Graffiti on the NDSM Wharf Amsterdam

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The street art on the walls. Blood, sweat and tears from artists who spent hours working on the perfect combination of colors and images. You focus on the things you are used to and let all the beauty slip by but their is so much more street art to be found in Amsterdam than the above works at the NDSM. Start your journey with street art in Amsterdam and start looking for the most beautiful works in the city center, East and Jordaan.

Street Art Museum Amsterdam:
This beautiful open air museum in Amsterdam New West shows high-rise work by contemporary, renowned, international urban artists. With Stinkfish, Scount, Kenor, Pipsqueak among others.

Hemonylaan: Hugo Kaagman
The Amsterdam “Stencil King” Hugo Kaagman is doing well. The artist has his own street in De Pijp where only his work can be seen. There will probably be ticking over it, but then Kaagman just comes by again to fix it. At the end of the seventies, the old punker was one of the first to focus on stencil art. Art is formed on the wall by means of a template. “Banksy has become popular with stencil art at the beginning of this century, but guys were already working on this art form much earlier. If you look at Blek Le Rat, you see that Banksy is not that original at all. The nice thing is that the Amsterdam Kaagman was even earlier than the two. The harder punk influences are clearly reflected in Kaagman’s art. On the walls you see texts like: “help the poor, fuck the banks” and “please don’t blow yourself up here.” It’s the opposite of hippie culture, it was softer.

NDSM-Wharf: 
Accessible with the NDSM ferry from Amsterdam CS as described above. Here are two locations next to each other on one site. Proves itself: a parking lot between the wharf buildings and the descending dock to the water. With nice weather street art trives here.

London Police wall:
Great wall with work by the British-Amsterdam street art artist duo The London Police. Late last century (1998) the men of The London Police exchanged England for Amsterdam. They started their career with autonomous work on the street. They left the characters, which they called “lads” throughout Amsterdam. The men have become very famous muralists. They have largely shed their illegal activities. Now they earn good money with their legal work.

“Het Slangenpand” or the Snake Path: 
The snake building / the tobacco buildings. This former street art hotspot in the Spuistraat lost its soul after the squatters’ evacuation in the spring of 2015. And now they are boarded up.

Spuiststreet Amsterdam
The mecca of Amsterdam street art. Many tourists are already taking a selfie with the street art in the Spuistraat, while also enough people do not even look around them as they walk through this street. “De Spuistraat” naturally consists of many different squats. A number of permanent street artists have been trying for some time to make a whole of the street through street art. This is one of the few places in Amsterdam where so much street art can be found in one place.

Platanenstreet:
Corner of Wibautstraat and railway bridge between Oosterparkbuurt and Transvaal. The murals can be found in the dead-end section of the road, on the rear of the residential blocks, with a view to the railway.

Amsterdamsebrug / Flevopark:
Largest hall of fame in Amsterdam. The supporting pillars / walls under the bridge are a draw for graffiti tourists.
Put on old shoes or boots when it rains: it is swampy and muddy under the bridge. With nice weather something is always made. Watch the tram when you cross the end-rails-loop. This is not clear. So don’t stay on track.

Abcouderpad:
Since 2009, R.U.A. Brazilian urban artists traveled from the favels to the Netherlands. In 2014, the Hogevecht flat in Amsterdam Southeast, the staircases of the Hoptille residential block and the underpass of the Karspeldreef viaduct between Hoptille and Hakfort / Huigenbos were fitted with colorful urban murals.

Accessible by Metro 54 and 50, Bullewijk station. Here is also the Heesterveld complex, where you can also see graffiti / murals.

Head of Java eiland: 
Separate wall that has been specially set up as a graffiti tolerance place together with a skateboard park.