City Projects

For its third edition, the St+art Festival returned to Delhi. Held over a span of three eventful months, it altered the visual landscape of different parts of the city through curated art interventions. The festival saw the addition of six large-scale murals on Delhi’s public-facing buildings, spread across the capital.

Khirki Extension

Khirki Extension is an urban village in the locality of Malviya Nagar in South Delhi. The congested, lower-income group neighbourhood stands in stark contrast to its across-the-road neighbours – two of the poshest shopping malls in Delhi. This dystopia inspired Chilean artist INTI to paint one of the village’s walls with a piece that he titled ‘Balance’. Depicting the latter as an unbalanced fight where an open heart wins over a gold chain, the work is indicative and highly symbolic of the artist’s belief.

The artwork is also a take on the relationship between contrasting spaces that share a similar cultural history.

Khan Market

Located on Tughlaq Road, in Delhi’s affluent Khan Market, the Lok Nayak Bhawan houses several government offices. In 2015 Spanish artist Okuda created a piece in his signature style - of geometric patterns and multicoloured prints. Okuda’s work blends seamlessly with grey bodies and organic forms, often raises contradictions about existentialism, the universe, the infinite, the meaning of life, and the false freedom of capitalism.

Connaught Place

Being one of the largest commercial centers in New Delhi, Connaught Place receives a colossal number of visitors every day. Thai artist Rukkit finds birds to be the common linking thread between spaces and cultures, something that reoccurs a lot in his work. This was his first time painting a mural in India and he used his stencilling technique to create figurative images in CP. By the time he was finished, a bird in various shades was perched atop a wall each in Connaught Place’s Outer Circle and Gol Market.

Hauz Khas Village

Portuguese artist Joao Samina painted a mural at the entrance of Hauz Khas Village. Joao is known for using stencil techniques with other art elements from his own roots in street art, graphic design, painting and architecture.

The School of Planning and Architecture

Specializing in education and research, the School of Planning and Architecture in New Delhi is a premier public institution of higher education. Continuing our collaboration with public institutions to reimagine the utility of public spaces German street artist 1010 created a ‘portal’ on one of the SPA's walls. The artwork was inspired by ancient Hindu architecture and "The Fractal Brain Theory" by Wai H. Tsang.

Azadpur Market

Miami-born artist Axel Void finished a mammoth piece in the Azadpur Market of Delhi. This market is the largest cold storage facility that houses hundreds of thousands of goods every day. Axel painted a mural titled ‘Zindagi’ (Life) on one of the 60 x100 foot wall of the storage unit.

The ‘mandi’ is not only the starting point of Delhi’s food chain but is also a source of livelihood to thousands of workers who keep it up and running 24x7. As part of his international series ‘Mediocre’, Axel wanted the piece to talk about life in the market and dedicated it to both the ‘mandi’ and its workers.
Paying tribute to these ‘palledars’, Axel painted his interpretation of still life - one of the most recurrent themes in the history of classical painting. Through the mural, Axel wanted to recognise the tireless labourers of the workers of the market, which provides life to the city by storing most of its food. It also spoke about the mundane nature of life, but the importance of each individual in supporting and sustaining life for others.