Graffiti art festival in Istanbul

Istanbul is getting ready to host an international graffiti festival on July 24 in Taksim Gezi Park.

The festival is being organized by Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality to promote and spread graffiti art in Turkey.

Istanbul Graffiti art festival will host over 60 graffiti artists from around Turkey and Europe. The festival is being organized to promote and spread graffiti art in Turkey. The slogan of the festival is ‘Meeting of the All Stars-Stars’.

Power FM is sponsoring the festival. There will also be skateboarding, break dance performances and music by DJs.

Graffiti has existed since ancient times with examples dating back to Ancient Greece and the Roman Empire. In modern times, paint, particularly spray paint, and marker pens have become the most commonly used graffiti materials.

Sometimes graffiti expresses social and political messages and a whole genre of artistic expression is based upon spray-paint graffiti styles.

Participating graffiti artists:
AMOK156 – KOACLEO – TEXAS – CHOMA DRYHURE – REPUZ – AMD – HERO S2KOMERIA – TAB – FUNK – OKDOSE – MISK – SEMI – TFBSAET62 – MECK – BEDAE – BUFER SOISET – SPOOK – DARK OZBROT – NUB+ – STILBAZBAKER – KRYS – RAKEN – QUES DSKPARS – SIDE – OTC KMR-SHIONE-COPER TMTBYE – BASE WTKMCROY – KEOS – CHEK – ZEOK – OBSASHE – SNOE – MAEN – ROME – COPIK – EKAONE – BLOOD – WASE – RUNO – NUKA – WICX – SONIC – CAUSETURK – POWER – MURY FU – RUKUZ – WORM – BLEK – ARES – ARK ISAC – REAL CAS

Where: Taksim Gezi Park
When: July 24
Time: 11 a.m. – 11 p.m.

Author: istanbul

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