One of the biggest street art museums in the world is scheduled for Amsterdam, in a 7,000 square meter former welding hangar twice the size of the famous Turbine Hall of Tate Modern.
More than 100 works by leading street artists from all over the world have already been collected, created for the museum in huge formats. Artists include David Walker and Hoxxoh.
“Once the renovation is done, the artworks will be hanging side by side with old cranes in a monumental industrial hall 24 meters high,” says Curator Peter Ernst Coolen from Street Art Today. Just imagine the size of these canvases: the size of a building facade three to four floors high,”
The internationally celebrated Brazilian artist Eduardo Kobra has painted a 24-meter high portrait of Anne Frank on the facade of the future museum, located in NDSM Wharf, a former shipyard. Frank, who lived in hiding in Amsterdam during World War II, remains an inspiration today, Kobra says.
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This is enough to get me on an airplane flying over the ocean!
Uh huh. Thought so! Really an enormous undertaking, but I imagine it will be amazing when full of the art.
Amazing! Heading to Amsterdam this summer. We’ll check out Kobra’s portrait. Thanks!
Lucky! I would love to see it. Enjoy.
Hope you get the opportunity as well. 🙂