Last Saturday our museum was open longer than usual for a very special reason: The “Lange Nacht der Museen” (engl. Long Night of the Museums). Almost 1,000 visitors took this opportunity to explore the URBAN NATION MUSEUM FOR URBAN CONTEMPORARY […]
Last weekend the Christopher Street Day took place in Berlin. Together with the Griessmuehle, URBAN NATION was also represented this year with its own truck at the colourful parade. It was a celebration of love, for more tolerance, respect and […]
The Spanish artist Cristian Blanxer enriched Berlin’s cityscape with a new ONE WALL – a large mural with equally enormous content. In his latest work for URBAN NATION MUSEUM FOR URBAN CONTEMPORARY ART, he takes a socially critical look at […]
July was all about collaboration at URBAN NATION. Two ONE WALLS were designed parallel by two different artist teams in Artpark Tegel – one of the largest outdoor galleries in Berlin. In addition to the ONE WALL of Nuno Viegas, […]
The Berlin district of Reinickendorf, respectively the Art Park Tegel, was once again a hotspot for urban art lovers in July. For more than two weeks, the renowned street art artists Nuno Viegas, Hera and Akut have worked together on […]
Since the first of July, artists from the field of Urban and New Contemporary Art have again the opportunity to apply for a scholarship for the third year of “FRESH A.I.R.”. In the course of the opening of the current […]
In June this year, URBAN NATION together with the British artist duo Nomad Clan and Hera, part of the artist duo Herakut, came to Iceland to create a One Wall as part of an international collaboration with the German Embassy […]
The Portuguese artist Nuno Viegas is an old friend and supporter of URBAN NATION. His sensational installation of the three masked graffiti sprayers can be seen in the current museum exhibition. He was in the city with Nina Fernande and […]
The Swedish artist Vegan Flava was in Berlin in May and left a wonderful new Community Wall at Berlin’s Frobenstrasse for the URBAN NATION MUSEUM FOR URBAN CONTEMPORARY ART. Not far from the museum, visitors will now discover another highlight […]
The Spanish artist David de la Mano was in town to enrich Berlin’s Bülowstrasse with a new ONE WALL. The wall he was working on had already been featured one of his artworks, which was unfortunately damaged due to installations […]
Julien de Casabianca is a French-Corsican artist and filmmaker. For over 20 years, he has been a member of artist collectives such as 59 Rivoli and the Laboratoire de la Création, which he founded and is today supported by the City of Paris. The street as urban habitat plays a central role in all of his works.
The Russian artist Dima Rebus lives and works in Moscow (Russia), New York and Baltimore (US). His works, mainly produced in watercolors, float between reality and surrealism. In his paintings, he often deals with disturbing situations, combining them with provocative titles, and thus gets right to the heart of the times in which we live. Rebus studied graphic design at the Moscow Institute of Arts and Industry. He then studied at the Institute of Contemporary Art, also in Moscow. He combines his Russian roots and his flawless and detailed technique with a good helping of provocation to create his own distinctive vision of the world.
With his impressive skills as a traditional carver, the Italian artist Gehard Demetz has gained international attention. His perfectionist sculptures, often depicting children, are both beautiful and disturbing. A hallmark of Demetz’s work – apart from his virtuoso skill with his favored material, wood – is the interplay of very rough surfaces and structures, which are then polished to a high gloss.
The Spanish artist Vermibus has been active as an adbuster for many years. Protesting against the beauty ideal proclaimed by advertising, perverted to perfection with Photoshop, which allows happiness only as a result of supposed beauty, he removes advertising posters, transforms the images in his studio using chemicals and then puts them back up in the same place again.
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 […]
Urban contemporary art scouts out its place in the city. But art also craves freedom, space to let ideas grow, where talent is honed, and style and technology experience encouragement. With the Artist in Residence Programme, brought to life by […]
The collage-like images of the graffiti artist ELLE are now her trademark. For URBAN NATION she created a unique ONE WALL in Wienerstraße 42. The mural with the title “We are many, but allways one” shows important women from different […]
This work takes direct inspiration from the architectonical structure on which it’s located and it’s inserted in the “Unity” concept proposed by Urban Nation for its curatorial project. The two subjects are placed one on each wall, with a physical […]
