Streetart Frankey – Amsterdam Map

We have a soft spot for Streetart Frankey. Since 1998 he has been attaching small sculptures to Amsterdam’s walls, bridges, drainpipes and street signs, usually hidden in plain sight where you would never think to look. We walk past his work almost every day, and it still makes us smile.

Our guests love it just as much. Point out a tiny figure on a drainpipe during a tour and suddenly everyone is scanning the walls, laughing and asking where the next one is. Those moments are the reason we made this Street Art Frankey map. It includes every artwork we have been able to place, so you can head out and find them for yourself.

A tiny diver poised over the Entrepotdok. Buurman en Buurman halfway up a façade on the Reguliersgracht. A Rubik’s Cube abandoned beside the metro entrance at Vijzelgracht. We love Frankey’s work and have been pointing it out on our tours for years. We’re always looking for new pieces, and finding one hidden in plain sight somewhere in the city never gets old.

So, we decided to map them. Each pin includes the neighbourhood, a photograph (where an openly licensed one is available), and a link to Frankey’s own Instagram post or the original article, where possible.

Use the map to create a walking route through one neighbourhood, or simply as a reason to look more carefully at streets you already know. Half the pleasure is in the hunt, so the pins point you in the right direction without always giving away the exact spot.

Streetart Frankey, also written as Street Art Frankey (and sometimes spelled Frankie or Franky), has been creating art in public spaces since 1998. He has been called Amsterdam’s own Banksy, in the Netherlands he is often known as the Dutch Banksy, and his work has been shown at the Moco Museum alongside Banksy’s own, although the comparison only takes you so far: Banksy works in secret and makes a point, while Frankey works in plain sight and is far more likely to make you smile. Amsterdam is home to most of his work, although his pieces have also appeared in places including Zandvoort, Almere, Paris, New York and Hong Kong.

Critics have also compared him with Maurizio Cattelan, the Italian artist behind Comedian, the banana taped to a gallery wall. A review of the 2026 documentary Streetart Frankey placed him at the crossroads of Cattelan, Wim T. Schippers and Banksy. Like Cattelan, Frankey turns everyday objects into a joke. The difference is that his end up on Amsterdam’s street corners, free for anyone to find.

Much of Frankey’s Amsterdam street art begins with something that is already there. A bollard becomes a rocket, a drainpipe becomes a chimney, and a street sign becomes part of the joke. His works are often tiny, and spotting them can make you look at a familiar Amsterdam street in an entirely different way.

Some pieces have become well known in their own right, including his bronze tribute to former Amsterdam mayor Eberhard van der Laan, André Hazes in Lego on Dam Square, Tante Leen on the Middenweg and B.B. King on the side of the Stopera. Others disappear almost as quickly as they arrive.

That is also why we need your help to keep this map up to date. If you visit a location and the artwork has disappeared, tap Gone. If it is still there, tap Still there. Green pins show works we believe are still in place, while brown pins indicate pieces that visitors have reported missing.

Frankey, whose real name is Frank de Ruwe, shares his latest creations on Instagram, while his studio work can be found on his own website at frankey.com. And if you would rather discover his work with someone who knows where to look, our private guides are always happy to include some Frankey hunting during an Amsterdam walking tour.

Looking for Banksy in Amsterdam? You will not find his work out on the street here: the Banksy works you can see in the city are indoors, at the Moco Museum. Out on Amsterdam’s streets, the closest thing is Frankey, and this map shows you where to find him.