The Most Beautiful Street Art Frescoes of Paris 13th

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Street artists and their works in Paris 13

Bault and his fascination with the art of madmen
BOM-K and his rather dark works
Borondo and his inimitable style
Combo and his desire for living together
Conor, his blend of realism and street art codes
Cryptik and his magnificent calligraphy
C215, his will to pay tribute to invisible people
Doudou’Style, her manga-influenced style
D*Face and his monumental street art frescoes
Faile and their comic-inspired urban works
INTI and his frescoes inspired by South American culture
Invader and his mosaics
Jana and Js and their photos
Maher and Aner and their desire to protect nature
Maye and his supple, semi-mechanical figures
Mano and his human silhouettes gathering to form street art frescoes
OBEY and his wish to convey his ideas through street art
OKUDA and his colorful frescoes made up of geometric shapes
Reka and his abstract street art works
Roa and his black-and-white animal frescoes
Seth and his colorful children
Strok and his relief street art frescoes
Tristan Eaton and his urban works composed of cartoon characters
Vinie and her beautiful doll
Zabou and her giant characters
Zag and Sia, anamorphosis on stairs.

Bault

Bault (born in 1974) is an artist from Aveyron.

He is fascinated by the freedom of creation and the spontaneity of children and madmen who draw things from their imagination.

Snail Frog

In this fresco, the artist immerses us in a very plant-filled fantasy world.

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Location of this fresco: 5 Rue Jean Sébastien Bach, Paris 13

BOM-K

Bom-K (short for Bombing Killa) is the pseudonym of a French artist (born in 1973).

Young Graffiti Girl

At the center of this work titled “Young Graffiti Girl” is a young girl using a spray can.

On the shoulder of this girl sits a mouse holding a cup. The cup has the inscription “I love Paris.”

This young graffiti girl seems to bring back color and life to a rather gray city.

Location: At the intersection of Place Pinel and Boulevard Vincent Auriol, Paris 13

Borondo

Borondo (born in 1989) is a Spanish artist.

The 3 Ages

He was invited to create this fresco as part of the 2014 edition of Nuit Blanche in Paris.

This work reminds us of the three monkeys, each covering a different part of their face with their hands.

Here, the grandfather prevents his son from hearing, the father prevents his son from seeing. Logically, the grandfather should not be able to hear.

However, his face looks scribbled over as if by a child.
Some believe the artist wanted to protect new generations from the mistakes made by previous ones.

This street art fresco can be found at 93 rue du Chevaleret, Paris 13

Combo

Combo is a French street artist born to a Moroccan Muslim mother and a Lebanese Christian father.
He is an activist against communitarianism and for all human beings to love one another, regardless of their origin, religion, or skin color.

Marianne

This work was created on the wall of the Gustave Flaubert middle school shortly after the 2015 attacks.

It depicts Marianne carrying a French flag made up of children’s drawings on the theme of living together.

Unfortunately, this fresco was erased. It was located on Avenue d’Ivry at the Gustave Flaubert school, Paris 13.

Conor Harrington

Conor Harrington is an Irish artist living in London.

His style is a mix between the realism of classical painting and the codes of street art.

Embrace and Struggle

In this fresco “Embrace and Struggle,” two characters face each other. Conor leaves us to imagine the nature of their exchange: friendly or conflictual.

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This work is located at 81 Boulevard Vincent Auriol, Paris 13

Cryptik

Cryptik is an American artist of Korean origin living in Los Angeles.

William Saroyan

This work is a POEM by William Saroyan in Latin script, brush calligraphed in golden letters by Cryptik.

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This poem is located at 169 Bis Boulevard Vincent Auriol, Paris 13

C215

Christian Guémy (born in 1973) is a French street artist better known by the name C215.

The Mother and Her Child

This fresco “The Mother and Her Child” was created with stencils for the Ledru-Rollin National Maternal Center.

This institution provides material and psychological support to pregnant women and single mothers with children to care for.

📍 Location: at the corner of Rue Jean-Sébastien Bach and Rue du Dr Victor Hutinel, Paris 13

Olympic Games 2024

This fresco was created as part of the 2024 Olympic Games bid.

The artist created more than 70 portraits of athletes throughout Paris.

On this sports complex, from left to right we can see:

– Zinédine Zidane in blue (Football)
– Laura Flessel in white (Fencing)
– Teddy Riner in red (Judo) (photo dated 01/07/2017).

The colors of these three athletes form the French flag.

📍 Address: 30 Avenue Edison, Paris 13

The Bearded Man

In the 13th arrondissement, at the corner of Avenue de Choisy and Rue des Frères d’Astier de la Vigerie, at the ground floor of a building, you will find this fresco.

It depicts a bearded man with a sad gaze.
A beautiful combination of colors and fine detail in the beard and eyebrows.

📍 Location: at the intersection of Rue des Frères d’Astier de la Vigerie and Avenue de Choisy, Paris 13

Cat

C215 describes this work as “a simple and adorable cat.” He wanted this cat to bring happiness to passersby and to passengers of the aerial metro Line 6.

The artist loves painting cats, because they are both domestic and free animals.
Freedom is the most important thing for an artist.

The cat is painted in blue, a color that has always symbolized escape.

📍 Location: 141 Boulevard Vincent Auriol, Paris 13

Doudou’Style

Doudou’Style (born in 1984) is a Parisian of Martinican origin. Her works are colorful, poetic, and influenced by her passion for manga.

Childlike Painting

This fresco was created for the association VTR (*Live Your Dream*).
VTR is an association that reveals talent and organizes cultural and solidarity events.

The work shows a child painting their own belly with a brush.

📍 Location: at the intersection of Rue Françoise Dolto and Rue Marie-Louise Dubreuil-Jacotin, Paris 13

D*Face

Dean Stockton (born in 1978), alias D*Face, is a London-based artist.

Love Won’t Tear Us Apart

This fresco shows a disfigured man and woman embracing lovingly.

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📍 Location: 8 Place Pinel, Paris 13

Turncoat

This fresco depicts a femme fatale with an intense and sensual look.

She is painted with a palette centered around shades of blue.
Her bright red lips capture attention.
Her dark eyebrows and rebellious hair give the fresco a sense of movement.

📍 Location: at the corner of Boulevard Vincent Auriol and Rue Nationale, Paris 13

Faile

Patrick McNeil (born in 1975) and Patrick Miller (born in 1976) are better known as FAILE (an anagram of *A LIFE*).

This duo of New York-based artists create works inspired by vintage culture, pop, and comics.

And I Held My Breath

This work depicts a ballerina suspended in mid-air.

In the background you can see the city of New York with the Brooklyn Bridge.

📍 Location: 110 Rue Jeanne d’Arc, Paris 13

INTI

Among the Incas, Inti is the god of the SUN. Every day he crosses the sky from east to west, and at the end of the day he dives into the water and swims back to the east to rise again the next morning. INTI is the pseudonym of a Chilean artist. His very colorful works are full of details and inspired by his South American culture.

La Madre Secular

In June 2015, he created this fresco representing a secular version of the Madonna.

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📍 Location: 81 Boulevard Vincent Auriol, Paris 13

An Innocent Doll

This work by INTI, *An Innocent Doll*, represents his favorite character, the Kusillo.

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📍 Location: 8 Rue Lahire, Paris 13

Invader

The artist Invader became known by creating Space Invaders all over Paris.

His technique is recognizable: he places small mosaic tiles side by side to create works that look pixelated.

Dr House

He was invited by the city of Paris to create the famous TV character Dr House on the wall of the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital.

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📍 Location: 59 Boulevard Vincent Auriol (Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital), Paris 13

Jana and Js

Jana (Austrian, born in 1985) and Js (French, born in 1981) are a couple of urban artists.

Their art consists of printing photos, cutting them out to create light and shadow effects, then adding details using spray paint.

Photos

In their works, Jana and Js often stage themselves photographing the city and its passersby, as in this fresco.

This reverses the usual order of things, because here it is the passerby who is photographed.

📍 Location: 121 Rue Jeanne d’Arc, Paris 13

Maher and Aner

This work was created by two Chilean artists who are part of the group *Alapinta Crew*.

Tierra Madre

At the center of this fresco is a Native American mama representing Mother Earth.

Trees sprout from her head, her body is made up of plants, flowers, fruits, and fish.
This mother, representing the Earth, feeds a child symbolizing the human race.

The work aims to draw our attention to the importance of taking care of our planet, which nourishes us.

📍 Location: 50 Rue Jeanne d’Arc, Paris 13 (unfortunately no longer visible today)

Mano

David de la Mano was born in 1975 in Spain. Today, he lives in Uruguay.

David is a contemporary artist who creates black-and-white human silhouettes.
Each silhouette is different — some have a wolf’s head, others a bird’s head. They move in groups and combine to form something larger.

Profile

In this fresco, titled “Profile,” these human silhouettes gather together to form the face of a man in profile.

📍 Location: 4 Rue Jenner, Paris 13

Maye

Victorien Liria (born in 1990) is a French artist better known as Maye.

His long, flexible, curved, semi-mechanical figures characterize his style.

Camargue

In this work, the artist Maye wanted to take us on a journey to his native region: Camargue.

Orange is used as the background color, recalling the southern sun. We see a Camargue horseman riding a flamingo (the emblem of Camargue).

He holds a trident in his right hand to guide the bulls.
In his other hand he carries a spray can releasing butterflies.

This work is full of hidden details:
– bees flying from the hat,
– the rider’s beard is made of flowers,
– a horseshoe bracelet,
– the music sheet “Le Galop de Camargue” wrapped around the flamingo’s leg,
– a ring on the other leg with the artist’s wife’s name,
– tattoos referencing his son,
– a tiny Eiffel Tower on the rider’s keychain.

📍 Location: 131 Boulevard Vincent Auriol, Paris 13

OBEY

Frank Shepard Fairey, better known as Obey, gained fame thanks to the poster “HOPE” representing Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign.

Obey is a committed artist who creates magnificent works to draw attention to his ideas.

COP21

In December 2015, he created this ecological work during the COP21 in Paris.

At the center of this work is the Earth, which must be preserved.

The actors who must lead this fight for the planet are shown:
– At the top, the United States, symbolized by the Statue of Liberty.
– At the bottom, France (host of COP21), symbolized by the Eiffel Tower.

On the sides, we see two possible futures:
– On the right, a peaceful future with wind turbines.
– On the left, an oil extraction machine with the words “Lifeguard not on duty” written on the water, signifying that the world’s beaches are no longer usable.

📍 Location: 60 Rue Jeanne d’Arc, Paris 13

Liberty Equality Fraternity

Obey created this fresco, called “Liberty Equality Fraternity,” the day after the terrorist attack on the Bataclan in November 2015.

The artist was inspired by a poster “Make Art Not War,” replacing the text with the motto of the French Republic.

He added a tricolor flag inspired by social networks, since shortly after the attack, many Facebook users changed their profile photos by adding a filter with the colors of the French flag: blue, white, and red.

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📍 Location: At the intersection of Rue Nationale and Boulevard Vincent Auriol, Paris 13

OKUDA

San Miguel OKUDA (born in 1980) is a Spanish artist who creates very colorful paintings made up of many geometric patterns.

Mona Lisa

She retains her enigmatic smile and gaze, but her body is made up of a patchwork of colorful geometric shapes.

She carries a “Louis Vuitton” bag to emphasize that Paris is still the world capital of luxury and fashion — a true symbol.

📍 Location: Villa d’Esté, Paris 13

Reka

James Reka (born in 1983) is an Australian artist living in Berlin. His creations are abstract and very colorful.

A Look Toward Paris

His work in a style he calls “shattered cubism” represents two figures: a man whose head, body, and right arm are visible, and in front of him, a half-face that seems to represent a woman. Both characters look to the right.

However, to the right of this fresco is the suburbs, which makes the title “A Look Toward Paris” somewhat puzzling.

📍 Location: 1 Rue du Chevaleret, Paris 13

Roa

ROA (born in 1975) is a Belgian artist specializing in large black-and-white animal frescoes.

Animal Skeleton

During a stay in Paris, he found inspiration for this fresco after visiting the Natural History Museum.

This work represents, on a very large scale, the skeleton of a cat standing on its hind legs.

📍 Location: Rue Marguerite Duras, Paris 13

Seth

Julien Malland, known as “Seth,” is a French street artist.

His works often represent children from around the world, shown in difficult geographic, social, or political contexts.

He defines himself as a committed artist, raising awareness about the state of the world to make it move forward.

The Key

In this work, Seth depicts two children, one white, one black. Their heads are plunged into a rainbow.

Both children wear schoolbags with locks and are exchanging the key to open them.

This fresco illustrates that the world needs mutual aid and exchange between peoples in order to progress.

📍 Location: At the intersection of Rue du Loiret and Rue Regnault, Paris 13

Child in Shorts

This work shows a child seen from behind, who does not wish to live in our world — therefore, he does not look at us.

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📍 Location: 9 Rue Jeanne d’Arc, Paris 13

Strok

Strøk is a Norwegian artist. His style is very recognizable: with his characters painted on building walls, he seeks to disturb our vision through improbable angles of view and cast shadows that disrupt perspective.

Often, at first glance the image is not immediately clear; you must focus your attention to understand what you are seeing.

Walking the Dog

Rue du Chevaleret was one of the central places for the 2014 Nuit Blanche edition.

Several frescoes were created there, including this piece by Anders Gjennestad (Strøk), located opposite the metro exit.

Strøk painted this fresco in his style, representing a man walking his dog.

📍 Location: 85 Rue du Chevaleret, Paris 13

Tristan Eaton

Tristan Eaton (born in 1978) is an American artist known for his large colorful portraits, which include famous comic book characters inside them.

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

He created this fresco for the 2014 edition of Nuit Blanche in Paris.

The fresco reproduces David’s painting of Napoleon crossing the Alps.

Within the work, we see:
– the most famous cartoon cat and mouse: Tom & Jerry,
– the face of actress Brigitte Bardot,
– pin-up legs,
– a snake, etc.

The title recalls the documentary *The Revolution Will Not Be Televised*, which tells of the coup against Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez in 2002 and the mobilization of millions who brought him back to power less than 48 hours later.

📍 Location: 8 Rue du Chevaleret, Paris 13

Vinie

Vinie Graffiti was born in Toulouse in 1984.
She was a precocious child who held her first exhibition at the age of 10.

Red Doll

This creation is the result of a collaboration between two French artists: Réasone and Vinie.

Réasone painted the environment in which Vinie’s character is found, adding relief.

Vinie is known for her imaginary female character with seductive eyes, a mix between a doll and a pin-up.

She is recognizable thanks to her hair made of letters.

Her aim is for her character to be universal and relatable to everyone, which is why it has no name, ethnic origin, or backstory.

📍 Location: 58 Rue des Grands Moulins, Paris 13

Zabou

Zabou is the pseudonym of an artist born in Saumur, currently living in London.

Paper Planes

This work, “Paper Planes,” was created on the wall of a school.

It depicts a boy wearing an aviator helmet and a girl flying in the air with paper planes.

📍 Location: 10 Rue Godefroy, Paris 13

Zag and Sia

ZAG (from Brittany) and SIA (from Paris) are two French artists specializing in anamorphosis on stairs.

Anamorphosis is a work whose forms are distorted and can only be fully seen from a specific angle.

Destino

This fresco pays tribute to two men — Walt Disney (left) and Salvador Dalí (right) — who collaborated on the film *Destino*.

It also references Pink Floyd, with the light split by a prism, as seen on the album cover *The Dark Side of the Moon* (1973).

📍 Location: 67 Rue du Chevaleret, Paris 13

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