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.
The Spanish artist David de la Mano was in town to enrich Berlin’s Bülowstrasse with a new ONE WALL. The wall he was working on had already been featured one of his artworks, which was unfortunately damaged due to installations […]
There is a new One Wall with an urgent message at Berlin’s Bülowstrasse. In his latest work for URBAN NATION MUSEUM FOR URBAN CONTEMPORARY ART, the Cologne artist Christian Böhmer accepted the invitation of curator Yasha Young and addresses the […]
Last week an old friend and companion of the URBAN NATION MUSEUM FOR URBAN CONTEMPORARY ART followed the invitation of curator Yasha Young to enrich Berlin’s cityscape with a new ONE WALL: Fanakapan. His latest work of art now adorns […]
One building, one wall, one artist – the ONE WALL project continues to take the spotlight in which urban contemporary art currently stands and focus it on the areas from which it comes: on the districts and neighbourhoods. ONE WALL […]
News from Bülowstraße – The Dutch artist Mr.June designed the facade of the building Bülowstraße 101, directly opposite the museum, just in time for the opening of the new exhibition in the URBAN NATION MUSEUM FOR URBAN CONTEMPORARY ART. His […]
From the 13th to the 19th of May, the best oft he best of the international street art scene gathered in Berlin and turned gray facades into unique works of art. NUNO and the artist duo SNIK were three of […]
The collage-like images of the graffiti artist ELLE are now her trademark. For URBAN NATION she created a unique ONE WALL in Wienerstraße 42. The mural with the title “We are many, but allways one” shows important women from different […]
This work takes direct inspiration from the architectonical structure on which it’s located and it’s inserted in the “Unity” concept proposed by Urban Nation for its curatorial project. The two subjects are placed one on each wall, with a physical […]
From the 13th to the 19th of May, the best oft he best of the international street art scene gathered in Berlin and turned gray facades into unique works of art during the Berlin Mural Fest. Four walls were designed […]
From the 13th to the 19th of May, the best oft he best of the international street art scene gathered in Berlin and turned gray facades into unique works of art. The Italian Artist Millo was one of the many […]
