PARIS STREET ART TOUR (4 Hours)

Join your private guide for a walking tour of the city’s newest street art neighborhood, the 13th Arrondissement, and discover Paris’ large-scale murals by French and international artists.

The 13th Arrondissement on the Left Bank (the south side of the river Seine) has since 2010 been commissioning artists from the street art culture to go ‘big’ on social housing, putting out a vote to local residents to decide on what gets painted. Our tour of the 13th visits a number of these big works, as well as introducing you to the thriving local underground street art scene.

On any one of our walking tours, you will see works by Shepard Fairey, C215, Vhils, Seth, Borondo, Miss Tic, and Speedy Graphito. The larger works we encounter are largely thanks to a friendship between a local art gallery and the mayor – contemporary art enthusiast Jérôme Coume – which was also the spark that led to the 2013 spectacle, La Tour Paris 13, an ephemeral exhibition in which over one hundred French and international street artists occupied a tower block marked for destruction. Not long afterwards a number of new murals were commissioned in the same district for Nuit Blanche, Paris’ annual overnight art event.