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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
