POLINIZA DOS (or “Polinizados”) is the annual urban-art program at the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), running since 2006 and turning the Vera campus into a working outdoor studio each May. It’s organized by UPV’s Área de Acción Cultural and built around site-specific murals by invited artists—recent lineups have included 108, Lidia Cao, Musa71, Felipe Pantone, Gordo Pelota, Wasted Rita and Catarina Lira Pereira—alongside public programs like artist talks, guided walkthroughs (often led by painting professor Joan Peiró), and family workshops under “Menudo Poliniza”.
Some past editions have also added fanzine markets and campus exhibitions. With support from the Generalitat Valenciana’s Department of Education, Culture and Sport, the festival’s 20th edition (May 12–16, 2025) emphasized some of the “gestural” languages of contemporary muralism and produced fresh interventions – with an educational track open to the public. The works typically remain on campus from one edition to the next, a sort of living record of Valencia’s evolving perspectives and voices in street culture.
Our special thanks to photographer Luis Olive Bulbena, who provided some images of his recent visit to the campus.
Festival d’Art Urbà Poliniza Dos may have an online presence that is difficult to access for the average street art fan. Still, the murals created for this ongoing urban art festival at the Polytechnic University of Valencia speak for themselves.
Brilliant productions and unusual investigations are created in and around the campus, engaging students and the local community to consider the role of art in the public sphere, its pertinence and meaning, and our relationship to it. Its direct and scholarly approach means that the public is invited, and artists are given an opportunity to share their practice with an appreciative and considered audience.
For more than a decade, this competition has selected from an open call for submissions and invited many of Spain’s curious thinkers, experimenters, interventionists, trouble-makers, street artists, and muralists to create new pieces for consideration, discussion, and appreciation. This program is where the work is done on the wall, inside the mind, and in the heart.
Recently photographer Luis Olive captured these murals from the 2021 and 2022 editions of PolinizaDos, and he shares what he found today with BSA readers.
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