Port Adriano's AfterSun Fest already has its artists

The jury of the V Urban Art Competition met last week in Port Adriano to choose the 12 artists who will intervene 12 containers in the Aftersun Fest. The festival this year has a day dedicated to muralism and live painting, which will take place during the afternoon of the 18th of May, and will be the appetizer of the Afersun Fest that will begin on the 25th of May.

For this edition, proposals have been received from all over Spain and abroad. The works have a size of 3x3 and can be visited in Port Adriano in what will be a free open-air exhibition until the 9th of  June.

The jury, made up of leading figures and gallery owners in urban and contemporary art in general, has selected the following artists:

• Anna Repullo 
• De tripas Aerosol 
• Belén Pez 
• Carolina Adán Caro 
• Cíclope Art 
• Elitxo Garayalde 
• Esther Fuster 
• Irene Morales 
• Jaume Molera 
• Mariam Hamidi & Marc Gómez 
• Nero 
• Vanessa Gordino 

In addition, thanks to a collaboration agreement with Adema, the University School of Fine Arts of Mallorca, this year 12 students from this school will participate and will intervene 12 other faces. It is undoubtedly good news to have the next generation of Mallorcan muralists sharing the same space alongside established artists. 

This year's guest artist is the Mallorcan Joan Aguiló, a benchmark in urban art in Spain, with numerous awards in his career, who will make a vertical mural on 3 stacked containers, which will undoubtedly be the most iconic point of the AfterSun Fest.

What started as a market and a street art event has become this year a Cultural Festival whose mission is to serve as a platform for the visualization and promotion of emerging talents of the islands in art, design, fashion and crafts. 

Aftersun Fest also has a large space for street food, music and experiences under a spectacular decoration. In fact, among the proposed activities are the creative workshops for children, led by Carolina Adán and Belén Pez, who as well as participating as artists, will also have a brand.

This is the eighth edition of this festival of reference in the Balearic Islands, which has the particularity of becoming a permanent exhibition of urban art, and which forms part of Port Adriano's commitment to culture, to emerging artists and to holding events that go beyond the summer season.