Graffiti at the Centraal Museum

Seventy-five years after the spray can was invented, the Centraal Museum in Utrecht gives graffiti its largest exhibition space: De Stallen, the former stables of the Agnieten Convent, filled with more than 120 works by around 70 artists across 1,000 square metres.

The exhibition follows graffiti from its New York origins into contemporary art, and back again. Early writers such as Lee Quiñones and Dondi White hang alongside Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring, who took the language of the street into galleries, and artists such as Dash Snow, Klara Lidén and Yayoi Kusama show how far its influence reaches. There's an early spray-can experiment by Dan Christensen, and Josephine Pryde's New Media Express, a model train covered in miniature graffiti that you can actually ride.

Utrecht has its own chapter: a design sketch by local pioneer Rhone, a miniature city landscape with hand-painted trains by Creative Lab Utrecht, and two side shows on the mezzanines, a video installation from the Dutch Graffiti Library and Rammellzee in the Netherlands. Workshops and talks run alongside.

The exhibition was conceived by Museion in Bolzano and made together with the Centraal Museum.