The Malostranské embankment was decorated with original street art works | PRAGUE 1 | News
The OFF THE WALL project aims to revitalize the area of the Malostranské nábreží near the Scout Institute. As part of this, several world-class street art artists have gathered in the capital.
“The works of the people we managed to invite from all over Europe will be auctioned after the event, and the money will be used to protect this location from illegal graffiti all year round.”
The idea to bring this previously unsightly part of Prague 1 together was born five years ago.
“Thus, with the zero year, we are trying to open a new tradition of partially starting to perceive street art differently than we know it from illegal graffiti, and the second motivation for this was to get some of the people who walk and spray paint around Prague on this wall. Then, of course, their mutual symbiosis. So that the artists have the opportunity to meet people from the street and to be able to connect with each other.”
“Mr. Černý and I worked on it, and this was one of the first places, together with Herget’s brickworks, where we removed illegal graffiti. As part of the removal, we tried education, we also went to schools and gymnasiums, and we found out that very few people know anything about it. So we wanted to show that street art is part of art and belongs to the city.”
The best of their art was shown here by artists from Argentina, Ireland and Czechs.
“Unfortunately, Prague 1 is attacked from all sides by sprayers. We fight against it in a very complicated way, and I think it is a very good idea to fight against it with art. So, if street art has rules, I could be the medicine to make Prague 1 more beautiful.”
The Michnovský summer castle in Prague’s Kampa, also known from the comedy Jak utopit doktor Mráček, was revived by Scouts in August of last year. Prague 1 negotiated the use of the building for more than a year and a half, because they did not want it to serve commercial purposes.