Openwalls Conference 2016

Is it ethical to remove urban art from the street in order to preserve it in a museum? Should it be left to live its life and disappear? If it is preserved, who should pay for its conservation? Can the artwork go into private hands, or should it remain accesible to the public?

This is currently one of the most important debates in the urban art scene. Increasingly works are stripped from the street to be exhibited or sold. A few months ago a controversial act took place where the artist Blu erased all his murals in Bologna to express his rejection of an exhibition that included his works that had been removed from the street, apparently without his permission.

At the Open Walls Conference we want to bring this issue up for debate, and for this we have invited some key voices.

Time: 6-9pm
Debate: Should urban art be preserved?

Christan Omodeo (curator)
Elena Gayo (art restorer)
Jorge Rodríguez-Gerada (artist)
Host: Javier Abarca (artist and researcher)