Street Art in Antwerp: The Murals of Larsen Bervoets
PUBLISHED MARCH 2026
A Chance Encounter in Antwerp
I was doing what I always do in a city I don't know well: walking without a plan, turning down streets that looked interesting, following no particular logic. Antwerp rewards that kind of wandering. The old town has a texture that only reveals itself slowly, on foot, at the pace of someone with nowhere specific to be.
And then, turning a corner, we stopped.
The Painting
Two adjoining walls, meeting at a right angle. A single composition spread across both surfaces — a mural that only makes complete sense when you stand at exactly the right distance, at exactly the right angle, and let the two planes resolve into one image. It's a device that sounds straightforward and looks extraordinary in practice. The geometry of the corner becomes part of the work. The street becomes the gallery.
I stood there for a while, moving back and forth to find the frame that captured the whole thing, then moving closer to examine the detail.
The painting had the quality that the best street art always has: it transformed the wall so completely that it was impossible to imagine the space without it. What had been two blank surfaces was now a destination.
Larsen Bervoets
I didn't know the artist. I looked him up afterwards, as I often do when street work stops me like that — trying to understand who made it and why. What I found was someone whose practice ranges across painting, sculpture, and public art, but whose most compelling work happens exactly where I'd found it: on walls, in cities, in the open air.
Larsen Bervoets street art mural on an urban corner, Antwerp – bCLPhoto
There's something I find quietly satisfying about that connection. He works in the street. I photograph in the street. The work he puts on walls is the same kind of work I'm always looking for with a camera — something that stops you, that changes the way you see the space around it, that earns the fifteen minutes you spend in front of it. We need each other, in a sense. The street artist needs someone to stop and look. The street photographer needs something worth stopping for.
Antwerp gave us both, that afternoon, on a corner I'd found by accident.
You can find Larsen on his Instagram
