Street art in Lorient
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Where to find street art in Lorient (France)
Street art took root in Lorient against an unusual backdrop: the city was 90% destroyed by Allied bombing in 1943 and rebuilt in poured concrete, which by the late 1990s had become an open canvas for urban artists. That industrial landscape shaped a distinct local scene, crystallised when the Moker Crew formed in 2001 around Dino, one of the key figures in Brittany's graffiti culture.
The fishing port of Kéroman and the commercial port of Kergroise remain the twin epicentres of the scene, their derelict hangars and wartime blockhouses serving as free-expression zones. Avenue de la Perrière, Rue Florian Laporte and Boulevard Jacques Cartier are among the most documented streets for large-scale work, while the Frébault district and La Base — the former German submarine base — host commissioned murals of considerable scale.
The current scene is driven largely by Diaspora Crew, founded in 2015 by Kaz and Ezra, whose "Post-Apocalypse" (2017, 117 metres) and "La Mer" (2019, 70 metres, 13 artists) stand among the region's most ambitious works. The festival "Unies Soient Nos Cultures" left a lasting mark on the city's walls between 2009 and 2018. The municipal programme Couleur Qu'ARTier and a 2023 participatory budget that funded an XXL fresco reflect growing institutional support, alongside interventions by internationally recognised artists such as Jef Aérosol and Speedy Graphito across the wider metropolitan area.
Find the 103 artworks by the following street artists in Lorient (France)
Jef
Les Oides
Mika
Ezra
War
Snobe
Kaz
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