Festival ARTISTS 2026
YUBIA (ES) is an urban artist, illustrator, and graffiti writer with over 20 years of experience in the Spanish and international graffiti scene. Born in Bilbao and currently based in Barcelona, her work is defined by a unique fusion of classic graffiti and kawaii aesthetics, creating a recognizable visual universe full of color, humor, and energy.
Her visual language combines graffiti-inspired lettering with characters that emerge from everyday objects such as spray cans, food, fruits, and urban elements, as well as memories from her childhood. These elements come together to create characters that convey emotions and tell small stories. This contrast between the rawness of graffiti and a seemingly soft, playful aesthetic is one of the key elements of her work, along with her perspective as a woman in a historically male-dominated scene.
Throughout her career, Yubia has developed mural, illustration, and personal projects across urban, cultural, and commercial spaces. She is working on the streets on her own but has also collaborated with international brands and organizations such as Adidas, Foot Locker, Firefox, and Estrella Galicia, and her work has been featured in festivals, exhibitions, and urban spaces across Europe, America, and Asia.
FACIO (AT/PT) is an artist whose practice centres on line as the core of his visual language. He began his artistic training at the National University of the Arts (UNA) in Buenos Aires in 2013, where he studied drawing and engraving techniques.
Using Chinese ink, he creates intricate compositions built from dense, precise strokes, working with light and shadow. Across murals, drawing, illustration, and works on canvas, he translates delicate linework into large-scale public artworks. His work engages with folkloric themes, using symbolic imagery to explore identity and cultural heritage. He is particularly interested in the elements that shape the identity of a people and their territory. Since 2014, he has been active in public space, creating murals in Argentina, Belgium, Chile, Germany, Morocco, Portugal, and Spain.
THOBEK (Eriks Caune, LV) has been painting on walls since 2010. His work is mainly centred around interpretations of people and architecture, combining an illustrative style with a mildly academic approach to painting.
A. Bran (LT) is an illustrator and visual artist from Lithuania working across various media, including illustration, art direction, murals, animation, sculpture, and visual art. His work balances social commentary with intimate, personal situations, questioning social stigmas and the role of the individual in contemporary society.
Research plays an important role in his practice, often focusing on everyday situations that may appear ordinary at first glance but reveal unexpected narratives when observed more closely. His works often function as a form of documentation of these moments.
DANNY RUMBL (NL) is a Rotterdam-based artist known for his vibrant murals, illustrations, and street art. Emerging from the graffiti scene in the early 2000s, he developed a distinctive style that blends bold colors with playful imagery inspired by cartoons, pop culture, and everyday life. What began as tagging and experimenting in public spaces evolved into a full-time artistic career, with his work now appearing on walls across Europe and beyond.
His pieces often feature animals, characters, and surreal compositions that balance humor with a sharp visual identity. Drawing from both urban culture and his Indonesian heritage, Rumbl continues to explore storytelling through his street art projects.
EL RUGHI / MARTINA FRANCAS (IT), in Martina Franca (Southern Italy), he is a self-taught artist who found his passion for classic graffiti at an early age. Through years of experimentation in the underground scene—painting in the streets, learning new techniques, and connecting with artists across Europe—he developed a distinctive visual language. Now based in Barcelona, his style fuses graffiti, underground comics, psychedelic culture, and contemporary graphics. With a strong focus on the world of children and playful imagination, he describes his work as "children-friendly psychedelic paintings." Playfulness is a key element in his practice. Beyond murals, he creates large-scale painted board games in public space—turning streets into interactive playgrounds that invite participation and curiosity.
He is creating art works on the streets on his own but has also taken part in numerous street art events and festivals in Hong Kong, Italy, England, Scotland, Spain, Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Romania, Malta, and Germany. His work also includes silkscreen printing, tattooing, graphic design for music projects and events, and the self-publishing of fanzines exploring graffiti, street art, and experimental illustration. A DIY ethos runs through it all, driving his ongoing creative exploration.
HUMAN ROBO 96 (DE) combines urban art energy with clear, graphic lines, creating visual worlds that blend comics, tattoo aesthetics, and urban mythology. Skulls, machine fragments, and reptilian figures become symbols of a hybrid present where pop culture meets transience. His works are playful and dark at the same time - like snapshots of a world between asphalt, fantasy, and rebellion.
Staselė Jakunskaitė (LT) is a Vilnius-based visual artist, muralist, and illustrator who mostly just really likes painting things on walls. With a background in painting and a lot of time spent working in digital illustration, she happily trades solitary hours at the laptop for the fresh air of drawing in the streets — usually slightly covered in paint, while curious strangers try to guess what it’s going to be.
Her work combines vibrant colors, poetic characters, and visual metaphors, often drawing from associative and intuitive thinking. She’s interested in how images can suggest layered meanings — where objects become symbols, and compositions function as open-ended narratives. She likes the idea that her work can be seen by anyone just passing by, if it also transforms the city a bit along the way, that’s a nice bonus.
SELJO 126 (EE) is a multi-sensory unit oriented towards noble goals. Since 2015, Seljo has been striving for normality, and in the course of the next five-year plan, success should be in reach.
MAARI SOEKOV (EE) is a freelance illustrator and painter. Her work speaks of magic and mysticism, connection with primordial nature, and the different aspects of being human - both the lightest and darkest moments of being oneself.
SIGRIT VILLIDO (EE) is a multidisciplinary artist, working as a tattooer, animator, illustrator, lately dipping her toes in murals and ceramics too.
PALA (EE, My First) wanted very much to pursue art and study to become an artist when she was a child. However, she often heard from those around her that she should acquire a “real profession.” As a result, she completed a bachelor’s degree in psychology, but today she works with animals instead. She values both her education and her current profession highly.
Yet her hands belong to paint, and creative self-expression has never allowed itself to be pushed completely aside. For a time, she had almost forgotten how to express herself through art, but over the past year she has rediscovered her own artistic voice. Making art alongside everyday work and adult life has brought back a sense of value and meaning that had, for a while, cleverly hidden itself from her.
SIMONA LASS (EE, My First) mainly creates drawings of various characters and monsters and graduated this spring from the Graphic Design program at Tartu Art School. She describes herself as “an ancient 800-year-old wizard trapped in the body of a modern-day nerd,” as her work is filled with fantastical creatures, magic, vibrant colors, and letters that almost always find their way into her creations.
Her goal is to create art that transports people away from the grayness and ordinariness of everyday life that society has gradually become accustomed to. She is often accompanied by the thought that the world could contain more magic than what we experience daily. For this reason, she has made it her mission to bring a little more wonder and fantasy into people’s lives through her art.