Top artists create new works on Tartu’s streets for Stencibility Festival

This week, top artists from across Europe are in Tartu creating new works on the city’s streets as the Stencibility festival celebrates its fifteenth anniversary. The festival also includes a new street art exhibition at an abandoned yeast factory. ERR spoke to Sepe, who is one of 20 artists taking part in this year’s Stencibility festival. Sepe works as a graphic designer, painter and illustrator in Warsaw, and can be considered a veteran of the Stencibility festival, having already visited Tartu on several times to create street art. One of Sepe’s earlier works can be found while walking in the city’s Supilinn district for instance. “There are no limits or boundaries, you just go with the flow. For example, I was able to break some of the tiles in this room. The inspiration came from the place where we are, the yeast factory,” said Sepe. After being constructed in 1883, the building where the “Hide and Seek” exhibition is held was originally used as a yeast factory, before later incarnations as a medical facility and alternative cultural center. “We’ve never had an exhibition site with such a rich history before. In that sense, there was a lot of inspiration here....