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Frankey Blows Up the Streetscape with \u2018Hubbabubbabuilding\u2019<\/p>\n

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Dutch street artist<\/a> Frankey unveils Hubbabubbabuilding, a new bubblegum-inspired sculpture<\/a> perched atop a roof on the Zandvoort promenade in the Netherlands. The site-specific installation features a 4-meter-tall caricature of Frankey himself, balanced on a ladder and blowing an enormous bubble of pink chewing gum that appears to burst out of the building\u2019s windows. The piece\u00a0debuts as part of Street Art Zandvoort 2025 and acts as a preview for Gumballin\u2019 2, the sequel to the artist\u2019s 2020 solo show.<\/p>\n

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UPDATE September 8th, 2025: The Amsterdam-based street artist has listed his Zandvoort villa, the Hubbabubbabuilding, for \u20ac10 million on Artsy.net as a work of art. The house, transformed into a playful sculpture of pink chewing gum bubbles spilling from its windows, comes with the condition that it cannot be altered or inhabited for the next five years. By doing so, Frankey positions the building as art rather than a home, following in the footsteps of projects like Rachel Whiteread\u2019s House (1993) and Banksy\u2019s<\/a> Well-Hung Lover. The facade, featuring a four-meter-tall figure of the artist blowing a giant bubble, turns Boulevard Paulus Loot 103 into a whimsical scene. Proceeds from the sale will be reinvested in future public art projects.<\/p>\n

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all images courtesy of Frankey<\/a><\/p>\n

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playful sculpture marks the start of Gumballin\u2019 2 exhibition<\/p>\n

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Hubbabubbabuilding reflects Frankey\u2019s signature style of \u2018positive interventions\u2019\u2014humorous, unexpected elements that momentarily reframe the built environment. Playful and cartoonish in form, the figure injects a dose of absurdity and childlike wonder into the seaside skyline. \u2018Chewing gum is perhaps the weirdest product on earth,\u2019 the Dutch artist<\/a> explains. \u2018It\u2019s pointless, and maybe that\u2019s the point. In its uselessness lies something real: wonder, play, fun.\u2019<\/p>\n

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The installation not only nods to Frankey\u2019s own likeness but also to the familiar act of bubble-blowing. Set against the backdrop of Zandvoort\u2019s rooftops, the giant gum bubble reads as both joyful disruption and whimsical monument, prompting passersby to pause and look up. Hubbabubbabuilding also signals the official start of Gumballin\u2019 2, a forthcoming exhibition that continues the themes explored in Frankey\u2019s earlier work at the Gashouder. While the first show positioned bubblegum as a playful material and metaphor, the upcoming sequel promises to delve deeper into its cultural and emotional resonances.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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the 4-meter-tall figure is a caricature of frankey himself, mid-bubble, balanced on a ladder high above the street<\/p>\n

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playful and absurd, Hubbabubbabuilding invites passersby to pause, smile, and look up<\/p>\n

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part street art, part self-portrait, and part ode to childhood wonder<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Frankey Blows Up the Streetscape with \u2018Hubbabubbabuilding\u2019 \u00a0 Dutch street artist Frankey unveils Hubbabubbabuilding, a new bubblegum-inspired sculpture…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[449,458,459,64,63,460,134,3811,57477],"class_list":["post-127595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-sculpture","tag-street-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}