ART IS EVERYWHERE. LET US SHOW YOU WHERE.
ArtMaps
Your open-air museum awaits…
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ART IS EVERYWHERE. LET US SHOW YOU WHERE.
ArtMaps
Your open-air museum awaits…
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LOOK AROUND ART IS ALREADY HERE LOOK CLOSER
TAKE THE LONG WAY READ THE CITY SEE WHAT YOU MISSED
IT WAS ALREADY THERE
LET CURIOSITY CHOOSE THE ROUTE
ART PLACE MEMORY
JOURNEY CITY ENCOUNTER
TERRITORY STORIES NEARBY
TRACE CURIOSITY PRESENCE
The many faces of Outdoor Art
The many faces of Outdoor Art
Outdoor art takes countless forms, each one adding a unique dimension to the spaces we inhabit. From towering sculptures and vivid street murals to serene garden installations and interactive shows, outdoor artworks shape our public environments in fascinating ways. They tell stories, provoke thought, celebrate culture, and invite us to engage with the world around us differently. In this section, discover the diverse categories of outdoor art that transform our streets, parks, and cities into vibrant, open-air galleries for all to enjoy.
What are your interests?
Outdoor art takes countless forms, each one adding a unique dimension to the spaces we inhabit. From towering sculptures and vivid street murals to serene garden installations and interactive shows, outdoor artworks shape our public environments in fascinating ways. They tell stories, provoke thought, celebrate culture, and invite us to engage with the world around us differently. In this section, discover the diverse categories of outdoor art that transform our streets, parks, and cities into vibrant, open-air galleries for all to enjoy.
What are your interests?
More than an object in space, it can anchor, interrupt or remeasure a place, making our own bodies newly aware of it.
Sculpture
The city’s surfaces become places of authorship, inserting unofficial images, names and arguments into spaces usually designed by others.
Terrain, weather, scale and time become both material and subject, unsettling the boundary between artwork and landscape.
Through thresholds, routes, proportions and materials, the built environment quietly shapes how a place is entered, crossed and shared.
There is no final state: growth, weather, paths and decay continuously rewrite the composition.
There is no final state: growth, weather, paths and decay continuously rewrite the composition.
Bodies, gestures and duration become the medium, turning public space into a temporary field of presence, encounter and event.
By altering a place, sometimes only briefly, the work unsettles what had become familiar and changes how we move through it.
Built from fragments and often into architecture itself, they work at two distances: image from afar, material and handwork up close.
More than an object in space, it can anchor, interrupt or remeasure a place, making our own bodies newly aware of it.
Sculpture
Some art has a room of its own.
Some is part of the world you move through.
Some art has a room of its own
Some is part of the world you move through
Some art has a room of its own
Some is part of the world you move through
Above the traffic
On a façade
Under your feet
In the middle of a square
Half-hidden in a garden
Built into a wall
Tucked behind a station
Follow your
curiosity
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Start with what’s
around you
Art is often closer than you think.
Browse nearby works visually, or switch to the map to see exactly where they are. ArtMaps brings what surrounds you into view, ordered by distance and ready to explore.
Tiles when you want to browse. Map when you want to move.
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From one work to
a whole practice
Learn how to look at a work.
A title, a date and a paragraph can tell you what something is. They rarely help you really see it. ArtMaps reveals each work gradually details worth noticing, questions to consider, visual clues and points of entry that let you form your own reading before more is revealed. Then go deeper into its story, context, materials, moment in time, artistic choices and possible interpretations.
Learn how to look at a work.
A title, a date and a paragraph can tell you what something is. They rarely help you really see it. ArtMaps reveals each work gradually details worth noticing, questions to consider, visual clues and points of entry that let you form your own reading before more is revealed. Then go deeper into its story, context, materials, moment in time, artistic choices and possible interpretations.
Enough guidance to sharpen your eye. Never so much that it tells you what to think.
Follow the artist further. See recurring forms, materials and ideas. Move across periods and places. Notice what changes, what returns, and how one work connects to another. Not a biography to scroll through, but a visual way into the artist’s world.
An artwork is only the beginning.
Enough guidance to sharpen your eye. Never so much that it tells you what to think.
Follow the artist further. See recurring forms, materials and ideas. Move across periods and places. Notice what changes, what returns, and how one work connects to another. Not a biography to scroll through, but a visual way into the artist’s world.
An artwork is only the beginning.
Read a city
through its art
Nothing in public space is quite accidental.
Someone decided what should be there, where it should stand, who should make it and what or whom it should represent. Some works are embraced. Others are disputed, altered, removed or reclaimed. And what a city chooses to commemorate can be just as revealing as what it leaves unmarked.
ArtMaps lets you follow those stories through the works themselves - who put them there, what they meant then, what they mean now, and how they became part of the places around them.
Because what a city puts in public says something about the city itself.
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Follow journeys
Or make your own
Follow journeys
or make your own
Follow routes conceived by artists, curators, historians, institutions and people who know a place closely. A journey might trace an artist across a city, follow an idea through different periods, uncover the story of a neighbourhood, or bring together works whose connection is easy to miss until someone shows you where to look.
Or start with your own plans. Tell ArtMaps where you are, how much time you have, how you want to get around, what interests you and which works you already want to see. It builds a journey that makes sense not only on the map, but in what it puts together.
Because the order in which you encounter things can change what you see in them.
And the journey doesn’t
stop between stops
ArtMaps accompanies you differently as you move.
Sometimes that means pointing out a detail before telling you why it matters. Sometimes it means an archival image, a question, a piece of context or a voice in your headphones while the street stays in front of you. And sometimes the right thing is simply to let you look.
The experience unfolds with the place rather than asking you to step out of it every time you reach a new work.
ArtMaps knows when to tell you more and when to get out of the way.
You don’t have to be
looking for art to find it
Most public art is encountered by chance if it is noticed at all.
With nearby alerts on, ArtMaps can surface a work at the moment it becomes relevant when you’re actually close enough to see it. No need to search, plan ahead or keep checking the map. Just a quiet nudge to look up, turn around or take a few extra steps.
Sometimes discovery is simply knowing when to look.
Make a game of it
The more you look, the more you start to recognise.
Recognise an artist from a detail. Place a work on the map. Spot what two works have in common. See what stayed with you after a journey.
Play solo, challenge friends, build your streak and climb the rankings.
The point isn't just to get it right. It's to notice more the next time you look.
And bring it all
back together
Your home on ArtMaps adapts to the way you explore.
Pick up where you left off. See what’s nearby. Return to saved works. Find new artists, places and journeys. Keep track of what you’ve discovered and find the next thing worth your attention.
One place to start. A thousand ways to wander.
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Join us on this journey
Join the first people to discover the art, stories and cultural layers already woven into the places around them.
