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Wallspot (2012-2024): twelve years of free walls in Barcelona, from the Tres Xemeneies to 22 cities
Wallspot was the Rebobinart platform to locate and activate legal walls, so that any artist could paint in the street with guarantees. It was born in October 2012 as Murs Lliures, in response to the 2005 civic ordinance, with a pilot on the walls of the Tres Xemeneies gardens; in 2017 it became Wallspot and in September 2024 it closed. Here is everything it left behind: Wall Labs, themed JAMs, awards and more than 70 documented projects.
What Wallspot was
Neither a festival nor a gallery: an infrastructure that made painting in the street legal, open and rotating. The seed of Rebobinart.
Legal walls
A digital platform to locate free walls, manage their permits and showcase the work of urban artists from around the world: over 106 walls, 22 cities and 22,000 registered users.
Wall Labs
Since December 2018, creative spaces in public space with works that stayed for a year: 12 Wall Labs and more than 19 artists and collectives, from the Tres Xemeneies to La Model.
Themed JAMs
Intensive creation days where two guest artists picked 8 to 12 artists to paint on site a theme set by a social organisation: Writers, Womart 8M, Block, Extinction, Sports, Wild Life, Logoart, Realism, LGTBIQ+ and Migration JAM, in Barcelona, Terrassa and Madrid.
Awards
Bdigital award (2012), Barcelona Activa Social Entrepreneurship award (2015), Generalitat de Catalunya Civic award (2018), AMB grant (2019) and Ministry of Culture recognition for cultural and creative industries (2022).
All Wallspot projects
The complete collection, newest first. Each entry has the photos, the artist and the context of the project.
Persianes Lliures, Murs Lliures and Wallspot: how painting Barcelona’s walls became legal
Wall Lab La Model 2023
LGTBIQ+ JAM WALLSPOT
IV WOMART JAM
The Ministry of Culture recognises Wallspot as one of the best cultural and creative industries projects
MIGRATION JAM
Wall Lab La Model
LGTBIQ+ JAM WALLSPOT
Wall Lab by Dante Arcade
WOMART JAM 8M
TRAVEL THE WALL X THIJS LANSBERGEN
Terrassa Walls x Latent Fest
Wall Lab by Carola Bagnato , Dirty, Galleta Maria, Pol Pintó
Terrassa Walls JAM
Terrassa Walls & Rebobinart
WALL CLAIM by Maga
Estructuras Volátiles
Live Painting Kronos Art BCN
REALISM JAM
WALL CLAIM by Santiago Elefante
LOGOART JAM
WILD LIFE JAM
WALL CLAIM by Killa EK
WOMART JAM 8M
ABSTRACTION JAM
WRITERS JAM 2021
Free walls’ closure in Madrid
WALL LAB by Bemie
Graffiti workshop in Moratalaz
SPORTS JAM
EXTINCTION JAM
BLOCK JAM
WOMART JAM
Wall Lab by Inventura Studio, Zaick, Maru Hrz, Eloise Gillow
Legal walls in Madrid
Wall Lab by MINA AND KENOR
WRITERS JAM
WALL CLAIM by Felipe Pincel
WALL LAB BY Borneo Modofoker
WALL LAB BY Roc Blackblock
WALL LAB BY Ele.zissou
New Wallspot Wall Opening
Black Lives Matter by Elxupetnegre
WALL CLAIM BY Emily Eldridge
Wall Lab by SPOGO
WALL LAB by Anna Taratiel
Artists’ training by WALLSPOT
WALL LAB by Tim Marsh
WALL LAB by EINA
Womart in Trinitat Vella
Jornadas Internacionais de Turismo
MURS LLIURES in Montana Gallery
HIT THE WALL
Exhibition Murs Lliures
Periferia Beat
Murs Lliures in Sant Andreu
Google Campus Madrid
Smart City Expo 2016
Wallspot
Cultsurfing
CultHunting DAY
Murs Lliures in the contest Apps&Cultura
APP Murslliures
Weart Festival
Murs Lliures de Sant Martí
Inauguració Murslliures
Murs Lliures
Premis BDigital a la Innovació 2012
Quatre Camins
Viu el mur de Sant Boi
P-Art Barcelona
Persianes Lliures Madrid
Mercat de Castelldefels
Centre d’acollida Assís
Persianes Lliures
How a Wallspot wall worked
The model that started at the Tres Xemeneies and that we now apply to legal-wall programmes for councils.
Wall agreement
Owner or council handed over the wall; Rebobinart managed permits, rules of use and insurance.
Publication and open call
The wall joined the platform and opened to artists through an open call (Wall Lab) or a themed day (JAM).
Painting
Artists painted on site, with materials and support from the team; the public could attend.
Rotation and documentation
Works were photographed and published; when the period ended, the wall reopened to new artists.
Frequently asked questions about Wallspot
+What was Wallspot and why did it close?
Rebobinart’s legal-walls platform for urban art (2012-2024). It closed in September 2024 for strategic and financial reasons: the technological cost of maintaining it became unsustainable, Barcelona City Council launched its own tool (Murs Oberts, 2023) and the sector shifted towards commissioned murals and festivals.
+Where are the Tres Xemeneies walls and can they be visited?
In the Tres Xemeneies gardens on Avinguda del Paral·lel (Poble-sec, Barcelona), in open public space: they can be seen freely at any time. They were Barcelona’s first free wall (2012) and the stage for the JAMs; photos of each edition are on the project pages here.
+Can you still paint on a free wall in Barcelona?
The Wallspot platform no longer operates. Municipal free walls are managed through Barcelona City Council’s own tool. If you are an artist and want to work with Rebobinart on murals, JAMs or open calls such as Womart, write to us with your portfolio.
+Can my town have free walls?
Yes. The Wallspot experience is the basis of the legal-wall programmes we design for councils and institutions: rules of use, permits, activation and reporting. See murals for institutions.
Want a free-walls programme in your town?
Councils, owners and organisations: tell us the wall and the context. We reply within 48 hours with model, schedule and quote. Artists: write to us with your portfolio.
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