About us

167/B street

Laboratorio dedicato all’arte nel cuore dalla 167 B di Lecce. Fulcro in continua mutazione, costituisce da oltre 10 anni un reale motore di ricerca e sperimentazione dell’arte urbana, muovendosi fra le crepe e gli intonaci della vita comune. In collaborazione con numerosi artisti, operatori culturali, collettivi artistici, affina nuove concezioni dell’abitare, ed attraverso l’utilizzo di nuovi spazi e linguaggi, accompagna l’evoluzione sociale e geografica dei luoghi in cui opera.

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167B Street is an art gallery and an ever-changing urban laboratory. Its work aims to improve the 167 neighborhood aesthetic but also to promote a greater sense of belonging between its people.  For over 10 years the lab has been committed to exploring and experimenting in the realm of urban street art.

By partnering with artists and cultural professionals, 167B Street crafts new ways of experiencing urban spaces. By using new spaces and artistic languages, the lab supports the social and geographical development of the areas in which it operates.

“We value working for and with people. We are committed to building strong and new human bonds, never forgetting our core values: respect, equality, inclusion”.

Over the years, the 167B Street laboratory has carried out its art project both in Italy and abroad.

It spread art and worked alongside with local prisons, public schools, refugee centers, Italian cultural institutes, art collectives all over the world.

One of the major carried out by the lab is the “167 Art Project” – a series of murals by internationally street artists, which gave a new face to more than 14 facades of council houses in the heart of the 167B neighborhood.

Colorful, monumental artworks that are the product of a sociological study of the place and the surrounding area. 

The purpose of the project is to create rule-breaking artworks that challenge social bias, aiming at boosting the sense community and the urge to partecipate in building the future of the city of Lecce.

CO-FOUNDER

– Chekos’art & Ania K. –

Independent artists that work in the field of graffiti and freestyling. Day by day they re-discover themselves revolutionizing their artistic and personal characters. They work individually and together with the group Street Art South Italy. Together they gave life to 167 / B street (laboratory / exhibition space in continuous mutation) located in the suburb of Lecce. The work in progress to open the city to art, according to contemporary trends and experiments.

– Chekos’art –

 

 Chekos’art –

Francesco Ferreri is born in 1977 in Lecce, South Italy.

For over 20 years he lived in Milan, where he his artistic career began. Francesco Ferreri is a graphic artist, muralist and urban street artist.

He experiments with stencil but also with collage, drawing, video installations with a preference for open spaces.

His murals are in the streets of Italy, Poland, Germany, France, Luxembourg, Spain, China, Indonesia, Macedonia, Albania – among the others. He took part in many festivals, collective exhibitions and artistic projects.

He is creator and founder of ‘Street Art South Italy‘ – a free movement of street artists from South Italy and other parts of the world.

In 2012, together with his partner Ania Kitlas, he set up 167/B Street, an urban art laboratory based in Lecce. Both are engaged in different social and artistic projects in Italy and abroad.

more on:  chekosart.com

SERVIZI:

–  murales

– consulenza e servizio grafico: decorazioni interni ed esterni

– laboratori/workshop di street art

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CALLIGRAFIA

– Davide  DPA – 
Poesia D’Assalto

Dal 2010 attivo nella pubblicazione dei propri testi in strada, di giorno, sui muri.  “Poesia D’Assalto” nasce con l’intento di diffondere la poesia tra le vie, tra i passanti in corsa, a gocce di vernice. Poesia che s’immerge nella quotidianità e ritrova il suo spazio, riqualifica di strade spente e animi persi. Dal 2013 inizia a diffondere i propri testi fuori dai contesti regionali partecipando a iniziative rivolte al sociale e riqualificazioni urbane. Inserito tra i poeti di strada invitati a partecipare a tutte le edizioni del “Festival Internazionale della Poesia di Strada”, iniziativa volta a promuovere la diffusione di poesia attraverso diverse metodologie.

 

 

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