Under the programmatic title “ONE WALL – one wall, one message,” the URBAN NATION Museum has been inviting international and up-and-coming street artists to create monumental images on selected facades in Berlin since 2014. This initiative sees murals not merely as decorative surfaces, but as interventionist acts in urban space: they mark, comment on, and transform the face of the city in a lasting way.
Each ONE WALL is more than just a single mural: it is an artistic statement that emerges from a reflective examination of the location, history, and environment. The invited artists consciously incorporate the specific topography, social structure, and aesthetic potential of the neighborhood into their designs. This dialogical process results in an individual work that articulates both the artistic position and the qualities of its context.
RABI created in September 2023 a new mural as part of the ONE WALL project, at Bötzowstr. 59, Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg, extending his exhibition PM/20_gen+esc at the new Satelite Gallery at Sonnenallee 126, Berlin-Neukölln, into urban space.
With the latest wall design in Prenzlauer Berg on the corner of Stargarder Straße/Schönhauser Allee, the second One Wall by a Fresh A.I.R. fellow has now been implemented. The Ukrainian artist Apl315 created a sort of large-format picture puzzle within a week, which combines wall scribbles and notes from his hometown Odessa with his temporary home Berlin on several levels.
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.
The first-place design for the street art contest “MORE ART – less litter” by the artist Júlia Mota Albuquerque has been successfully implemented and thus handed over to the public. Her artwork now adorns a huge house façade at Jakob-Kaiser-Platz, […]
During the Preparations of the exhibition “Talking… And Other Banana Skins” Paradox created this ONE WALL on Bülowstrasse, close to the URABN NATION Museum.
The artist STOHEAD designed a ONE WALL for the new residential quarter WATERKANT. The mural typographically refers to the name of the newly emerging neighborhood in Berlin Spandau. The words WATER and WATERKANT were designed in the artist’s iconic font […]
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 […]
The new One Wall of the URBAN NATION Museum: SatOne designs a façade at the Blasewitzer Ring in Spandau A new One Wall by graffiti artist SatOne – in cooperation with the URBAN NATION Museum – now adorns the façade […]
Last week, Belgian street artist Katrien Vanderlinden transformed a basketball court in Berlin-Spandau into one of her artistic Hypecourts as part of URBAN NATION’s ONE WALL series. She received support from the children in the neighbourhood, who helped her create the unique work of art with a lot of joy and enthusiasm.
Keen readers may be surprised by the term “Brave Wall”, as URBAN NATION’s large-format murals are usually called ONE WALL. “Brave Walls” are murals dedicated to human rights defenders and are initiated and realized worldwide by Amnesty International in cooperation with the global street art community. Now, in a joint collaboration between us and Amnesty International, the first “Brave Wall” was created in Berlin, a work by artist Katerina Voronina, which honors human rights defender Marielle Franco.
