Mural Festival

Name

Mural Festival

Legal name

Festival MURAL

Website

https://muralfestival.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2012

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Public Art Festival / Cultural Events

NAICS

Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation (71), Promoters of Performing Arts, Sports, and Similar Events without Facilities (711320)

SIC

Services-Amusement & Recreation Services (7900)

akta.pro primary industry

Arts & Culture Community Festivals (Multidisciplinary Arts Weeks) (MPAGAEAG)

akta.pro secondary industry

Cultural Festivals & Events Organizations (BPAGAHAG)

Keywords

• Public art festival
• Street art exhibitions
• Mural installations
• Cultural event programming
• Urban art events

Headquarters

HQ city

Montréal

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Festival Operations and Cultural Programming: Mural Festival generates revenue and operational support through cultural partnerships, international artistic exchanges, and sponsorships. The festival serves as a platform for public art exhibitions featuring both local and international artists, supported by partnerships such as the Qatar Canada and Mexico 2026 Year of Culture.

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Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Mural Festival (Festival MURAL) is an annual public art festival held in the heart of St. Laurent Boulevard in Montreal, Canada. The 14th edition runs June 4–14, 2026, and features large-scale mural installations, live street art, exhibitions, music, and conferences. The festival provides free outdoor public access to contemporary mural art and serves as a platform for local and international artists.

Product overview

Mural Festival is a single annual event product — a public art festival that takes place June 4–14, 2026 (14th edition) in the heart of St. Laurent Boulevard, Montreal. The festival showcases large-scale murals, street art, and artistic programming, serving as a platform for artists to display public works and engage with audiences. It is not a technology platform with modular products.

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Products and services

• Festival MURAL (Mural Festival) Annual public art festival held in the heart of St. Laurent Boulevard in Montreal, featuring large-scale mural installations, live street art, music, exhibitions, and conferences over multiple days. The festival provides free public access to contemporary public art and serves as a platform for local and international artists. The 14th edition took place June 4–14, 2026.

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Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered flagship and core.

• Qatar Canada and Mexico 2026 Year of CultureflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 29 June 2026Mural Festival is a key component of the Qatar Canada and Mexico 2026 Year of Culture initiative, which supports artistic exchange between Qatar and Canada. The collaboration includes the unveiling of a mural by Qatari calligraffiti artist Fatima Alsharshani, marking the beginning of a cultural exchange between Qatar and Canada.
• World Wide Walls Street Art FestivalcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 December 2025The artistic collaboration between Mural Festival and Qatari artist Fatima Alsharshani stemmed from a chance meeting at the World Wide Walls street art festival in Doha in December 2025, where the artist met Mural Festival founder Nicolas Munn Rico.

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Recent moves4 records

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Direct peers

• POW! WOW! Worldwide: POW! WOW! is a global network of street art festivals that began in Hawaii and has expanded to multiple cities, sharing Mural Festival's model of curating large-scale public murals, live painting, and music programming in urban settings.
• FAME Festival: FAME is an annual street art festival in Grottaglie, Italy, that invites international artists to create murals in a historic town. It is directly comparable to Mural Festival in curatorial approach, artist residency format, and reliance on international artist exchanges.
• World Wide Walls: World Wide Walls is a street art festival and platform based in Doha, Qatar, that produces mural programs featuring international artists. It is directly comparable because it was the venue where Mural Festival's founder met the Qatari artist behind the 2026 collaboration.
• Living Walls Conference: Living Walls is an Atlanta-based public art conference and festival that pairs large-scale murals with talks and community programming. It mirrors Mural Festival's blend of street art, conferences, and public engagement.

Broad incumbents

• Art Basel: Art Basel operates the dominant global art fair circuit and is a broader incumbent in the international contemporary art market. While not a street art festival, it competes for the same pool of premium art sponsors, collector audiences, and government cultural funding as Mural Festival.

Regional players

• Just for Laughs: Just for Laughs is a flagship Montreal-based annual festival with a similar event-driven, non-profit-adjacent operating model in the same city. Both organizations compete for the same municipal sponsorships, tourism budget allocations, and summer event audiences in Montreal.
• Festival International de Jazz de Montréal: The Montreal Jazz Festival is a major annual cultural festival held in downtown Montreal during the same summer season. It is a comparable regional player because it competes for the same tourism, sponsor, and city-permit ecosystem as Mural Festival.
• Nuit Blanche Toronto: Nuit Blanche is a free, all-night contemporary art event in Toronto that, like Mural Festival, is free to attend, takes place in public urban space, and showcases large-scale temporary art installations. It is a comparable model in the Canadian public art festival landscape.

Others

• Creative Time: Creative Time is a New York-based nonprofit that commissions ambitious public art projects. It is thematically comparable to Mural Festival in mission and nonprofit structure, and is an ecosystem peer in the public-art funding and curatorial community.
• Superkilen (BIG / Topotek 1 / Superflex): Topotek 1 is a landscape architecture firm that co-designed Superkilen, a Copenhagen public art and urban regeneration project combining murals, sport, and community programming. It is thematically comparable as an example of large-scale public art activation in urban corridors, similar in spirit to Mural Festival's approach to St. Laurent Boulevard.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/MuralFestival
• Xx.com/muralfestival
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/mural-festival

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