Seeblum completes Estonia’s largest mural in Tallinn
Thursday 22nd October 2026 on 11:45 in
Estonia
Street artist Silver “SBoy” Seeblum has completed a 4,995-square-metre mural on a historic industrial building in Tallinn’s Ülemiste City, ERR reported. The work, titled “Ülemiste Vanake järvekontoris,” is Estonia’s largest mural and one of the largest in Europe.
Seeblum began the project in late April with a three-person team. The work took nearly six months. He said he had spent about 2,000 working hours on the project, with shifts reaching 20 hours in the final weeks. The team had to stop only during heavy rain, which was scarce despite the weather forecasts.
Before painting, the team sanded about 3,000 square metres of polycarbonate panels, removed rust from metal parts and pressure-washed the surface. They repainted the metal components and treated the plaster and stone with an impregnation agent. The full 4,995-square-metre surface was then covered with white primer and a further coat of white paint.
Seeblum marked out the design himself using a battery-powered paint sprayer and virtual reality glasses. In June, the team applied base colours to the larger sections. From early July, Seeblum mostly worked alone, with an assistant. He said the background took nearly two months to paint, while the figure of Ülemiste Vanake took three weeks.
The mural used nearly 2,000 spray cans, each holding 0.4 litres, and more than 2,600 litres of Caparol paint, primer, metal paint and impregnating agent. Seeblum used about 50 colours, mixing many by eye. The finest lines were made with spray tips brought from Spain.
“It was pretty hard towards the end, but I don’t regret anything, and at no point did I feel I couldn’t do it,” Seeblum said. He lives in Ülemiste City’s Lurich building and can see the mural from his 10th-floor window.
Seeblum has worked as a street artist, designer, tattoo artist and graffiti artist since 1999. He organised the “Eesti 100” international street art festival, which produced nearly 60 murals across Estonia, and leads Sprayer Tallinn, a team specialising in large-scale spray-art works.