From England to Australia, from Italy to the Netherlands, hundreds of basketball courts around the world are transformed every year by artists, illustrators, and street artists into open-air works of art. We’ve selected 10 that blew our minds! (Catch part 1 here!)

Lakwena Maciver – Mount Park, Morecambe, England

Vibrant colours and text as a visual element: the Morecambe court is everything you’d expect from Lakwena Maciver, a London-based artist who has spent years bringing messages of hope and liberation into public spaces. Pixel-art geometries clash with textile patterns in a chromatic explosion that seems impossible to contain within the white lines of the court.

Wall Design – Martin, Slovakia

An urban regeneration project that is also a manifesto on inclusivity. Seen from above, the result is a collage of geometric shapes, concentric circles, and cardiographic lines that seem to measure the heartbeat of the neighbourhood.

Andrea Bergart – Inez Nash Park, Toledo, Ohio

Bloom Rising is the name of this project, and the title says it all: the court loses its conventional form to find an entirely new one, reimagining even the concept of the backboard. Andrea Bergart, a Queens-based artist with a background spanning painting, fashion, and public art, has transformed Inez Nash Park into something that feels like it came out of a dream.

ArtCourts – Clyde North, Melbourne, Australia

Pink, yellow, orange, and butterflies: the court at Clyde North is one of those places that makes you wish you could be a kid all over again. ArtCourts, an Australian collective specialising in artistic playgrounds, has created a work that spills beyond the edges of the court, spreading into the surrounding paths and areas. A park that is also a gallery, designed to be explored rather than simply crossed.

William LaChance – Ardmore, Oklahoma

Ardmore Art Court is a private collection, but it behaves like a public artwork: the court designed by William LaChance for Oklahoma has the complexity of a painting on canvas, with organic shapes, layered colour planes, and a composition that holds up equally well from ground level and from above.

Tia Monson, Chloe Kelly, Jazelle Bustos, Anthony Marinucci – “The Slab”, Pueblo, Colorado

Inaugurated in the summer of 2025 and awarded the 2026 Starburst Award, “The Slab” is a collective project that breathed new life into a historic court that first opened in 1954. Four local artists, four adjacent basketball courts, four different worlds played out side by side.

Truly Design Crew – Saluzzo, Piedmont, Italy

La Rosa Bianca is the court that Turin-based collective Truly Design created for the city of Saluzzo, deep in the Piedmont region. A basketball player bursting into attack, rendered in a clean and cinematic illustrative style, stands out against a teal court flanked by an enormous net drawn directly onto the floor. Elegant, precise, with an eighties poster spirit that never gets old.

Swishh Dreams – Candyland Park, Longwood, Florida

The project is called Candyland, and the image says it all: two basketball courts transformed into a giant board game, with colourful snakes, animated characters, and “Start” and “Dreams” squares replacing the sidelines. Swishh Dreams is a Florida-based non-profit that uses basketball as a tool for community empowerment, and this court is the perfect embodiment of that mission: a place where people genuinely play, but where every bounce feels like part of a bigger story.

Joram Roukes & Shon Price – Hoofddorp, Amsterdam

Beneath the flight paths of Amsterdam Airport, Joram Roukes and Shon Price painted a court that is also a greeting: Have A Nice Flight, reads the giant text at the centre of the court, addressed to passing planes and to everyone who stops to play. A hybrid figure — half basketball player, half skater — stretches across the full length of the court against a vivid pink background.

Nine in the Paint – Via Dezza, Milan, Italy

The court on Via Dezza is not just a painted court: it is a memorial. Nine in the Paint designed and created this work in memory of Alessandro Meszely, choosing the sunflower as its central symbol: a flower that always looks upward, surrounded by geometric shapes that seem to dance around it in a vortex of blue, yellow, and fuchsia. The court is officially named “Campo il Girasole” — one of those places where sport, art, and memory become one and the same.