Barcelona / 2026
Persianes que fan barri is the most ambitious street art project ever undertaken in Barcelona around local shops: 11 local artists are transforming the shutters of 185 businesses across the city’s 10 districts, in collaboration with 15 traders’ associations and shopping hubs.
A large-scale creative intervention that turns public space into a living reflection of the community, while celebrating both small businesses and the city’s creative talent.
The project is organised and directed by the Barcelona Creativity & Design Foundation (BCD), with creative direction and overall coordination by Rebobinart, and is supported by the Barcelona City Council Department of Commerce, Restaurants and Food, as part of the European Capital of Local Commerce, a title Barcelona holds for the first time in 2026.
What is Persianes que fan barri?
When a shop pulls down its shutter, the street goes dark. Persianes que fan barri was born to turn that image around: every painted shutter is an original artwork, created specifically for each business, in dialogue with the trade behind it and with the identity of the neighbourhood.
The project has three goals:
- Improve the urban landscape, increase the sense of cleanliness and reduce urban decay.
- Build neighbourhood identity and raise awareness about caring for small businesses.
- Showcase the creative talent of the city of Barcelona.
Local commerce is a strategic sector for Barcelona: over 61,000 active businesses generating more than 150,000 jobs and contributing 13.29% of the city’s GDP. A fabric that offers personal service, customer knowledge and deep local roots, but which faces challenges such as changing consumer habits, competition from large platforms and digitalisation. Persianes que fan barri uses street art as a catalyst for urban improvement, social cohesion and commercial vitality.
Rebobinart’s role
As a cultural organisation specialising in street art since 2012, Rebobinart takes on the creative direction and overall coordination of the project: selecting and supporting the artists, coordinating with the 185 businesses and the traders’ associations, producing the interventions and providing technical oversight for each shutter, from the design through to the anti-graffiti treatment that protects the finished works.
11 artists, 10 districts, 185 shutters
Each shopping hub is assigned an artist or creative team who works side by side with the shopkeepers: every design is original, approved with each business owner and painted outside opening hours so as not to disrupt trade. It is not a single image replicated over and over, but eleven visual languages in dialogue with the character of each area.
Roc BlackblockEix Clot
A sepia palette that turns each shutter into a living photograph of the neighbourhood: the coffee cup, the haberdashery threads or the restaurant's seafood, enlarged to fill it entirely.
Emily EldridgeCor d'Horta
An explosion of colour and imaginative shapes: flat, clean-edged silhouettes in electric blues, yellows and pinks that turn each shop's food and objects into cheerful icons.
Daniel ThomásSom Sant Antoni
Portraiture in a retro comic-book language with a palette of coral pink, red and dark blue: each shutter portrays the person who raises it every morning.
Carola BagnatoLa Marina
A blue garden around the world of each business: clean lines, organic forms and a palette of blues, turquoises and greens.
Axe ColoursComerç Divers
Each shutter, an iconic figure: from Frida Kahlo to García Lorca, Freddie Mercury, Keith Haring or Marsha P. Johnson, in the large-format portraits that made him known worldwide.
Guillem FontGràcia Central
A botanical metaphor: like plants, shops take root and transform their surroundings. Botanical plates at urban scale on a black background.
Albert Penado (Penao)Les Corts
A child's drawings on hyperrealistic paper: crumpled notebook pages, free lines and one real object from each trade, from scissors to a tape measure.
Irene LópezCiutat Vella
The everyday objects of each shop, the comic book, the shoe, the glass of milk from the century-old dairy, as the identity of a neighbourhood.
Jalón de AquilesEix Fabra i Virrei
The hands that make each business possible: realistic spray-paint portraits on intense backgrounds, where the pharmacist's or the wine merchant's hands become monumental.
A2Zeta (Martí and Jan)Barnavasi
Spray-paint hyperrealism crossed by geometric bands: the hardware shop's drill, the classic motorbike or the cut of meat.
Gemma FontanalsSant Andreu
The care and small gestures that build a neighbourhood: friendly figures, flat vivid colours, characters raising a glass, caring and celebrating.
The map of the shutters
Every intervention, district by district, with a colour for each artist. Click any point to see which business it belongs to.
The map is updated as the shutters are painted.
The project in the media
- La VanguardiaBarcelona da color al comercio de proximidad con murales en las persianas de 185 tiendas27/06/2026
- elDiario.esAsí lucen las persianas de hasta 185 tiendas de pequeños comercios de Barcelona gracias a la creatividad de 11 artistas19/07/2026
- betevéPersianes que fan barri, la iniciativa que transformarà la imatge de 185 comerços de proximitat06/2026
- Barcelona City CouncilPersianes que fan barri, a project that celebrates local commerce06/2026
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Follow the progress of every intervention on Rebobinart's Instagram, and discover the work of the Barcelona City Council Commerce Department.
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