Graffiti
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Chaze — Sndtrk1: A Graffiti Archive
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceSome books begin with a discovery. Forgotten negatives, found by chance, bringing back fragments of a life once lived. For Chaze, this moment marked the return of more than thirty years spent inside graffiti: an art form as marginal as it is deeply rooted in personal and collective memory. Through Sndtrk1, Chaze revisits his journey […]
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Orléans by Names — City Traces
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceTraces of a forgotten scene often survive where no one is looking — in shoeboxes, private albums, and analogue negatives left untouched for decades. This project returns to the graffiti culture of Orléans, reconstructing fragments of a local movement shaped in the shadow of Paris, yet rooted in its own territory. Built from personal archives […]
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ML7 — Underground Lisbon
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceSome scenes leave few traces, not because they were absent, but because they were never meant to be preserved. Beneath Lisbon, along the metro lines, a parallel history of graffiti unfolded over three decades, written in motion, erased, and rewritten again. ML7 brings together images from more than 60 contributors, many of them previously unpublished, […]
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Beyond the Streets — Paris on the Walls
Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris 19 211 avenue Jean Jaurès — 75019 Paris — Porte de Pantin, Paris, Île-de-France, FranceParis has never stopped speaking the language of graffiti. From metro lines to temporary walls, the city has long been a playground for a culture shaped by urgency, visibility and the desire to leave a trace. With Beyond the Streets, that history takes on a new scale through a major exhibition dedicated to graffiti, street […]
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When Letters Meet – Skript Letter Jam #4
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceIn a moment when graphic cultures increasingly overlap without fully meeting, Skript Letter Jam #4 explores what happens when the culture of the letter becomes a shared space rather than a separate practice. Typography, calligraphy, graffiti and letter painting are brought together not as a comparison, but as a live encounter between gestures, rhythms and […]
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Cut, Drawn, Printed — Flask × catcentcat
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceLe Grand Jeu hosts the launch of a collaboration between two Parisian practices that meet on cloth: the drawing of writer Flask — shaped by the most radical years of graffiti, from the metros to the tunnels — and the eye and press of catcentcat, analog photographer seen in the docuseries With One Eye Open […]
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Tilt – Never Ending Story: Throw-ups, Traces & Erasure
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceDuring lockdown, Tilt — the Toulouse graffiti artist known worldwide for his work — set himself one rule: a throw-up a day. More than 700 appeared across his city, only to vanish soon after under layers of buff paint. Never Ending Story grew out of that obsessive, ephemeral practice — a deep dive into the […]
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Off the Rails — Graffiti, Trains & the Underground City
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceAfter a fifteen-year-old boy discovers a graffiti blackbook, his eyes are opened to an unseen city. As his interest in rugby league fades, he finds himself drawn to spray cans, a camera, and the abandoned buildings, rooftops and active train tunnels of Sydney. In its forgotten spaces, he encounters a community who see the city […]
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Before It Dries While It Lasts — Writing, Water & Disappearance
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceBefore It Dries While It Lasts is an experiment in writing as a temporary act — stripped of its usual claim to permanence. Working with water, Edoardo Baraggioli creates wall interventions that evaporate over time, questioning mark-making, duration and disappearance within the field of graffiti. For this evening at Le Grand Jeu, Edoardo will present […]
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Le Premier Métro — Graffiti, Departure & the Search Elsewhere
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceH. is a graffiti writer. For years, his name — ANY1 — has marked the walls of Paris. But Parisian life starts to wear thin, and he sets off to see whether the grass is greener elsewhere: a one-way ticket to Australia, in search of new walls and new air. Le Premier Métro is a […]
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Out of Print — Two Days of Graffiti Print Culture
Hall of the Kinderschutzbund Hinter der Magnikirche 6A, Braunschweig, GermanyGraffiti has always lived in print. Long before it entered museums, the culture circulated on paper — magazines passed hand to hand, fanzines photocopied in small runs, catalogues that sold out and never came back. To collect these publications is to hold onto a history that was never really meant to last: printed cheaply, traded […]
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Trente-Cinq — Three Letters from Namur
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceAn MC warms up a crowd, somewhere in Namur, some year in the nineties: three letters, a group you don't need introducing, NBS, make some noise. That tape still exists, and so does the crew. Namur Break Sensation have been at it for thirty-five years, which in b-boy terms is closer to a geological era […]