BROOKLYN STREET ART LOVES YOU MORE EVERY DAY
Barcelona’s B-Murals has never been particularly interested in treating urban art as a matter of filling empty walls with attractive pictures. Based at Nau Bostik, the former industrial complex in La Sagrera, this project has spent years making room for graffiti writers, street artists, muralists, and practitioners whose work doesn’t fit neatly into any of those categories.
They have provided room for exhibitions, experimentation, research, publishing, and the occasional argument about what belongs in public space – that’s part of their identity too. For those familiar with the project’s history, including exhibitions that examine graffiti culture and the less commercially convenient corners of urban art, this broader approach is hardly a surprise.
The 2026 B-Murals Fest, held October 7–10, continue in that spirit, turning Nau Bostik into a working laboratory and public gathering place rather than simply an outdoor gallery – or platform for a gallerist to show their stable and call it “community”. Artists painted new murals while visitors tried their own hands at graffiti, stickers, paste-ups, and other forms of image-making.
Colectivo Monday organized a collective paste-up, Clara Nubiola led a laboratory investigating how people observe and interpret public space, and projects such as Can Safari, Revorn, Malicia Walls, and RavaleArt joined the program. There were discussions, publications, video installations, music, and an exhibition by XPIELLAX titled WHY YOU MAD?, accompanied by a live performance.
What distinguishes B-Murals from many of the increasingly familiar mural-festival circuits is its willingness to keep the process visible, the categories open, and the audience involved. The finished walls matter, certainly, but so do the conversations, experiments, improvised collaborations, and sometimes awkward questions that surround them. In a field where urban art can easily become a promotional backdrop or branding vehicle, B-Murals continues to argue for the culture’s less predictable possibilities.
This selection of photographs of new walls from BSA contributor Lluis Olive Bulbenas gives a look at what this year’s gathering offers – something that happens when artists, visitors, and a former factory complex share the same creative territory.
