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Make sure that street art is not just a daub with cans of paint on the street walls, but real art with its own styles, geniuses and masterpieces can every visitor to the Street Art Gallery in Vienna . The museum space called Inoperable twice, in 2011 and 2012, became the best gallery in Europe and regularly presents new exhibitions of promising street painters from around the world . Still here they release albums on this kind of art and hold various thematic events - from other meetings with artists before seminars on the topic of what colors it is better to paint a brickwork .

An additional pleasant option is the neighborhood of the famous Flea Market, so you can spend a whole day exploring the beautiful.

A bit of history

Gallery Street -art in Vienna was opened in 2006 as a community of street artists-enthusiasts who want to "rejuvenate" Vienna with a highly artistic canvases on the walls of various secondary buildings . Despite the apparent severity, the city enthusiastically embraced these ideas - and vsko ie an increasing number of buildings started to live a second life decorative . Since 2009, there have Inoperable your website where you can track the schedule of exhibitions and enjoy samples of street art .And more recently, the street art gallery in Vienna moved to a new building in Stigengasse, 2/3 - here at its disposal 170 square meters . meters of the first floor of the historic building .

What to see

Works of contemporary street artists, of course, the first thing that comes to the Inoperable. There is a permanent exhibition, as well as numerous temporary exhibitions - solo and collective. Before the beginning of the exhibition, artists paint the facade wall of the gallery, so the exterior design is also constantly changing.

Inside the gallery are several rooms with canvases of street artists. There is no wall painting directly (otherwise it would be problematic to change the exposition) - all the pictures are presented on a canvas or a tree on the appropriate scale, often with a drawn "grid" of the building - so you can imagine how they look in reality.

The street art gallery in Vienna regularly arranges various street art events, the announcements of which are published on the site. So, those who wish can go to the painting site of the next building and personally see how the art is born.

Inoperable store sells posters with known street art models

Address and opening hours

Address: Stiegengasse, 2/3 . The nearest metro station is Kettenbruckengasse line U4. You can also take bus number 57 to the Stiegengasse stop

Opening hours: Tuesday to Friday from 12:00 to 18:00, Saturday from 12:00 to 16:00. Sunday and Monday are days off.