{"id":841,"date":"2013-06-26T16:45:42","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T14:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kersavond.augustfirst.de\/?p=841"},"modified":"2023-01-02T13:42:26","modified_gmt":"2023-01-02T12:42:26","slug":"roa-graffiti-artist-from-belgium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urbanpresents.net\/en\/2013\/06\/roa-graffiti-artist-from-belgium\/","title":{"rendered":"roa \u2013 graffiti artist from belgium"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>roa is a graffiti artist from belgium, known for his oversized paintings of animals \u2013 which he mainly paints in black and white.<br>he started up in his hometown, ghent, in old, abandoned factory buildings away from the action. a lot of <a title=\"roa graffiti video\" href=\"#video\">videos <\/a>documenting this work are currently circulating on youtube.<br>now he paints on every continent, and has visited berlin several times (e.g. at <a title=\"roa graffiti - exhibition urban affaire\" href=\"#urbanaffaire\">urban affairs<\/a> in stadtbad wedding\/2009, skalitzers\/2011,<a title=\"roa graffiti - artbase 2011 grabowsee\" href=\"#artbase2011\"> artbase grabowsee<\/a>\/2011, etc &#8230;). so it\u2019s possible to find a number of works in berlin, and of course there are many facades in his hometown, <a title=\"roa graffiti - gent\" href=\"#gent\">ghent<\/a>, decorated with his work, as well as in the <a title=\"the ghost village doel in belgium \u2013 street art &amp; graffiti\" href=\"\/en\/2013\/05\/the-ghost-village-doel-in-belgium-street-art-graffiti\/\">ghost village, doel<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>update oct 2013:<br>during my portugal-holiday urlaub, i have found 2 more graffitis in&nbsp;<a title=\"roa graffiti in lagos\" href=\"#roa-lagos-artur-festival\">lagos<\/a>&nbsp;(portugal). he painted them for the artur-festival<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone flkr nothumb\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3283\/3151941926_2f79f167df_z.jpg\" alt=\"graffiti | roa | brussels\"\/><figcaption>roa &#8211; brussels dec 2008<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone flkr no-thumb\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3488\/3988985113_ec499a2bdb_z.jpg\" alt=\"urban affair | roa | berlin\"\/><figcaption>roa &#8211; urban affair &#8211; 2009 stattbad wedding<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone flkr no-thumb\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3498\/3988985427_c13db9bb26_z.jpg\" alt=\"urban affair | roa | berlin\"\/><figcaption>roa &#8211; urban affair &#8211; 2009 stattbad wedding<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone flkr no-thumb\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7007\/6777251693_fc9db9f802_z.jpg\" alt=\"graffiti | roa | grabowsee 2011\"\/><figcaption>roa &#8211; artbase grabowsee &#8211; 2011<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone flkr no-thumb\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3661\/5787732338_0142e56beb_z.jpg\" alt=\"graffiti | roa | berlin\"\/><figcaption>roa &#8211; sch\u00f6nhauser allee mural &#8211; stroke 3 &#8211; 2011<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone flkr no-thumb\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5135\/5398837898_9c15b0878b_z.jpg\" alt=\"graffiti | roa | doel . belgium\"\/><figcaption>roa &#8211; doel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone flkr no-thumb\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5012\/5398237475_2e3f0f7fa1_z.jpg\" alt=\"graffiti | roa | doel . belgium\"\/><figcaption>roa &#8211; doel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone flkr no-thumb\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5251\/5398841260_3f0bab40ec_z.jpg\" alt=\"graffiti | roa | doel . belgium\"\/><figcaption>roa &#8211; doel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone flkr no-thumb\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5135\/5394220198_f1f8a06152_z.jpg\" alt=\"graffiti | roa | gent\"\/><figcaption>roa &#8211; ghent port<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone flkr no-thumb\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4151\/5394229944_52571bbca2_z.jpg\" alt=\"graffiti | roa? | gent\"\/><figcaption>roa &#8211; ghent<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone flkr no-thumb\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4090\/5393622521_3df441491f_z.jpg\" alt=\"graffiti | roa | gent\"\/><figcaption>roa &#8211; ghent<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone flkr no-thumb\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4131\/5393623317_cb6926f292_z.jpg\" alt=\"graffiti | roa . resto | gent\"\/><figcaption>roa &amp; resto &#8211; port ghent<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone flkr no-thumb\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5018\/5394194326_b616005c57_z.jpg\" alt=\"graffiti | roa | gent\"\/><figcaption>roa &#8211; port ghent<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone flkr no-thumb\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2713\/4319077944_c750e11b3a_z.jpg\" alt=\"graffiti | roa | ghent . belgium\"\/><figcaption>roa &#8211; ghent<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone flkr no-thumb\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4065\/4319089026_59c876b5c2_z.jpg\" alt=\"graffiti | roa | ghent . belgium\"\/><figcaption>roa &#8211; ghent<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone flkr no-thumb\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4003\/4318358389_f3f7699441_z.jpg\" alt=\"graffiti | Resto . 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Pester |ghent . belgium\"\/><figcaption>gent &#8211; graffiti jam with roa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone flkr no-thumb\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7421\/10785761814_b97afe0021_z.jpg\" alt=\"mural | roa | artur festival . lagos . portugal\"\/><figcaption>roa f\u00fcr das artur festival in lagos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone flkr no-thumb\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2865\/10785411606_65f374ed23_z.jpg\" alt=\"streetart | roa | \\&quot;artur festival\\&quot; lagos . portugal\"\/><figcaption>roa f\u00fcr das artur festival in lagos (portugal)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><a name=\"video\"><\/a><br><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/EA1rYAiBtuE?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br>Urban Jungle &#8216; featuring Roa &#8211; by KrieBeL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>roa is a graffiti artist from belgium, known for his oversized paintings of animals \u2013 which he mainly paints in black and white.he started up in his hometown, ghent, in old, abandoned factory buildings away from the action. a lot of videos documenting this work are currently circulating on youtube.now he paints on every continent, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,1193,28,4],"tags":[90,61,97,648,56,98,737],"class_list":["post-841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kunstler-crew","category-belgien","category-graffiti","category-streetart-2","tag-belgium","tag-berlin-en","tag-doel-en","tag-ghent","tag-graffiti-en","tag-roa-en","tag-street-art"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanpresents.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanpresents.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanpresents.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanpresents.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanpresents.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanpresents.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanpresents.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanpresents.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanpresents.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanpresents.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}