This mural on Hoge Steenweg is a tribute to the more than 70,000 volunteers who dedicate themselves to Breda every year. The initiative by Gemeente Breda and MOOIWERK is a thank you to all those people who commit themselves wholeheartedly to others.
The artwork is created by the Rotterdam artist Marloes de Kiewit, known for her detailed and colorful style.

Location:
Hoge Steenweg 17

Unveiled
2025

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This painting at KBS St. Joseph references the Pettenclub that played football at the Siegmundterrein near Ceresstraat in the early 20th century. For this new project, students from the school and local residents collected stories from the neighborhood and translated them into pet designs. Nine students painted their own hats with themes such as traditional crafts, urban nature, and football. Artist Bas Steens incorporated these designs into an artwork on the wall by the football field.

Location
St. Josephstraat 5-7

Unveiled 
2025

Gemini Court is an art and sports project in which two basketball courts were designed and built together with young people. One court is located in the Hoge Vucht neighbourhood in Breda, the other on the grounds of youth detention centre Den Hey-Acker. The courts mirror each other and symbolise encounter, collaboration, and perspective.

Young people from the Hoge Vucht neighbourhood and detained youths from Den Hey-Acker designed the courts under the guidance of artists and creative professionals.

Location
Kleine Ardennen
Den-Hey-Acker, Galderseweg

Unveiled
2025

The Italian artist Dodici, based in Rotterdam, is known for his colourful, playful style. His work can be seen worldwide from North Africa to the USA. He often paints everyday scenes with multiple layers.
For Breda Robotics, Dodici worked horizontally, fitting both the building and the theme: the collaboration between humans and machines. He depicts two engineers working with modern equipment on future technology. The ‘humanoid’ in the artwork refers to invisible but essential technology such as artificial intelligence (AI).

The mural is a collaboration between Blind Walls Gallery, Breda Robotics, Breda Business, the Municipality of Breda, and Dodici, demonstrating how art, entrepreneurship, and technology enhance each other.

Location
Slingerweg

Unveiled
2025

In 2025 Breda celebrates 88 years of Kielegat. In honour of this wonderful carnival milestone, the Blind Walls Gallery in collaboration with the Stichting Kielegat created this special Kielewall.  The Scottish artist KMG, known for her lively and colourful style, painted a number of characteristic figures from Breda's carnival, including the Prince, Tuur Piek, and the Jester Adriaaan van Bergen. The traditional brass band and the polonaise are also depicted.

The Kielewall was officially unveiled by the youngest prince, PrinsDriekus d’n Tweejde, and the oldest surviving prince, Joop d’n Irste. The local residents were closely involved in creating this tribute to the carnival, from selecting the artist to contributing ideas for the design.

Location
Adriaan van Bergenstraat

Unveiled
2024

Moederheil was until the late 1960s the largest transit house in the Netherlands. Transit houses were maternity clinics for unmarried mothers, women and girls who were not believed to be able to care for their child. Or for whom the shame of having a child was too great. After their delivery, they had to immediately give up their child, for adoption, often with no further contact.
The initiative for the mural has been taken by a group of people consisting of a mother who had to give up her child here in 1969 and five individuals born and given up at Moederheil. 

In the 20th century, between 15,000 and 25,000 children in the Netherlands were given up for adoption.

Location
Valkenierslaan 21

Unveiled
2024

Photo: Edwin Wiekens

After a temporary wall painting in the foyer of the Chassé Theater, Otto Baum returned to Breda. For this painting, he used a unique, self-made ‘Ottotool’. Perfection is not the goal. The texture and brushwork are clearly visible and together form a dynamic and monumental pattern.

Note: this mural has been applied in a part of the Chassé Theater not accessible to the public.

Location
Chassé Theater, Claudius Prinsenlaan

Unveiled
2024

Photo: Rob Lipsius

This ‘Mezzmerizing Parade’ refers to the military parades of the past and is a nod to the colorful carnival processions of today. As any good parade requires, this one is supported by a bombastic marching band. 

Made possible by Mezz, Keep An Eye Foundation, Koster Cleaning, Anza Pro Benelux, and Verfplaza.

Location
MEZZ, Keizerstraat 101

Unveiled
2024

Photo: Edwin Wiekens

Just before a performance, the lively foyer of the Chassé Theater feels like an enclosed street in a busy metropolis. Herman Hertzberger's architecture is an inexhaustible source of inspiration for artists, which is why the wall mural in this foyer changes annually.

"Beauty arises from imperfections and the unexpected," says the Amsterdam-based artist Willehad Eilers, also known as Wayne Horse. In a highly diverse body of work, Eilers highlights contemporary existence. With biting humour and childlike playfulness, he focuses on the bizarre, the grotesque, and the defective; his creations are examples of what James Clifford describes as ‘ethnographic surrealism’.

Location
Chassé Theater, Claudius Prinsenlaan

Unveiled
2024

Photo: Rob Lipsius

With this mural on an electricity substation, Daan van Bommel makes an homage to the old turf canal that ran through the neighborhood. He drew his inspiration from conversations with local residents, some of whom also helped him with painting. He asked them the question: “What gives you energy?” The answers are incorporated into the mural.

In cooperation with the Municipality of Breda and Stichting DoesSouf.

Location
Oostmallestraat

Unveiled

2024

Photo: Edwin Wiekens

In 2024, the Special Olympics National Games were held in Breda and Tilburg, the largest nationwide event for people with an intellectual disability. For Blind Walls Gallery, this was a unique opportunity to collaborate with artists with an impairment, also known as outsider art. At Atelier Galerie Herenplaats in Rotterdam, various artists with an intellectual disability work daily. They exhibit their work worldwide. 

Brenda van Vliet creates art at Herenplaats, and her work is recognisable by the dreamy colour gradients. She designed the mural for Breda, which was executed by experienced wall artist Marijn Gronert.

Location
BRESS, Nieuwe Inslag

Unveiled
2024 

Under the leadership of Henry III of Nassau and his third wife Mencía de Mendoza, Breda in the sixteenth century welcomed monarchs, artists, and scholars from all over Europe. Together with the local population, they made Breda a beloved city where life is still celebrated every day. Breda is a vibrant meeting place where innovation and creativity come together, inspired by influential thinkers and doers.

Illustrator Daan van Bommel collaborated with Handpicked Lab and was inspired by the story of Henry and Mencia. The design on the door in the Explore Breda Store was created by Daan himself. The other images were generated by a specially developed AI model and applied by a robotic printer.

Location
Stadserf 2

Unveiled
2024

Photo: Edwin Wiekens

In 2016, the Breda-based digital art collective SMACK created a contemporary interpretation of the famous painting The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch. In the following years, they also made new versions of the side panels of this triptych. Curious about how Hieronymus Bosch would interpret their work, they asked AI to regenerate it into a panorama in his style. The enormous print on mesh fabric was accompanied by the official opening of the Orange South parking garage. 

Location
Concordiastraat

Unveiled
2024

Photo: Edwin Wiekens