Elian Chali // Lichtensterngasse 13
Osa Seven // Arndtstraße 42
Mariana Santos // Wittmayergasse 6
Mohamed L’Ghacham // Ruttenstockgasse 4
Nut // Moosbruggergasse 2
Perkup // Tivoligasse 13
Tima // Eibesbrunnergasse 14-16
Mariella Lehner // Arndtstraße 30
Paola Delfín // Zanaschkagasse 30
youtopia edition
ARTISTS
MARIANA DUARTE SANTOS º PERKUP º TIMA º ELIAN CHALI º NUT º MOHAMED L'GHACHAM º MARIELLA LEHNER º PAOLA DELPHIN º OSA SEVEN º FRITTEN FREDDIE
“Slow Song”
Mariana Duarte Santos (Portugal)
Wittmayergasse 6, 1120 Vienna
2025
For this project, Mariana Duarte Santos approaches the theme of Youtopia from a personal and intimate perspective, focusing on small, human moments that could represent an ideal future. For her, utopia is not a distant place but something that exists in fleeting, overlooked experiences.
Her design depicts an aerial view of a couple in bed, sharing a quiet moment of connection – a vision of utopia found in emotional closeness, rest, and the freedom to simply be together without pressure or fear. She aims to evoke a society where people are not consumed by work and stress but have time to nurture relationships, pause, and care.
“Layered thoughts”
Perkup (Austria)
Tivoligasse 13, 1120 Vienna
2025
This mural is a personal take on Youtopia, blending different styles and ideas to imagine a better world. Realistic and abstract elements, quiet and busy moments, old memories and future dreams come together like pages of a book. Classical still life, pixel-like shapes, photo-like images, and coloring book outlines reflect the many forces shaping our hopes for the future – memory, imagination, technology, and daily life.
Rather than depicting a perfect utopia, the mural celebrates the process of building one – out of pieces that are clear, messy, or still in progress. It suggests that utopia is not a single vision but many ideas coexisting, inviting viewers to reflect on their own vision of a better world.
“I’m late for a very important date”
Tima (Morocco)
Eibesbrunnergasse 14-16, 1120 Vienna
2025
In response to Youtopia, this mural explores the tension between urgency and becoming. Inspired by Alice in Wonderland, a young woman mid-transformation – laced into a corset and jupon, surrounded by fairy-tale details – embodies the fragile space between who we are and who we long to be. She holds a Safi vase, a recurring symbol in my work, carrying memory, emotion, and the invisible weight of heritage.
This mural is my “youtopia”: not a finished paradise, but a space of transformation, shaped by memory, care, and imagination. As she hurries toward an unknown “important date,” the figure reflects our own inner journeys – a reminder to dream, to evolve, and to carry the past gently into the future.
“Thick liquid from the heart of the earth”
Elian Chali (Argentina)
Lichtensterngasse 13, 1120 Vienna
2025
This work continues the aesthetic and visual language that the artist has been developing for years, conceived as a means to engage and transform the contexts in which his practice unfolds. Through a reduction of visual elements into soft geometry and abstraction, the piece creates a striking contrast with its environment. With its vertical orientation, it disrupts the building’s structure through flowing curves and chromatic tensions. The title references the slow, steady force of lava—an elemental expression of the Earth’s heart.
“Telepathy”
Nut (China)
Moosbruggergasse 2, 1120 Vienna
2025
The theme of this work by Nut centers on rapport and friendship. He aims to create a quiet, contemplative scene, using the tiger—an animal he favors and often depicts—as a symbol of himself, a guest from the East. The tiger leans down in a gesture of humility, unexpectedly encountering a squirrel, which represents the West and, more specifically, Vienna. The squirrel gazes back at the tiger with curiosity, capturing the feeling of a first meeting between new friends. Nut seeks to preserve this fleeting, beautiful moment within the image.
“The table is set”
Mohamed L’Ghacham (Spain)
Ruttenstockgasse 4, 1120 Vienna
2025
“Youtopia” invites me to imagine not a distant, idealized future, but a simple, everyday moment where everything aligns: a shared meal, family connection, nature embracing it all. In this mural, I present anintimate scene—almost like a fading memory—as a symbol of a personal and attainable utopia.
My vision of a better world doesn’t begin with grand transformations, but with small moments of care, connection, and harmony with our surroundings. The vegetation overtaking the image represents nature reclaiming space, while the people gathered around the table evoke warmth, joy, and the essentials of life. Through this image, I invite reflection on our own micro-utopias: what moments, what spaces, what relationships shape our idea of a desirable future?
”[…] perhaps the most powerful utopia isn’t the one that lies ahead, but the one we’ve already experienced and long to preserve”
“Unshaken”
Osa Seven (Nigeria)
Arndtstraße 24, 1120 Vienna
2025
Inspired by a powerful poem by Kids of Diaspora on representation and resistance, "Unshaken" deconstructs the concept of what it means to be a "minority." The work centers two Black women-steadfast, expressive, and unflinching-anchored by hands beneath them, lifting, holding, carrying. These hands symbolize both burden and support: the inherited weight of history and the collective effort to rise above it.
Through bold colors and layered texture, Osa Seven reclaims the idea of identity not as something marginal, but central, and undeniable. The piece challenges the viewer to confront the social frameworks that define people by absence-minority-and instead invites us to see the fullness, presence, and power of those long considered peripheral.
It is a visual stand for voice, for truth, and for those who hold space in systems not built for them-yet remain unshaken.
What’s in a minority?
A status, group, nationality?
A state of mind inherited
A number counting one, two, three
not adding up the arithmeticAnd that is why we must repeat:
Whats is in a minority?
A complex of inferiority
Creating all that mystery
A hold on to categories
Preventing all that synergy
Complexion, labels, gender, ageNow tell me what’s your privilege?
Whatever you are so lucky to be
Results in your responsibility
Now take this moment and breathe with me
There is no such thing as a minority.
Poem by CHERRIE O.
“Stars”
Mariella Lehner (Austria)
Arndtstraße 30, 1120 Vienna
2025
As Mariella Lehner’s current work focuses on environmental themes and this year’s topic is Utopia, they chose to depict flocks of starlings. These migratory birds are becoming increasingly rare in Austria, with their numbers declining across Europe. Known for their spectacular formation flights, starlings are highly social and ensure that resources are shared within the entire flock—behaviors they envision for their own utopian vision of a global community.
With parts of Arndtstraße currently being greened and as they now live in the area, their utopia also imagines a greener Meidling, full of trees and nesting places for starlings.
“Among the living roots”
Paola Delfin (Mexico)
Zanaschkagasse 30, 1120 Wien
2025
Paola Delfín’s mural explores the idea of reconciliation with our world and all forms of life that inhabit it. She believes humanity has often placed itself above other living beings, forgetting that all forms of life are equally important and interconnected, and that true harmony depends on this balance.
In this work, she portrays humans as part of the landscape—one element among many—rather than as separate observers looking down upon it. Through a blend of surreal and literal imagery, she hopes to inspire reflection on this interconnectedness, approaching the idea with love and compassion.
“Fritten Freddie”
Fritten Freddie (Germany)
Various spots
2025
Fritten Freddie is a Belgian artist who, as the name suggests, specializes in the Belgian national dish “Fritten”. His character Freddie can be found in many different forms and life situations in many places in Europe and tries not to take life so seriously. His next destination: Vienna.
Calle Libre Festival - Edition 2025
Youtopia
16.08.-23.08.2024
Location
Meidling - Twelve District of Vienna
Photography
Jolly Schwarz Photography, Julian, Zhuliyan Bratanov, Marlene Nemeth