Street art in Antibes Juan-les-Pins

a colourful city!

Antibes Juan-les-Pins is a benchmark for street art. Launched in 2020, the Coul’Heures d’Automne Festival will be staging its fourth edition over the autumn holidays. On the programme: large-scale mural performances and participatory workshops to showcase urban art in all its splendour.

Works of art that have become legendary in the heart of the town

From the roads along the beaches to the narrow streets of Old Antibes, large-scale works of art are created every year by leading artists on the Côte d’Azur street art scene.

Since 2020, a host of artists from France, Italy, Belgium, Moldavia, Germany, Spain, Portugal and Chile have taken part. Among them, French artist Zdey created one of the largest surfaces at 307 m².

Involved in various charitable initiatives, the artist has already coloured the walls of schools in Colombia and Mexico with the help of local indigenous minorities. His world blends influences from pop, modern art and the OP art movement.

You can see his work, full of positive energy, at the Châtaigniers roundabout at the entrance to the city centre, “the funkiest roundabout on the Côte”, according to Zdey.

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Urban flora and fauna

Just as giant are the mythical mechanical flying fish created by Ardif on the Passage Michel Genty in Antibes.

Ardif’s work explores possible hybridisations between architecture/machine and nature, notably with this series of ‘mechanimals’. The fish are partly open to reveal the mechanism in their guts.

This urban fauna offers a contrast that raises questions about the impact of the artificialisation of nature, and about the wild instinct we need to rediscover in our urban lives.

The work, produced as part of the “Couleurs d’Automne” exhibition, covers an area of over 300m². It is the largest surface the artist has ever created, requiring two weeks to complete these large fish in motion.

A unique international autumn art festival

Every year, the Coul’Heures d’Automne Festival is also an opportunity to discover some of the world’s leading street artists.

This eagerly-awaited one-off event was devised in October 2020 by Label Note, the association behind the Centre d’Art Urbain et Musical – La sChOOL – and the Nuits Carrées Festival in Antibes. Its aim is to promote urban art while involving local residents. This innovative creative process offers a different vision of the environment in Antibes and the surrounding area. Packed with unexpected surprises, the festival is a real must-see celebration of the season, highlighting the incredible cultural and artistic richness of this charming Mediterranean town.

Through a range of events and performances, the festival evokes the magic of autumn, with the picturesque streets of Antibes coming to life in a palette of shimmering colours. From spellbinding music to contemporary art exhibitions and captivating theatrical performances, the Coul’Heures d’Automne Festival is a cultural nugget not to be missed, a tribute to autumn and the creativity that makes Antibes such a unique place at this time of year.

See you in Antibes from 19 October to 3 November 2024 for the “Coul’heures d’Automne”!

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Making the most of your heroes: when street art goes where you least expect it

During the last two editions, two household refuse trucks were revisited by street artists.

Jaune, a leading Belgian stencil artist whose approach is to highlight the heroes of our daily lives, initiated this movement in 2021. His work includes a skip for household waste and the break room for waste collection agents (CASA). A tribute followed by Jérémy Besset, already the author of the emblematic “Liberté”.

The same year, Rimp, an artist from Antibes, also created the covering for the Tram A bus, an eighteen-metre rolling work that echoes his fresco at the Croix-Rouge roundabout.

Ephemeral works of art

The festival is also an opportunity to display ephemeral painting modules in the four corners of Antibes Juan-les-Pins.

Known as “COUL’BOX”, these installations are home to twelve local artists. The boxes are then dismantled at the end of the event and exhibited at the Trois Moulins crossroads, much to the delight of users of the Tram bus route linking Antibes to Sophia Antipolis.

The Centre d’Art Urbain La sChOOL is also hosting a mural exhibition featuring twelve artists from the Côte d’Azur urban scene. It’s a veritable open-air museum in the garden of the former Croix-Rouge school, where you can discover the artists who are driving the urban art scene in the region.

Last but not least, don’t miss the Antibes Street Art guided tour of the city centre, which will give you a whole new perspective on Antibes!

For this fourth edition, large-scale mural performances, installations, participative workshops and encounters will once again take over the walls of the town of Antibes Juan les Pins during the fortnight of the All Saints’ Day holidays!

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