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North West Walls is een straatkunstproject op het Rock Werchter festival in België, een van de grootste muziekfestivals van het land.

Mijn visie was het gevoel vast te leggen dat je jezelf onderdompelt in een enorm festival. De metafoor van het duiken in het water voelde perfect - dat moment van volledige onderdompeling in een overweldigende, levendige ervaring. De school felgekleurde vissen kon de energie van het festivalpubliek voorstellen, elk uniek maar deel van iets groters.

Je kan alle werken van 'North West Walls 2025' hier bekijken.

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North West Walls is a street art project at Rock Werchter festival in Belgium, one of the country's largest music festivals.⁠
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My vision was capturing the feeling of immersing yourself in a massive festival. The diving-into-water metaphor felt perfect—that moment of complete submersion into an overwhelming, vibrant experience. The school of brightly colored fish could represent festival crowd energy, each unique but part of something larger.⁠

You can check all the works from “North West Walls 2025” here, check the full history here

North West Walls is a stacked shipping containers installations at Rock Werchter, transformed each year into a new open‑air street‑art gallery. Since 2014, it has served as a permanent structure with ever‑changing artwork, proving that large‑scale visual art can thrive at a music festival.

Curated annually by Belgian artist Arne Quinze, the project invites six international street artists to repaint the containers, giving them a vast outdoor canvas exposed to weather, music, and thousands of visitors. The installation acts as a landmark between festivals, then is reborn each summer with new stories and styles. Over a decade, it has showcased artists from around the world, each leaving a mark on the project’s evolving identity. As it celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2025, North West Walls continues its mission: bringing art into unexpected spaces and sparking emotion in everyone who encounters it.