Urban Nation

Museum for Urban Contemporary Art

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Museum for Urban Contemporary Art
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Sat: 12:00 - 20:00
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Bülowstrasse 7, 10783 Berlin, Germany

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ONE WALL BY PARADOX
During the Preparations of the exhibition "Talking... And Other Banana Skins" Paradox created this ONE WALL on Bülowstrasse, close to the URBAN NATION Museum. It refers to his displayed piece inside the Museum reading the word "FREIHEIT" meaning freedom in German.
NEW MUSEUM FACADE BY BROKEN FINGAZ
On the occasion of the newly opened exhibition “TALKING… & OTHER BANANA SKINS” in June 2022, BROKEN FINGAZ from Haifa are redesigning the façade of the URBAN NATION Museum. The work ist titled „DOG SNIFF DOG“. The choice of colours and the design of the content relate thematically to the exhibition. After consultation with the curator, the title was also integrated into the design of the façade and now stands above the museum portal. The artists’ work was accompanied by the kind support of the Israeli Embassy in Berlin.
BOOKS IN THE MCL: GUSMANO CESARETTI. STREET WRITERS. A GUIDED TOUR OF CHICANO GRAFFITI.
STREET WRITERS. A Guided Tour of Chicano Graffiti. Gusmano Cesaretti. 1975. The roots of the global graffiti movement lie in New York in the late 1960s. Over the years, the simple lettering first developed into simple, quick pieces and, by the early 1980s at the latest, into elaborate, mostly colorful masterpieces on the trains of the New York Subway. But early on, similar forms of namewriting also appeared in other regions of America.
UNARTIG - Street & Art Festival June 17th - 19th
For the opening celebration of the exhibition “TALKING… & OTHER BANANA SKINS”, the UNARTIG – Street & Art Festival will take place around the museum. The program includes 17 murals designed by 21 artists, workshops and performances by artists such as YOANN BOURGEOIS, as well as guided urban art tours through the neighborhood of the URBAN NATION Museum. There will be discussion panels, street food, music and much more.
STOHEAD WATERKANT ONE WALL
STOHEAD WATERKANT – ONE WALL
The artist STOHEAD designed a ONE WALL for the new residential quarter WATERKANT. The mural typographically refers to the name of the newly emerging neighborhood in Berlin Spandau. The words WATER and WATERKANT were designed in the artist's iconic font (Rouwndy) and implemented through the use of acrylic and facade paint. The artist's specialty is to create his own visual language through scaling, condensation and with the help of transparencies.
MCL presents #1
MCL PRESENTS #1: “MADC AND MARTHA COOPER – FROM STREET TO CANVAS”
URBAN NATION kicks off the "Martha Cooper Library Presents" event series with a talk featuring MadC and Martha Cooper, moderated by Nika Kramer. Time: 6pm–8pm - Admission 5.30pm Street artist MadC will present her new book, "From Street to Canvas", which will be added to the Martha Cooper Library collection. She will be joined by Nika Kramer and Martha Cooper to talk about the conditions of production of photography, graffiti and street art, the meaning of making books and the special challenges for women in the male-dominated scene.
Getting Up. Subway Graffiti in New York - Craig Castleman
BOOKS IN THE MCL: CRAIG CASTLEMAN. GETTING UP. SUBWAY GRAFFITI IN NEW YORK
While teaching at the High School of Art and Design in Manhattan in the late 1970s, Craig Castleman helped his students produce a booklet (NASTY STUFF) on their favourite subject: graffiti on the New York subway. Inspired by the work on this topic, which was new to him, Castleman spent the following years investigating the phenomenon more closely. The result is his 1982 dissertation “Getting Up. Subway Graffiti in New York.”.
LAYER CAKE THE VERSUS PROJECT 2
LAYER CAKE presents THE VERSUS PROJECT 2
Exhibition opening April 10th – Juli 31st 2022 at URBAN NATION For The Versus Project 2, the artist duo LAYER CAKE (Patrick Hartl and Christian Hundertmark/ C100) once again initiated an international exchange with 13 artists. The resulting artworks are not only powerful expressions of artistic communication at eye level, but they also break an iron law of the graffiti scene: Never paint over the work of another artist!
Books in the MCL: Boulevard – On Trespassing and Culture No. 2 – INSTITUTION
Books in the MCL: Boulevard – On Trespassing and Culture (No. 2 – INSTITUTION)
Parallel to the art world's growing interest in graffiti, street art, and urban art, scholarly research on these fields has also increased steadily in recent years. While standard works can be found in specialized libraries, more in-depth texts and primary sources are often lacking for extensive research. These include rare exhibition catalogs, small editions of gray literature such as illustrated books and scene magazines, but also texts whose relevance has changed in the rapid development of the aforementioned subject areas.
Fresh A.I.R. #6 Scholarship Exhibition "Reflecting Migration"
FRESH A.I.R. #6 SCHOLARSHIP EXHIBITION "REFLECTING MIGRATION"
OPEN: March 12th – July 31st The participants of the 6th class of the Fresh A.I.R. Artist in Residence Scholarship Program present their works. Starting March 12th the Fresh A.I.R. Scholarship Exhibition “Reflecting Migration” is open until July 31st 2022. In 10 rooms at Bülowstraße 90 in Berlin Schöneberg, Fresh A.I.R. participants will show their works, in which they reflect their personal views on migration in a variety of ways and implement it artistically.
Kunstforum_Graffiti_Now_260
BOOKS IN THE MCL: KUNSTFORUM INTERNATIONAL VOL. 260, MAY-JUNE 2019
In June 1982, KUNSTFORUM International devoted an entire volume to the subject of graffiti (vol. 50 “Wilde Bilder. Graffiti und Wandbilder”). At the time, the vague term encompassed both ancient commemorative writings, political murals, facade art, ironic slogans, and several other forms of partly illegal interventions in urban space. Classic graffiti writing, which has characterized the New York cityscape for a decade and has existed in similar forms in Philadelphia and Los Angeles since the 1960s, is mentioned rather casually with three photos and half a page of text. In the months that followed, however, Writing would be carried into Western societies worldwide through films and books and mature into a global movement.
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"Martha Cooper: Taking Pictures"
With “Martha Cooper: Taking Pictures” the Urban Nation Museum presents an extensive retrospective of Martha’s photography, spanning six decades. Displaying personal objects as well as photos, the exhibition traces Cooper’s life, from her first camera in 1946 to her current reputation as a renowned photographer.

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ARTIST IN RESIDENCE PROGRAM

With the Fresh A.I.R. program, the Stiftung Berliner Leben awards (Artist-In-Residence) grants to European artists who deal with socio-political and urban issues. The funding enables the scholarship recipients to absorb new inspiration during their stay and develop their artistic skills further while being integrated into Berlin’s cultural life. At the same time, the artists give Berlin residents insight into their perspectives and skills, during workshops and events.

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