Street Chronicles

Street Chronicles brought an international survey of street and urban art to Urbanbreak in Seoul in July 2022. Co-planned by Rom Levy through StreetArtNews, the special exhibition connected artists associated with the streets of New York and London with a wider field of practices extending across Europe, Asia and the Americas.

The selection included Banksy, D*Face, Shepard Fairey, Invader, DALeast, Roby Dwi Antono, Martin Whatson, PichiAvo, ROA, Suanjaya Kencut and Andrew Schoultz, among others. Stencil, painting, graphic imagery and figurative approaches were brought into the same exhibition, allowing their differences to become as visible as their shared history.

The curatorial premise was to trace urban art through the artists and visual languages that have shaped it. Work developed through public interventions could be considered alongside studio practices, showing how ideas move between walls, canvases and other formats.

For StreetArtNews, the exhibition extended an editorial relationship with artists into a physical presentation. Years of reporting and dialogue became the basis for bringing distinct artistic positions into conversation with an audience in Seoul.