Street art in Leuven (9)

February 17, 2026

Street art in Leuven (9)

Between 2020 and 2022 I have regularly hunted for street art in Leuven and shared it. Back in the days, we had to fill our days with walks in our own town thanks to some global pandemic, right? And Street Art was very very hip but now there's street art everywhere. Just every where. It's still very hip but not so special anymore to share. On any city trip or vacation you'll see street art.

But I still spot new ones regularly and take pictures so here's some street art I spotted in the last couple of years in Leuven.

On the Ramberg downtown the Leuven cyclist Jasper Stuyven is honored since the summer of 2025.

Along the Park Abbey, I usually photograph the fish ponds and the view on the old abbey buildings from across the water or fields. On the outside of the area there's the railroad however and the railroad crossings have since a few years now images of nature and the abbey.

The next tunnel under the same railroad has recently been painted with more dreamy ghost scenes. It's the Duivelsweg after all.

We still pass the most beautiful bridge of the country on our way to school each day. It's also just in front of the abbey entry road and once again reflects the nature that lives on the abbey grounds.

The children's elementary school where Beertje still goes has been reconstructed for years. The old building in front had a gorgeous owl on it, part of the same project that covered the bridge. Fortunately it's been well preserved in the new construction and flourishes again at the school entry.

The children themselves have painted the walls along the railroad that borders their big school garden.

Further in Heverlee there's plenty of street art as well, some I probably have shared before

This is new since last summer in our neighbourhood.

The skatepark at the Sportoase regularly gets a make -over. This picture seems so old.

Going downtown to Leuven, I always am touched when I see the mural on the KUL Rector de Somer Aula that depicts Sanda Dia. Sanda will not be forgotten in Leuven.

View from the Bondgenotenlaan.

A mural that is in honor of Dirk Bouts, in the Dirk Bouts year of 2023 at the side of the music academy. It has an app that makes it interactive in 3D with augmented reality. You can slide out some of the paintings in stock.

In Kessel-Lo there is a reading sloth.

Supermarkets also like to be refreshed.

Some art changes or disappears over the years though...The second painting replaces the first one (which was an ad) but I think it's also gone already.

This BISSER painting is now an appartment building under construction... the art is gone. A few streets further near the HH hospital another BISSER disappeared.