The layers
Pieces over pieces — a living street-art archive.
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Strongly yes — besides this alley, the city launched the "Sorry, Not Sorry" project of huge murals by international artists on façades across districts, and the tourist office hands out a street-art route map. Young, university Ghent mixes Gothic with contemporary — the alley is a short entry to that face.
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Graffiti Street is a narrow, crooked alley in the heart of old Ghent turned into an ever-changing street gallery: since 1995 graffiti artists have been allowed to paint here freely (on condition that good work is not covered by bad), so its walls are a living painting changing weekly — huge coloured pieces, characters and phrases layered over one another — never seen the same way twice. It was born of a practical idea: channelling illegal graffiti into one place instead of the historic city's façades, and it became among Europe's most famous street-art routes and a piece of Ghent's rebellious youth culture (a university city). Photographing it is a ritual, and sometimes you find an artist at work. Free and minutes from the Korenmarkt and the Belfry — a short, colourful detour between Gothic and Gothic.
Pieces over pieces — a living street-art archive.
Sometimes you watch the piece being painted.
Werregarenstraat, 9000 Ghent