As the planet’s biggest street art museum, Amsterdam‘s STRAAT has a reputation to uphold, and it does so with flying colours. The venue’s latest exhibition, the travelling group showcase entitled Direction | Instruction, opens today and presents more than 25 contemporary artists from eleven countries. A clear departure from the highly illustrative work that identifies the global mural genre, this exhibition celebrates abstraction, alternative materials, composition and language as counterpoint expressions in street art and graffiti. This also marks the first ever installment of this acclaimed group show in Europe. In addition to the gallery exhibition, several of the participating artists, including Remi Rough, Bisco Smith, Anti Goon, Chad Hasegawa, Tony Van Amsterdam and Tomislav Topic, will also be adding new large-scale permanent works to the growing main hall STRAAT collection.
STRAAT
NDSM Plein 1
1033WC Amsterdam
Telephone: +31 20 3709630
Wed-Sun 10am-6pm
Publishers Note
Just to be clear – superfuture® is a design blog and not a political commentator. No surprise there. The scope of our content has always been global and borderless, however that can often mean covering projects in countries where we will not agree with the politics or actions of those countries. In a world that’s as screwed up as ever right now, the focus of our support is to those designers, architects and other creatives who aim to make the world a more liveable one – as opposed to people that try their hardest to destroy it. So if a project hits our desk and we like it based on its design credentials, we may choose to publish regardless of its location or creators nationality. superfuture® has always been inclusive and hopes for all current wars, aggression, violence, hate and extremism to end.
