Street art: Massoins has its own festival! | Côte d’Azur France / French Riviera

Massoins, a land of urban inspiration

Massoins, a historic village with a unique charm and peaceful atmosphere, is packed with cultural and artistic treasures that attract many visitors every year. The village has retained its traditional character with narrow stone streets and stone houses typical of the Côte d’Azur. Less than an hour from Nice, the walls of Massoins are once again set to become the scene of truly free expression! After the success of its previous editions, the 4th edition of the Massoins Street Art Festival will be a colourful new event.

If art is first and foremost about sharing intergenerational and intercultural connections, this Middle Country village needed no less to take up street art once again to introduce young and old alike to this culture.

On 28 June 2025, the village will once again vibrate to the rhythm of spray paint cans, brushes and stencils. After three successful editions, the Massoins Art Festival returns livelier than ever, supported by the Nice-based association Place for Art and backed this year by patron Alexandra Borchio-Fontimp, senator and president of Côte d’Azur France Tourisme, as well as loyal patron Yves Bermont.

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Place for Art: a collective of passionate artists

Grouping people with a passion for the world of street art, Place for Art, is a Nice-based collective promoting contemporary and urban art.

The Nice-based association is creating an unprecedented synergy by showcasing street art and supporting artists, the general public and local areas to enable everyone to get their hands on this urban art.

Spectacular to a fault, the Live Paintings are the ideal opportunity to see the artists express themselves live. You can’t help but be fascinated when you see the work being created before your very eyes.

Will the impressive 21-metre-long fresco make way for a major new work? To find out, you’ll have to come along to the event!

And with the Festival this year giving pride of place to female artists, the performances promise to reveal a different side to this art form.

A major focus on street art and graffiti

From 10am to 6pm, artists will take over the village walls with spectacular Live Painting performances. Among them:

Djiango, architect and visual artist, explores space through a kinetic and sensory approach.
Florence Fabris, self-taught visual artist and tattoo artist, offers a colourful pop universe.
Djoulay La Papaye, a committed, feminist and prolific artist, transforms art into a fighting tool.
Tina de Rubia, a poster gluer with a passion for wear and recycling.Big Ben, from Chad, embodies art as an act of resilience and
transmission.
Ma2thieu, an intuitive creative, offers abstract art imbued with humanity.
ClodArt, illustrator and doodler, blends words and drawings with delicacy.
Kitoff, explosive performer, spray paints in minutes in a unique visual show.

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And let’s not forget the graffiti artists!

The 4th Festival de Massoins also features graffiti artists, whose singular universes enrich the event.

As such, the Festival de Massoins will welcome FREE, an artist originally from the north of France based in Antibes, handling signatures, graffiti and frescoes with intensity. His style is both raw and delicate, reflecting a real freedom of tone. A former tagger, now a decorative painter, he surprises us with his versatility and ability to adapt his art to any medium. His approach celebrates the richness and accessibility of Street Art, in a spirit of openness.

Dylan Haond, meanwhile, is a complete visual artist. Born in Privas in 1994, he lives in Nice and works between Nice and Monaco. His art is nourished by a constant dialogue between calligraphy, popular culture, political questioning and ready-made. His poetic and daring paintings use graffiti codes to sensitively question society. In his work, he blends urban architecture, plastic devices, installations and multiple media, in a perpetual quest for free and committed expression. His indoor-outdoor work defies conventional formats, the better to bring out the emotion.

Much more than a festival: a day for everyone

As well as performances, the event offers:

Creative workshops, old wooden games, giant inflatable structure (all free)
Craft market and local produce
Harp concert in the church by Ileana Dyshlov
Square ball competition
Guided tour of the village and church
Food on site: pizzas, socca, salads, Pan Bagnats… and the unmissable Buona Mangiuca for gourmets.

A solidarity edition

The festival is once again supporting the Princesse Paloma association in its fight against neurofibromatosis type II, with donations to improve the daily life of young Paloma.