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  • Education & Outreach
  • Urban Nation
  • December 5, 2022
Creative Berlin and the URBAN NATION

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 […]

  • Martha Cooper Library
  • Urban Nation
  • November 28, 2022
Books in the MCL: SPRAYCAN ART. Henry Chalfant and James Prigoff. 1987.

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 […]

  • Education & Outreach
  • Urban Nation
  • November 24, 2022
Multimedia-Guide in the exhibition TALKING… & OTHER BANANA SKINS

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 […]

  • UN MUSEUM EVENT 2022
  • Urban Nation
  • November 4, 2022
“Size S” by Philip Wallisfurth on view in November only!

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 […]

  • Education & Outreach
  • Urban Nation
  • November 1, 2022
Stadtraum!Plus: Trends & co. – Medien as a tool for youth work

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 […]

  • Education & Outreach
  • Urban Nation
  • October 31, 2022
Spray your own graffiti!

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 […]

  • Education & Outreach
  • Urban Nation
  • October 28, 2022
TRANSCULTURALITY IN SPACE – Fresh A.I.R. in exchange with students of RWTH Aachen University.

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 […]

  • Education & Outreach
  • Urban Nation
  • October 27, 2022
Experience Urban Art: Stencils and Quiz at URBAN NATION

On October 20, there was a lot of puzzling, creative crafting and, above all, a lot of discovering. During a workshop and a visit to the exhibition TALKING… & OTHER BANANA SKINS, students were able to learn about the technique […]

  • Education & Outreach
  • Urban Nation
  • October 26, 2022
Ratsgymnasium students get a whiff of Fresh A.I.R.

During their study trip on Thursday, 13 October 2022, students of year 13 at the Ratsgymnasium Osnabrück became part of the artistic research of Viennese performance artist Denise Ackerl. In the performance @danceministerium_berlin, she explored multi-layered questions of political, professional, […]

  • Urban Nation
  • October 20, 2022
Exclusive and limited screenprint Dog Sniff Dog with the Broken Fingaz Crew!

Broken Fingaz Crew releases the limited edition screenprint Dog Sniff Dog on the occasion of the current design of the URBAN NATION museum facade. Inspired by Thomas Hobbes’ phrase “Homo homini lupus est” (Man is a wolf to man), the […]

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