Street Art

What if you could turn the 13th arrondissement into an open-air museum simply by looking up? Between Boulevard Vincent-Auriol and Rue Jeanne-d’Arc, this street art walk leads you through monumental murals, mysterious characters, and hidden messages that thousands of people pass every day… without ever noticing.

What links a six-storey cat, a comic-book pin-up, a fractured-colored geisha, and a committed Marianne created after the Bataclan attacks? You begin with major international signatures—Shepard Fairey (Obey), C215, D*Face, Bom K—and the audio reveals why some murals became true political symbols, gifted to presidents or turned into social-media icons.

Further along, the walk shifts into another universe: a weightless dancer, a geisha with meteor-hair, a child facing an impossible vortex… You’ll discover how Seth created an anamorphosis visible only from one precise point, what that little boy is looking at “on the other side,” and how Faile or Hush slip poetry, femininity, and pop culture into the concrete of Parisian façades.

As you continue, you encounter a mural honoring Tignous, cartoonist for Charlie Hebdo; a ten-storey horse at full gallop; enigmatic black-and-white silhouettes by David de la Mano; dreamlike architectures by Jana & Js; and vibrant family scenes painted by Tinho. Each wall becomes a riddle: Who is the artist? What story are these figures telling? And what detail would you have missed without someone pointing it out?

The walk ends with powerful works like INTI’s “La Madre Secular,” and murals by Pantónio and Conor Harrington: a Madonna wearing a necklace of skulls and holding an apple marked with a mysterious “G,” baroque bodies frozen in a troubling embrace, fluid animals leaping out of the wall… The audio helps you decipher these images, understand why they speak of spirituality, revolt, memory… and of us.