New Street Art That Turns Buildings Into Stories (16 Photos, Vol. 37)
By Vidar
Windows, walls, and ivy become part of the art
A dragon curls around a real window, a painted face borrows a building’s glass eyes, and a turquoise fish swims from one gable toward a human gaze on the next. These sixteen works turn walls, tunnels, and whole facades into active parts of the story.
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🐟 Fish Meets Eye — By GOMAD in Geleen, Netherlands 🇳🇱
A giant turquoise fish swims across one gable while a sharply painted human eye watches from the next. The two facades turn into one strange, connected scene.
GOMAD says he completed the mural in eight to nine hours at De Driepoel, a fishing pond in his hometown of Geleen.
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🌹 A Flower Through the Smoke — By Razecki in Szczecin, Poland 🇵🇱
A blue-green figure leans toward a rose offered by a small character in a gas mask. Razecki describes the green palette as apocalyptic and almost toxic, with nature and technology intertwined around the fragile hope carried by the rose.
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🦉 “Matariki Messenger” — By SwiftMantis & Ephraim Russell in Dunedin, New Zealand 🇳🇿
A native ruru stretches across a celestial scene built around the Matariki star cluster. Local reporting describes the bird as a messenger carrying guidance and wisdom between people and their ancestors.
Painted on the northern exterior wall of Forsyth Barr Stadium, the mural also uses tā moko patterns that reference Te Whāngai i te Hautapu, a sacred ceremony of offerings to the stars.
Created for Puaka Matariki Festival in collaboration with Dunedin Street Art.
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🌸 “Blossoming Connection” — By Majilina in Chengdu, China 🇨🇳
Magnolia branches climb the tall facade as two egrets move between the blossoms. Majilina says the birds and flowers express connection, harmony, trust, and joy, while the “double harvest” combines growth in nature with growth through human relationships.
The 10-by-20-metre mural was created for Shuangfeng Community at No. 56 Shuangfeng Road.
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🪨 A Knot of Stone Figures — By Bond Truluv in Germany 🇩🇪
Several stone-like human figures twist into an impossible knot above living ivy. The painted weight and real greenery make the wall feel both solid and alive.
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🤖 “Ciberpunk” — By María García-Diéguez in Granada, Spain 🇪🇸
Two cybernetic women turn away from one another inside a neon cityscape, their faces opening into cables, joints and machinery. María García-Diéguez created “Ciberpunk” in Granada for Jornada 6 of the 2026 Liga Nacional de Graffiti.
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😊 Joy Across the Wall — By Congo in South Bend, Indiana, USA 🇺🇸
The laughing child is Congo’s niece Olivia; he calls it the most meaningful mural of his career. Flowers and leaves surround her, filling the long wall with color.
Created for Mural Mania at 711 S Main St.
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🏃 “Δρομέας / Runner” — By AP.SET in Thessaloniki, Greece 🇬🇷
A runner breaks into sharp monochrome fragments across the facade. The repeated edges stretch a single stride into a full wall of motion.
AP.SET created the mural in memory of marathoner and triathlete Dimitra Iordanidou, drawing inspiration from Costas Varotsos’s “Dromeas” sculpture.
Painted at Grigoriou Lampraki 37.
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🧵 “Apolonia Nowak” — By MGR MORS in Nowogród, Poland 🇵🇱
The portrait shows Apolonia Nowak of Kadzidło, an acclaimed Kurpie singer and master of traditional paper cutting, at work on a wycinanka. MGR MORS painted the mural during the fourth edition of Festiwal na Wzgórzu nad Rzeką.
Painted on the wall of Zespół Szkół Samorządowych at 11 Listopada 12.
Created for Festiwal na Wzgórzu nad Rzeką with Fundacja Adama Chętnika.
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🐉 “THE PORCELAIN PROPHECY” — By Kiwi Wall Art in Amstetten, Austria 🇦🇹
A porcelain-smooth face appears among mechanical creatures, cables and hard-edged forms. Kiwi Wall Art describes the work as a reflection on life’s fragility, the promises people live by, and the way things can flourish on their own.
Painted at the cycle underpass by Landesklinikum Mauer for the sixth Urban Art Festival Amstetten in collaboration with Kunstinitiative Amstetten.
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🌒 The Face and the Skull — By Naga Illustration in Rennes, France 🇫🇷
A woman’s profile overlaps a transparent skull while small illuminated houses sit in the dark landscape behind her. The black-and-white palette keeps the overlapping forms clear.
Painted during a July 2026 group session at La Coulée Verte; Naga’s original post credits Go Maurice for the photograph.
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🐉 “RISE OF THE DRAGON” — By TOKK in Bremen, Germany 🇩🇪
TOKK says the mural took four days and reinterprets a Chinese dragon with strong comic-book influences. The bright blue creature coils around a real window as orange flames shoot across the wall.
Painted across the facade of Langfinger Tattoo Club at Thedinghauser Str. 14.
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🔥 “Los Rostros del Lago Sagrado” — By Jch_eleno in San Isidro, Honduras 🇭🇳
According to the artist, the overlapping faces represent one spirit moving through generations. Two herons look in opposite directions—one guarding the origin and the other announcing the future—while a vessel inspired by finds at Los Naranjos and a coffee branch connect the work to the area’s archaeology, land, and inherited labor.
Painted at Instituto Gubernamental San Isidro for Festival Joya de Los Lagos.
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🚗 Breaking Through in Purple — By Body Hunter Tattoo & Yshaolini3 in Oborniki, Poland 🇵🇱
A crew of cartoon characters tears through the wall in a purple classic car. A pirate flag, flying paint roller, cracks, and exaggerated expressions heighten the sense of motion. Body Hunter Tattoo shared the finished collaboration in a July 2026 photo set.
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👁️ “Spojrzenie na Gryfino” — By Maciej “Kreda” Jurkiewicz in Gryfino, Poland 🇵🇱
The building becomes a face, with its real windows used as eyes. Kreda titled the work “Spojrzenie na Gryfino”.
Completed for the city’s “Dalsze życie ścian” project on the PUKART building of Gryfiński Dom Kultury at Szczecińska 5.
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🎨 Face Between Colors — By Daniel Sen Szymczyk in Lublin, Poland 🇵🇱
An orange face pushes through tall blue and green forms that slice the portrait into shifting layers. The color contrast makes the portrait visible from a distance.
Daniel Sen Szymczyk shared this finished wall from Meeting of Styles Lublin 2026. The festival schedule places the August 1 graffiti jam in the green areas at SKENDE Shopping.
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These walls on the map
15 works in 11 countries, from Geleen, Netherlands to Lublin, Poland. Pick a photo to see the work.
- 1 Geleen, Netherlands
- 2 Szczecin, Poland
- 3 Dunedin, New Zealand
- 4 Chengdu, China
- 5 Granada, Spain
- 6 South Bend, Indiana, USA
- 7 Thessaloniki, Greece
- 8 Nowogród, Poland
- 9 Amstetten, Austria
- 10 Rennes, France
- 11 Bremen, Germany
- 12 San Isidro, Honduras
- 13 Oborniki, Poland
- 14 Gryfino, Poland
- 15 Lublin, Poland
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