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  • January 24, 2022
Books in the MCL: Jürgen Große, URBAN ART PHOTOGRAPHY, 2008

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 […]

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  • January 15, 2022
Books in the MCL: AMSTERDAM ON TOUR. The early signs of Dutch graffiti. 2019.

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 […]

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  • December 15, 2021
Books in the MCL: Ralf Gründer, Verboten: Berliner Mauerkunst, 2007

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 […]

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My One Wall

The project “ONE WALL – one wall, one artist, one message” URBAN NATION has been inviting internationally renowned artists to realize monumental murals on building facades in Berlin since 2014. For these ONE WALLS, the artists always deal with the […]

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  • December 7, 2021
Books in the MCL: Andrea Nelli, GRAFFITI A NEW YORK, 2012

The origin for the worldwide graffiti, street art and urban art movement lies in New York in the 1960s and 1970s. What started locally as simple name-dropping in the streets and backyards of the boroughs evolved into elaborate typefaces that […]

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  • November 30, 2021
Community Wall by JPS

Have you spotted these new works in the URBAN NATION neighborhood yet?⁠ Before things went haywire due to Martha Cooper’s visit to Berlin in October 2021, JPS did us the honor and sprinkled Bülowstraße in Berlin-Schöneberg with some new treasures.⁠ […]

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Community Wall by Nafir

Nafir was in town and gifted us with some new art works that can be found along Bülowstraße! As a fan of Martha Cooper he of course didn’t miss the opportunity to give the photographer, who was in Berlin at […]

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  • November 16, 2021
INAUGURATION OF THE Martha Cooper Library

From 2nd November visitors to the library will be able to access over 2,000 books, magazines, single issues, fanzines and videos on urban art, street art and graffiti. With the Martha Cooper Library (MCL), the URBAN NATION Museum would like […]

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  • November 1, 2021
Just arrived: Shepard Fairey’s remix print of a photograph by Martha Cooper!⁠

?After the great success of the release night last Friday, we are happy to share another batch of prints from @obeygiant! From now on some copies are available in the online store again ℹ️Please keep in mind that this is […]

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  • October 28, 2021
HOMMAGE TO MARTHA COOPER

New mural at the URBAN NATION Museum: Street artist AIKO designs a façade in honour of Martha Cooper The street artist AIKO aka LADY AIKO designed a new mural for the façade of the URBAN NATION Museum. The large-format work of art pays homage […]

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