Education & Outreach

As a project of the Berlin Leben Foundation, URBAN NATION aims to make urban and street art visible and accessible to everyone through a variety of offerings. Participation and own creativity are asked for and strengthened in our educational formats.

Therefore URBAN NATION is more than a museum. With its diverse programming, URBAN NATION links indoor and outdoor space – museum and city – and promotes dialogue between art and neighborhood. The project Stadtraum!Plus of the Stiftung Berliner Leben facilitates the exchange between Berlin actors and URBAN NATION and creates a variety of educational opportunities.

URBAN NATION is a place of cultural education with workshops and other innovative educational formats. We are active in the museum, in the museum’s workshop and throughout the city – e.g. through participatory mural designs.

Stencil Workshop Imed Art
Unique designs with stencils

On October 7, 2023, the URBAN NATION Museum once again hosted KinderKulturMonat, this time with a stencil workshop for children aged 10 to 12, led by Imed Art. The workshop started with an interactive part as well as an introduction to stencils and how to use them for drawing, cutting, coloring and spraying.

COMMUNITY WALL by OANA MARIA POP AND ZUZANNA ODOLCZYK, Sandstr. 64

Anyone passing by Sandstraße 64 is greeted by a cheerful and colorful forest. On September 27 and 28, 2023, around 20 children between the ages of 4 and 6, under the guidance of artists Oana Maria Pop and Zuzanna Odolczyk, created a tunnel wall that brightens the day of every passerby. Both artists, who hail from Romania and Poland, are currently living and working in Berlin for a year as fellows of the Fresh A.I.R. residency program #8.

ONE WALL BY PAULA MARIE

The Berlin street artist Paula Marie has created a ONE WALL on the facade of an apartment building at Habermannzeile 1C in Charlottenburg-Nord. The painting is the result of a cooperation between the German Resistance Memorial Center, the Foundation Berliner Leben with the support of Gewobag.

Graffiti-Bombing with Stencils

KinderKulturMonat is here again, offering children and families a journey of discovery into the exciting world of art in Berlin. Every year in October, museums, art and music schools, theatres, galleries, dance schools and many more in all districts of Berlin open their doors to paint, discover, dance and make music.

Community Wall by Sinan Dur

Together with graffiti artist Sinan Dur, aka Bandit, and the senior group “Zeitlos” from the Staaken Cultural Center, the exterior wall of the neighborhood shop Room 66 was redesigned. Around ten participants first created stencils. One particularly creative lady collected […]

ONE WALL BY VARIOUS & GOULD

With the involvement of young people from the neighborhood Heerstraße Nord, the Berlin artist duo Various & Gould has realized the ONE WALL “We all here belong to the Us” at Obstallee 45 in Staaken. The work is based on the principle of collage, one of the duo’s essential techniques.