The Art Wall

Experience the artwork, Street 2023, by renowned British artist Julian Opie in l’Atelier du Voyageur bar. The artwork, commissioned specifically for MSC Euribia, is an expansive 11 x 2 m purpose-built LED screen featuring walking figures in Opie’s distinctive style.

“Everywhere I go the streets are flowing with endless strangers, an ever changing but constant stream. Sometimes they seem like coloured shadows, reflections or even the same figures used repeatedly. There are brief moments though when each passing person is a brilliant universe.” Julian Opie

MSC Cruises celebrates three special artists on board MSC Virtuosa: Jim Dine, Michael Craig-Martin, and Emilie Arnoux. These artists challenge viewers to explore the intersection of the personal, conceptual, and everyday by incorporating ordinary items into their art, transforming the mundane into subjects of interest.


“More important than having a romance with the object that I'm drawing, is to have a romance with the mark that I am making.”, J. Dine

“The simplest things can become the most powerful symbols.”, M. Martin

“I love life, light and sea and I paint people who love Life and sea”, E. Arnoux

MSC Cruises is honoured to host on board MSC Grandiosa The Virtues of Damien Hirst, the latest paintings of a contemporary artist, one of the most famous of his generation.

The Virtues is a set of eight cherry blossom prints, each one titled after one of the Eight Virtues of Bushidō. The Soul of Japan according to Nitobe Inazō: Justice, Courage, Mercy, Politeness, Honesty, Honour, Loyalty and Control.

"I hope that The Virtues can remind us to try always and get the most from life." – Damien Hirst