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    New exhibition starts from October 2, 2020 From October 2nd, URBAN NATION will present the new exhibition “Martha Cooper: Taking Pictures”, a six-decade retrospective of the photographic work of the world-famous photographer Martha Cooper. learn more
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Brave Wall Berlin
  • Press Release
  • March 1, 2021
Amnesty International reveals first Brave Wall in Berlin

With a Brave Wall in Berlin, Amnesty International is raising a public monument to the work of human rights defenders. The mural by artist Katerina Voronina is being created in cooperation with the URBAN NATION museum to mark International Women’s Day on 8 March 2021.

Junge auf einem Spielplatz betrachtet ein Foto
  • Press Release
  • Urban Nation
  • November 27, 2020
What does “Playing in the Street” mean today?

Pupils from the Otto Wels Primary School designed an outdoor exhibition in Kreuzberg as part of the URBAN NATION Museum’s new educational project.  

Martha Cooper Taking Pictures
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  • Urban Nation
  • October 5, 2020
Icon of street art photography

“Martha Cooper: Taking Pictures” will run at the URBAN NATION museum until 1 August 2021A first: the opening was also streamed live After being closed for a month, the URBAN NATION museum reopened last Friday with the exhibition Martha Cooper: Taking […]

Roberto Rivadeneira
  • Press Release
  • September 16, 2020
URBAN NATION X Roberto Rivadeneira: New façade design on Bülowstraße 101 abstracts time and space.

Born in Ecuador, visual artist Roberto Rivadeneira is known for his colourful and large-scale murals, which he paints all over the world. As part of the URBAN NATION Museum’s ONE WALL programme and at the invitation of director Jan Sauerwald, […]

Künstler Stohed vor Wandbild
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  • July 24, 2020
URBAN NATION X Stohead

New facade mural along the A111 motorway focuses on our current attitude to social values The Berlin-based artist Stohead (Christoph Hässler) has designed a special ONE WALL within the scope of the URBAN NATION programme of the same name on […]

Martha Cooper
  • Press Release
  • July 21, 2020
MARTHA COOPER: TAKING PICTURES

The URBAN NATION MUSEUM FOR URBAN CONTEMPORARY ART presents a six-decade retrospective of Martha Cooper’s photographs. Combining photographs and personal artifacts, MARTHA COOPER: TAKING PICTURES traces her life from her first camera in nursery school in 1946 to her reputation […]

  • Press Release
  • July 2, 2020
URBAN NATION X BustArt

Graffiti pop at Artpark Tegel.Giant collage commemorates “Otto Lilienthal” airport. Swiss artist BustArt’s newly created mural on the lake-facing facade of Neheimer Strasse 4, entitled “Departure”, establishes a connection to the “Otto Lilienthal” airport in Tegel, which is scheduled to […]

Wandbild des Künstlers Jim Avignon im Artpark Tegel.
  • Press Release
  • June 19, 2020
URBAN NATION X JIM AVIGNON: New ONE WALL in Tegel brings surreal art to the south of the district

The painter, illustrator, musician and concept artist Jim Avignon has greatly influenced the city of Berlin since the early 1990s. As a street and pop art artist, Avignon not only made a name for himself with numerous exhibitions, live painting […]

  • Press Release
  • June 12, 2020
New facade for the URBAN NATION museum: Dave the Chimp & friends make the case for more solidarity

Street artist, skateboarder and illustrator Dave the Chimp, who has lived in Berlin for many years, has redesigned the facade of the URBAN NATION museum. In collaboration with four other artists (Mina, Señor Schnu & Lunartik and Humble Writerz) who […]

  • Press Release
  • April 22, 2020
Experience Urban Art at home: The URBAN NATION Museum now offers an online guided tour

Unfortunately the URBAN NATION MUSEUM FOR URBAN CONTEMPORARY ART is closed until May 4th, 2020, due to the current corona situation. Nevertheless, interested people and fans of Urban Art can dive deeper into the museums’s latest exhibition “UN-derstand – the […]

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