New app guides you to the best of Istanbul’s street art

Art enthusiast in Istanbul? We’ve got the app for you: Street Art Istanbul. Entrepreneur and street artist Erbil Sivaslıoğlu is trying to put Istanbul’s street art on the map, literally.

Sivaslıoğlu and his team strive to make Istanbul’s art more accessible with a free app that brings the city’s street art to the user in a click. The app provides customers with a map in addition to information about the artists and their works.

It was in 2012 that Sivaslıoğlu, together with Onur Erdemol, Gizem Oktay and Esra Pencereci released the app after realizing that compared to cities like London and Berlin, Istanbul’s street art wasn’t all that accessible.

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New app guides you to the best of Istanbul’s street art