About us

About us — urban art producer in Barcelona

We use urban art to transform streets, neighbourhoods and the way people look at the city.

Our mission

Rebobinart was born in 2012 with one conviction: urban art can genuinely transform a place. We don’t paint walls to decorate them. We create projects that take root in the neighbourhood, that involve the people who live there, and that turn public space into a conversation.

We do it every way we can: large-format murals, community murals, festivals, exhibitions and workshops.

NOU Sentit Urbà: a whole district turned into an open-air museum

18 interventions in a single district. Murals, sculptures and light installations that have turned Nou Barris into an open-air museum. Produced by Rebobinart for Barcelona City Council’s NOU Sentit Urbà programme.

In the video, the project explains how NOU brings 18 large-format urban art works to Nou Barris —the first time Barcelona has concentrated so many in a single district— and how each one speaks about the environment, neighbourhood memory, community life or feminism. It also features Tangram Nou Barris, the collective piece made with the Zona Nord schools.

Video transcript (translated from Catalan)3 min 30 s

For the first time, Barcelona is rolling out 18 large-format urban art works in a single district. We are weaving a shared story that brings local, national and international artists together in one creative push.

Nou Barris is much more than a point on the map. It is a territory made of arrivals, of many accents and of neighbourhood struggles, where every corner guards a story of its own.

NOU is born in that context: a project that brings different artistic disciplines together to celebrate Barcelona and the people who live here, letting creativity give shape to shared stories and giving the neighbourhood a new urban meaning. Taking this district —marked by diversity and migration— as its starting point, NOU looks at the world from the local and turns the urban landscape into a canvas that amplifies themes running through many people's lives.

Eighteen works grow on walls, squares and crossroads across Nou Barris. Some explore our relationship with the environment and the need for an urban lung amid the concrete. Others go into the neighbourhood's memory, its older residents and the traces of those who built it day after day. Some pieces speak of coexistence and community, of the ties that hold daily life together. Others focus on feminism and on the women who have cared for and organised the neighbourhood. There is also the plural force of sport, a critical eye on current affairs, and innovation and urban planning as tools for imagining a fairer city.

Picture an old and universal game: the tangram. From it comes Tangram Nou Barris, a collective piece created with the Zona Nord schools. Each school has a large-format tangram, with one side designed by the artist and another for pupils to transform, playing with shapes, ideas and new stories about the neighbourhood.

Each work turns a rigid surface into a new urban landmark. They become part of the daily life of those who walk these streets and turn the district into a map of shared stories.

From Nou Barris, NOU celebrates Barcelona's identity. It uses urban art as a tool for connection, expression and innovation, and feeds a shared sense of belonging and pride. This is Nou Sentit Urbà: a way of looking at and living the city where the neighbourhood becomes story and public space becomes a reflection of everyone.

Video transcript, edited for reading: repetitions and verbal fillers have been removed, the text has been punctuated and speakers are identified.

Want a project like this in your neighbourhood or town?

We’ll walk you through how it works, from the first meeting to the opening.

Let’s talk about your project
See the Nou Barris project

How we got here

2012 — We start with Murs Lliures

We founded Rebobinart with Murs Lliures: walls where anyone can paint legally. It won the Bdigital Congress Award that same year and would go on to become Wallspot.

2014–2018 — Ús Barcelona

Five editions filling disused spaces with art: Glòries, Pere IV, Can Ricart, Poblenou and the former La Model prison, which drew 20,000 people. Nominated for the Time Out Awards in 2016.

2015–2016 — Recognition for our track record

First Prize for Social Entrepreneurship from Barcelona Activa, and the Cuixart Award for the organisation’s body of work.

2017 — Urban art as a community tool

“Baró Murs Vius” wins the Garci Visual Arts Awards. And Womart is born, our programme to make room for women’s talent in urban art.

2018–2019 — Wallspot grows up

Wallspot receives the Generalitat’s Civic Award and the Barcelona Metropolitan Area grant for the best tech-driven social entrepreneurship initiative.

2020–2022 — Urban art reaches public transport

Mur0ne paints 1,600 m² at the Cornellà Centre tram stop, Amaia Arrazola takes on the Besòs stop, and Elisa Capdevila fills 800 m² in Sant Martí de Provençals with stories sent in by passengers themselves. In parallel, we expand to Madrid.

2022 — ADIF: 3,113 m² at Sant Andreu station

Roc Blackblock and Miquel Wert paint “Fent via, fent vida”: the largest mural we have ever made, and the largest in any train station in Spain. That same year, the Ministry of Culture recognises Wallspot.

2023–2026 — From public space to brands

Monumenta is born, our line of hand-painted advertising on party walls: murals that don’t interrupt the city, they improve it. With Livensa Living we follow one client across three cities —Alcobendas, Getafe and Granada— and the Kromatic Festival brings seven murals to Sant Andreu de la Barca.

And above all, Nou Barris

18 large-format interventions in a single district, with Basurama, Mariana Santos, Udatxo, Shozy and Octavi Serra, for the City Council’s NOU Sentit Urbà programme. Every piece speaks about where it stands: neighbourhood struggles, migration, feminism, local memory. It is the largest project we have ever produced.

Who’s behind it

Design and creative direction
A network of +500 artists
Production and logistics

Behind every project there is a team of designers, artists and producers chosen specifically for that commission. We don’t keep a fixed staff: we build the team each wall calls for, backed by a network of more than 500 artists.

How we work

A single point of contact

Permits, wall, artist, production and safety: we handle all of it. You just decide what story you want to tell.

Every project takes root in its place

We involve residents, local shops and schools so the mural belongs to the neighbourhood rather than being a decorative object. With ADIF or with the tram network, the criterion is the same: the work has to make sense where it lives.

We pick the voice, not a template

For every wall we look for the artist who fits it, whether it’s a community wall or a series for one client across three cities.

Awards

2012 — Bdigital Congress Award, for Murs Lliures (today Wallspot)
2015 — First Prize for Social Entrepreneurship, Barcelona Activa
2016 — Cuixart Award, in recognition of the organisation’s body of work
2016 — Nominated at the Time Out Awards, Best Citizen Initiative, for the Ús Barcelona Festival
2017 — Garci Awards, Visual Arts category, for “Baró Murs Vius”
2017 — Winner of the Xarxa Transversal curatorial competition, for Womart
2018 — Civic Award of the Generalitat de Catalunya, for Wallspot
2019 — Barcelona Metropolitan Area grant for the best innovative tech-driven social entrepreneurship initiative, for Wallspot
2022 — Ministry of Culture: named one of the best cultural and creative industry projects, for Wallspot