Street art gallery magazine Street art gallery magazine | Page 12

NO . 1 | DECEMBER 2019
When you started giving tours in Zaspa?
The tours are coordinated by IKM (Institut of Urban Culture) from 2010.  IKM started
preparing the lectures for people who would like to be local guides. We had exams
and from year 2010 twelve people started to be guides in Zaspa. The art tours starts
from June and lasts all summer till half of September.Each year from 2009 to 2016
festival of Monumental Art is organised. Around 4-5 murals each year were painted by
artists from all over the world (Argentina, Germany, Italy, Israel, Spain etc.) Interesting
fact – one mural costs around 25.000 Polish Zloty and it is 4.500 Euro.
What inspired people to start making
street art here?
The
second
organisation
who
coordinates “Monumental Art Festival”
is Gdansk School of Mural (GSM). It is a
platform
that
was
created
for
discussion, to  improve the workshops.
Its aim to  restore the original function
of mural – socio-political art, reacting to
current events and to develop a single
style. Workshops are lead by artists and
lecturers Rafał Roskowiński and Jacek
Zdybel. Their murals have social and
artisic context, they give attention to
the current social problems in Poland
and other countries. In fact, Rafał
Roskowinski created the first mural in
Zaspa – he painted faces of Lech
Walesa and John Paul II near the
Rzeczpospolita
street.
This
mural
inspired the idea of making Zaspa
colourful
and
artistic
place
–
the
biggest open air street art gallery in
Poland. In 1997 the Lithuanian artist
Jonas Zagorskas created one mural
here too.
Mural made by Polish
street art artist M-City in
Zaspa, city of Gdansk.