New Street Art That Stays With You (12 Photos, Vol. 26)

Color, character, and stories that change the whole street

This round moves from playful fish and fragmented portraits to a startled chimp, a tribute to Orelha, a warning about monsters behind screens, and a wall built from cultural memory.

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🐟 “Rencontres” — By Vincent Gibeaux in Caorle, Italy 🇮🇹

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“Rencontres” fills the facade with imaginary, brightly colored fish. The festival describes them meeting through curiosity and exchange rather than competition, turning the wall into a playful image of coexistence on Via del Rombo.

💡 Nerd Fact: In Italian, “rombo” can also mean “turbot”, giving the mural’s address an additional fish reference.

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🌿 A Quiet Figure at Monumental Scale — By Irene Remón in Kajaani, Finland 🇫🇮

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A crouching figure fills the gable at Koulukuja 1, yet the pale blues and loose brushwork keep the scene intimate. Remón completed the mural for Concreate 2026, part of the Oulu2026 European Capital of Culture year.

💡 Nerd Fact: Oulu2026 is a regional programme rather than one confined to Oulu: the city shares its European Capital of Culture year with 39 other cities and municipalities across northern Finland.

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✨ “Tvář města” (Face of the City) — By Sokar Uno in Jablonec nad Nisou, Czech Republic 🇨🇿

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“Tvář města” (“Face of the City”) is not a portrait of a particular person: the woman represents Jablonec itself. Crystal-like reflections recall the city’s glass and jewelry traditions, while her open hands connect its past and future.

Sokar Uno painted it on the Eurocentrum wall at U Muzea for Město Galerie. Photo by Marcel Sweetcity.

💡 Nerd Fact: Jablonec’s Museum of Glass and Jewellery holds approximately 12 million objects and describes itself as the only museum in the world combining glass and jewellery as equal specialist fields.

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🔷 A Portrait Made of Fragments — By IOTA in Colmar, France 🇫🇷

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IOTA’s 5 × 3.7-meter mural breaks the face into planes of violet, grey, white, and warm skin tones. The recessed architecture turns the wall into a built-in frame.

Painted at 38 Rue des Jardins with Collectif Tonic.

💡 Nerd Fact: IOTA’s technique has roots in pointillism. Her artist biography explains that spray paint provided a compromise between point-by-point precision and freedom of movement.

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🎼 Organ Pipes Meet a Rose Window — By Jason Wasserman in Montreal, Canada 🇨🇦

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Wasserman based the mural on the architecture of Montreal’s Notre-Dame Basilica, combining its pipe organ with circular rose-window geometry. The vertical composition makes the brick facade at 4478 Rue De Bullion feel much taller.

Created for MURAL Festival.

💡 Nerd Fact: The basilica’s Casavant organ was inaugurated in 1891 and now contains 7,000 pipes ranging from 6.35 millimetres to 9.75 metres in length.

More: Street Art With Its Own Soundtrack (10 Photos)

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🐒 Wide-Eyed Chimp — By Jaciel Esko Alatorre and Soker 113K in León, Mexico 🇲🇽

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A wide-eyed chimp anchors the wall while angular lettering closes in from both sides. Alatorre documented the finished collaboration with Soker 113K.

💡 Nerd Fact: In a foundational 1970 experiment, chimpanzees marked with red dye showed evidence of recognizing their own reflections. The research became the basis of the mirror-mark test used in studies of animal self-recognition.

Photo by Luxy in the Sky. Painted on Calle Ceferino Ortiz for END Crew’s 16th anniversary.

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🐶 A Tribute to Orelha — By Arte Kim in Uberlândia, Brazil 🇧🇷

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Arte Kim painted the wall for SOS Pet Uberlândia as a tribute to Orelha, a dog killed in a brutal act of abuse. The sunglasses and gold chain give the tribute portrait a proud, defiant presence at Rua Duque de Caxias 1320.

💡 Nerd Fact: Brazil’s Law 14.064 of 2020 established a penalty of two to five years’ imprisonment, a fine, and prohibition of custody for cruelty involving a dog or cat.

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🎣 The Catch Looks Back — By Feck Criss in León, Mexico 🇲🇽

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A frantic fisherman and the fish in his hand mirror each other’s alarm, turning the wall into a perfectly frozen cartoon beat. Feck Criss documented the finished mural in León.

Created on Calle Ceferino Ortiz for END Crew’s 16th anniversary.

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🎧 Monsters Behind the Screen — By Nacle One in Besançon, France 🇫🇷

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A child’s phone glows beneath a creature looming overhead. In Nacle One’s explanation, some modern “monsters” hide behind screens, patterns of control, or fear; the wall was painted as part of a message against sexist and sexual violence, including sexual violence against children.

Painted alongside Black Lines in Besançon.

💡 Nerd Fact: In France, the national 119 child-protection line is free, confidential, available 24 hours a day, and does not appear on telephone bills.

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🐍 “Wicked Duality” — By VLAD and VaneMG in London, UK 🇬🇧

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“Wicked Duality” brings VLAD’s serpent and shadowed portrait together with VaneMG’s heart-and-eye imagery. The artists describe it as two local styles meeting on one wall in Hackney Wick.

Painted outside CRATE Brewery in Hackney Wick. Photo by Brian B.

💡 Nerd Fact: Hackney Wick was an important site in the early history of plastics. In 1865, Alexander Parkes manufactured Parkesine, the first semi-synthetic plastic, in the district.

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🌀 A Face Moving Through Color — By L7MATRIX in Calais, France 🇫🇷

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Blue, pink, white, and turquoise gestures explode from a calm profile. Calais’s festival page describes L7MATRIX’s work as a fusion of detailed realism, free geometry, abstraction, and nature.

Painted at the corner of Rue du Four à Chaux and Boulevard Einstein for Calais Street Art Festival with Les Ateliers du Graff.

💡 Nerd Fact: Calais’s mechanical lace industry began in 1816, when three Englishmen crossed the Channel clandestinely to establish the city’s first mechanical looms. Calais later became a major centre of Leavers lace production.

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🎭 “Orfeão” — By Projeto Ruído in Covilhã, Portugal 🇵🇹

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Created for the centenary of Orfeão da Covilhã, “Orfeão” samples archival photographs, sheet music, historical documents, and local references. The result is a public album of collective memory at architectural scale.

Painted at Largo da Alegria 13, beside the Orfeão, for WOOL | Covilhã Urban Art.

💡 Nerd Fact: The festival’s name refers directly to its host city. WOOL was founded in 2011 from a combination of street art and Covilhã’s long association with the textile industry.

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These walls on the map

12 works in 9 countries, from Caorle, Italy to Covilhã, Portugal. Pick a photo to see the work.

1. 1 Caorle, Italy
2. 2 Kajaani, Finland
3. 3 Jablonec nad Nisou, Czech Republic
4. 4 Colmar, France
5. 5 Montreal, Canada
6. 6 León, Mexico
7. 7 Uberlândia, Brazil
8. 8 León, Mexico
9. 9 Besançon, France
10. 10 London, UK
11. 11 Calais, France
12. 12 Covilhã, Portugal

Loved on Street Art Utopia, from these places

• LondonCrunchie · Helga Stentzel
• MontrealHOPE · The Martherapy
• CalaisLe Poisson combattant · Sweo & Nikita
• CaorleSostenibile Sostenersi · C0110

Which one is your favorite?