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 […]
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 […]
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.
In episode 11 of Radio Fritz’s podcast Kiez & Schnauze about the “creative stronghold of Berlin”, the board of the Stiftung Berliner Leben, Hans-Michael Brey, talks to the artist Gita Kurdpoor and André Kraft from the Komische Oper. It’s about […]
The legendary SUBWAY ART illustrated book by Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfant was the first to summarise graffiti writing, documenting the initial simple name-writing and the subsequent development of the motifs into masterpieces on the New York subway. Alongside films […]
Our audio guide through the exhibition TALKING… & OTHER BANANA SKINS continues to evolve as a multi media guide with bonus material! It is much more than just an introduction to the different chapters and artworks! It was supplemented with […]
During his performance at the Long Night of Museums, Philip Wallisfurth (SENOR SCHNU) created an abstract moss graffiti titled “Size S” in front of the Production Office, Bülowstr. 96, near URBAN NATION Museum. It is still there to see until […]
The Anna-Freud-Schule at URBAN NATION The project “Trend und co – Medien als Werkzeug” is part of the teaching at the Anna-Freud-Schule, a general and vocational school with a psychological-educational focus. The prospective educators from all over Berlin are between […]
The KinderKulturMonat at URBAN NATION When October rolls around, KinderKulturMonat comes to an end. On each of the weekends in October, there were free cultural offerings for children aged 4 to 12. All of the offerings were interactive, so that […]
Cities are places of migration, of arriving, staying and leaving. They offer spaces in which people with their cultural identities and individual life stories meet, develop with each other and allow something new to emerge. In return, this shapes the […]
