Brussels Street Art Adventure
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For those of you who missed our Brussels street art stories, we will be sharing some images from our trip over a few blog posts in the next few days. This Belgian trip was our second trip to Brussels this year, Hookedblog was here earlier in the year briefly en route to the coastal town of Oostende for this year's edition of the impressive The Crystal Ship contemporary art festival.

We had originally planned to attend the opening party of the new Brussels museum MIMA's, and their launch exhibition 'City Lights' featuring installations and work by American street artists Swoon, Faile, MOMO, and Maya Hyuke.

All the artists were in Brussels installing their work and were set to be present for the show opening but the Museum postponed the official March opening due to unforeseen events. We changed the dates of our tickets and visited Oostende instead- but make a plan to return to Belgium at a later date to visit the museum.

With a Eurostar ticket sale, we were able to pick up inexpensive tickets to return to Brussels and finally visit the new MIMA museum space and take in some of the city sights along with a healthy dose of Brussels Street Art.

Brussels Street Art Highlights
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Walking around the city it wasn't long before we were spotting some of the city's street art. One of the first works we discovered was a series of French street artist Invader's mosaic street artworks high above the tourists, many oblivious of their presence.

A number of the Paris-based artists' mosaic works are located at many of the city's iconic tourist spots, so be sure to look up as you travel around! Alongside the street art murals, Brussels has a rich history of Comic Strip Art and there are also a huge number of large-scale comic strip-related murals painted right across the city.

Brussels has its very own museum dedicated to comic strip art, and the Belgian Comic Strip Centre offers tours specifically for these murals but for us, we were more interested in the other street art murals works that were to be found on the streets.

In between coffee spots (OR Espresso Bar and Cafe Du Salon were two highlights) chocolate shops ( Pierre Marconi's flagship store at the Place du Grand Salon, which is also to be found in London, which could be a little dangerous), and more than a few Belgian beers we did a lot of walking around Brussels. 

Street Artists, You Will Find in Brussels
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Walking the city is probably one of the best ways to discover some of the best street art in Brussels. While we did have addresses for some key iconic city pieces such as the mural work of Belgian street art ROA and the Manneken Pis Invader mosaic piece a lot of the other street artworks pieces we discovered while exploring the city on foot.

Street Artists whose works we found during our Brussels visit included street artworks from some of the following; Kashink (Fr), NY Graffiti writer Smells (USA), ROA (BE), Jeff Aersol (Fr), Faile (USA), Colombian artist Gleo (CO), Alëxone (FR), Above (USA), ezbai, Otto Schade (CL) and Clet Abraham (FR).

See some of what we captured while we were in the town below,  along with their street locations for those of you planning a visit to Brussels so you too can find the very best street art in Brussels.

And stayed tuned for more from our Belgian adventures, we have a few more planned posts which will include our photos from the MIMA Museum, the full set of Invader pieces we flashed while in town, and last but not least a post on our trip to Doel, the graffiti ghost town located just outside Antwerp!

One of the many altered Street signs by Italian-based French street artist Clet Abraham we spotted while walking around the city streets. This prolific artist's street artwork can be seen in many European cities from Rome to Paris and London to name a few. 

Unfortunately, we don't remember exactly where we saw this altered sign pictured above, but be sure to look up while walking around there are lots of street art pieces that are not at eye level and we came across several of the artist-altered street signs during our visit.

There are also a large number of paste-ups and mosaics such as Invaders work at this higher level.

• See More: Clet Abraham Visit London with new Street Art Work

Invader Street Art in Brussels
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Pictured above is one of the larger mosaics still up around Brussels by French Street Artist Invader. This one is titled Invader BXL_02 for those of you playing the global street art game and using the artists' Invader Flash App. Fashing this Brussels Street Art Invader piece will get you 50 points playing his Flash Invader game.

The Invader BXL_02 mosaic is located just above the Het Zinneke bronze sculpture by Tom Frantzen, or urinating dog to you and me, and one of the peeing trio of sculptures located around Brussels.

Find this Invader work at Rue des Chartreux 35 Kartuizersstraat, 1000 Brussels, Belgium.
Street Artist Invader launches App.

The street artist's app works not only in Brussels but across all the cities the French street artist has invaded. Download the app and see if he has invaded your city with his mosaic street artwork.

• See More: French Street Artist Invader installs new 8-Bit Mosaic, London,UK

Kashink / SMELLS Graffiti in Brussels
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Some quick pieces from Paris street artist Kashink and NY Graffiti writer Smells along this wall are pictured above.



Unknown Artist? 
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Not far from the skate park located on Rue des Ursulines we found this work by an artist unknown to us ( if you know the artist let us know). The wall next to it also features the remains of what was once a ROA (see below) which was missing the head, all that remained were feathers and legs!

The street was also lined with parked box trucks all of which were covered in graffiti.

Belgian Street Artist ROA
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Four Sleeping pigs! Classic work from Belgian street artist ROA, who is without a doubt possibly the most famous street artist in Belgium. 

This large-scale black and white mural are located in the heart of the city, painted in 2008 we believe, and looks like it could have been painted yesterday the lines we still so crisp on the work.

This beautiful ROA work is located on Lollepotstraat/rue de la Chaufferette where you will also see some smaller paste-ups / stickers and stencils by a number of other street artists.

• See More: ROA's New South Bank, London Mural

French Street Artist Alëxone in Brussels
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This Alëxone Dizac mural is slowly evolving as graffiti writers tag over the lower levels of the work with the artist's own spray can wielding characters looking as if they are spraying the tags over themselves.

The work is located under one of the train lines on Rue Roger van der Weyden where there are also a series of works by other street artists to discover.



Long-standing mural by American artist Tavar Zawacki aka Above pictured above, located on Rue Philippe de Champagne, Brussels.

American Street Art Tavar Zawacki aka Above
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An Above arrow mural was painted way back in 2005 and still looks fresh in 2016 despite the addition of all the tags which have added an extra dimension to the work. This mural from the American street artist can be found on Rue Philippe de Champagne / 27 Philippe de Champagnestraat, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgium.



The work of artist Spear pictured above painted high above the city on the upper levels of this building located on Rue de Namur 14, Brussels.

So there you have it our quick round-up of some of the street art highlights we discovered while in Brussels for a few days with the locations should you happen to be visiting the city.

This was really just a small sample of artwork and all of the Brusells street art we shared was photographed in the city centre, there is still plenty left for us to explore on our next visit.

Have you been to Brussels? If there is anything we have left out! If you discover anything new feel free to let us know about it, leave a comment, or email us!

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