Alexandre Farto, aka Vhils, just finished another masterpiece at University Hospital Centre of São João, in the city of Porto, Portugal. This mural was created to pay tribute to health professionals and to highlight Portugal’s National Health Service.⁠⠀ The mural features ten faces in representation of ten health workers at São João Hospital, from doctors to nurses,…

The Out in the Open project aims to bring art out of the gallery and into the streets, making it available to the many rather than the few. Launched by KIRK Gallery in 2014, it has been bringing some of the World’s most recognized urban artists to the cityscape of Aalborg, Denmark, for large scale…

Felipe Pantone and his Configurable Art project have a new special guest with Vhils. Portuguese artist Alexandre Farto has been interacting visually with the urban environment under the name of Vhils since his days as a prolific graffiti writer in the early- to mid-2000s. An avid experimentalist, Vhils has been developing his personal aesthetics in…

This October, Festival Iminente returns to London, once again invading The Old Truman Brewery in Brick Lane. During 19-20-21 October the festival of explosive and experimental Portuguese and international art and music will bring the soul of Lisbon to the heart of London. Curated by Portuguese artist Vhils and Lisbon’s Underdogs Gallery, Festival Iminente not…

Vhils recently finished his latest mural in his hometown of Lisbon, created for the 2018 edition of the Iminente festival he founded two years ago. As a result of his collaboration with Amnesty International, the mural is aiming to channel the festival’s popularity to raise awareness about the unsolved brutal killing of Brazilian human rights…

Vhils recently spent some time in Indonesia where he was invited by the Splash and Burn project which highlights critical ecological issues in South-East asia. The world is not taking the time to consider how to move forward, there is no effort to reflect on the real impact of decisions. For this project what I…

One week ago, Haifa’s Broken Fingaz Crew got a call from Universal, saying U2 wanted them to create an animated video of the lyrics for their new song ‘American Soul’, with an intro by Kendrick Lamar. 7 days later, they made this stop-motion film, filmed in Haifa, London and Rajasthan… Broken Fingaz x U2 It’s a…

Over the last 10 months the newly formed curatorial company, Goldman Global Arts, has been working side by side with the NFL’s Miami Dolphins to place artwork, specifically murals, inside their completely refurbished Hard Rock Stadium. The project began with Case Maclaim, Pose, and The London Police painting around the time of Art Basel last…

While he spent the last few weeks in Hong-Kong preparing for his solo exhibition “Debris”, Alexandre Farto aka Vhils just unveiled a series of new street pieces. Featuring his signature technique of cutting through multiple layers of posters to create images, the Portuguese artist brought a new life to the walls of Hong-Kong with these…

Alexandre Farto aka Vhils is spending some time in Asia where he’s currently working on several new interesting projects in Hong-Kong.  Breaking away from the studio work, the Portuguese street artist and his crew created this beautiful portrait of a young Asian lady in the city’s center. Using his signature technique of chipping away from…