BROOKLYN STREET ART LOVES YOU MORE EVERY DAY
There’s a warmth in the grey—Sebas Velasco knows how to find it. Next month the Spanish artist’s distinct urban realism brings it inside the museum setting with The Morning Will Change Everything. Opening April 4th at the History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, this debut solo museum exhibition is more than a milestone—it’s a culmination of over a decade of travel, observation, and layered storytelling across the cities of the former Yugoslavia.
Velasco’s name has long been familiar to readers of Brooklyn Street Art. In a previous feature, we wrote: “Velasco captures the quiet poetry of peripheral urban life—its architecture, its characters, its flickering signs—rendered in a palette that echoes sodium streetlights and analog nostalgia.” That sensibility is on full display here. Inspired by the Sarajevo-based band Indexi’s song of the same name, the exhibition brings together new works on canvas that move between car parks, housing blocks, portraits, and fading signage—each composition a portal into the lives and geographies of transitional Eastern Europe.
Opening night begins with a film screening and Q&A at 18:00 with Bosnian cinematographer Mario Ilić, followed by a public vernissage at 19:30. Throughout the weekend, the museum will host programming that continues the cross-cultural exchange embedded in Velasco’s work. On Friday, visitors can join a guided exhibition tour and a talk titled Representation: Finding the Warmth in the Grey, featuring Velasco, writer Marc Casals, and curator Adna Muslija. Saturday’s panel, Against the Margins: Breaking Isolation, brings together curator Saša Bogojev, artist Bojan Stojčić, and museum director Elma Hašimbegović, moderated by cultural producer Charlotte Pyatt—who also produced the project. Spanish guitarist Jaime Velasco, whose live acoustic performance will close the Friday program, adds another dimension to the artist’s world, evoking both familial and cultural ties.
Moderating Thursday’s kickoff conversation is Doug Gillen of Fifth Wall TV, bringing his signature sharp lens to a discussion about public space, memory, and representation. With partners like Gallery Manifesto, the Embassy of Spain in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and a community of local collaborators, The Morning Will Change Everything speaks not only to Sebas Velasco’s vision but also to the resilience and vitality of Sarajevo as a site of contemporary culture.
And while the canvases may hang in a museum this time, the core remains the same: The quiet electricity of a neon-lit side street. The open face of a subject not quite posing. The sense that just beyond the frame, life continues to unfold.
