VNDLSM in Cologne, Germany 🇩🇪

An elderly face and a skull appear partly submerged in dark, reflective water beside a cracked vessel. SPK38 identifies the piece as Let’s Grow Old Together, created with DGTL.VNDLSM for King Wegz’s 2026 Character Jam. Painted at the Hall of Fame Kalkberg on Karlsruher Straße in Cologne-Buchforst, a graffiti hotspot documented by Cologne Tourism.

🎨 More: Mural by SPK38 in Darmstadt, Germany.

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Girl holding a white dove against a softly painted landscape in a mural by Máisel López in Havana, Cuba

🕊️ A Girl Holds a White Dove — By Máisel López in Havana, Cuba 🇨🇺

Against a softly painted landscape, a girl holds a white dove close. López says he dreams of peace when he paints and will keep creating his “Colosos” to bring hope and joy.

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Green-eyed face surrounded by green mist, graffiti letters and two painted hands in a mural by Dayetoz Malaver and Lucek in Puebla, Mexico

🟢 A Green-Eyed Face Between Bright Letters — By Dayetoz Malaver & Lucek in Puebla, Mexico 🇲🇽

A green-eyed face emerges from mist between bright letter pieces, with two painted hands reaching in from either side. Cracks in the wall show through the paint. Painted on Avenida 8 Oriente, opposite No. 1401, in Puebla’s Barrio del Alto. The artists shared the finished wall in a joint Instagram post.

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Astronaut carrying a bowl of fruit with a black bird perched on her backpack in Rocket01’s “Community” mural in La Bañeza, Spain

🍇 “Community”: An Astronaut Carries the Harvest — By Rocket01 in La Bañeza, Spain 🇪🇸

An astronaut carries a bowl of fruit while a black bird rests on her backpack. Rocket01 says “Community” is about rebuilding family ties and social connections, and making progress on Earth before looking for a wider cosmic community. Painted at Calle Fueros Leoneses 1C for Art Aero Rap 2026.

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Young woman, boy with a dog and strolling figures in Marek “Looney” Rybowski’s “Łąka Festynowa” mural in Gdańsk, Poland

🖼️ “Łąka Festynowa” Recalls a Lost Gathering Place — By Marek “Looney” Rybowski in Gdańsk, Poland 🇵🇱

“Łąka Festynowa” recalls the former Festival Meadow in Jaśkowa Dolina Park, once directly beside the building. A young woman and a boy with a dog are painted in muted tones against the mostly monochrome historical scene. Well-dressed figures walk in the background. Completed in May 2026 at Jaśkowa Dolina 74. The City of Gdańsk reports that the building’s residents funded the mural during the facade renovation.

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Two olive-green monsters with multiple animal heads and tentacle-like limbs in Kafé Korsé’s “NO ELEPHANT HERE!” mural near Mestia, Georgia.

🐘 “NO ELEPHANT HERE!” — By Kafé Korsé near Mestia, Georgia 🇬🇪

A local passerby insisted there was “no elephant here,” giving the work its title. In his account of the work, Kafé Korsé calls the mural his take on the story of Jason and the Argonauts. Painted for Gamo-Khate Mestia 2026, it forms one section of a 24-artist collaborative wall near Nesgumi Bridge in Lenjeri.

💡 Nerd Fact: In the myth, the Argonauts travel to Colchis, in present-day Georgia, in search of the Golden Fleece. Excavations at Vani have uncovered richly furnished graves dating from the seventh to first centuries BC.

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Panicked cartoon koala holding a spray can faces a huge bulldog with a bone in its speech bubble, by Snak13 and Esbomgaroto in Jandira, Brazil.

🐨 Koala Meets Bulldog — By Snak13 & Esbomgaroto in Jandira, Brazil 🇧🇷

At the Pista de Skate de Jandira, Snak13’s panicked koala grips a spray can while Esbomgaroto’s bulldog answers with a bone in its speech bubble. Photographed by Marcia Marton (@art_graffiti7).

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Spectral figurehead and ragged ghost ship crossing turquoise waves in RBK1’s “Vague à l’âme” mural at Spot 13 in Paris, France

🌊 “Vague à l’âme”: A Ghost Ship in Turquoise Water — By RBK1 in Paris, France 🇫🇷

A spectral figurehead cuts through rough water ahead of a ragged ghost ship. The ship leans with the wind while the figurehead looks ahead. Completed in August 2026 at Spot 13, 25 Quai d’Ivry. Photo by Jean Aej.

💡 Nerd Fact: The French expression vague à l’âme describes a feeling of melancholy with no precise cause. The title also plays on une vague, French for “a wave.”

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Purple figure aiming a spray can beside large SQWR lettering by SQWR / Skewer on Rivington Street in London, UK

🎨 A Purple Figure Aims a Spray Can — By SQWR / Skewer in London, UK 🇬🇧

A purple figure aims a spray can from the gable while SQWR lettering wraps the adjoining wall. The artist captioned the finished work “PSHHHT”. Painted at 82 Rivington Street, opposite Banksy’s “Designated Graffiti Area,” with the wall arranged by London Calling Blog.

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Orange-and-purple mural of a boy surrounded by a mouth, eyes, hands and an ear in “Speak All Good, See All Good, Hear All Good” by Efren Rebugio Jr. / Everyday Research in West Memphis, Arkansas

🗣️ “Speak All Good, See All Good, Hear All Good” — By Efren Rebugio Jr. / Everyday Research in West Memphis, Arkansas, USA 🇺🇸

Rebugio replaces “no evil” in the familiar motif with “all good.” He says the 47-by-20-foot mural asks viewers to reflect on what they choose to focus on. According to BAM West Memphis, the mural is at the Valero station on East Broadway. Painted for the inaugural 70 on 70 Mural Fest. Photo by Darkmode Photo.

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Long mural combining portraits, Tláloc, a UFO and the fragmented face of a Spaniard by Bowen, Re Maik, Emmanuel Cortes Rivera, RZZL Graff Studio and Hinojoza Art in Atlixco, Puebla, Mexico

🧱 Tláloc, Portraits and a UFO on One Long Wall — By Bowen, Re Maik, Emmanuel Cortes Rivera, RZZL Graff Studio & Hinojoza Art in Atlixco, Puebla, Mexico 🇲🇽

The artists based the mural on the festival theme of pre-Hispanic Mexico and Atlixco’s myths and legends. In their explanation of the mural, Tláloc faces a figure linked to Atlixco’s earlier Indigenous name. A UFO and the fragmented face of a Spaniard refer to later local history and lore. Painted in July 2026 for Festival Cultural El Refugio on Calle 9 Norte in Atlixco. Photo by Cecilia Antillón.

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Phone receiver, pipes, brickwork, stairs and mechanical letterforms painted on a black container by DU2 and Samuel Veloso in Cascavel, Brazil

🧰 Letters, Pipes and Stairs Cover a Black Container — By DU2 & Samuel Veloso in Cascavel, Brazil 🇧🇷

A phone receiver, pipes, brickwork, stairs and machine-like forms lock together across the black container. DU2 calls it an example of his “undercoisas” style and credits Samuel Veloso as a collaborator.

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Silver-toned winged child figure floating against a deep blue patterned wall in Nacle’s “Putto di Porcellana” mural in Morlaix, France

👼 “Putto di Porcellana” Floats Across the Gable — By Nacle in Morlaix, France 🇫🇷

Nacle says “Putto di Porcellana” is about how precious and fragile childhood is. The silver figure floats over a deep blue field patterned with motifs borrowed from luxury design. Created for MX Arts Tour 2026 at the corner of Rue du Poulfanc and Rue Gambetta. Photo by W&B Studio.

💡 Nerd Fact: Putto is the generic art-historical term for a winged infant. A Cupid is a putto associated with love, while a cherub is a putto used in a religious context.

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Blue eagle-form Louhi spreading her wings around windows and balconies in a mural by Polina Soloveichik in Kajaani, Finland

🦅 Louhi Takes the Form of an Eagle — By Polina Soloveichik in Kajaani, Finland 🇫🇮

Soloveichik’s mural depicts Louhi from the Finnish national epic Kalevala in eagle form. Her wings extend around windows and balconies in the shades of blue she often uses. Painted on the north gable at Koulukuja 3 for Concreate 2026, organized by Helsinki Urban Art.

💡 Nerd Fact: In Runo 43 of the Kalevala, Louhi takes eagle form after Väinämöinen wrecks her warship on a reef during the pursuit. She forms the eagle’s wings and tail from the broken vessel. In eagle form, Louhi carries one hundred swordsmen beneath one wing and one thousand archers on her tail as she attacks the boat holding the stolen Sampo.

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Hellboy smoking between interlocking graffiti letter pieces and yellow flames by Pupupums, Shub 110 and Romain Didierjean at GraffPark Chambéry in Chambéry, France

🔥 Hellboy Steps Between the Letter Pieces — By Pupupums, Shub 110 & Romain Didierjean in Chambéry, France 🇫🇷

Hellboy smokes between two interlocking letter pieces, with yellow flames running across the wall and a scorched landscape behind him. Shub 110 calls it an improvised “Hellboy Jam,” painted at GraffPark Chambéry.

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Full-wall and close-up views of a PERSO memorial, with blue-and-white graffiti pieces framing a central character, by CanTwo, Omeria and Kont One in Cologne, Germany

🕯️ A Cologne Wall Remembers PERSO — By CanTwo, Omeria & Kont One in Cologne, Germany 🇩🇪

CanTwo describes the central character as a tribute to Australian graffiti writer PERSO, whom he had met and painted with in Sydney 23 years earlier. Blue-and-white pieces by Omeria and Kont One frame the memorial. The larger jam was painted at Hall of Fame Kalkberg on Karlsruher Straße, one of the legal walls listed by the City of Cologne.

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An older woman and a younger woman seated at a dressing table with mirrors and bottles in the “Gerações” mural by Daniela Guerreiro and Mariana Duarte Santos in Freamunde, Portugal

🪞 Two Generations Share a Dressing Table in “Gerações” — By Daniela Guerreiro & Mariana Duarte Santos in Freamunde, Portugal 🇵🇹

An older and a younger woman sit side by side at a dressing table, surrounded by mirrors, bottles and compacts. The artists describe “Gerações” as a work about listening, sharing, preserving memories and making new ones. Painted for Projecto Putrica during Sebastianas 2026.

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Woman raising one hand beside oversized blue and pink flowers in Nitram Joke’s “BLOOM UP” mural in Vernier, Switzerland

🌺 “BLOOM UP” Fills the Blue Wall With Flowers — By Nitram Joke in Vernier, Switzerland 🇨🇭

A woman lifts her hand beside oversized blue and pink flowers. Nitram Joke says “BLOOM UP” was the first time he painted one of his characters at this scale. The 7-by-10-metre work was painted during Subway Burners in August 2026 for House of Paint at Route de Vernier 106.

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Brightly painted tiger peering through dense tropical leaves in Gian.ba1’s mural on a tiled wall in Wiesbaden, Germany

🐯 A Tiger Pushes Through the Leaves — By Gian.ba1 in Wiesbaden, Germany 🇩🇪

A tiger’s face fills the tiled wall, peering through dense tropical leaves. In his post about the mural, Gian.ba1 says it draws on ancestral spirit and presents Ai Apaec as a protector and guide. He writes that strength comes from balance with nature. Painted in July 2026 at Welfenstraße 1b, the former Kontext cultural center.

💡 Nerd Fact: “Ai Apaec” is a modern archaeological label, not a name securely traced to Moche times. A linguistic and archaeological study traced aiapac, meaning “maker,” to a 1644 Catholic text in which it is used as a title for the Christian God. The Moche figure’s original name remains unknown.

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