“Martha Cooper: Taking Pictures” is the title of the new exhibition at the URBAN NATION Museum. On October 2, the world’s most comprehensive retrospective of Martha Cooper’s photographic work, curated by Jaime Rojo and Steven P. Harrington (Brooklyn Street Art), […]
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This was the opening weekend of the exhibition “MARTHA COOPER: TAKING PICTURES“: After a month of closure, the museum has been shining in new splendor since last Friday, October 2, 2020. With the exhibition curated by Jaime Rojo and Steven […]
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. Stylistically, the latest ONE WALL by the URBAN NATION Museum ties in with various art historical influences, iconic typefaces and Stohead’s origins in style writing. […]
There is a new exhibit in the URBAN NATION museum: The artist collective Hybrid Sculptors created an interactive video work called “with or without you (in Berlin)”, which gives visitors the opportunity to become part of their performance art.
At the end of June Carl KENZ was in town and left behind a new Community Wall at Bülowstrasse 97, close to the URBAN NATION museum. The result of this spontaneous collaboration is a new work of art entitled “Raised […]
The new mural by BustArt at Artpark Tegel is entitled “Departure” and picks up a current topic: the upcoming closure of Tegel Airport. Locally close to the airport, the residents around Neheimer Strasse 4 can now look forward to a […]
News from Artpark Tegel: The Berlin painter, illustrator, musician and concept artist Jim Avignon has created a new ONE WALL that expresses the zeitgeist and asks the question of the future between uncertainty and a mood of departure. The new […]
The URBAN NATION museum presents itself with a new, humorous face. The new facade design by Dave the Chimp and four other artists from Berlin not only encourages more solidarity and thus addresses a very current socio-political topic, it is […]
Time for creativity! Together with Emily Eldridge we have developed a new format that not only brings fun for young and old, but also colour into your Corona everyday life: a ONE WALL that you can design yourself. Take part […]
Science, research and urban art – in the new artwork by the Swiss artist Maja Hürst, these three components form a wonderful overall picture that not only convinced a jury in terms of content and aesthetics, but also completely meets […]
Berlin has become a little more colourful again in the last few days: The American artist Emily Eldridge, who lives in Berlin, created a new ONE WALL and enriches the neighborhood around Kastanienplatz in Kreuzberg with lots of color and […]
What happens when performance, augmented reality, sculpture, dance and music come together was experienced by more than 350 visitors on Saturday, 29 February, in the URBAN NATION Project Space. With their performance set “it is nothing without you”, the artists’ […]
The new exhibition “Martha Cooper: Taking Pictures” is on view at the URBAN NATION Museum – a six-decade retrospective of Martha Cooper’s photographic work. Through photographs and personal objects, artifacts and ephemera, the exhibition traces Cooper’s life, from her first […]
The “Martha Cooper Library at URBAN NATION Museum Berlin” (MCL) is a library specializing in graffiti, street art and urban art literature. It shows the development of these art movements since the 1970s as well as the diversity of their […]
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, visits to the Museum are only possible to a limited extent until further notice. In order to avoid long waiting queues in front of the museum, a digital ticketing system is now available, which […]
Author: Miss Rosen for Urban Nation Museum (UN), Berlin Freedom, creativity, and innovation — these are the hallmarks of Martha Cooper’s journey around the globe over the past 60 years. Hailing from a long line of strong, independent women dating […]
Roberto Rivadeneira – Ecuador (1991) – is a muralist and visual artist who grew up in Quito Ecuador, and since 2014 resides and works in Berlin – Germany. After studying design in Sydney – Australia; Roberto’s initial graphic work has slowly transformed into an abstract interpretation in which the artist studies the relationship between abstraction and quotidian elements of our daily lives.
Behind the artist name “Stohead” stands Christoph Haessler, one of the most famous German artists in the field of street art, especially graffiti. Already at the end of the 1980s he began to deal with writing and calligraphy via the path of classical graffiti. He has become a specialist in this field through his decades of involvement with typeface and letters. In July 2020 he realized a ONE WALL in Berlin-Charlottenburg.
Fascinated by graffiti, its colours and shapes, Carl KENZ’s artistic career began, and since then he has been trying to bring his utopia to the walls and canvases of this world to make them more beautiful and a little more colourful. His humorous surrealist paintings often imply a social criticism that makes each of us think. In June 2020 Carl KENZ created a Community Wall at Bülowstrasse 97, near the URBAN NATION museum.
SELFMADECREW, founded by OSTAP in 2015, experiments with transforming spaces and surfaces. The use of new media such as tape enables them to reinterpret the space around them.
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. Stylistically, the latest ONE WALL by the URBAN NATION Museum ties in with various art historical influences, iconic typefaces and Stohead’s origins in style writing. […]
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 […]
Location: Around the Kastanienplatz in Berlin-Kreuzberg What does playing in the street” mean today? – […]
