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a mural by Gonzalo Borondo on Pomorska street, monumental figures with dripping-paint effects inspired by Goya
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a pastel scene called 'Love Letter' by Spanish artist ARYZ, one of the first Urban Forms murals
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Poland's first 3D mural, its full effect visible only through ChromaDepth glasses
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DALeast's second Łódź mural at the corner of Pomorska and Wierzbowa, a wave of hundreds of lines topped by a bird
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SAINER's mural 'Primavera' on Uniwersytecka street, painted with Łódź art academy students
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a mural on the water utility building on Wierzbowa street, a photorealistic 1927 sewer-construction scene
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the artist covered a former factory wall with patterns drawn from old Łódź textile mills
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a large-scale mural by a Kraków artist shows figures merging with their urban surroundings
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Okuda's colourful 3D mural on a student dormitory, painted for Erasmus Student Network's 20th anniversary
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„Hexuberances” by PROEMBRION on the ZETO computer centre facade, hexagons around an RGB heart
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Russian artist Viktor Puzin's 3D mural creates an illusion of depth through light and shadow, seen only from outside
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a mural on Pomorska 51 street, catalogued as a collective work signed „AHE”
Śródmieście-Wschód, or more precisely Pomorska Street and its immediate surroundings, is one of the most densely painted areas in Łódź - the Urban Forms Gallery route brings together works by artists from several continents within a few hundred metres of each other. Below are twelve murals you can see during a single, unhurried walk.
At Pomorska 67 two murals stand side by side: the BORONDO mural with monumental figures with a dripping-paint effect, in a style referencing Goya, and the older ARYZ mural, a pastel scene called "Love Letter", one of the first works of the Urban Forms festival in the city. A few numbers further, at Pomorska 92, the DALEAST mural shows a wave made of hundreds of precisely arranged lines with a small bird at its crest. At Pomorska 93 the Awer mural was the first three-dimensional mural in Poland, whose full effect is only visible through ChromaDepth glasses. The Viktor Puzin mural at number 84 plays with an illusion of depth through light and shadow, and at Pomorska 79 the Andrzej PoProstu mural covers the wall of a former factory with patterns from Łódź textiles. The route ends with the mural catalogued as "various artists, AHE" at number 51.
At Wierzbowa 52, on the building of the water company, hangs a mural marking the 90th anniversary of the Waterworks and Sewerage Company, a photorealistic reconstruction of a photo from the construction of the sewer in 1927. At Uniwersytecka 12, SAINER, an artist born in Łódź, painted the Primavera mural with the participation of students from the local Academy of Fine Arts. On the facade of the Olimp student dormitory at Lumumby 12 you'll find Okuda's multicoloured, three-dimensional mural, painted for the 20th anniversary of the Erasmus Student Network. At Narutowicza 136, on the building of the ZETO Computer Centre, hangs the PROEMBRION "Hexuberances" mural, with hexagons and a heart in RGB colours. At Nowa 3, on the side wall of a tenement house, you can see the "Continuous City" mural by Sebastian Bożek, figures merging with the urban surroundings.
The seven murals on Pomorska can be seen in a single, roughly hour-long walk - it's worth starting at number 51 and heading towards number 93. The side streets, especially Uniwersytecka and Narutowicza, need separate, short detours. The best light for photographing the large murals is in the morning, before the sun sits directly above the wall.
Where in Łódź are the most murals next to each other?
Pomorska Street in Śródmieście-Wschód, where seven works of the Urban Forms Gallery stand within a stretch of a few hundred metres - the densest concentration of street art in the city.
Is visiting the murals in Śródmieście-Wschód free?
Yes, all the murals are in public space and can be viewed without restriction, at any time.
Which mural on Pomorska is worth seeing first?
Awer's mural at number 93 stands out from the others - it's the first three-dimensional mural of this kind in Poland, although its full effect is only visible through special glasses.
Are there murals in Śródmieście-Wschód outside Pomorska?
Yes, it's worth taking a detour towards Uniwersytecka, Narutowicza and Lumumby - each of these streets has one large work, worth a separate stop.
All the murals of the region are gathered in the murals in the Łódź region category, and the full list of Łódź's attractions is on the attractions in Łódź page. Murals in another part of the city are shown on the murals in Doły page, and you'll find the full map of points of interest on the attractions map.
