Marijampolė is an unlikely mecca of street art. The city is filled with vibrant murals, with more added every summer during the MaLonNy art symposium.
Marijampolė is an unlikely mecca of street art. The city is filled with vibrant murals, with more added every summer during the MaLonNy art symposium. The event, whose name is a mishmash of Marijampolė, London and New York, attracts global street art stars to cover the city’s walls in colourful artwork.
As a result, there are a lot of impressive street art pieces across Marijampolė. Perhaps the best known of them is the upsidedown Floating World by Ray Bartkus, the symposium’s conceiver. Occupying the entire facade of a house overlooking the Šešupė River, the true image of the Floating World is the reflection of the mural in the water.