The River
The Besòs River is reborn as a space where art and nature flow together, transforming its history into a living museum.
BesArt The River Museum is the flagship project of the Mediterranean Street Art Association (AMSA), a non-profit organization founded in 2016 with a clear mission: to promote knowledge and dissemination of Mediterranean urban art, both locally and internationally.
We are a multidisciplinary team of artists, cultural managers, art technicians, creatives, sustainability experts, educators, communicators, and citizens committed to social change. Our strength lies in our diverse backgrounds and our passion for a shared purpose: transforming the world through art.
We have the institutional support of the Santa Coloma de Gramenet City Council, the Royal Artistic Circle of Barcelona, and numerous collaborators from the cultural, educational, and social fields.
BesArt is an open cooperation network, where every mural, every workshop, and every event responds to a vision: to transform the Besòs River Park into a space for encounter, growth, and free expression. We are committed to a cultural model inclusive, sustainable and transformative, guided by the motto that sums it all up:
Yes, Art is Necessary.
Urban Art
in the Besós
The Besòs River has experienced one of Europe’s most powerful stories of environmental transformation. From being one of the continent’s most polluted rivers in the 1970s and 1980s, it has been reborn as a protected ecological area, where wildlife has flourished again thanks to an ambitious recovery plan initiated in the 1990s.
Today, the Parc Fluvial del Besòs It is home to a wide variety of native species: aquatic birds, amphibians, fish, and plants native to the Mediterranean ecosystem. The presence of this biodiversity is not only a symbol of natural regeneration, but also an essential value that BesArt places at the heart of its cultural offering.
Through art, BesArt celebrates and makes biodiversity visible., dialoguing with it in each mural, sculpture or ephemeral intervention. The open-air museum thus becomes a artistic ecosystem, where nature and creativity coexist, respect each other and enrich each other.
Art becomes a universal language to promote sustainability, respect for the environment, and ecological awareness. Each work at BesArt is also a tribute to the life that beats on the riverbanks.
Biodiversity
in the Besós
History
of Besart
BesArt The River Museum was born as an act of transformation: from the most polluted river in Europe to one of the most ambitious cultural spaces of the 21st century. Located in the Besòs River Park, stretching over 18 kilometers through Santa Coloma de Gramenet, Sant Adrià de Besòs, and Barcelona, this project transforms a restored natural environment into the world’s largest open-air urban art museum.
Since its creation in 2016 by the Mediterranean Street Art Association (AMSA)BesArt promotes awareness and dissemination of urban art in the Mediterranean, integrating creativity, sustainability, and social inclusion. The project officially launched in March 2023 in collaboration with the Reial Cercle Artístic de Barcelona and the Santa Coloma City Council.
In its first phase, BesArt created 48 murals and sculptures, involving international and local artists, and bringing art to children, youth, the elderly, and groups at risk of social exclusion. Today, BesArt is a symbol of urban and cultural regeneration, a meeting point between art, biodiversity and citizenship
Urban Art
in the Besós
