STRAAT Museum, the world’s largest museum for street art and graffiti, has collaborated with experiential partner WINK on Time Lines, a 690-metre long mural created for Amsterdam Airport Schiphol by fiveinternationally acclaimed street artists – Pref, Kevin Ledo, Jelmer Konjo, Bianca Nemelc and Eloise Gillow.
Times Lines was unveiled to the public today at Amsterdam Airport Schipol, and the epic artwork curated by STRAAT Museum (based in Amsterdam’s Noord district) has transformed 690 metres of transit space into an ambitious art experience that innovatively transforms construction barriers into a living, evolving artwork themed around travel, time and human connection.
Featuring five internationally recognised street artists – Pref(UK/Belgium), Kevin Ledo (Canada), Jelmer Konjo (Netherlands), Bianca Nemelc (USA) and Eloise Gillow(UK) – Time Lines invites millions of travellers passing through the airport to pause, reflect and experience art in the middle of their journeys. One of the busiest airports in the world has been transformed into an open-air art gallery, meaning that an estimated 68 million people could find themselves engaging with street art.
Bringing together artists at different stages of their careers, Time Lines sees emerging voices collaborate alongside more established names – offering newer artists the opportunity to shine on a major international stage.
Inspired by the famous quote by artist Paul Klee, “a line is a dot that went for a walk”, the installation reimagines the airport itself as a canvas of movement. Every traveller becomes a dot. Every journey becomes a line. At a transport hub that welcomes around 68 million passengers each year, the project turns an everyday transit corridor into one of the largest public street art interventions in the Netherlands.
We are pleased to bring STRAAT Museum to Schiphol with Time Lines. We see the airport as a place where countless personal timelines converge. By introducing street art into this context, we create space for reflection within an environment that is constantly in motion.”
Marion Wolff, director of STRAAT
The artwork created by the five selected artists forms a continuous visual timeline that mirrors the flow of people through Amsterdam Airport Schiphol every day. A hybrid format combines digital design, painting, and live interventions throughout the mural. An immersive experience has been created by the mural, which invites people passing through the airport to join the outdoor Layover Point, where an open studio offers a front-row view of the creative process as the artworks evolve in real time.
Building on WINK’s original wall structures (a unique invention) STRAAT collaborated closely with WINK’s 3D design team to develop a detailed compositional grid to accommodate artworks of varying sizes. The design includes embedded zones for info panels, live art, and complimentary visual pauses, while also responding to pedestrian flow through areas of high detail and large-scale impact.
The five artists selected for the mural commission by STRAAT Museum hail from the Netherlands, Belgium, Canada, UK and USA.
Jelmer Konjo (Netherlands, 1993) is a visual artist and muralist whose work combines bold graphic language with vibrant, street-inspired energy. His dynamic compositions draw from the textures and rhythms of urban life, balancing abstraction with play and narrative.
Kevin Ledo (Canada, 1978) is a Montreal-based artist known for merging realism, abstraction, and graphic design. His large-scale portraits are layered with geometric patterns and abstract forms, creating a compelling dialogue between the human figure and ornamentation.
Bianca Nemelc (USA, 1991) is a New York–based artist exploring the relationship between the human figure and the natural world. Her work blends fragmented forms with landscapes, using warm palettes and fluid compositions to reflect identity, heritage, and connection to nature.
Eloise Gillow (UK, 1993) creates figurative works that combine classical painting techniques with contemporary narratives. Her compositions focus on human connection and introspection, using soft light and muted tones to evoke intimacy and emotional depth.
Pref (UK/ Belgium, 1981) is renowned for his innovative typographic works, layering words and phrases into complex visual compositions. His practice challenges perception and readability, transforming language into bold, graphic puzzles.
WINK’s expertise in spatial storytelling and audience movement has been essential in shaping a journey that balances moments of visual intensity with areas of calm.
This project is so interesting and powerful because it transforms a purely functional, somewhat uninviting construction site into a living street art experience for a global audience. It’s not just a creative achievement, but a technical one too: delivering work of this scale within Amsterdam Airport Schiphol’s highly regulated environment makes it far more challenging than most public spaces.”
David de Bruijn, Chief Creative Officer, WINK
At Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, we are constantly working to enrich the passenger journey in ways that are both functional and inspiring. ‘Time Lines’ transforms a necessary construction space into something meaningful. In collaboration with STRAAT Museum, experiential partner WINK and a group of internationally renowned street artists, we are bringing world-class urban art into the heart of the airport. Together, we aim to create a memorable experience for the millions of people who pass through Schiphol each year.”
Arthur Reijnhart, Chief Commercial Officer
Like the journeys it reflects, the artwork will never remain static as Time Lines will evolve through new street art additions, digital works and live interventions.
By bringing street art into one of Europe’s busiest airports, STRAAT and WINK blur the line between museum, public space and travel infrastructure, transforming a moment of transit into an unexpected temporary cultural encounter.Find more information here: straatmuseum.com/en/timelines
