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Last July 29th and 30th the Spanish artist Ona Salvador travelled to UK to participate in the Cheltenham Paint Festival. During the festival, a large number of murals were created in different parts of the town of Cheltenham. Within these days there were also held several urban art workshops and musical performances. Ona Salvador is an illustrator, plastic and urban artist, born in 1999 in Menorca, Balearic Islands, and currently lives in Barcelona. She likes to give life to the walls by cre...

There's no stoppint at Wallspot, so stay tuned because... We are celebrating a new edition of TRAVEL THE WALL! You can find below the call for artists to apply for the TRAVEL THE WALL 2023 edition. But first of all, do you know what this initiative consists of? Throughout 2023 we will organize one artist exchange between Barcelona and other European city: Cheltenham (United Kingdom). The call is open to all artists who live in Europa and are Wallspot users. Once closed, a Spanis...

Last Sunday, March 6th, the Dutch artist Thijs Lansbergen, winner of the last Wallspot Travel the Wall call, traveled to Barcelona to paint one of the Wallspot walls in the city, located in Drassanes.This was the first exchange to take place in the city for more than two years due to the pandemic and closed a circle, since previously the artist Maga, a reference in the city, painted one of the walls of the city of Thjis, in Rotterdam. So Thijs, an artist who has been working as an illustrator fo...

On October 6, Wallspot received in Barcelona the collective of urban artists KSR (Kocha Se Raya), Bolivian artists with a long history and who have been invited to numerous national and international events and festivals.This intervention is part of the Travel The Wall artistic exchange program. The artists painted the mural of the Guinardó (4.5 x 40 m).Wallspot covered production costs and documented the process with a video interview and photos. KSR collective merges elements such as typograph...

For this edition of Travel The Wall, Danny Rumbl was selected by Throw Up Gallery to portray his works in Scotland.Danny Rumbl is an illustrator and artist from Rotterdam where he’s working on illustrations, large scale murals and wooden sculptures. His inspiration springs from his love for cartoons and illustrations from the 60’s and 70’s, nature, food and modern pop culture.The artist's stayed in Aberdeen from October 25th to the 28th, and he has explained us his experience: “I was very happy...

Do you want to come to Barcelona (Spain) and paint a wall?We are launching an open call for the fifth edition of Travel the Wall, an international artistic exchange programme for the users of Wallspot’s platform. The selected artist will perform an intervention on March 2020 on one of the walls managed through Wallspot accompanied by Rebobinart, the cultural manager in Barcelona. It is a unique opportunity to discover a city, meet cultural actors and local artists, and publicise the work of Wall...

In this new edition of Travel The Wall, the international artistic exchange program for users of Wallspot, the artist selected in Barcelona was Philaico.Philaico is originally from Sao Paulo, Brazil, but he is living in Edinburgh, Scotland. Since 2010 he has focused his work on painting, screen printing and stencil techniques. Through his contact with urban art, he began to get involved with interventions, both graffiti and large format murals.For a few years now, he has been particularly intere...