Beyond The Streets Paris 2026 Book

Beyond The Streets Paris 2026 Book

Year: 2026

450 pages

Edited by Roger Gastman

28.6 x 23.5 cm 

Language: French, English

Hardback

Publisher: Beyond the Streets

The official catalogue of the 2026 exhibition Beyond the Streets at the Grande Halle de la Villette, in Paris. Not a retrospective. A living archive.

Graffiti was never meant to last. It was written in seconds, erased in days, and remembered by whoever was paying attention. This book is for those who were paying attention.

Beyond the Streets Paris gathers the writers, photographers, DJs, label heads, sticker kids, and outlaws who built a culture without permission — from the first tags on New York trains to the dancefloors, record sleeves, and gallery walls where it kept evolving. Spray cans and Sharpie markers. B-boys and gallerists. Kilroy and TAKI 183. Hip-hop's birth and its endless reinvention.

Paris has always been part of this story — a city where graffiti landed early and never left. This edition is its school portrait: one frame, one moment, never the whole picture, never finished.