From rubbish sculptures that vanish overnight to astronauts in gallery windows – eight artists who shape Barcelona's urban art today, and what their work is worth.
Street art in Barcelona: a city of walls, galleries and spray cans
Barcelona has one of Europe's liveliest urban art scenes. Walls in Raval, El Born and Poblenou change constantly, and a growing number of galleries in the old town show street artists' studio work. The city is also home to Montana Colors, one of the best-known spray-paint brands.
The scene is as varied as the city. The graffiti pioneer Werens (Ramon Puig), born in Barcelona in 1967, has been painting walls from Catalonia to Berlin, Lisbon and New York for decades. Today you meet Art is Trash's rubbish sculptures on the pavements at night, Carlos Spogo's geometric walls in Poblenou, Camil Escruela's spray-can characters on shutters in Ciutat Vella, Mark Rox's ARTonauts in the galleries of the Gothic Quarter and El Born, Ashwan's cut-out rap lyrics at BienCuadrado and Xavi Ceerre's paintings in contemporary galleries. Legal walls such as the Jardins de les Tres Xemeneies in Poble-sec, managed through the Wallspot platform, give artists space to paint. There, and on walls in Poblenou, you also find Eslicer (Marc Lapedriza), born in Barcelona in 1987 – realism mixed with geometry and dripping.
For collectors, the rule is the same as everywhere: what you can buy and value are studio works, prints and objects – not pieces on walls. Below are eight artists, in no particular order, with sources for every fact.
Francisco de Pájaro · Barcelona · sculptures made from street rubbish
Art is Trash – also known as Francisco de Pájaro or El Arte es Basura – is a Spanish artist from Barcelona who proudly calls himself a labourer and a voice of the working class. At night he turns the rubbish he finds on the pavement into strange, funny characters and little «trash monsters», in Barcelona and also in London.
His pieces are ephemeral by design: they are usually cleared away the next morning. For him, art should not be taken too seriously – the name Art is Trash is a provocation, and a statement about what really matters.
On the market: The street pieces cannot be collected. Artevistas Gallery offers his paintings at about €1,200 to €13,310, sculptures from €120 to €1,800, a print (€225) and his book (€120) (2026).
Murals: His work lives mostly in short-lived street sculptures. A mural he painted in Menorca – a horse as a nod to the island's festivals – caused a stir because it had not been authorised. (source)
Fact sheet
Born
1970, Spain
Lives in
Barcelona (since 2003; London 2002–03)
Active since
1990; «Art is Trash» since 2009
Works in
– Drawings
✓ Canvases
✓ Murals
✓ Sculptures
– Toys
– Film
– Furniture
✓ Books
– Graphics
✓ Prints
Training
School of Applied Arts, Mérida (1993, left after 18 months)
Born 1971 in Liverpool · based in Barcelona · «a visual Tao of the Boom Bap sound»
Ashwan (born 1971 in Liverpool) is a Barcelona-based artist with a Master of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He describes his work as «a visual Tao of the Boom Bap sound» – a visual translation of the classic hip-hop beat. He often turns discarded cardboard boxes into large mixed-media pieces encased in resin, and his cut-out text works quote rap lyrics. He also co-directs BienCuadrado, a gallery and studio space in the Gothic Quarter.
Music runs through his practice: alongside his visual work he releases a sound project on Bandcamp, Paper Knives and Dragonflies.
On the market: He is represented by Galerie Lesmeister in Germany and BienCuadrado in Barcelona, where he has shown solo exhibitions such as «Sample Culture».
Murals: No large murals: his focus is on studio works – cut-out text pieces that often quote rap lyrics. (source)
Fact sheet
Born
1971, Liverpool (UK)
Lives in
Barcelona
Active since
–
Works in
– Drawings
✓ Canvases
– Murals
✓ Sculptures
– Toys
– Film
– Furniture
– Books
– Graphics
✓ Music
✓ Letter reliefs
✓ Mixed media
Training
BA (Hons), Northumbria University, Newcastle; MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Born 1990 in Barcelona · graffiti since 2004 · characters, comics, spray-can culture
Camil Escruela is a self-taught Barcelona artist who started in graffiti in 2004. He soon left classic lettering for a «logo graffiti»: a ghost with a mouth and eyes that became his signature. His characters come from the world of comics and illustration and show scenes around graffiti writers, their everyday lives and social issues.
He names Javier Mariscal, Pablo Picasso and the illustrator Pilarín Bayés as influences – and plays with them openly in works like his homages to Picasso, Miró, Matisse and Calder. Exhibitions include Montana Gallery (The Spray Game, 2022–23), the Adria Codina Gallery (2024), Street Art City in France (2025) and DesignerCon in Las Vegas (2025).
On the market: Artquemy Gallery in Barcelona lists his paintings at around €1,500 to €3,800 and smaller works from about €200 (2026); many pieces are marked sold.
Murals: Yes – including a mural against energy poverty (2016), a participatory mural with pupils of the Pau Vila school in L'Hospitalet (2018) and a shutter with an underwater scene in Carrer dels Canvis Nous, Ciutat Vella (2023). (source)
Muralist and painter · studio in Badalona · exhibiting since 2006
Carlos Spogo is a painter and muralist working from his studio in Badalona, next to Barcelona. He paints walls across Spain and in several European countries and combines private commissions with work in public space.
His style is built on colour, geometric composition and visual synthesis with straight and curved lines. Since 2022 he has run Pintamos Mucho, a social art project with workshops for schools, foundations, town halls, care homes and organisations working with people at risk of exclusion.
On the market: Besides murals he makes studio works; for commissions and purchases he can be contacted through his website.
Murals: Yes, on a large scale: a 200-metre construction-fence mural around the former Siberia & Deslite ice factory at Avinguda Icària 199 in Poblenou (Wall Lab, 2020), plus walls across Spain and Europe. (source)
Born 1993 in Baltiysk, Russia · lives in Barcelona · graffiti, 3D illusions, the ARTonaut
Mark Rox (also known as pop.art.pov) grew up in Baltiysk in Russia's Kaliningrad region and has worked since 2008 in street art, graffiti, painting, digital art and 3D illusions. According to his gallery, more than 5,000 of his works exist, from Kaliningrad to Kamchatka and on to Barcelona, Amsterdam and Riyadh.
He founded the graffiti team «From the Heart» and the wall-painting company «Roxart», won the Russian graffiti contest «Chetrapromart» in 2016 and now lives in Barcelona. His best-known series is the ARTonaut, an astronaut figure that appears in paintings and sculptures.
In Barcelona he was one of the leading artists behind the Museum of Illusions on Carrer del Pintor Fortuny in El Raval – one of more than 20 entertainment museums where, according to his gallery, he has worked as art director (source). The museum covers some 600 m² of hand-painted 3D murals in which visitors step into the picture themselves (source).
On the market: He is a permanent artist at Artevistas Gallery in Barcelona, which lists his sculptures from €2,800 and large ARTonaut paintings at up to €50,000 (2026).
Murals: Yes: he founded the wall-painting company Roxart, works with large 3D illusions and, according to his gallery, has been art director of more than 20 entertainment museums worldwide. (source)
Born 1988 in Alcoy · lives in Barcelona · painting between graffiti and abstraction
Xavi Ceerre, born in Alcoy in 1988, lives and works in Barcelona. His paintings and sculptures revolve around the wall as a symbol – building up and tearing down – and use techniques such as decalcomania, grattage and automatism, alongside basic materials like charcoal and newspaper.
He has had solo shows at Galeria Carles Taché in Barcelona (Houses Are Human, 2022; Todo es de color, 2023), at Herrero de Tejada in Madrid (New Singer Old Song, 2023) and at Juan Manuel Lumbreras in Bilbao, plus group shows from Amsterdam and Berlin to Denver. In 2023 he won the Art Nou / ART-O-RAMA award for best exhibition.
On the market: His work appears at art fairs such as Estampa and Urvanity in Madrid and Art-o-rama in Marseille (2024, with Taché Art Gallery).
Murals: His biography lists paintings and exhibitions rather than murals. In 2024 he took part in «Crits del Mur» at the Llotja de Sant Jordi in Alcoy, an exhibition on the history of graffiti and mural painting. (source)
B-Murals, Urvanity Art, Estampa, Art-o-rama (Marseille), Piramidón Centre d'Art Contemporani
Museums & institutions
IVAM CADA Alcoi (solo, 2022), Espai 13 – Fundació Joan Miró (2016), Tecla Sala (2017), Llotja de Sant Jordi, Alcoy (2024)
Collection acquisitions
Industri.ART acquisitions, La Capella, Alcoy (2020)
Awards & residencies
Art Nou / ART-O-RAMA best exhibition (2023), Cátedra de Arte Contemporáneo Antoni Miró (2024); residencies incl. Bilbaoarte (2018), Piramidón (2019), ZAWP (2020), Pouch Cove, Canada (2025)
Ramon Puig, born 1967 in Barcelona · graffiti pioneer in Catalonia · based in Sabadell
Ramon Puig, known as Werens, was born in Barcelona in 1967 and is one of the pioneers of graffiti in Catalonia. He studied graphic design at the Escola Massana (1987–1992) and typography at the London College of Printing (1993), where he saw the European graffiti movement take off. His cartoon style is colourful, fast and bold – mixed forms and textures in frenetic rhythms, often with fluorescent colours that glow under UV light – and it rarely stops at aesthetics: many walls carry a message of protest or demand.
For more than twenty years he has worked from Sabadell. He co-founded the urban art gallery ImpaktesVisuals in Barcelona and also works in illustration, graphic design and audiovisual projection.
On the market: His canvases are offered online through Artmajeur, where he has had a profile since 2005; our sources name no permanent gallery.
Murals: Yes, for decades: walls in Sabadell, Terrassa and Barcelona («Sarajevo Roses»), in Berlin (SO36) and Lisbon, and from Marrakech, Venice and Bombay to New York and London. (source)
Fact sheet
Born
1967, Barcelona
Lives in
Sabadell
Active since
–
Works in
– Drawings
✓ Canvases
✓ Murals
– Sculptures
– Toys
– Film
– Furniture
– Books
✓ Graphics
Training
Graphic design, Escola Massana (1987–1992); typography, London College of Printing (1993)
Marc Lapedriza, born 1987 in Barcelona · graffiti writer and muralist · realism, geometry and dripping
Marc Lapedriza, known as Eslic or Eslicer, was born in Barcelona in 1987. He drew from childhood and started painting graffiti at 16, around 2004/05, through friends who shared his love of hip-hop culture. His name grew out of the word «Slick». After early illegal pieces he moved quickly towards murals.
Fascinated by Renaissance art, he builds his work on realism mixed with flat geometry and dripping – he likes how clean lines and chaos together can make a harmonious picture. Besides spray paint he works with Bic pen, watercolour, charcoal and acrylic, and he runs his own company for murals, design, decoration and product customisation.
On the market: Original works are sold through Blacklight Art Gallery – for example «Nature Conection» at €3,025 incl. VAT (October 2026) – and through Galeria Espai Cavallers in Lleida.
Murals: Yes, in Barcelona among others on Carrer de Veneçuela (with zk73), an Akira Toriyama memorial wall with Keneone on Plaça de Caterina Albert, and at graffiti jams on the Plaça de les 3 Xemeneies and in Les Franqueses del Vallès (Enamurart, 2025). (source)
Prices range widely: small works and prints by local artists start at a few hundred euros, established names reach several thousand, and large gallery pieces can reach tens of thousands. Gallery prices are asking prices – what a work fetches on resale can be different. For an informal value of a piece you own, use our free estimate from a photo.
Sources: the artists' websites, Instagram profiles and gallery pages linked above (as of September 2026). Selection by StreetArtValue; the artists are not affiliated with us.
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Frequently asked questions
Where can I see street art in Barcelona?
Raval, El Born and Poblenou have a lot of changing street art. Galleries in the old town such as Artevistas and Artquemy, and Montana Gallery, show studio works by urban artists.
Can I buy work by these artists?
Yes – through the galleries named above or directly through the artists' websites and Instagram accounts. Street pieces themselves are not for sale.
How much is a work by a Barcelona street artist worth?
It depends on the artist, the medium and the size. Gallery prices listed for the artists on this page range from about €200 for small works to €50,000 for large paintings (2026).
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