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a colourful geometric portrait of pianist Artur Rubinstein facing the Łódź Philharmonic
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the fresco 'Łódź w Pigułce' shows 31 notable citizens against a trompe-l'oeil facade
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the 2001 mural 'Łódka' covers almost a thousand square metres of a tenement facade
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a 2016 mural by Etam Cru and Robert Proch on a car park wall in Strefa OFF Piotrkowska
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the mural Sentir by Puerto Rican artist Alexis Diaz on Kilińskiego street, a heart linked to a dragonfly and tree
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a mural by Nunca on Narutowicza street, an Amazon jungle scene with forest figures, artist shown at Tate Modern
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the 2011 mural Bang, blending SAT ONE's abstract style with Etam Cru's surrealism in a falling boy scene
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an Etam Cru mural on Nawrot street, a leaning traphouse, a recurring motif of their surreal work
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the mural Kwiaty polskie on the Dom Literatury, Gregor's tribute to Tuwim with a surreal cross-section of his head
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an M-CITY mural on Legionów street, a fantastical house of pipes and chimneys in his signature stencil style
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M-CITY's second Łódź mural on Tuwima street, gears and turbines inspired by the Centre Pompidou's structure
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a joint mural by Brazil's OS GEMEOS and Spain's ARYZ, a dancing couple on Roosevelta street
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a PENER mural on the youth hostel facade on Legionów street, a sharp geometric abstraction
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a RASPAZJAN mural on Sienkiewicza street, a cat-woman seemingly sitting on the next building's roof, fairy-tale style
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a TATS CRU mural from the 2010 Outline Colour Festival, nearly 800 square metres with figures holding the Łódź flag
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a ZBIOK mural on Traugutta street, deformed comic-style figures critiquing social stratification
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a mural on Rewolucji 1905 r. street, a typographic design by Samuel Szczekacz from the pre-war avant-garde
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„Knowledge is the Key” by BARYS on the Faculty of Economics and Sociology wall, echoing the building's purpose
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a GREGOR mural on Zachodnia street, a figurative composition in his signature hyper-detailed, saturated style
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an Urban Forms mural on Jaracza street downtown, right next to the Grand Theatre
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a mural by duo KIRK and GREGOR by the Jaracz Theatre, shaped like a theatrical stage
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a courtyard mural on female beauty ideals, referencing the Venus de Milo and antiquity
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a black-and-white mural depicting workers' protests of 1905-1907, with PPS and Bund flags
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in a courtyard, the group Twożywo painted 'ZwyKły', a wordplay on hidden strength
Śródmieście is the heart of Łódź's Urban Forms Gallery - dozens of murals within a walk of a dozen or so minutes from Piotrkowska. Below is a route grouped by street, so you can walk it without doubling back to the same spot twice.
Opposite the Łódź Philharmonic, at Sienkiewicza 18, stands Eduardo Kobra's portrait of Artur Rubinstein - geometric, multicoloured, one of the most recognisable in the city. A little further, at number 39, the cat-woman from Raspazjan's work looks as if she's sitting on the neighbouring roof, and at Sienkiewicza 71 a French duo painted a photorealistic scene inspired by a carousel from a Tokyo park.
On the facade of the tenement at Piotrkowska 152, since 2001, you'll find "Łódka", one of the oldest large murals in the city, and at number 71 - the fresco "Łódź w Pigułce" with 31 notable residents of Łódź. Two murals are hidden in courtyards and are easy to miss from the pavement: in the courtyard of Piotrkowska 26, the lettering "ZwyKły" by the group Twożywo, and in the courtyard of Piotrkowska 48 - "Kanony urody kobiecej" by the duo Raku and Barys.
In the car park in the OFF Piotrkowska zone, at Roosevelta 18, is a joint work by Etam Cru and Robert Proch from 2016. At Roosevelta 17, on the House of Literature, hangs a tribute to a poet - "Kwiaty polskie" by Gregor, and at Roosevelta 5 a pair of dancing figures is a joint work by the Brazilian duo OS GEMEOS and the Spaniard ARYZ.
Two murals on Legionów were created as part of the Mia100 Kamienic revitalisation programme: the fantastical house made of pipes, M-CITY at number 19, and the geometric abstraction by PENER at number 27, on the facade of a youth hostel.
At Kilińskiego 26, a heart joined with a dragonfly is "Sentir" by Alexis Diaz from Puerto Rico, and at Kilińskiego 43, next to the Jaracza Theatre, the duo KIRK and Gregor echoed a theatre stage in its form. On Rewolucji 1905 r., the black-and-white mural by Takie Pany recreates scenes of workers' demonstrations, and at number 39, on the building of the UŁ Faculty of Economics, hangs "Nauka kluczem do wiedzy" by BARYS. At Traugutta 9, the distorted figures of ZBIOK critique social stratification.
Not far from the Łódź Fabryczna railway station, at Narutowicza 25, rises the Amazonian jungle by Nunca, an artist exhibited at Tate Modern. At the junction of Aleja Kościuszki and Żwirki, a mural by the American group TATS CRU with the flag of Łódź covers almost 800 square metres, and at Aleja Kościuszki 27, SAT ONE and Etam Cru painted a dynamic scene of a falling boy.
At Zachodnia 52 you'll find a hyper-detailed composition by Gregor, at Pomorska 28 the geometric abstraction "Vicious Delicious" by the Spaniard KENOR, and at Tuwima 16 - a second Łódź mural by M-CITY, gear wheels inspired by the structure of the Centre Pompidou.
The whole route lies within a walk of a dozen or so minutes from Piotrkowska, so you can cover it in two to three hours without a car. All the murals are in public space and free to view at any time; photos come out best on a sunny afternoon, when the light falls on the facades along the street. Some of the works, especially in the Piotrkowska courtyards, aren't visible from the pavement - it's worth stepping through the gateways.
This route alone gathers close to thirty works, and that's still not all the murals in the city - you'll find more in other districts of Łódź.
Yes, all the murals are in public space, and you can view them free of charge with no time restrictions.
The oldest large-scale works are "Łódka" at Piotrkowska 152 and "Łódź w Pigułce" at Piotrkowska 71, both predating the main wave of the Urban Forms festival.
You'll find more murals in other parts of the city on the murals in the Łódź region page, and the full list of attractions in Śródmieście and the rest of Łódź on the attractions in Łódź page. If you're after coffee or a break after the walk, check out atmospheric places in Łódź.
