Parallel to the art world’s growing interest in graffiti, street art, and urban art, scientific research on these fields has also increased steadily in recent years. While standard works can be found in specialized libraries, more in-depth texts and primary sources […]
In October 2021, the artists Miss Glueniverse and Joanna Wietecka designed a 14-meter-long Community Wall in Frobenstraße/ Berlin Schöneberg, not far from the URBAN NATION Museum. Despite some difficulties caused by Corona, we passed on some questions to them. In […]
April 10th – Juli 31st 2022Tue – Wed: 10am – 6pmDo – So: 12pm – 8pm free admission! URBAN NATION Project SpaceBülowstr. 97, 10783 Berlin For The Versus Project 2, the artist duo LAYER CAKE (Patrick Hartl and Christian Hundertmark/ […]
March 12th – July 31st 11 am – 6 pm (Tuesday-Sunday)Bülow90 | Bülowstr. 90Free admission! The participants of the 6th class of the Fresh A.I.R. Artist in Residence Scholarship Program present their works. Starting March 12th the Fresh A.I.R. Scholarship […]
Kreuzberg 36: In the Wassertorkiez, six ONE WALLS cover the building facades. These monumental images were realized as part of the project “ONE WALL – one wall, one artist, one message”. Since 2014, the URBAN NATION Museum has been inviting […]
In June 1982, KUNSTFORUM International devoted an entire volume to the subject of graffiti (vol. 50 “Wilde Bilder. Graffiti und Wandbilder”). At the time, the vague term encompassed both ancient commemorative writings, political murals, facade art, ironic slogans, and several […]
In November 2021, Martha Cooper was in Berlin together with Jaime Rojo and Steven P. Harrington of Brooklyn Street Art for a viewing of her exhibition “Taking Pictures” and opened the Martha Cooper Library. They were presented with their first […]
Today, Berlin is considered a world metropolis for graffiti, street art and urban art. While the late 1980s saw the end of the golden era in the graffiti mecca of New York, the fall of the Berlin Wall ushered in […]
When as a result of films and books such as „Subway Art“, „Wild Style!“ and „Style Wars“ the New York tradition of graffiti writing attracted worldwide attention and, above all, imitators in the early 1980s, so-called namewriting was a completely […]
The Berlin Wall, erected by the GDR on August 13, 1961, separated today’s capital Berlin into East and West for almost 30 years. From 1975 until November 9, 1989, the so-called “anti-fascist protective wall” consisted of the 3.60m high and […]
