A Tour of Oslo's Fascinating Street Art
Oslo is the perfect place for many things, one of them being street art. See, thanks to the housing crash of 1899, the city of Oslo paused the building of any structures between existing apartment buildings, leaving a lot of large, gable walls as a result. These walls, unadorned by windows or staircases, became the perfect canvas for Oslo’s booming street art – which, in the beginning, was primarily the turf of local artists such as Dolk (whose work can now mostly be found in galleries) but have now become a playground for artists from all over the world.
Untitled by Aryz
Spanish artist Aryz has graced Oslo with more than one mural (you can see his other work, a mural at Schubelers gate in Tøyen, in the cover photo of this article). He mostly works with muted, pastel colours that are in perfect harmony with the colours of the surrounding neighbourhood. His untitled mural pictured below can be found in Nordbygata, between Tøyen and Grønland.
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