For years, the huge shipping shed at the NDSM Wharf has been home to murals by street artists from around the world. But this weekend, STRAAT Museum takes a focused look at who usually remains underexposed in that scene. The first-ever Women In Street Art Weekend (WISA) brings female artists to the fore for three days, both established names and new generations. Not as a statement, but simply: as fact. Here they make the art, here they tell the story.
Friday night kicks off the weekend with an opening night that immediately sets the tone. While a DJ plays, artists will perform live on the museum floor. There will be a guided tour of works by female artists, and food and drinks will ensure that it is no ordinary museum night. Mick La Rock, the Dutch street artist previously involved in STRAAT's Women in Street Art programs, is one of the faces of this weekend. Her work and that of her contemporaries shows how broad the scene actually is, if you look closely.
The museum itself is a special place for such an event. Eight thousand square meters of former shipping shed, full of permanent murals that fill the walls from floor to ridge. The space makes you feel like the art is enclosing you rather than walking past it. It is precisely in that environment that the artists continue to paint this weekend, visible to all who walk by. The Women in Street Art tour takes you on a focused tour of the work and influence of women artists hanging in the permanent collection.
During Women in Street Art Weekend, female street artists take center stage and STRAAT sets the stage for art, encounters and new perspectives within the international street art scene.
The NDSM wharf in North has for years been the place where art and industry intermingle, large sheds full of life. WISA fits right in. No separate room, no side program: just right in the middle of the museum, right in the middle of the collection. That's the way it should be.
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STRAAT: The world's largest street art museum in North
Discover more than 180 works of art by more than 170 artists from around the world.
STRAAT redefines what a museum can be. In a former 8,000-square-meter shipping shed, the museum presents an impressive collection of more than 180 artworks created by more than 170 artists from all over the world. What immediately stands out is the monumentality: no small canvases here, but gigantic murals that transcend the street in size and ...
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