Friday June 17th 2022, 7pm at URBAN NATION Museum Bülowstraße 7, 10783 Berlin PRESS TOUR: Thursday June 16th, 11pm Register here: pr@urban-nation.com June 2022 – December 2024 URBAN NATION presents TALKING… & OTHER BANANA SKINS, curated by Michelle Houston. The colorful and […]
In Frobenstraße, artist Jonathan James designed a new community wall. This new paste-up now fits in between the existing works by Miss Glueniverse and Peter Missing. It fits in and yet clearly stands out from the figurative representations of the […]
Martha Cooper was the first full-time photographer for the New York Times, capturing everyday situations on the streets of the metropolis for the daily newspaper since the mid-1970s. In 1979, while photographing children playing in the Bronx, she noticed a […]
Did you know we have 2 more venues besides the URBAN NATION MUSEUM? Right across the street there is the UN PROJECT SPACE (Bülowstr.97) where the LAYER CAKE exhibition is displayed and just a 2-minutes walk from there you can […]
On the occasion of the UNARTIG – street & art festival there have been quite a few workshops with friends and project partners of the Stiftung Berliner Leben and the URBAN NATION Museum: “Rolling Studio” by the Little Friends of […]
In spring 1994, the exhibition SPRAY CITY – GRAFFITI IN BERLIN took place within the framework of the “X 94 – Young Art and Culture” festival of the Akademie der Künste. The book of the same name was published by […]
The opening of the new exhibition “TALKING… & OTHER BANANA SKINS” was celebrated on June 17th, with the three-day art festival UNARTIG. Despite the heat, a total of about 10,000 people visited the URBAN NATION Museum and the “UNARTIG – […]
During the Preparations of the exhibition “Talking… And Other Banana Skins” Paradox created this ONE WALL on Bülowstrasse, close to the URABN NATION Museum. It refers to his displayed piece inside the Museum reading the word “FREIHEIT” meaning “freedom” in […]
On the occasion of the newly opened exhibition “TALKING… & OTHER BANANA SKINS” in June 2022, BROKEN FINGAZ from Haifa are redesigning the façade of the URBAN NATION Museum. The work ist titled „DOG SNIFF DOG“. The choice of colours […]
STREET WRITERS. A Guided Tour of Chicano Graffiti. Gusmano Cesaretti. 1975. The roots of the global graffiti movement lie in New York in the late 1960s. Over the years, the simple lettering first developed into simple, quick pieces and, by […]
June 17th – 19th 2022 For the opening celebration of the exhibition “TALKING… & OTHER BANANA SKINS”, the UNARTIG – Street & Art Festival will take place around the museum. The program includes 17 murals designed by 21 artists, workshops […]
Since 2007 the street artist Senor Schnu is artistically traveling through Germany and around the world. Originally from Aachen he lives and works in Berlin. His works show a wide spectrum from classic paste ups on the streets to moss graffiti, sculptures and paintings on canvas, in the style between comic and abstract, with pop-cultural bonds. Together with Dave The Chimp, Mina, Humble Writerz and Matt Jones, he designed the facade of the URBAN NATION museum in May/June 2020.
Paradox ist ein Berliner Künstler und Urban Writer, der weder Aufwand noch große Höhen scheut, um in Städten weltweit kryptische Botschaften an die Wände von Hochhäusern, Gebäuden und U-Bahn-Schächten zu malen. Paradox nutzt den öffentlichen Raum, um diesen mit großformatigen
The Broken Fingaz Crew (BFC) from Haifa, Israel, are the four multi-disciplinary artists Deso, Kip, Tant and Unga who have sprayed innovative pop-art murals in Europe, North America and Asia.The crews is known for the variety of different mediums of which they employ into their art. Works from The BFC are featured as a part of the opening of URBAN NATION Museum in 2017.
Der in Berlin lebende Künstler und Pädagoge Jonathan James studierte zunächst Mode und dann bildende Kunst an der University of Sydney und der UCLA. Seine kreativen Bemühungen drehten sich immer um die Art und Weise, wie wir versuchen, anderen unsere
At the corner of Bülowstraße/Zietenstraße, just across the street from the URBAN NATION Museum, you can find a new attraction in Schöneberg: The ONE WALL by Roberto Rivadeneira. With references to abstraction and cubism, the mural ties in stylistically with […]
With his largest mural to date, Berlin artist Stohead calls for reflection on social values with his ONE WALL. Stylistically, the latest ONE WALL by the URBAN NATION Museum ties in with various art historical influences, iconic typefaces and Stohead’s […]
After a two-week renovation phase, the URBAN NATION MUSEUM FOR URBAN CONTEMPORARY ART opened its doors on September 27th with a brand new exhibition curated by director Yasha Young. But not only that, also the worldwide unique Artist in Residence […]
