Athens Street Art Festival (ASAF)

Change the City | Urban Art TEAM during the ATHENS STREET ART FESTIVAL filmed a documentary, with footage of incredible graffiti areas in Athens,

as well as interviews with artists, a street art gallery owner and others in the know. The documentary will became available online at the beginning of May 2014.

  Athens’s shining attractions include cool cafes, contemporary galleries, designer shops and endless open spaces to watch the world go by. But among the dumpsters and discarded cardboard boxes, is some of the world’s best street art.

The city has emerged as an unlikely outsider in urban art, being compared with Paris, Berlin, New York and Sao Paolo, and attracting urban art A-listers, as shown lately in the ATHENS STREET ART FESTIVAL.

More than a dozen of the city center areas are an explosion of color, with vast murals, stencils and paper “paste-ups” occupying almost every hidden corner.
In the celebrated hotspots, you will easily find dozens of visitors, young and old, wandering the street as if it were a gallery, pausing to consider each artwork in turn.
Even the stencil work, a staple of contemporary street art the world over, is remarkably rich and detailed. Greek artists create layers of paint in their pieces to create extraordinary depth and texture. Works like these have given Athens an enviable urban art reputation.
Attracting tourists from all over the world. Yet, in a paradoxical twist, the city’s is not interested to clean the mesh of tagging and mesh that cover the walls and make the real work of Street Art almost invisible.
We need to change our city, and we can. We need to develop a voluntary action in order to.
Change the City | Urban Art is a project developed to increase the awareness of the importance of graffiti in Athens. In July 2013, Change the City | Urban Art had it’s first exhibit within the ATHENS STREET ART FESTIVAL, with 20 European Street Artists’ works. The documentary will became available online at the beginning of February 2014.