Kreuzberg 36: In the Wassertorkiez, six ONE WALLS cover the building facades. These monumental images were realized as part of the project “ONE WALL – one wall, one artist, one message”. Since 2014, the URBAN NATION Museum has been inviting […]
Fresh A.I.R. is the artist in residence scholarship program of the Stiftung Berliner Leben and a cooperation partner of the URBAN NATION Museum. The Fresh A.I.R. scholarships offer artists and cultural professionals in the field of Urban and New Contemporary […]
In November 2021, Martha Cooper was in Berlin together with Jaime Rojo and Steven P. Harrington of Brooklyn Street Art for a viewing of her exhibition “Taking Pictures” and opened the Martha Cooper Library. They were presented with their first […]
Today, Berlin is considered a world metropolis for graffiti, street art and urban art. While the late 1980s saw the end of the golden era in the graffiti mecca of New York, the fall of the Berlin Wall ushered in […]
When as a result of films and books such as „Subway Art“, „Wild Style!“ and „Style Wars“ the New York tradition of graffiti writing attracted worldwide attention and, above all, imitators in the early 1980s, so-called namewriting was a completely […]
The Berlin Wall, erected by the GDR on August 13, 1961, separated today’s capital Berlin into East and West for almost 30 years. From 1975 until November 9, 1989, the so-called “anti-fascist protective wall” consisted of the 3.60m high and […]
The project “ONE WALL – one wall, one artist, one message” URBAN NATION has been inviting internationally renowned artists to realize monumental murals on building facades in Berlin since 2014. For these ONE WALLS, the artists always deal with the […]
The origin for the worldwide graffiti, street art and urban art movement lies in New York in the 1960s and 1970s. What started locally as simple name-dropping in the streets and backyards of the boroughs evolved into elaborate typefaces that […]
Our new exhibition “Martha Cooper: Taking Pictures” not only shows numerous photographs by Martha Cooper, but also artworks by various international artists who find inspiration in the motifs of the US photography legend and adapt them in their very own […]
We were looking forward to share this news with you for a long time and now the moment has finally come: The URBAN NATION Museum will open for you again on March 16. Here you can find all the information you need to know regarding your next visit.
