Málaga’s Walls: a collection of street art pictures
Street art in Málaga — photos of murals, graffiti, colorful decorations and urban paintings across the city’s walls and the shutters of many shops. Street art can be found across the city, but especially in the neighbourhoods of Soho, La Trinidad and Lagunillas.
The Soho district is a triangle between the Guadalmedina River, the Alameda Principal, and the Avenida ManueI Augustín Herrera. It was once a prosperous bourgeois neighborhood, but fell into decline at the beginning of the 21st century. However, local initiatives in the district brought about a turnaround. Now it is a hip neighborhood with hotels, restaurants, coffee bars, tattoo parlors, and shops for skateboarding and collectibles—and, of course, plenty of street art.
La Trinidad is a historic district in Málaga on the west bank of the Guadalmedina River. Lagunillas is an authentic yet raw working-class neighborhood behind the famous Plaza de la Merced. The district is primarily known as the cultural and creative heart, full of colorful street art and graffiti. The collection on this page combines street art from these three neighborhoods, as well as from the city center, El Perchel, Olletas, Bailén-Miraflores amongst other districts in Málaga.
Featured artists: ROA, D. Darko, Dal East, TVBOY, Chad Eaton, Boa Mistura, Bohemio, Lalone, El Alfil, Nesui, Diana Súnico, Belin, Doger, Ángel Idígoras.
Some of the murals and street art were photographed after sunset, giving them a darker and more atmospheric appearance.
Above: Parrot mural by Málaga artist D. Darko in Málaga’s Soho neighbourhood. D. Darko is a self-taught painter originally from Fuengirola, a city on the Costa del Sol in the province of Málaga.
Above, you can see “Falling Rats,” and below, a mural of a chameleon. Both murals are the work of the artist ROA, are located in the Soho neighborhood, and are part of the 2013 MAUS project. ROA is an anonymous street artist from Ghent, Belgium. ROA creates large murals of animals, usually in black and white. Themes of death and decay recur in his work.
Above you can see a bird mural by Chinese artist Dal East in Málaga’s Soho neighbourhood, viewed from the Alameda Principal.
Below: “Málaga Loves Art”, also in Soho, by TVBOY (Salvatore Benintende), an Italian neo-pop street artist. In the middle you see “Feelings” by Chad Eaton, a Southern California artist best known for his organic, hand-drawn black-and-white style, reminiscent of woodcut or linocut.
Above: mural by Bohemio based on Picasso’s “Guernica”. Bohemio is the nickname of Juan María Rivero, a Spanish visual artist and muralist originally from Málaga.
Above and below, other murals in the Soho neighborhood can be seen: the “Deseo” (Desire) mural by the Madrid-based collective BOA MISTURA, and a naked man by an unknown artist.
Above and below you can see the shutters of the Disaster Streetwear store in Calle Córdoba in Malaga’s Soho. The shop also specialises in skateboards and graffiti spray paint and features a tattoo section. Both works are from the Málaga born artist Juan María Rivero or Bohemio. Above you see a depiction of the painter Salvador Dalí. Further along, another mural by Bohemio can be seen on the shutter of the Bakkano bar on Hernán Ruiz Street, in the city center.
Above: Cypress Hill mural by Lalone in Málaga’s Lagunillas district. Below: “Back To School” mural depicting an angry girl by Lalone also in Lagunillas. The “Back To School” project was created in September 2019 by local artists Lalone and El Alfil to revitalize the Lagunillas neighborhood in Málaga. Their murals capture the timeless, universal blend of childlike wonder and reluctant grumpiness that arises at the end of summer.
Below: “Back To School” mural depicting an unhappy looking boy by El Alfil, also in Málaga’s Lagunillas district. El Alfil (Borja Moreno Terrón) is a well-known Spanish urban and graffiti artist. Primarily active in and around the city of Málaga, he is known for striking facial expressions or melancholic portraits.
Arriba: Mural “Not A Good Boy” de El Alfil en Calle Empedrada en el barrio de La Trinidad. Abajo: obra de Lalone que representa a un niño leyendo, en la pared del colegio El Divino Pastor en el barrio de Tetuán de Málaga.
Above: Street art of Lalone on a beach cabine on Málaga’s famous Malagueta beach. Lalone (Eduardo Luque Puertas) is one of Málaga’s most famous urban artists. His style is a blend of hyper-realistic portraits and comic-book illustration. He won Spain’s National Graffiti League in 2021.
Above, you can see a mural of children and dinosaurs by Doger in the Lagunillas neighborhood. Below is another work by Doger, also in Lagunillas. Doger, born Jonathan Morillas, is an acclaimed Spanish graffiti and mural artist originally from Zaragoza and based in Málaga.
Below: Street art by Belin in Plaza de la Judería, opposite the entrance to the La Sole del Pimpi restaurant in Málaga’s historic center. Belin (Miguel Ángel Belinchón Bujes) is a world-renowned Spanish street artist, born in 1979 in Linares (in the Andalusian province of Jaén). He fused his hyperrealism with the geometric abstraction of Cubism, drawing inspiration from the work of Picasso. This unique style is known as Post-Neo-Cubism.
Next to Plaza de la Judería, at 68 Calle Granada (centre district), there is a colorful mural by graffiti artist Doger titled “La Flamenca de El Pimpi”—an ode to Andalusia and to flamenco music and dance:
Above: “Días de verano” (Summer Days) mural by Lalone and Nesui in Málaga’s historic centre. It is loosely inspired by the painting “Días de verano” by the Spanish painter Vicente Palmaroli, on display at the nearby Carmen Thyssen Museum in Málaga. Nesui is a prominent Spanish graffiti and urban artist who, like El Alfil and Lalone, plays a key role in the thriving street art scene of Málaga and the Costa del Sol.
Above, you can see a mural of Jimi Hendrix created by Diana Súnico on Cuarteles Street, in the Perchel Sur neighborhood of Málaga. Diana Súnico is a respected Spanish street and graffiti artist who also hails from Málaga. She is known for her colorful murals, which feature expressive characters and social themes. She also runs the creative brand Muros&Aerosol, which focuses on commercial muralism and branding.
Above and below: two works by Doger (above, in the El Perchel Sur neighborhood).
Below, you can see an original mural of a bull by an unknown artist, titled “Trust Yourself.”
Above: Mural of leopard cub (unknown artist). Below: Lions mural by Lalone in Lagunillas.
Above: a mural of María Zambrano by comic book artist Ángel Idígoras, part of the murals at the Miguel de Cervantes School in the Olletas neighborhood of Málaga. Below, a mural of singer Pepa Flores (Marisol) from the same collection can be seen.
Above and below: murals from the same series by comic artist Ángel Idígoras at the Miguel de Cervantes school in the Olletas neighborhood.
Up next: two artworks on the same residential building by the Guadalmedina River in Málaga. On the left, “Cerrado por Malagueña” by D*Face; on the right, “Paz y Libertad” by Shepard Fairey (OBEY); both located by the Guadalmedina River in Málaga as part of the MAUS urban art project.
Above: Mural of Jesus and Mary of Humillación y Estrella on a shop shutter in Málaga. Below: Mural of Jesus, a work by Doger, next to the Guadalmedina River and the La Trinidad neighborhood.
Top and bottom: murals on business shutters. Top: on the shutter of Floristería El Cautivo on Calle Mármoles in Málaga’s city center. Bottom: at Málaga Vegana Repostería Pastería on Avenida Dr. Gálvez Ginachero.
Graffiti by Doger with the message “Tow Truck Removal” on a garage door, depicting a car being towed away:
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