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  • March 14, 2023
Urban Banana Sounds – I’ll take the lead! | The audio script was set to music

The second part of the audio guide project by young people and for young people for the current exhibition TALKING… & OTHER BANANA SKINS took place on 22 and 23 February under the direction of the two artists Heidrun Schramm […]

  • Martha Cooper Library
  • Urban Nation
  • March 11, 2023
Happy Birthday Martha Cooper!

With her documentation of the New York graffiti and hip-hop scene of the 1970s and 1980s, she helped the art form achieve worldwide fame. Her book “Subway Art”, written in collaboration with Henry Chalfant, was one of the first books […]

  • Education & Outreach
  • Urban Nation
  • March 9, 2023
The Berliner Schulpate visit URBAN NATION

The Berliner Schulpaten visited the Stiftung Berliner Leben again! This time, a 5th grade class from Galilei Primary School discovered the professions of librarian at the Martha Cooper Library and mediator at the URBAN NATION Museum. The curious pupils were […]

  • Education & Outreach
  • Urban Nation
  • March 3, 2023
Urban Banana Sounds – I’ll take the lead!

Pupils from the Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Oberschule design and create an audio guide as part of a series of workshops. By young people for young people. The Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Oberschule is a partner of the programme Stadtraum!Plus of the Stiftung Berliner Leben and took part […]

  • Urban Nation
  • February 7, 2023
Workshops at URBAN NATION

The URBAN NATION offers an exciting selection of workshops. These are exclusively bookable for groups. Both children and adults are invited to discover the most important techniques of Urban Arts. Here, learning can be combined with real fun – the […]

  • Education & Outreach
  • Urban Nation
  • January 30, 2023
Young people develop quiz for exhibition visitors

The students of the Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Oberschule created a quiz for the exhibition TALKING… & OTHER BANANA SKINS. Already in class, they have dealt with different media and their pitfalls such as Deep Fake and Fake News. During the introduction at the […]

  • Education & Outreach
  • Urban Nation
  • December 15, 2022
Book your group tour in and around the URBAN NATION!

Did you know that we also offer guided group tours of the Museum and the neighborhood? Book our guided tours in English or German for your group! We offer an introduction to the exhibition TALKING… & OTHER BANANA SKINS as […]

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  • December 14, 2022
Books in the MCL: Spray Nation. 1980s NYC Graffiti Photographs. Martha Cooper 2022

A generous collection of newly unearthed photographs documenting New York’s golden graffiti age from one of the celebrated visual documentarians, Spray Nation expands the conversations discussing the so-called ‘birth of graffiti’ for five decades. With hundreds of pages of newly […]

  • Martha Cooper Library
  • Urban Nation
  • December 8, 2022
Books in the MCL: BANKSY IN NEW YORK. Ray Mock. 2019

For 31 days in October of 2013, UK street artist Banksy “gifted” New York City with daily new surprises on the streets in all five boroughs – effectively involving citizens in his self-designed residency. It is traditional for graffiti writers […]

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Fresh A.I.R. #7 Exhibition of the Artists in Residence „Picturing Democracy“

Since modernity, art and democracy have been a sign of progress, of emancipation; both are to a great extent objects of engagement. They are not only both something worth fighting for, or even something that nobilises the person fighting. They are also both only conceivable as activity, as commitment.

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