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MEET YOUR 2025 MURALISTS!

Thursday July 3, 2025

Are you ready for the 2025 BUMP Festival? We’re just one month away from kicking off! Now in its ninth year, BUMP Festival continues to evolve beyond murals. We have become a city-wide act of reclamation, an ongoing disruption of how we understand space, memory, and visual culture in the urban landscape.

This year, we ask: “What if BUMP wasn’t just a festival, but a place?” A place imagined collectively and built in real time, through artistic collaboration, cultural urgency, and intentional experimentation. This year, we yell from the rooftops that public space is not neutral.  Cities should be built for more than just  efficiency, commerce, and control but instead understood as fertile ground for social energy, memory, and meaning.

In 2025, BUMP Festival becomes a portal, an evolving site of artistic inquiry, spatial intervention, and civic reimagination. Murals, movement, sound, and gathering are the methods. Public space is the medium.

We’re thrilled to announce our 2025 mural cohort, visionary artists from across Canada and beyond who will shape the city’s surfaces with bold new visual narratives. From across the country and across disciplines, this year’s artists bring a range of techniques, histories, and perspectives. Joining them is our international guest, whose work travels from the streets of Morocco to meet Calgary’s walls.

Please welcome to the 2025 Festival:

ABSEN (St John, New Brunswick)  / DREW YOUNG (Vancouver) / MATTHEW SPRINGER (Calgary)  / MEGAN OLDHUES (Toronto) / NATHAN MEGUINIS (Calgary) / NICOLE BOYCE (Montreal) / NORMAL (Agadir, Morocco) / STEPH BABIJ (Ottawa) / RATUR (Vancouver)

Together, they will build a city within the city through their vision. On the other side of murals, our events programming this year is a true treat. Our festival highlights include:

  • Urban Art Conference – Monuments & Memory [Aug 5–6] (Presented by Calgary Foundation) : A two-day gathering exploring how public space, monuments, and civic identity are constructed and contested. Through panels, provocations, and dialogue, the conference will examine the politics of permanence and the role of artists in shaping collective memory.
  • The Ground Up Graffiti Jam & Block Party [Aug 10] (Presented with Foundation Collective) : A vibrant outdoor takeover celebrating graffiti culture, breaking, and hip-hop
  • Free Public Mural Tours: Guided walking tours through the Beltline and Downtown core, offering context and connection to both new and legacy BUMP works throughout the festival.
  • CRASHOUT [Aug 16] (Festival Finale with Scozzafava’s Deli)
    A massive outdoor street party featuring international DJs, a punk show, a sandwich and skate pop up.

And this is just the beginning. From underground pop-ups to surprise performances, BUMP 2025 is filled with many ideas waiting to be uncovered.

Sign up for our email list to stay informed on the latest drops, openings, and events. We cannot wait to see you all August and help shape what public art can be.