Permanently Improvised. Various & Gould, 2019 The word “improvised” may lead one to believe that street artists create without planning, hoping for a miracle. However, Various & Gould, a Berlin-based street art duo, have a whimsical spirit and embrace unexpected […]
One Week with 1UP. Martha Cooper, Ninja K & 1UP Crew, 2018 “One Week with 1UP” is an adrenaline-fueled ride through Berlin‘s graffiti scene that captures the spirit of rebellion that has been present in this form of art since […]
“Let Her Be Free” chronicles the journey of Iranian brothers Icy and Sot as street artists and the evolution of their work over the decade from the mid-2000s to the mid-2010s. The book showcases the brothers’ activism through their art […]
A discussion with the artists Sebastian Wandl, Honey & Philip Wallisfurth 31.03.2023, 18:00 until 20:00Admission 17:30 URBAN NATIONBülowstr. 710783 Berlin Climate change is one of the central challenges of our time. Not only are social and economic consequences already being […]
With her documentation of the New York graffiti and hip-hop scene of the 1970s and 1980s, she helped the art form achieve worldwide fame. Her book “Subway Art”, written in collaboration with Henry Chalfant, was one of the first books […]
A generous collection of newly unearthed photographs documenting New York’s golden graffiti age from one of the celebrated visual documentarians, Spray Nation expands the conversations discussing the so-called ‘birth of graffiti’ for five decades. With hundreds of pages of newly […]
For 31 days in October of 2013, UK street artist Banksy “gifted” New York City with daily new surprises on the streets in all five boroughs – effectively involving citizens in his self-designed residency. It is traditional for graffiti writers […]
The legendary SUBWAY ART illustrated book by Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfant was the first to summarise graffiti writing, documenting the initial simple name-writing and the subsequent development of the motifs into masterpieces on the New York subway. Alongside films […]
Preparing the graffiti history of a city is a major project. Although the first graffiti in the style of the New York model appeared in many major European cities in the early 1980s, they were only sparsely documented, if at […]
You can find our reading room in the first floor (on the level of the gallery) it is open Tuesday 10:00 am – 3:00pm and Thursday von 12:00 am bis 3:30pm We used the closing time for the museum renovation to […]
