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Graz–September 2026

Various photos taken in Graz during September.

117 WÆNDE (117 WALLS)

Raum 117 🇦🇹 is an art club in Graz. This year they had a festival of wall painting, creating new wall paintings in the Smart City area.

Text: 117WAENDE Festival Für Kunst und Diskurs im öffentlichen 14.-20. September 2026

Festival for art and discourse in public; 14-20 September 2026

Daungasse

The first few paintings are new; the ones with the sea motif have been there for at least a year.

Abstract shapes in dark green and yellow. One is identifiable as a slingshot.
The SUPER GRAF Bros (Dean WiseKid/Petion Sarik Sico); with Waluigi holding a round bomb with lit fuse
Artists at work on a portion of the wall; they are standing around a ladder.
Wario holding a spray paint can in one hand and a shark-like object in the other.
Wall panel with abstract wave and a mushroom-shaped game character
Two people waving hands at viewer.
Side view of anthropomorphic bullet flying through air; fist clenched and angry stare in eye.
Array of spray paint cans in various colours
Several panels depicting aspects of conserving sea life.
Crab in a 7-pointed star-shaped shield. Text: Protect the Seas. At left, text: No deep sea mining
At left, a large fish. At right, outline of a human being filled 70% with water; text: 70% ocean in you.
megaphone with blue horn and red base
Bird in a blue suit with red tie
Fish in red suit with red tie

Other Wall Art

At left, man in Aztec garb; at right, a bull charging at the man
Abstract geometric shapes in orange, blue, and purple shades
At top, an abstract painting. At bottom, an artist working on a painting that is also abstract in bright colors
Nearly-completed artwork of rabbits in camouflage-like colours
Artist on hydraulic lift, painting top of wall
Woman in kimono that is decorated in pastel geometric shapes
At left, man with moustache carrying a cat in his arms. At right, a man in white with beard and moustache with a baby in his arms. Photorealistic art
Vertical stripes in pastel yellow, purple, and shades of green.
Abstract letter-like forms

These were taken at a skateboard venue.

Cartoon face in light bluewith headband in Austrian flag colors (red/whie/red horizontal stripes). The eyes form the “o”s in the text “the spoon”
Texxt: Skatehalle Graz; image of Uhrturm with a skateboard ramp extending to its right

I really like this logo!

Children’s mobile hanging on a stair railing

The rest of these are on Waagner-Biro-Straße.

Abstract skull. Text: Hirn mit Vergnügen rösten

Roast the brain with pleasure.

Four women; three wearing light blue shirt and blue pants. Fourth woman you can only see their head
Wizard burning a moth with flame from his magic wand. Text: The Great Fiasko
African woman in native garb carrying a basket on her back.
Man in brown jacket and black pants, wearing a black cap.
Brown and white dog on its hind legs, playing with a blue and yellow striped ball in the air
Three women seated around a table. One is drinking a cup of liquid, one is on a phone, and the other has a bird on her arm.
Cartoonish beagle with yellow ears, sitting up and looking to right. It inside concentric blue and yellow rings.
Person looking upwards, hands upraised. The top half of the wall is brickwork, so the painting has a mosaic effect.

I really liked this one.

Closeup of bricks above and smooth wall below.

here’s a close-up.

A cigarette lighter, gambling die, and the 5 and 11 billiard balls.
Abstract yellow tag
Scaffolding in front of an artwork in progress.
Tag: DEUS; near a totem pole with a skull in middle and owl on top.
Below a basketball hoop: painting of a basketball falling into the open jaws of an alligator below.
Artists working at base of a painting. Only that part is complete. The rest is the outline of a woman and a dragon.
Artist working on a painting of a bird with geometric swirls in background

And finally, not a wall painting, but this advertisement for fitz-kola.

Person in zebra costume at an office desk. Text: wirkt wild. vielvielkoffein

Works wild. muchmuchcaffeine