We love finding Street Art on our journeys! The search for New Food and Food influences has always been number one when traveling but recently we discovered that we enjoy stumbling upon the Arts of the Street.
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Table of Content: "Top Guide to Street Art and Murals in Budapest you must see"
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Our friend Neda aka @virusfreak79 on Instagram (she's on a 2000+ km trip right now Mural Hunting and Exploring the Australian Street Art Scene - you must follow her!) wrote a Guest Blog Post on The Silo Art Trail for us and has been our friend for a long time with beautiful Guest Blog Posts on Street Art. She also was kind to give us some Street Art and Mural Art tips now when we traveled to Budapest.
Urban Street Art in Budapest
The first morning in Budapest Spoons had read about District VII and that it was supposed to be a lot of Murals, Urban Art, and Street Art there and went for a longer Street Art walk.
He didn't find "anything"! Neda was a little upset as she had sent a great link writing about the Colorful City Budapest Festival Project starting as early as 2008 by Colorful City Organisation. A lot of Hungarian and foreign street artists and Mural Painters joined in and made Budapest more colorful and vibrant with help of sponsors. Since then the civil-based movement has been coloring 15 000 sqm of walls around Budapest!
The basic idea is built on Victor Vasarely's Colorful City concept, published in 1983 which bottom line is that art is to set foot on the streets, and public spaces and that people should not only meet with fine art pieces in galleries - a true visionary of a modern city view with art everywhere!
Sticks & Spoons Top Guide to Budapest Street Art and Murals you must see!
Living Space | Artist: Fat Heat and Bea Pántya | Location: Arany János/ Sas utca 20-22
The work is not only astonishing to look at - you can also bring it to LIFE! Augmented reality is a cutting-edge technology that uses our real world but spices it up with overlays of color and animation!
The company Lara based in Budapest uses the technology both practically and creatively in their Lara App which gives Living Space Mural amazing life! Just watch the Clip!
First of all; Budapest is such an architectural city! Never before have the hashtags #lookup and #lookaround been so much used by us. Everywhere you go you see beautiful buildings but one sad thing is that a lot of them are in severe decay!
On the positive side; there are construction sites where new buildings come alive and even if it could seem like an almost endless project you see reparation of facades and insides of buildings wherever you go.
But a downside to that is also that a lot of old facades - and also Murals, unfortunately - will disappear forever in the process!
Taking a Street Art Tour in Budapest
Greetings from Budapest | Artist: Lehel Nyeste | Location: Rákóczi Bridge
Blind Date | Artist: Mr. Trash | Location: Rákóczi Bridge
Even though the big murals; often as big as 200 sqm++ are the ones that are easiest to find you can stumble upon cool, fun, and fantastic works of Street Art just by strolling around.
Indeed, there were many works in District 7 and around the Jewish Quarter and Dob utca - where a lot of Restaurants and Bars are located.
We found ourselves saying "Why isn't it a mural here? Why hasn't someone done some graffiti or Streetart here?" as we walked the streets of Budapest - and some of the times we found art where we expected.
The different Art Styles of Street Art in Budapest
UNHCR | Artist: Neopaint | Location: Gozsdu courtyard
ÁNGEL SANZ BRIZ | Artist: Okudart | Location: Dob street 4
Sticker Artist: @misskk_budapest (Instagram account)
"Mi Casa Su Casa" | Artist: Neopaint
BIKE | Artist: Neopaint | Location: Akácfa street 9
But it's when you find one of those big ones you get amazed and stand and look a long time trying to figure out what the artist had in mind while creating the details of the work.
One of them we found at Rákóczi Bridge on the Buda side once again.
Busy City | Artist: Dorottya Jakócs | Location: Rákóczi Bridge
This work covering 200 sqm has a lot of details and is yet different from many of the Murals - full of weird action and color! What are those three big ladies doing to the city?
Favorite Mural Paintings and Street Art in Budapest
Another great artist that has set a colorful mark on the city is BreakOne! We fell in love with his style using a lot of color and animals in his work!
Swallows “Calmness, or rampage” | Artist: BreakOne | Location: Akácfa Street
The theme for this Mural was the visual representation of the dichotomy “Nyugalom, vagy tombolás” (‘Calmness, or rampage”).
Artist Carlos BreakOne thinks that the swallows best personify calmness and that they are a symbol of peace, which is why he painted three of these birds on the 80 sqm wall.
On the opposite side of Swallows on the same dichotomy, we found another great Mural Painting - in a similar style!
CHILL OR SPIN | Artist: Cekas | Location: Akácfa street 25
Miraculous Hind or White Stag | Artist: BreakOne | Location: Régiposta street 4.
LANDSCAPE | Artist: Neopaint | Location: Király street 23
LANDSCAPE | Artist: Neopaint | Location: Király street 23
LANDSCAPE | Artist: Neopaint | Location: Király street 23
JING JANG CITY | Artist: Zsuzsi Bakos | Location: Erzsébet bridge
On Earth, In the Water, In the Air | Artist: Balázs Pusztai Location: Erzsébet Bridge, Buda side
Hungarian street artist Balázs Pusztai (@Pubberoner Instagram account) uses physical manifestations and low-key colors in his work to symbolize the nature of life in Budapest and the diversity of society.
MAN OF THE YEAR | Artist: Neopaint Location: Wesselényi street 40
Man of the Year - This is a recreation of the 1956 Time Magazine cover representing all of the civilian fighters of the 1956 revolution. It was painted in 2017 exactly 60 years after the issue was published.
The Life Cycle of Street Art and Murals
Poseidon | Artist: Felix Spok Brillor and KÓRZE | Location: Nagy Diófa street 14
Spanish Artist Felix Spok Brillor and Frenchman KORSÉ met to collaborate in creating this 230 sqm Mural with Poseidon in this slightly surreal present, placing old-time traditions in a modern environment emphasizing the intermingling of past and present, and the constant progression of our world.
Andrey Adno (Russia) | Location: Nagydiófa Street 12
This Russian artist Andrey Adno created this 240-sqm Mural Painting in record time! He completed the huge street art in only three days!
Dionysus | Artist: Attila Balogh |Location: Nagydiófa Street 12
Those three magnificent Mural Paintings will probably disappear as new houses take place. (EDIT: When Spoons visited a second time with his sons they were gone and a big apartment and office building was built where the construction area is in the photo above)
Fully understandable that progress has to be but sad to see all Murals once vibrant and colorful slowly fade away, or be torn down.
Pop Art Budapest - Love thy Neighbor | Artist: Luke Embden (UK) Location: Dob Street 40
After starting to turn the bridge pillars into pop art well-known quotes like “Love will tear us apart” and “Looking for love in all the wrong places”; British artist Luke Embden also did “Love thy neighbor” in the middle of Budapest's party quarter around Dob Street.
CITY PEOPLE | Artists: Dorottya Jakócs and Tripo | Location: Dob street 36-38.
This Mural on Dob Street became our favorite and we were lucky to walk by it several times. Which one of the Murals, Street Art or Graffiti was your favorite? Let us know in the comments!
Hope you enjoyed this Blog Post! We will for sure make new ones when we stumble on Street Art next time as well as write about old finds so check back soon!
We got recognized by guideme budapest by the way! Read all about it here! We appreciate the collaboration guys!
Stay Arty!
// Sticks & Spoons
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