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> Exhibition „Buchstabenbilder“, 2016, Oxymoron Galerie, Vienna. © Stefan Wogrin / SPRAYCITY
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SPRAYCITY® – SINCE 2001
SPRAYCITY is a documentation archive of the graffiti writing movement in Austria. As one of the first and oldest Austrian websites on the subject, SPRAYCITY documents all facets of graffiti writing in Austria, as well as its marginal phenomena.
The SPRAYCITY archive was founded in Carinthia in 2001 by the art historian Stefan Wogrin in order to react to the transience that goes hand in hand with writing. The works of the Writing movement are short-lived and not destined to last forever. The SPRAYCITY archive has set itself the task of recording, archiving and cataloging the resulting works in photographs and making them accessible to the public for a longer period of time. While some works have already disappeared from the public, photographs of them remain. The archive has been located in Vienna since 2009.
SPRAYCITY ist ein Dokumentationsarchiv der Graffiti-Writing-Bewegung in Österreich. Als eine der ersten und ältesten österreichischen Webseiten zum Thema dokumentiert SPRAYCITY alle Facetten von Graffiti-Writing in Österreich, sowie dessen Randerscheinungen.
Das SPRAYCITY Archiv wurde 2001 durch den Kunsthistoriker Stefan Wogrin in Kärnten gegründet, um auf die Vergänglichkeit mit der das Writing einher geht zu reagieren. Die Werke der Writing-Bewegung sind kurzlebig und nicht für die Ewigkeit bestimmt. Das SPRAYCITY Archiv hat es sich zur Aufgabe gemacht, die entstandenen Werke auf Fotografien festzuhalten, zu archivieren und katalogisiert der Öffentlichkeit für einen längeren Zeitraum zugänglich zu machen. Während manche Werke in der Öffentlichkeit bereits verschwunden sind, bleiben fotografische Abbildungen davon weiterhin erhalten. Seit 2009 befindet sich der Standort des Archivs in Wien.
Exhibitions
Parts of the archive and photos are thematically prepared and were repeatedly shown in exhibitions.
ExhibitionsPhoto Archive
Our archive currently includes around 390,000 image documents from all over Austria, Europe and the USA. The SPRAYCITY.AT website forms an interface through which a selection of around 150,000 photos can be accessed online. The online archive is continuously supplemented with photo updates. Additional photos can be extracted from the archive if required.
Photo-ArchivePress Archive
In order to document the reception of graffiti writing in the Austrian media, SPRAYCITY creates an ongoing press review of all common daily newspapers, print, TV and other publications on the subject. Our press archive contains around 3,900 articles from 1977 to 2025.
In addition, SPRAYCITY answers press inquiries on the subject of graffiti writing in Austria. More information can be found here:
Press ArchiveOnline Collection
SPRAYCITY records all relevant photos that are publicly distributed in social media networks on a daily basis. The collected published photos are published several times a day on our blog.
BlogCartography
To simplify the presentation of the archive material and to locate legal graffiti areas, SPRAYCITY creates interactive maps that can be accessed using OpenStreetMap or Google Maps.
Graffiti Map Vienna Street Names Map SpraycitiesKnowledge
In addition to the documentation archive, knowledge transfer is an important concern for SPRAYCITY. The recipient should have the best possible access to specialist literature that is difficult to obtain, and should be able to learn and develop their theoretical and practical skills in professional workshops.
Workshops
Information about our workshops can be found here: (German)
WorkshopsLiterature
Selected literature, specialist books and scene magazines are available via our online shop.
Online shopStefan Wogrin, BA
Art historian
ORCiD: 0000-0002-1634-7768
Member of Verband österreichischer Kunsthistorikerinnen und Kunsthistoriker (VöKK)
Member of the board, Levin Statzer Foundation