POW! WOW

Rotterdam 2019

MONTANA-CANS X POW! WOW! ROTTERDAM

To celebrate the partnership and strengthen the European integration of the POW! WOW! event, Montana Cans released a Limited Edition Collabo Series can in honor of the event. The vibrant green litho sporting the classic POW! WOW!, logo was complimented by the number one used color in the Montana GOLD range, Shock Black! As with all the POW! WOW! collabo series cans before it, they were only available at the event.

2 Location Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Photography Martine Kiers Profile @powwowrotterdam

The POW! WOW! festival made a success landing on its maiden voyage in Europe 2018 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Although the first edition was a success, more than 10.000 visitors one year later proved that POW! WOW! Rotterdam is here to stay. With its heavy artillary of Graffiti, Muralism, Hip Hop culture and live music, the Afrikaanderpark and the surrounding Afrikaanderwijk played host to an array of sensory delights. Considering the main day was Sunday 15th of September, a week before the event saw both the participating artists and plenty of street wandering street art enthusiasts flooding into city to watch art happen.

1 Size does matter, even if it’s small. SLINKACHU making big waves with little art.

2 SMOK’s floating artwork on a Rotterdam boat.

The artist line up was as strong as the name POW! WOW! itself. With a Montana GOLD in one hand and a Montana BLACK in the other, the artworks were again broken into two programs. The murals were covered by DANNY RUMBL, DOURONE, DIDIER JABA MATHIEU, HELEN PROCTOR, MURMURE, NINA VALKHOFF, SAID KINOS, SMOK, SMUG, SUPER A, TELMO MIEL, WOES, SLINKACHU and SPENCER LITTLE.

3 3 Super A at work re-inventing Pinocchio for a modern audience.

4 Telmo Miel and Smug join forces to create what is now judged by www.widewalls.ch as the »Most Beautiful Mural of 2019«!

5 Didier Jaba Mathieu taking out a whole facade with ease.

6 The finished mural. Super A wraps modernity over tradition with his giant Pinocchio homage.

7 Edoardo Trionfera aka Dodici bringing some festive illustration to the mural game. 8 Murmure’s amazing plastic bag floats gracefully over this buildings side.

9 A welcomed break in the monotony, Spencer Little explores his sculptural linear artwork on the light poles of Rotterdam.

More than 10,000 visitors one year later proved that POW! WOW! Rotterdam is here to stay.

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And to continue the theme of the »20 VANS 30 CANS« project, artists AVOID010, BILLY COLOURS, BIER EN BROOD, CHAS, DZIA, FELEON, ILLUSTRATOR DANNY, JAWGEM, KARSKI and BEYOND, KLAAS LAGEWEG, LEVI JACOBS, MINA, MR. JUNE, NAAMLOOOZZ, NNAMARI, NOLART, OTTOGRAPH, OX ALIEN, SOGO SHOW, SR. PAPÁ CHANGO, TALIB, STEPHAN BONTJE and VENOUR, were all called in to transform the moving targets. All in all the event went on with an positivity and without a hitch.

9 Artist duo Dourone pack a punch with their vibrant and figurative mural.

10 Said Kinos making sure typography got a good runwas well represented in an international artist line-up displaying many disciplines.

11 Native Dutch letter master Chas making light work of a van.

12 One of many vans receiving an artist makeover at the 2019 POW! WOW! Rotterdam event.