Budapest is hardly a player on the European street art scene, and most of the time what we see on the streets are tags left by teenagers on the walls and doors - too boring to be even considered art.

An example of hormonal teenagers' tag attack. Quite often the graffiti and stencils are in Hungarian. This one says 'Rabbit Elvis.' And this one is play on Warhol, sounding similar and meaning in Hungarian 'Andy Anywhere.' This meerkat has been seen around the city on the crumbling walls. Stickers+tags. József Attila (1905 – 1937), famous Hungarian poet. Antifa Pacman? This one is the oldest of all. The wall of ELTE University on the Muzeum krt is covered with "art" from as early as 1884. It remained untouched even after the major renovations. Some anthropologists believe that this coat of arms of Budapest Public Transport Company was left by the bored switchman who was servicing the nearby tram lines. The reverse graffiti - made not with painting, but by cleaning the wall. Here is the biscuits ad.

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