Ernest Zacharevic Makes the Street Play Along (12 Photos)

October 26, 2026

By Vidar

Two street artworks by Ernest Zacharevic: a giant painted girl leaning over a Penang building and two boys dueling on drawn horses.

Paint meets the street, and the street answers back

Ernest Zacharevic makes walls, pipes, motorbikes, fences and even moss part of the picture. His official biography, which notes his training in Vilnius and London, describes his public work as rooted in the history and visual language of each site. These 12 archive photos run from Penang, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore to Vilnius and Stavanger.

From the SAU archive: All Ernest Zacharevic posts on Street Art Utopia and his official outdoor archive

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Little Girl in Blue by Ernest Zacharevic: a giant painted barefoot girl in a blue dress holds on to the tiled awnings of two real green-shuttered windows on a white building on Muntri Street, George Town, Penang.

“Little Girl in Blue” — George Town, Penang, Malaysia 🇲🇾

Known locally as Little Girl in Blue, this child braces herself on the awnings of two real windows on Muntri Street. Zacharevic painted her in 2012 for the George Town Festival.

💡 Project Fact: Zacharevic’s 2012 Penang murals were made for Mirrors George Town, the street art project of that year’s George Town Festival; TheSmartLocal counts eight of his wall paintings in the series.

From the SAU archive: Street Art by Ernest Zacharevic in Penang, Malaysia

Style Wars by Ernest Zacharevic in Singapore: two painted boys joust on crayon-style yellow and blue horses, one with a skull shield and paint roller, the other with a pot helmet and a long brush.

“Style Wars” — Joo Chiat, Singapore 🇸🇬

Painted in 2013 at the corner of Joo Chiat Terrace and Everitt Road, the mural turns paint tools into weapons in a make-believe duel. Zacharevic says the wall was initiated by local residents.

From the SAU archive: Street Art by Ernest Zacharevic in Malaysia

Ernest Zacharevic murals on a crumbling wall on Ah Quee Street, Penang: a painted boy pulls a line-drawn dinosaur on a leash, and a second painted boy sits on a real black motorcycle in front of a red door.

“Boy on a Bike” and “Little Boy with Pet Dinosaur” — George Town, Penang, Malaysia 🇲🇾

The two 2012 murals share a wall on Ah Quee Street. The motorcycle is a real, disused bike added as a prop. Photo: Simstravel.

💡 History Fact: In late September 2024, twelve years after the George Town Festival, Zacharevic returned to Penang to restore the Ah Quee Street motorcycle mural and two others from 2012, and met the boy from the mural, now grown up.

A blue spiral water slide on a black scaffold tower, painted by Ernest Zacharevic on a stained wall in Malaysia, ends at a wet, mossy patch.

Water Slide — Malaysia 🇲🇾

A painted water slide ends at a wet, mossy patch on an old wall.

Moss growing on a weathered white wall forms the leaves of a painted black tree, with two tiny painted figures standing on a mossy ledge, by Ernest Zacharevic in Malaysia.

Moss Tree — Malaysia 🇲🇾

The wall’s moss becomes the canopy of a painted tree.

Children in a Boat by Ernest Zacharevic: a small girl and an older boy with an oar sit in a painted red and blue boat on the wooden wall of a stilt house at Chew Jetty, Penang, with a real boat on the water below.

“Children in a Boat” — Chew Jetty, Penang, Malaysia 🇲🇾

Known as Children in a Boat, this 2012 George Town Festival mural puts two children in a painted sampan on the wall of a stilt house at Chew Jetty. Its spot just above the water left it badly weathered within a year.

Three concrete bollards painted as Minions in goggles and blue overalls by Ernest Zacharevic in Singapore, one standing on a pile of painted bananas.

Minion Bollards — Joo Chiat, Singapore 🇸🇬

Three ordinary bollards become Minions from Despicable Me. The press listed them among his Singapore works in 2013; they stood beside Style Wars in Joo Chiat and have since been painted over.

From the SAU archive: By Ernest Zacharevic in Singapore

Four rusty pipe ends on a wall are painted with watchful eyes by Ernest Zacharevic in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Pipe Eyes — Vilnius, Lithuania 🇱🇹

Old pipe ends look back at the street. Photo: Edgaras Buiko.

From the SAU archive: Street Art by Ernest Zacharevic in Vilnius, Lithuania

A simple painted snail by Ernest Zacharevic uses two real pipe ends as its eyes on a building in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Pipe Snail — Vilnius, Lithuania 🇱🇹

Two pipes supply the eyes for a painted snail. Photo: Gaboras Ileš.

From the SAU archive: Ernest Zacharevic’s Snail in Vilnius, Lithuania

A painted child’s face and hand peer out through a gap in a dense roadside hedge in Bangsar, Kuala Lumpur, in Ernest Zacharevic’s tribute to P183.

Tribute to P183 — Bangsar, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 🇲🇾

A roadside hedge becomes part of Zacharevic’s tribute to P183.

💡 Artist Fact: P183 was a Moscow street artist whom Western media dubbed the “Russian Banksy.” His death was reported in April 2013, when he was in his late 20s.

From the SAU archive: By Ernest Zacharevic in Tribute to P183

Ernest Zacharevic mural on Nygata, Stavanger, Norway: two children painted like bronze statues, a boy standing against the wall and a girl looking over a real wooden fence topped with wire.

Johanna and Broremann — Stavanger, Norway 🇳🇴

Two painted siblings take their places around a real fence on Nygata during Nuart Festival 2015. They echo Svein Magnus Håvarstein’s nearby statue of Johanna and Broremann, but here the children no longer hold hands. Photo: Ian Cox.

From the SAU archive: Nuart Festival 2015 in Stavanger, Norway

A red cross-stitch pattern of a house, fir trees and mountains, with orange flames on the roof, covers the white gable of a house in Stavanger, Norway, signed ZACH by Ernest Zacharevic.

Cross-Stitch House — Stavanger, Norway 🇳🇴

A white gable becomes a giant cross-stitch sampler, with a traditional house whose roof has caught fire. Painted for Nuart Festival 2015. Photo: Ian Cox.

💡 Festival Fact: Zacharevic’s Stavanger walls were part of Nuart’s 15-year anniversary edition in 2015.

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