Palazzuolo open street
When shops close their shutters, via Palazzuolo turns into an art gallery. This street, close to Santa Maria Novella square but outside the touristic routes, and for the most part unknown to florentines, transforms as soon as daytime activities stop.
It’s thanks to a project, Palazzuolo open street, winner of several notices of Estate Fiorentina and promoted by the Municipality of Florence.
Year after year, the shutters of various shops are decorated thanks to the creativity of artists such as Clet, Exit Enter, Luchadora, Droste, James Vega, Miles, Mr G and others, who have shone a light on a somewhat neglected part of the city, offering art that everyone can enjoy as part of a regeneration project.
In 2026, nine artists will join the project, tasked with transforming the shop shutters along Via Palazzuolo, Via dei Canacci and Via del Porcellana. Wolsha, Geometric Bang, Giorgio Bartocci, Shekoone, Edoardo Bansone, 134127, Loste, Crisa and ScrivimiPresto. Artists with diverse artistic approaches, ranging from typographic exploration to geometry, from abstraction to lettering and graphic compositions, right through to urban poetics that blend nature and architecture.
With the 44 shutters already painted during the first three editions — 10 artists in 2023, 15 in 2024 and 19 in 2025 — and the new artworks planned for 2026, by the end of September the neighbourhood will have reached a total of 53 artist-designed shutters.
The entire project is coordinated by Street Levels Art Gallery.
Events and workshops throughout September 2026
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Street Levels Gallery
Active since: 2016
Areas of interest: International gallery of urban art
Street Levels Gallery is an international gallery of urban art, the first of its kind in Florence. The fruit of the encounter between artists and cultural producers, the gallery aims at offering an articulated space able to focus attention on various levels of interaction in art – the street, the public, the exhibition space – in a two-way, dynamic and constantly changing exchange with the urban fabric. With this idea in mind, the staff at Street Levels Gallery created a gallery completely dedicated to artistic experimentation, the exhibition of works and the production of connections, human stories and shared projects. Cultural provocation is generated as a collateral practice with the clear intent of recounting experiences and artistic expressions originating from the street, while both legitimating their existence and attempting to overcome the narrative limits and stereotypes between public and private space and between the street and the exhibition venue. Street Levels Gallery aims to play the crucial role of ‘buffer’ in its commitment to mediating and reconciling different artistic visions with the needs of individuals, public agencies and the community at large. Indeed the gallery boasts a long series of successful collaborative projects with municipal governments, festivals, artistic events, museums, companies, associations, collectives, universities and public and private institutions. The ultimate aim of these initiatives is to spread and promote the urban art movement in Italy and in the world.
