MALEGRIA
STREET ARTIST (COL)
BARRIO COLOMBIA, MEDELLIN
"CAMINANDO SOBRE HUESOS"
Sebastián Malegría (known artistically as Malegría) is a Colombian street artist and muralist born and based in Bogotá, Colombia, whose vibrant work bridges urban graffiti culture, surreal figuration, and symbolic storytelling rooted in personal experience and ancestral inspiration. He is part of a generation of street practitioners shaped not just by individual vision but by collaborative roots and family lineage within the graffiti scene, working alongside peers and mentors while forging a distinct creative identity.
Malegría’s visual language is characterized by fantastical creatures, rich textures, and layered compositions that conjure emotional resonance without relying on straightforward representation. Drawing from early experiences with sketching imaginary animals and figures, his murals often feature symbolic characters and motifs that evoke cultural memory, internal emotion, and urban imagination. His style resides between spontaneity and deliberation, feeling born of instinct but sustained through visual complexity.
malegria
"CAMINANDO SOBRE HUESOS"
BARRIO COLOMBIA, MEDELLIN
"CAMINANDO SOBRE HUESOS"
Influenced by travel, community, and family collaboration, Malegría has painted walls not only in Bogotá but also internationally, including interventions in places like Buenos Aires where his work interacts with local visual cultures and historic graffiti traditions. In these contexts, his characters — sometimes inspired by rhythmic cultural practices or musical forms like candombe — invite viewers to engage with the mural as both personal and collective narrative devices.
His practice resists tidy categorization: part graffiti, part muralism, and part visual anthropology, reflecting a lived relationship with urban space rather than formal academic training. Malegría’s murals are not just decoration but expressive landmarks that map emotional and social experiences onto the city’s surfaces, embodying a fluid blend of imagination, storytelling, and urban energy.
MALEGRIA
"CAMINANDO SOBRE HUESOS"
From a curatorial perspective, Malegría’s work enriches conversations about Colombian contemporary street art by demonstrating how personal narrative, cultural memory, and visual invention can coexist within public space. His murals resonate with collectors and cultural programmers because they balance accessibility with conceptual depth, inviting prolonged engagement rather than passive viewing.
Within FullMoon Entertainment’s documentation and community coverage during the Medellín Street Art Festival, Malegría’s mural were captured with attention to process, environment, and interaction with local audiences. FullMoon’s audiovisual narrative highlights his capacity to transform surfaces into immersive visual fields that reflect both personal voice and broader cultural rhythms, affirming his role as an important contributor to Medellin’s evolving street art identity.