#LargestQR
2017·Hasselt, Belgium·● still standing·2 sources·
“Hi, thanks for scanning me.” This is the largest spray-painted QR code on Earth — 30 × 25 m and fully functional — in an industrial hall by the canal in Hasselt, Belgium. Felipe Pantone painted it with his assistant David O. over three days in May 2017, spending 403 Montana cans. Its idea is NON-LOCATION: “when it comes to the artistic practice, it became more relevant to think about times than location.” Today an artwork, wherever it stands, can be seen from anywhere in the world through the internet; the QR makes it literal — you scan it and you get the piece. It has been seen by thousands. Part of the MOTIF project by Alley Gallery with the Street Art Festival, who have spent over twenty years turning huge walls into art. The mural still stands, recently repainted: in perfect condition.
The story
No-location, made into a wall
This wall is about an idea I've been turning over for a long time: no-location. Before, to see a mural you had to stand in front of it. Not anymore. Wherever you paint, the piece is seen from every corner of the world through the internet — one photo, one screen, and it's everywhere at once. The physical place almost doesn't matter. So in Hasselt I painted exactly that, literally: a giant QR code, 30 × 25 meters, and functional. It's not decorative. You scan it with your phone and it takes you somewhere else; the wall stops being just a wall and becomes a door. That's the joke and that's the idea: an object that only fully exists when you look at it through a screen. I painted it by hand with the help of David O, and thousands of people have seen it. The best part is that it's still there, on the street, and they repainted it recently, so it's just like day one.
source: Relato de Felipe Pantone, 5 de julio de 2026