PROJECT · PUBLIC ART · 2016—
Holistika Art Walk
Where the junglebecame partof the work.
A long term public art project developed by Tulum Art Club in collaboration with Holistika, bringing murals, installations and artists into the landscape of Tulum.
THE BEGINNING
The jungle becamepart of the work.
In 2016, Tulum Art Club began collaborating with Holistika on what would become one of our longest running explorations of art and place.
The idea was not simply to put murals inside a property.
The jungle was already there. The paths were there. The architecture was there. Light, humidity, vegetation and time were already shaping how the place was experienced.
Instead of treating all of that as background, the project invited artists to work directly within it. Walls, paths and landscape became part of the exhibition.
The first phase developed between 2016 and 2018 and included 10 murals and installations created by artists coming from Mexico and different parts of the world.
ART + LANDSCAPE
Not art placed in nature.Art responding to it.
Working in the jungle changes the conditions of making art.
Light moves across a surface. Plants grow around walls. Humidity leaves traces. Paint changes. Paths shift.
The artwork exists beside a living environment that cannot be completely controlled. That relationship became central to Holistika Art Walk.
Artists were not asked to reproduce a single Tulum aesthetic. They arrived with their own visual language and responded to the environment differently.
Some works became landmarks. Others almost disappeared into the vegetation. Together, they created an experience where finding the work became part of experiencing it.
“The environment was not the background.It became part of the work.”
THE FIRST PHASE
Ten works.One landscape.
The first phase of Holistika Art Walk developed through 10 murals and installations placed throughout the jungle environment.
Artists participating in the early project arrived from Mexico and several other countries. Different techniques. Different references. Different ways of working.
The continuity did not come from a house style. It came from the territory.
Instead of walking through rooms, visitors moved between artworks through the jungle. The walk became the exhibition.
THE ARTISTS
Different languages.Same territory.
Holistika Art Walk developed through artists with very different practices and visual languages.
The project was never about making all the works look connected. The place connected them.
Each artist arrived with their own perspective and created within the same landscape. That contrast became part of the experience.
TULUM ART CLUB ARTISTS- 2501
- Aaron Glasson
- Spaik
- Alegría del Prado
- Werc
- Tellaeche
The jungle keepsediting the work.
An artwork placed in the landscape never stays completely still.
Years pass. Vegetation changes. Surfaces age. Colors shift.
Some works disappear. Others become inseparable from the place around them. That transformation is part of the project.
Holistika Art Walk is not only an archive of what artists created. It is also a record of what happens when artwork is allowed to live inside a changing environment.
A LIVING PROJECT
Not a finished exhibition.
Holistika Art Walk was never designed as one single frozen moment.
Artists arrived at different times. New works appeared. Earlier pieces changed alongside the jungle. The project kept evolving.
That makes the Art Walk closer to a living cultural landscape than a conventional exhibition.
- 2016The Holistika Art Walk collaboration begins.
- 2016—2018First phase develops with 10 murals and installations.
- FOLLOWING YEARSAdditional artists and works continue shaping the Art Walk.
- TODAYSelected works and stories can still be explored physically and through Tulum Art Map.
TULUM ART CLUB
A project that changed how we worked.
Holistika Art Walk became an important chapter in the development of Tulum Art Club.
It showed us that art could become part of the identity of a place rather than simply being added to it.
The project reinforced an approach that continues through our work today: invite artists into the territory, give them enough freedom to respond, produce work for a real context, connect artists with spaces and people, and allow the work to become part of the memory of the place.
That relationship between artist and territory became one of the foundations of Tulum Art Club.
ABOUT TULUM ART CLUBTHE PUBLIC LAYER
The work should remain discoverable.
Years after the first works appeared in the jungle, another question became important: how do people find them?
Tulum Art Map was created to make murals, artists and cultural stories across Tulum easier to discover.
Holistika Art Walk is now part of that public layer. Visitors can explore selected works while walking through the jungle and access stories connected to artists and murals through the map and audio guide.
MURALS IN TULUM
EXPLORE THE ART WALK
Walk through it yourself.
Holistika Art Walk can still be experienced physically in Tulum. Use Tulum Art Map to discover selected works, follow the route and listen to the stories behind the art.
EXPLORE HOLISTIKA ART WALKPRIVATE ART EXPERIENCESART + SPACE
What Holistika taught us about place.
Holistika Art Walk became an early example of something that continues to shape Tulum Art Club today: art works differently when it belongs to the space around it.
That idea now extends into TAC Studio, where artists, commissions and production are integrated into hospitality, real estate and interior projects.
EXPLORE TAC STUDIOPROJECT INFORMATION
Holistika Art Walk
FORMAT
- Murals
- Installations
- Public art
- Site specific art
- Art + landscape
COLLABORATION
Tulum Art Club × Holistika