Press Release

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” 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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Characterized by different people and communities, Kreuzberg offers cultural diversity and is considered a place of longing for many young people. As a creative place, the district stands for freedom, the willingness to experiment, and a colorful coexistence. The American […]