900 Liter Farbe, 3'000 Spraydosen...

... and 64 artists.

The most diverse street art festival is already running at full speed. At least when it comes to preparations. And — it's a lot of fun. Huge facades, paving stones, walls, fountains and roundabouts are given an incomparable signature of art, culture and inspiration. Do you want to know who is there and what to expect from June 2 — 4, 2023? Well then. Let's go.

Today we'll introduce you to a few international artists and a generational project that has never existed before.

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brazil

Thiago Goms is a world-renowned Brazilian mixed media artist. Fascinated by what he saw on the wall paintings in São Paulos and inspired by comics, cartoons and music, Thiago Goms creates his iconic works with anthropomorphic beings; a mix of the real and the playful. His trademark is cats, which he depicts in the form of wall paintings. He believes in looking for a less domesticated life outside the imposed norms, where you don't have many options.

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spain

The 28-year-old Slim Safont It's from Spain. More specifically from Barcelona. At the tender age of 12, he began to dive into the universe of urban art from an inner impulse. He drew his inspiration from modernist painters such as Sorella and Ramon Casa. His work focuses on a representative view of social aspects that he considers important. Since 2017, Slim Safont has not only been known in his home country, but is also present internationally on the festival scene; his murals can be seen in San Diego, Los Angeles, New York and Michigan, for example. Or Paris, Moscow and Italy. He is one of the top ten artists in the Graffity community.

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finland (competition winner)

Finn Anetta Lukjanova mainly works and lives in Helsinki.

For once, we reveal where she is making a large façade blossom with her art — because — she won the competition at the Reutenen retirement center. Residents there were allowed to get a taste of artificial air even before the festival. The management and board involved her in the process of creating the painting, which is being created in her residence as part of the Street Art Festival, and launched a competition. A total of ten artists submitted sketches, which were put to the vote. Anetta Lukjanova works in the style of contemporary magical realism and frequently mixes images from digital painting and the Internet with realistic representations in the style of classical oil painting.