Murals in Wrocław

Murals in Wrocław

Attention – this note can be a little boring for native city dwellers ;)

Have you ever noticed (or counted) how many big paintings on building walls is in Wrocław ? I’m not from Wrocław and I remember that when I first came here I was under the impression of local murals.

Murals are in common sense recognized as a “big graffiti”. They are big-scale art works made on huge surfaces, usually on outdoor walls of buildings. Murals came from Mexico – this city is believed as a cradle of contemporary murals. Paintings was made also in other Latin America countries in 20’s and 30’s. Their aim was to picture national culture, history and social changes. There are known political murals e.g. in Belfast, where was concentrated riots caused by conflict in Northern Ireland. Present-day leader of murals is French city Lyon, where creates art-group Cité de la Création. Their murals beautifies town and aesthetically fills city space, cheats observer with help of perspective tricks or daubed architectonic elements.

In Wrocław we can find a lot of murals trough all the city, many of them is located in downtown. Murals in Wrocław was made by many respected street artist from all over the world (they usually use pseudonyms ) - DEM (Italy), BLU (Italy), Escif (Spain), Erica il Cane (Italy), FRM-kid (Poland), Jiem (France/Canada), M-City (Poland), Mudwig (Great Britain), Otecki (Poland), Remed (France, Sickboy (Great Britain) ,Vova Vorotniov (Ukraine), ZBK (Poland), Zosen (Spain).

Paintings comes into being from different initiatives, for example some of them were made as collaboration artists with BWA Wrocław. However, some of them is illegal.

You can see murals at this adresses:

Wyspa Słodowa 7

Cybulskiego 10

Cybulskiego 15

Dubois 5

Ptasia 22

Jedności Narodowej 110

Chrobrego 21

Jagiellończyka 33

Żeromskiego 53

Daszyńskiego 22

Wyszyńskiego 66

Górnickiego 20

Nowowiejska 20/22

Jana Pawła II

Nabycińska

Św. Antoniego 24b

Here are my pictures of murals in Nasypowa street and Borowska street.