A Squid Called Sebastian

Jay Kaes

Novadead

Nils Westergard

SozyOne

REVER

Rise One

Karski

Beyond

<p>For the 2019 edition, Meeting of Styles finally redone the big wall next to the entrance of the Zomerfabriek. Now you'll find 7 big walls (60m²) of different artists and different styles.<br><br>Nils Westergard (Richmond Virginia, USA)<br>Actually on the inside of the 'Zomerfabriek', so only visible when you enter, but you'll find a typical portrait of this artist.<br><br>A Squid called Sebastian (Ghent, Belgium)<br>Everybody's heard of the wolf in sheep's clothing. But these days we're all seeing these perfect suited policy makers defining our future while looking after their own.<br><br>Karski &amp; Beyond (the Netherlands)<br>The Dutch duo came to Antwerp for the second time and left this Big Squeeze.<br><br>Jay Kaes (UK)<br>Opinion, the artists raises the question of who's running things these days.<br><br>Novadead (Liege, Belgium)<br>Opium Fever, Nova popped by in between jobs and left his typical signature mix: a figurative and abstract portrait.<br><br>SozyOne (Brussels, Belgium)<br><br>Rever (Paris, France)<br>Guilty Forever<br><br>Rise One (Antwerp, Belgium)<br>Part of the organising Aerosolkings Rise used his graffiti skills to paint another Dragoball Z inspired wall.</p>

Hall of Styles

Tim Rodermans

<div>For more as a year we have to keep distance because of Covid-19. This couple is dreaming of the time it was normal to shake hands with your friends or kiss eachother.</div>

Dream........

<div>Karskione and Tim Rodermans painted Tim's daughter. This is next to the museum of streetart. The animals, we call them in Holland "Stokstaart", are very socializing animals all looking out when the period of social distancing is going to end.</div>

Untitled

<div>With this work I want to create awareness for the global warming problem we have. The world is getting warmer and we are melting. This wall was made during Zidart streetart festival 2023</div>

Melting

Herman Brood & Rembrand

Stop the Drop

<p>The woman depicted is Liberian human rights activist Satta F. Sheriff. She is founder and executive director of Action for Justice and Human Rights, an NGO that promotes access to justice and respect for human rights in Liberia.&nbsp;</p><p>The other portrait is Boyan Slat, founder and chairman of the board of The Ocean Cleanup Foundation. Boyan is committed to cleaning up the plastic soup from the oceans.&nbsp;</p><p>The project was realized in collaboration with UN Youth for Impact -One Planet-museon-Omniversum-Stroom.</p>

Hunter

Peace Mural

<div>On one of the inner walls of the Sacred Heart of Jesus parish stands this piece of art. The title narrates the wish to offer a lasting witness of social cohesion. This project is particularly aimed to the youth, to creatively stimulate them against any form of racism, intolerance and discrimination. As the president of the association "Noi" (literally "Us") said: "Inclusion is a word form which we can no longer compromise". &nbsp;</div>

The wall of inclusion

<p>This image was selected in close cooperation with the people living in the neighbourhood.</p>

Boy with basket ball

<p>This portrait was painted during the Whitecross street festival, summer 2023. This is a serie of portraits Karski is working on. When he was only 4 years old he was playing a lot with play-do in different colors. since then Karski is inspired by different textures. These portraits are a mix between play-do sculptures and wet paint.</p>

Queens

Bier en Brood

Eelco van den Berg

Nicky Nahafahik

Marcus Wedman

ETRS

Tymon de Laat

SMOK

Bird

<div>During the Kings of Colors Festival of 2019 various artist created these new artworks on the north side of the silo's.<br>In 2017 the south side were filled with art, now the filled in the blanks on the north side.<br>The Silo's are 21 meters high!&nbsp;<br>The artist from left to right: (will fill in the blanks soon!)<br><br>1:&nbsp;<br>2: Marcus Wedman / Nicky Nahafahik<br>3:&nbsp;<br>4: Tymon de Laat / ETRS<br>5:&nbsp;<br>6:&nbsp;<br>7: Bier en Brood</div>

Tramkade Silo's North Side

<div>This wall is painted together with Tim Rodermans. Since the West Kruiskade in Rotterdam is known for the Asian shop we made this girl holding a rabbit because 2023 is known as the year of the rabbit for the Chinese people.</div>

The year of the rabbit.

<div>You're looking at 2 great spotted woodpeckers. They are known for creating the perfect home and evironment and defending their territory.<br>The Red and yellow refer to the colors of Lecce. The mural can be seen when entering the 167 from the US Lecce stadion.<br><br>The 167 neighborhood - built in the late 70's to meet the many demands for social housing.<br>This mural is located right across the infamous former "L'Aula Bunker".<br><br>Characterized by its large buildings, it was an involuntary witness of the worst time in the 90's thanks to the transformation of the "Zimbalo" elementary school, located in the center of the neighborhood, into "L 'Aula Bunker". This was the basement building where all the processes took place against the fourth mafia, the "Sacra Corona Unita".<br><br>The militarization of the neighborhood and the slow abandonment of the only commercial activities in the area led to a sort of social "glaciation", only many years later, thanks to interventions to enhance the squares, streets and public green areas, attention began to be seen greater towards this piece of town.<br><br>Over 10 years <a href="https://www.instagram.com/167bstreet/">167bstreet</a> is putting in great effort to make this zone a more attractive place to live. Part of this is the realization of murals since 2017.<br>Most of the architecture is pretty brutal with loads of concrete. The murals are a very welcome intervention which brighten up the area a lot!</div>

a perfect house

Maxumi.alpha

Chas

Fish

Gomad

mattez

<p>For the companies Vice Versa and Dome X in Oss there is a mural of approximately 2,000 m2, 17m high x 116m long. Building wraping at its greatest!</p>

Ode to Oss

<div>You can spot this almost 300 m² of street art on the Neringweg in Lelystad. On the mural, you can see Cornelis Lely, the founder of Flevoland, with a large beaver on the other side. The artwork depicts the origin of Lelystad. The dynamic shapes and depths are very typical for both the artistic duo's, with the artists from Bier en Brood painting mostly in black and white and the duo of Karski and Beyond painting often in bright colors. The combination of both these couples makes for a great collaboration, with lots of interesting elements.&nbsp; <br>&nbsp;<br><strong>Augmented Reality</strong>&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<br>By means of a special Augmented Reality technique, you can make this painting come to life. On the left side of the work, you will find a sign with a QR code that you can scan. This unique AR layer was developed in collaboration with Moyosa Media. The combination of Augmented Reality and street art is unique. In the Netherlands, only a handful of street artworks have an AR layer.<br><br>Made possible by Writer's Block Murals.&nbsp;</div>

Origin of Lelystad

<div>&nbsp;A 160-metre long wall along the “Foodstrip” is the backdrop for the longest open-air street artwork in Amsterdam.<br><br></div><div>With the painting of the 160-metre long wall along the “Foodstrip” on the Tafelbergweg, we have taken the initiative to create a rather special and vibrant welcoming entrance to the area. The responsible artistic duos, Karski &amp; Beyond and Bier en Brood, have been working hard for 10 days and the result is already quite impressive. Feel free to come round and watch the artists at work!&nbsp;<br><br></div><div><strong>Artistic choice</strong><br>Artists were chosen to have both duos collaborate on a single design in which their contrasting styles reinforce each other to create a powerful image. The combination of surrealistic, colourful art with the more geometric, psychedelic black-and-white art, supplemented with abstract and realistic elements, visualises a dreamlike world and serves as an invitation to explore the surreal reality of a developing city, an area still in its infancy, and a place where a mix of vibrant elements come together. It stretches the imagination in terms of what is or is not there, which is exactly what Amstel III now looks like.<br><br></div><div>During the 2017 Street Art Awards, Karski &amp; Beyond were chosen as the best Street Artist in the Netherlands.<br><br></div><div><strong>Collaboration</strong><br>The artwork is the result of a collaboration between Caransa Groep B.V. and ZO!City, and is being carried out with the support of Anouk Piket, the person responsible for realising R.U.A. – Reflexo on Urban Art.&nbsp;<br><br></div>

Foodstrip

<div>These two portraits are painted by Karski. The pictures from the model were taken by Ilona Varesk a famous Russian photographer. The model came to Amsterdam to see the wall in person.</div>

<div>After Karski and Beyond won the Dutch street art award for best murals in 2017, they went into the city center of Amsterdam and painted these 2 portraits of two famous artists. On the left Herman Brood and on the right Rembrandt van Rijn. This was an illegal wall.</div>

<div>The Hague is the city of Peace and Justice. The Mural of Change is a beacon of hope, a tribute to our world, human rights defenders and a call to action. It represents three human rights activists: Greta Thunberg, Tbilisi Shelter and Berta Cáceres.</div>

Mural of Change

<div>Karski and Beyond painted this wall for Netflix to promote a new season from Orange is the new black.</div>

Orange is the new black for Netflix

<div>Abstract work of Karski and Beyond: artists words: “leave it to everybodies imagination what they see.”</div>

Mister

Mr. JUNE

turmoil

SEKTIE

REAL

Sapo

Reser

<div>This wall was painted in 2021 in Turin Italy. Painted by Karski and Beyond</div>

Equality

<div>And the 3rd one in the serie...This time the hand with rubber glove from Beyond with fluid acrylic paint dripping down. Painted by Karski and Beyond during Meeting of Styles in Antwerpen.</div>

<p>The Waste Department of the municipality of 's-Hertogenbosch called on the help of Kings of Colors in 2021 to start transforming the boring metal containers in the city into beautiful colorful works of art.</p><p>These ones were painted by Karski.</p><p>Roy Valk, also known as graffiti artist Karski, is the creative brain behind MooieMuur, the collective that he founded more than 20 years ago. Roy started his graffiti career in the early 1980's, what's making him one of the most experienced artists in the Netherlands.&nbsp;When he was a child he started as a graffiti rascal and when getting older he turned his passion into his work. Before MooiMuur existed, he had an advertising agency, but his great love kept calling. He changed course and has completely gone into making murals. When he was young Karski also preferred to play with children's clay. He has been using this preference for years in his design process for the large scale murals that he painted with artist Beyond. Large blobs of clay used to be part of many of their murals.</p><p>Recently, Karski switched from lumps of clay to blobs of paint and he is turning these into amazing portraits like this one on the container.</p><p>You can find all art containers together on a special website: https://containerkunst.nl/</p>

Country Manager

<div>An hommage to the stork, symbol of The Hague.</div>

Marij Nielen

De zwemster 

<p>A big mural painted by Karski &amp; Beyond in the Schipperskwartier (Skippers quater) area referring to the history of the area.</p>

Ship in the Skippers Quartier area

<div>“Navigli and Grachten” wall paint by Karskiandbeyond organisation by We Run The Streets Milan in Trezzano sul Naviglio.</div>

<div>This is one of the two walls that Karski painted at this square in The Hague. This one is dedicated to the Haagse markt (the Hague Market) where many locals buy there fresh fruits and vegetables.</div>

Market

<p>Fantastic mural by for the "Kantje pikkken" (walking along the harbour) project in the harbour of IJmuiden. </p>

The old sailor

<div>Karski painted this mural for Indoor action a local sport and yoga studio in Arnhem. painted in 2023</div>

Paul Watty

<p>This artwork was commissioned by the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, which often performs in concert venue de Doelen just around the corner from this wall. In the upper left corner we see chief conductor Lahav Shani, accompanied by several musicians from the orchestra on the rest of the mural.</p><p>For the artists this was the first time working with brushes and rollers instead of spray cans. This because of limitations set by the building owner. </p>

<p>"I started a project with young people from the neighbourhood. They indicated that there is a lot of litter in the neighborhood. So we went to collect garbage for a day. We made a bouquet of flowers from that waste." shares Karski<br>You see a candy wrapper, a Coca Cola can, a Red Bull can and a flower made from playing cards. The pink flowers were artificial flower which we also found on the street. Through this project, the young people are more aware of throwing their waste in the trash.</p>

Crew

Plastic Flowers

<div>This was a commercial wall Tim Rodermans and Karski painted for Oatly. The wall was used in a commercial.<br>And fun fact....the model on the wall drove by the location in the tram and stepped out to talk with us because she saw her self on the wall.</div>

oatly

Sfhir

eleman

Klaas Lageweg

Silo's Riedel

Space Football (Football Continents)

<p>One of Karski's paint strokes made with thick acrylic paint.<br>Painted by Karski and Beyond for Kings of Colors festival in Den Bosch.</p>

Abstract

<div>Painted by Karski and Beyond</div>

The big clean up.

<p>Karski (1974) &amp; Beyond (1983) are known as an artist duo from the Netherlands. They have a background in graphic design and the academy of fine arts and were heavily involved in graffiti. Karski picked up the spray can when he was only 10 years old. Beyond, being from another generation, started painting in 1997.</p><p>This work was made for a housing association. Karski and Beyond spoke with the neighbourhood what kind of picture they wanted. People wanted something colourful and so the 4 murals on the Laakweg are very colourful. This one shows a big stork (symbol of The Hague) and a baby and crown because The Hague is the city where the Dutch king works and lives most of the time. They also want to show that every child can become a king.</p>

<p>Karski (1974) &amp; Beyond (1983) are known as an artist duo from the Netherlands. They have a background in graphic design and the academy of fine arts and were heavily involved in graffiti. Karski picked up the spray can when he was only 10 years old. Beyond, being from another generation, started painting in 1997.</p><p>This work was made for a housing association. Karski and Beyond spoke with the neighbourhood what kind of picture they wanted. They want something colourful and so the 4 murals on the Laakweg are very colourful.</p>

<p>Karski (1974) &amp; Beyond (1983) are known as an artist duo from the Netherlands. They have a background in graphic design and the academy of fine arts and were heavily involved in graffiti. Karski picked up the spray can when he was only 10 years old. Beyond, being from another generation, started painting in 1997.<br><br>This work was made for a housing association. Karski and Beyond spoke with the neighbourhood what kind of picture they wanted. They want something colourful and so the 4 murals on the Laakweg are very colourful. This one represents the youth. It exudes cheerfulness and freedom. Have fun and have a carefree childhood.</p>

<div>With this portrait Karski and Tim Rodermans wanted to give the Albert Cuijp market a face. Since Albert Cuijp never painted a self portrait we have no idea how he looked. That's why they painted a combination of one of his most famous portraits and one of his marine paintings.</div>

The face of the market.

<p>This painting is one of the works on a 160 meters long wall at Tafelbergweg in Amsterdam. </p><p>'The paintings on the mural strip symbolize the changes within the Amsterdam Zuidoost district and the Amstel III area. The artists believed that the diversity of the residents should be reflected in the artwork. They used very bright colors (even for street art), using surreal, psychedelic, abstract and realistic art movements.' (Source: Wikipedia). </p>

<div>Street art for the new Blok 63 building on Strijp-S built by Stam &amp; De Koning, art by Karski</div>

Blok 63

<div>One of the 4 walls that Karski and Beyond painted at the Laakweg in The Hague.</div>

<div>Painted during the first year of Paint on walls festival. 2021</div>

paint on walls festival

<p>Karski (1974) &amp; Beyond (1983) are known as an artist duo from the Netherlands. They have a background in graphic design and the academy of fine arts and were heavily involved in graffiti. Karski picked up the spray can when he was only 10 years old. Beyond, being from another generation, started painting in 1997.<br><br>This work was made for a housing association. Karski and Beyond spoke with the neighbourhood what kind of picture they wanted. They want something colourful and so the 4 murals on the Laakweg are very colourful. This one shows a woman in the prime of her life. We have renamed her the "aunt of the neighborhood." Someone you can go to, who stands for a warm, familiar home feeling.</p>

Tante van de wijk (aunt of the neighbourhood)

Mural of change

<p>This painting is based on the abstract piece Karski is making in his studio.<br>The thick paint strokes he makes from acrylic paint are used to create the feeling of water and waves.&nbsp;</p>

<div>This wall was painted by Karski and Tim Rodermans it was a promotion for a Dutch TV show where they were looking for new ways to paint this famous painting from Johannes Vermeer, The girl with the pearl.<br>The host of this show modeled as the girl with the pearl for this piece.</div>

<div>This work is from a serie of work that Karski created together with his former partner in crime Beyond.<br>This is the hand of Karski's girlfriend with loads of wet paint..dripping up??? Up cause we wanted to create awareness of the problem a lot of young kids have these days. They don't dare to be themselves anymore...what is real? what is fake?...who is the real you? This piece can be found inside the Straat museum.</div>

Karski and Beyond

<div>Ajax and Budweiser beer asked Tim Rodermans and Karski to paint this wall when Ajax became country champion in 2022.</div>

Champion

<p>This mural was made for the movie "White Berry" that hit the Dutch cinema's in august of 2022. The artwork was featured in the closing shot of the film. </p><p>The movie is about a Dutch-African girl called Grace, who suffers from albinism. She is hunted by people who want to catch her because of her lack of pigment. After she moves to Rotterdam, everything changes. She finally realizes that she is a strong, confident and proud woman. Grace is the girl in the upper left corner of the mural. The other portraits are also characters in the movie.</p>

Ché Lanser

<p>Dennis Bouwman grew up in the Crooswijk neighborhood, to later become one of Netherlands hiphop pioneers under the name of Def Rhymz. He passed away at the young age of 53 as a result of a heart condition. </p><p>Local artist Ché Lanser honored his life with a portrait at the nearby legal wall of Schuttersveld. Much to his dismay this mural was sadly painted over after a short while. Lanser spoke about wanting to create a longer lasting memorial in local and national news, and that's where Karski comes in. He offered to help Ché to make this new mural possible. Just over a year after the death of the rapper and MC they started their work here.</p><p>They created two designs for the locals to choose from. This design with the two faces of Dennis Bouwman was chosen as the most popular. On the left side we see the loving Dennis as his family knows and remembers him. On the right we see the slightly crazy Def Rhymz as the rest of the country knows him.</p><p>The poem accompanying the artwork was written by local poet Derek Otte.</p>

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