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Bilbao
Mural artist in Bilbao
In Bilbao, Giulia Dal Bon paints murals with a brush, in flats, hotels, restaurants, offices and shops. Trained at the Brera Academy, she paints on site, from 150 € per square metre. Free quote within 48 hours, two sketches included: you approve the design before Giulia paints.
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The price of a mural in Bilbao
| Simple motif or line drawingFine lines for flowers, patterns, silhouettes or figures… | 150 €/sqm |
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| Fully painted subjectColours and shadows for landscapes, portraits or scenes… | 250 €/sqm |
| Trompe-l’oeil or ceilingThe wall opens onto a false window, a sky on the ceiling or an entire landscape… | 350 €/sqm |
| Exterior facade: if needed, scaffolding is added to the quote. | |
Free quote within 48h
The price is based on the surface and the technique; the quote then takes into account interior or exterior, the condition of the wall, the height, scaffolding if needed and the timing.
Where to start?
When you contact me about a mural in Bilbao, here is what happens next.
A photo of the wall with the sketch
Send me a photo of the wall and I draw a sketch straight onto your photo. You tell me what you think. The first two sketches are free.
The quote
Once the sketch is approved, I send you the quote and we set the date together.
I paint the wall
I come and paint at your place in Bilbao, by brush, and the place stays open while I work.
Murals in Bilbao
Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim, inaugurated on 18 October 1997 on the Abandoibarra riverfront, transformed Bilbao: over a million visitors a year, and a whole industrial city reinvented around art. This is where the phrase "Bilbao effect" comes from. In Bilbao, Giulia paints for Ensanche apartments, Casco Viejo houses, hotels and venues. Giulia travels easily to Bilbao to paint: you send her a photo of the wall and she draws the sketch straight onto it, so you see the mural in place before she travels.
What Giulia brings to Bilbao. Giulia is a painter, trained at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan. She exhibits her paintings in art galleries and also paints on walls. Corriere della Sera, Domus and Sky Arte have covered her work, and her mural of more than twenty metres dedicated to Gaber and Jannacci stands in Milan. The wall is her favourite canvas because it truly becomes part of a place, a unique work made to tell your story.
Bilbao, between the Casco Viejo and Abandoibarra
Here a mural enters a city that reinvented itself around a museum, and knows the value of a strong image.
Homes and villas
Living rooms, bedrooms, corridors, entrances, stairwells and ceilings in Ensanche buildings and Casco Viejo houses. Example: a 12 m² living room ceiling in trompe-l’oeil, around €4,200.
Hotels, restaurants and shops
Restaurants, pintxos bars, shops, showrooms and storefronts in the centre and Indautxu. A hand-painted mural belongs to this place alone, and it is what people remember about it. From €150 per m².
Facades and exterior walls
It rains often in Bilbao: exterior work needs a perfectly dry wall and quartz paint, made for outdoor walls. A facade visible from the street generally needs the owner’s or building association’s agreement. From €150 per m², plus scaffolding if needed.
What Giulia brings to Bilbao
Long before the Guggenheim, Bilbao had already decided to be a city of paintings: the Fine Arts Museum was founded in 1908 and opened its doors in 1914, the Museum of Modern Art followed in 1924, and the two merged in 1945. Its rooms run from Cranach and El Greco to Zurbarán, Goya, Gauguin, Bacon, Chillida and Barceló.
Bilbao is therefore a city that was collecting painting eighty years before its most famous museum. Giulia Dal Bon paints there with a brush, in the flats of the Ensanche, in the Casco Viejo, the offices, the hotels and the restaurants, using odourless acrylic: the place stays open while she works. From 150 € per sqm, free quote within 48 hours.
Giulia also paints live in Bilbao. For a wedding, a concert, a festival or a company evening, she sets up her easel and the painting takes shape in front of your guests, signed and taken home the same evening. From 950 € for a wedding, from 900 € for a company evening, from 400 € for a performance at a concert. See live painting →
Your questions, before commissioning
A photo of the wall, its approximate dimensions and the idea you have in mind are enough to receive a quote.
How much does a mural cost in Bilbao?
Giulia Dal Bon paints by the square metre: 150 € for a line drawing or a simple motif, 250 € for a fully painted subject, 350 € for trompe-l’oeil or a ceiling. A small mural in a bedroom costs less than a facade that needs preparation and scaffolding. The quote is free: see all prices.
How does it work to have a wall painted in Bilbao?
Write to Giulia Dal Bon on WhatsApp or by email, even if the idea is still vague: she replies within 48 hours. Send her a photo of the wall to be painted, she draws a sketch straight onto your photo, you tell her what you think, and the first two sketches are free. Once the sketch is approved, she sends you the quote, from 150 € per sqm in Bilbao, and sets the date with you. She then comes and paints the mural at your place in Bilbao, by brush, and the place stays open while she works.
What does a mural quote in Bilbao cover?
With Giulia Dal Bon, the price per square metre includes the paint and materials, the first two sketches and the protective varnish as a finish. While she paints, you tell her what you think, and she adjusts. Added to the quote, when needed, are the scaffolding for a facade and travel costs, agreed together. The quote is free and arrives within 48 hours; a deposit of about 100 € for materials confirms the date, and the balance is settled at the end.
Can I see the design before saying yes?
Yes. Before any agreement, Giulia shows you the sketch on a photo of your wall, with a detailed price. Two free sketches are proposed to you before you confirm, and she adjusts them with you.
What kind of mural works well in Bilbao?
In Bilbao, living-room and dining-room decors in the Ensanche buildings, where ceilings are high and the light often grey: colour makes the difference. Everything is painted with a brush, in odourless acrylic.
Does it damage the wall?
The wall stays intact. Acrylic bonds to a painted or plastered wall, which keeps its finish and needs only a light preparation. And if you change your mind in ten years, a roller of paint covers it.
Can a view of Bilbao be painted on a wall?
Yes. Three or four landmarks are enough to recognise it. Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim, opened on 18 October 1997 on the estuary, the facades of the Casco Viejo, the bridges and the green hills closing the city. Giulia Dal Bon composes the view for the wall in front of her. As a line drawing, 150 € per sqm; painted in colour, 250 € per sqm. Free quote within 48 hours.
What subject works well for a mural in Bilbao?
The subjects that work here: floral and botanical work for bedrooms and living rooms, landscapes for living spaces and terraces, trompe l’oeil for facades and ceilings. Everything is drawn to measure: Giulia offers two free sketches from your idea, and you refine it together until the subject is yours. For a wall in Bilbao, the guide What subject to choose for a mural goes through the subjects room by room.
What is the difference between a hand-painted mural and spray-painted graffiti?
Two gestures, two finishes. The spray can gives a fast, graphic line. The brush lays colour down layer after layer, which opens up gradients, fine detail and trompe l’oeil: the mural becomes a painting on the wall. In Bilbao, Giulia Dal Bon works with a brush, in odourless acrylic indoors, and the place stays open while she paints. The choice comes down to the finish you are after.
What do you call an artist who paints on walls?
A muralist, a mural artist or a decorative painter. In Bilbao, Giulia Dal Bon paints by hand with a brush, from apartments to façades: trained at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, she exhibits her paintings in art galleries and also paints on walls. The same searches go through wall mural, hand-painted wall or wall art. Send a photo of your wall, and the quote arrives within 48 hours.
Does a mural hold up outdoors in Bilbao?
Yes, with surface preparation and quartz paint, made for outdoor walls. It rains often in Bilbao: the wall must be perfectly dry, and Giulia sets the date with you on a spell of good weather.
Do I need permission to paint a facade in Bilbao?
An interior wall can be painted freely. For a facade visible from the street, you usually need the owner’s or the building association’s approval, and a notice to the town hall if the building is in a protected area. Giulia explains the process before starting.
How long does it take to paint a mural?
It depends on the surface, the level of detail and how easy the wall is to reach. Giulia gives the timing with the quote, within 48 hours, and gives plenty of notice if the schedule moves. The place keeps running while she works: the acrylic is odourless.
How long does a mural last?
An acrylic mural lasts a lifetime indoors: the paint becomes part of the plaster and lives as long as the wall. Outdoors, quartz paint is made for facades, and an anti-salt or anti-pollution varnish extends it further. And if one day you want a change, it can be painted over like any wall paint. In Bilbao, on a façade exposed to traffic, Giulia can also propose an anti-pollution paint, which turns part of the nitrogen oxides under daylight. The option is priced in the quote.
Other spaces
The other places Giulia paints, her portfolio and the towns nearby.
Homes and villas
A bedroom, a hallway, a staircase: the walls you look at every day.
Home and villa murals
Restaurants, hotels, and boutiques
A painted wall gives the room its character, and the place stays open while she works.
Restaurant and café murals
Ideas for spaces
Here the mural can work through color, landscape, figuration, or a simpler painterly motif. What matters is the calm force of the gesture.
Homes and villas
Apartments, bedrooms, corridors, staircases, and ceilings where a mural can bring depth and presence while keeping their sobriety.
Hotels, restaurants, and boutiques
Restaurants, hotels, boutiques, and studios where painting can deepen the tone of the place and support the welcome.
A mural made for this place
Nearby towns
From Bilbao, the mural can open toward these nearby places.
The mural of over 20 metres for Gaber and Jannacci, in Milan, in the press
Giulia Dal Bon, trained at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan.
Where Giulia works in Bilbao
In Bilbao, in a house, a villa, a second home or a flat, Giulia paints on an interior wall : the living room, the children’s bedroom and the bedroom. She also paints the kitchen, the bathroom, the entrance, the hallway and the stairwell. A ceiling asks for more work, and she paints it gladly. Outside, on the exterior facade and the garden wall, she works in quartz paint. She also paints on a mobile panel, when the wall belongs to someone else.
In a restaurant, a pizzeria, a café or a bar in Bilbao, the painted wall is visible from every table. For a boutique and a shop, she paints the window, the shutter and the back wall. For a hotel and a B&B, she paints the entrance hall and the rooms, one by one. In a hair salon, a spa and a gym, she paints the wall you look at while you wait. For a medical practice, a waiting room and a nursery, she paints the entrance and the waiting area. In an office and a showroom, she paints the reception wall and the meeting rooms. A vaulted cellar takes the same paint, right up to the ceiling.
In Casco Viejo, Ensanche, Abandoibarra, Indautxu and Deusto, you send her a photo of the wall and she draws the sketch straight onto it, then you shape the idea together.
The subject comes from you. Giulia draws a landscape, a floral or botanical motif, a painted sky on a ceiling, a perspective trompe-l’oeil. She paints figures and animals, letters signs and lettering by hand, and reproduces a work you love.
Possible subjects in Bilbao: the bridges and the green hills closing the city, frank Gehry’s Guggenheim, opened on 18 October 1997 on the estuary, the facades of the Casco Viejo. A trompe-l’oeil window, a botanical motif and a painted sky work just as well.
A mural is also called a wall mural, an artistic painting on a wall, a wall decoration. People say mural decoration, decorative painting, trompe-l’oeil, hand-painted wall, drawing on a wall, or a painting made directly on the wall: in every case someone paints the wall by hand, layer after layer. In Bilbao, the craft is called mural artist, muralist, wall artist or decorative painter, and it is Giulia Dal Bon’s.
Bilbao reinvented itself around Gehry’s Guggenheim, inaugurated in 1997: a former industrial city turned city of art, with the Ensanche buildings and the Casco Viejo.
Giulia also travels to San Sebastián and to across the Basque Country.
Where the mural can find its place
- In a flat or a house, she paints the hall, the stairwell, the living room, the bedroom, the corridor and the ceiling. From 150 € per sqm, free quote within 48h.
- In a historic cafe, a restaurant, a shop, an office or a practice, Giulia paints the dining room wall, the shop window, the reception and the waiting room. Free quote within 48h.
- Here the mural can work through color, landscape, figuration, or a simpler painterly motif