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  • March 2, 2022
MY ONE WALL – ART IN THE HOOD – GIVE THE NEIGHBOURHOOD A VOICE

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 […]

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  • February 3, 2022
Apply now for Fresh A.I.R. #8!

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 […]

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  • January 25, 2022
About the MCL – Martha Cooper and BSA in interview

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 […]

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  • January 24, 2022
Books in the MCL: Jürgen Große, URBAN ART PHOTOGRAPHY, 2008

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 […]

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  • January 15, 2022
Books in the MCL: AMSTERDAM ON TOUR. The early signs of Dutch graffiti. 2019.

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 […]

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  • December 15, 2021
Books in the MCL: Ralf Gründer, Verboten: Berliner Mauerkunst, 2007

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 […]

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My One Wall

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 […]

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  • December 7, 2021
Books in the MCL: Andrea Nelli, GRAFFITI A NEW YORK, 2012

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 […]

Mural. Urban Nation. Berlin. Seth. Martha Cooper. Taking Pictures. Urban Art. Street Art.
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  • May 31, 2021
Mural by SETH

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 […]

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  • March 15, 2021
The Museum is open again!

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.

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