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.
At the corner of Bülowstraße/Zietenstraße, just across the street from the URBAN NATION Museum, you can find a new attraction in Schöneberg: The ONE WALL by Roberto Rivadeneira. With references to abstraction and cubism, the mural ties in stylistically with […]
With his largest mural to date, Berlin artist Stohead calls for reflection on social values with his ONE WALL. Stylistically, the latest ONE WALL by the URBAN NATION Museum ties in with various art historical influences, iconic typefaces and Stohead’s […]
The new mural by BustArt at Artpark Tegel is entitled “Departure” and picks up a current topic: the upcoming closure of Tegel Airport. Locally close to the airport, the residents around Neheimer Strasse 4 can now look forward to a […]
News from Artpark Tegel: The Berlin painter, illustrator, musician and concept artist Jim Avignon has created a new ONE WALL that expresses the zeitgeist and asks the question of the future between uncertainty and a mood of departure. The new […]
Berlin has become a little more colourful again in the last few days: The American artist Emily Eldridge, who lives in Berlin, created a new ONE WALL and enriches the neighborhood around Kastanienplatz in Kreuzberg with lots of color and […]
Art history meets street art – the facade at Bülowstrasse 101 received a new mural. As part of the URBAN NATION Biennale 2019, Julien de Casabianca was invited to give this building a new appearance. (more…) Julien de Casabianca tells […]
The Spanish artist Cristian Blanxer enriched Berlin’s cityscape with a new ONE WALL – a large mural with equally enormous content. In his latest work for URBAN NATION MUSEUM FOR URBAN CONTEMPORARY ART, he takes a socially critical look at […]
July was all about collaboration at URBAN NATION. Two ONE WALLS were designed parallel by two different artist teams in Artpark Tegel – one of the largest outdoor galleries in Berlin. In addition to the ONE WALL of Nuno Viegas, […]
The Berlin district of Reinickendorf, respectively the Art Park Tegel, was once again a hotspot for urban art lovers in July. For more than two weeks, the renowned street art artists Nuno Viegas, Hera and Akut have worked together on […]
In June this year, URBAN NATION together with the British artist duo Nomad Clan and Hera, part of the artist duo Herakut, came to Iceland to create a One Wall as part of an international collaboration with the German Embassy […]
