Grenoble · Self-guided audio walk

Street Art in Championnet

Championnet is a lived-in Grenoble quarter where garage doors, garden walls and blank gables carry the work of a street art festival running since 2015. Nothing to pay, and it's visible at any hour.

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1.2 kmDistance
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Grenoble's street art began here, in the narrow streets of Championnet, and it's still densest on the blocks around rue Génissieu. Spacejunk, the art centre at 19 rue Génissieu, has run the Street Art Fest Grenoble-Alpes since 2015, and the tourist office counts close to 420 murals painted across the metro area since then.

This walk covers five walls in about an hour: the murals around the gallery on rue Génissieu, the Marianne on rue des Bergers, Snek's emblem on rue Doudart de Lagrée, the painted shutters and a rattlesnake on place Jacqueline Marval, and How and Nosm's giant on rue de Turenne.

The gallery opens Tuesday to Saturday, two to seven in the afternoon, and closes for August and Christmas. The walls are open whenever you are. Festival walls get repainted as the years pass, so a piece may have changed since it was photographed.

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Spacejunk

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The festival's home gallery, with two festival walls on the same street.

You're standing in the street where Grenoble's street art lives. Spacejunk, the art centre at number 19, has run the Street Art Fest Grenoble-Alpes since 2015, and the tourist office counts close to 420 murals painted across the metro area since then. This one street got a good share of them: big gable ends up high, and small stencils at eye level, tucked into doorways and courtyards.

If the gallery is open, step in. It opens Tuesday to Saturday from two to seven in the afternoon, and closes for all of August and over Christmas.

Otherwise, look both ways along the pavement. At number 17 is Mr Wany's Stendal Syndroma, painted for the 2015 festival. Further along at number 14 is Mr Chaix's Sapere Padene, from 2016. Other walls along the street carry work from the first editions. Some of those early pieces have already been painted over. That's the deal with this quarter: a gallery with no closing time and no permanent collection.

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Marianne

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A painted Marianne carrying the 1793 right of insurrection.

Rue des Bergers is one street over from rue Génissieu, and number 10 carries the festival's most political wall. In 2016, three artists, Srek, Greg and Killah One, painted a Marianne calling for insurrection. Alongside her run the words of article 35 of the 1793 Declaration of the Rights of Man: when the government violates the rights of the people, insurrection is the most sacred of rights and the most indispensable of duties.

A Marianne is the figure on French stamps and town halls, so giving her that sentence to carry is a pointed choice. She is painted on a private garden wall, and if the gate is shut you see her only in pieces through the bars; the rest of the street makes up for it.

The same street keeps more work from the early editions. A C215 cat sits on one wall, and Kouka's version of Poussin's Shepherds of Arcadia on another. Plenty of what this quarter has to show is at the height of your hand. Place Championnet, a short walk east, has café terraces if you want to sit down.

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L'arme de paix

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Snek's crying woman: the festival's best-known wall.

Snek is a Grenoble artist, and this wall from 2016 is the one the festival puts on its brochures: a woman's face, mixed-race, crying, painted over the whole side of the building. Her tears are the point. The French title plays on two words one letter apart, arme and larme, weapon and tear, so a weapon of peace turns the painting itself into the weapon. Silver calligraphy curls around her face and hair, and the subject is the wars tearing at Africa.

Look at what surrounds her, too. This is a plain residential block: shutters, bicycles, a doorway someone just came out of. Nobody chose rue Doudart de Lagrée for its beauty. The festival came here and painted a woman five metres high, in tears, in the middle of it.

Take a few steps back onto the opposite pavement. From there the face holds together. Up close, the letters around her break back down into spray.

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Place Jacqueline Marval

A painted rattlesnake and a square of painted garage doors.

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Food for Thought

How and Nosm's giant gable, with Danay nearby.

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Good to know

Before you go

When is Spacejunk open?

Spacejunk opens Tuesday to Saturday, 14:00 to 19:00, and closes for all of August and the Christmas period. The murals around it are outside and free to see at any hour.

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Do I need a ticket for the street art?

No, Championnet's street art needs no ticket: the pieces are painted on garage doors, garden walls and blank gables around a lived-in quarter, so the walls themselves are the show and they cost nothing. Festival murals do get repainted as the years pass, so a piece may have changed since it was first photographed.

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