B-Murals Unveils 13 New Murals at Nau Bostik, Marking a Decade of Creative Resistance in Barcelona
B-Murals Nau Bostik forms a new chapter in Barcelona’s urban art landscape, as B-Murals Centre d’Art Urbà unveils 13 new interventions marking a decade of creative resistance at the citizen-led cultural hub. Created by local and international artists, the works reaffirm Nau Bostik’s role as a vital space for experimentation, dialogue, and community participation.
A new wave of murals bringing colour and community to Nau Bostik. Photo © Fer Alcalá / B-Murals
This year’s edition places a special emphasis on the tensions, contradictions, and transformative power of creativity, both individually and collectively, while celebrating Nau Bostik’s tenth anniversary as a citizen-driven cultural landmark. The unveiling formed part of B-Murals Fest, a day dedicated to artistic exchange, participation, and reflection on the evolving role of urban art in the city.
A New Façade at B-Murals Nau Bostik by Emilio Cerezo
Leading the 2025 interventions, Emilio Cerezo has transformed Nau Bostik’s main façade with a vibrant participatory mural commemorating the space’s 10th anniversary. The piece replaces the iconic 2018 façade mural by Elian Chali, marking a symbolic passing of the torch and expanding the building’s ongoing visual narrative.
Emilio Cerezo replaces the iconic 2018 façade mural by Elian Chali. Photo © Fer Alcalá / B-Murals
Cerezo also debuts La rutina del sueño (The Sleep Routine), an immersive installation presented within the WCUB3 exhibition program. The multisensory environment, enhanced by a soundscape from Ilia Mayer, invites viewers into a drifting perceptual space where colour, form, and rhythm dissolve into one another, echoing the subtle threshold between dreaming and waking. The installation reflects Cerezo’s ongoing exploration of the creative process as a personal daily ritual, one shaped by observation, repetition, and the fleeting clarity of morning light.
Emily Cerezo also debuts La rutina del sueño (The Sleep Routine). Photo © Fer Alcalá / B-Murals
This new chapter joins earlier WCUB3 projects by artists such as Zion Town Kids, Mina Hamada, Kenor, Dunja Janković, and Martí SAWE.
Martí SAWE and Creative Resistance at Nau Bostik
At the Puente del Treball Digne, artist Martí SAWE presents Tempesta Creativa, a mural that confronts the complexities of contemporary artistic practice. Rooted in the friction between inspiration and self-doubt, spontaneity and external pressure, the work unfolds as a visual manifesto on the contradictions of the creative act.
SAWE, whose background spans graffiti, illustration, animation, and installation, channels the energetic instability of artistic experimentation. Through humour, tension, and bold graphic language, the mural acknowledges both the exhilaration and the exhaustion inherent in making art today.
A new wave of murals bringing colour and community to Nau Bostik. Photo © Fer Alcalá / B-Murals
A Collective Transformation of Space at B-Murals Nau Bostik
Eight artists selected through an open call Andrea Devia Nuño, Bunker, Chylo, Dan Bonssai, Dana Alessi, Laura Merayo, NSN997, and Vantees together with invited artists Werens and Rockaxson, and resident artist Schoko Tanaka, have reshaped the interior walls of Nau Bostik with an array of styles, materials, and conceptual approaches. The backyard now showcases a rich spectrum of artistic expression: the veteran experience of Werens and Chylo, the neo-rural boldness of Laura Merayo, the paste-up experimentation of Rockaxson and Vantees, the delicate precision of Schoko Tanaka and Dana Alessi, the graffiti lineage continued by Bunker and Dan Bonssai, the illustrative scenes introduced by NSN997 and Andrea Devia Nuño.
A new wave of murals bringing colour and community to Nau Bostik. Photo © Fer Alcalá / B-Murals
Collectively, the murals, created by artists from Argentina, Italy, Brazil, Japan, Sabadell, Zaragoza, and beyond, reveal a constantly evolving landscape of contemporary muralism. These new contributions reinforce B-Murals’ foundational belief in public space as a site of accessibility, exchange, and creative resistance.
A new wave of murals bringing colour and community to Nau Bostik. Photo © Fer Alcalá / B-Murals
Together, the B-Murals Nau Bostik murals reveal how contemporary muralism continues to evolve through collaboration, experimentation, and shared public space.
Nau Bostik and B-Murals: Ten Years of Creative Resistance
The interventions arrive at a pivotal moment in the history of Nau Bostik, a former adhesive factory whose survival is the result of sustained community activism. Since 2015, the site has evolved into a multidisciplinary cultural ecosystem and home to social movements, educational programs, creative studios, and everyday neighbourhood life.
Thirteen murals, countless stories, one shared space. © Fer Alcalá. Courtesy of B-Murals and Nau Bostik.
As pressures on public space in Barcelona intensify, Nau Bostik remains a vital counterweight: a commons where art is not a spectacle but a shared civic right. The new murals underscore this commitment, transforming the industrial complex into a living archive of collective imagination.
Thirteen murals, countless stories, one shared space. © Fer Alcalá. Courtesy of B-Murals and Nau Bostik.
The mural unveiling and festival included Murs Oberts (Open Walls) for free public painting, workshops introducing urban art techniques to all ages, and a professional meeting bringing together artists, cultural managers, and institutional representatives. A forum on best practices in urban art was held within the framework of Mondiacult 2025, linking local perspectives to global cultural policy conversations.
Workshops, countless stories, one shared space. © Fer Alcalá. Courtesy of B-Murals and Nau Bostik.
About B-Murals Centre d’Art Urbà
B-Murals is a contemporary urban art centre dedicated to promoting, producing, and disseminating muralism and public art practices. Through exhibitions, residencies, educational initiatives, and site-specific interventions, B-Murals fosters dialogue between artists, institutions, and communities. Its mission is to expand access to culture and strengthen the role of public art in shaping more equitable and expressive cities.
Art as resistance, art as celebration. Photography © Fer Alcalá (@feralcala)
B-Murals Centre d’Art is supported by: Generalitat de Catalunya, Ajuntament de Barcelona, and Montana Colors. In collaboration with: Nau Bostik. Photo Credit: Fer Alcalá (@feralcala)
Published 2026. Murals unveiled as part of B-Murals Fest at Nau Bostik, Barcelona.