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  • June 29, 2026
Books in the MCL: Hyuro: Beauty of a Tragedy. 2009–2019. Tamara Djurovic (Hyuro)

Tamara Djurovic (Hyuro). Hyuro: Beauty of a Tragedy. 2009–2019. 2022 ­­­­­­­­­­­Beauty of a Tragedy gathers the work of the late Argentine muralist Hyuro (Tamara Djurovic), who died in 2020 at only forty-six, leaving behind one of the most thoughtful and […]

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  • June 25, 2026
ONE WALL by Gizem Erdem

A defining feature of Gizem Erdem’s mural in the passageway at the Staaken Center in Berlin-Spandau is its open, fluid composition, in which figures, animals, plant elements, and symbolic forms come together to form a continuous visual whole. The painting unfolds horizontally along the architecture, thereby responding directly to the spatial context of the passageway.

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  • June 22, 2026
Community Wall by Jim Avignon: Kraepelinweg

With a second community mural by Jim Avignon in Falkenhagener Feld, Stadtraum!Plus continues its artistic exploration of social interaction in the neighborhood. The site-specific mural was created in collaboration with children from the neighborhood’s family housing complex.

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Community Wall by Jim Avignon: Spektefeld

As part of the Stadtraum!Plus program, a site-specific mural by artist Jim Avignon was created in Berlin’s Falkenhagener Feld neighborhood in collaboration with the Berliner Leben Foundation and Gewobag. The project was carried out in participatory collaboration with young people from the Outreach Club.

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  • June 1, 2026
THE URBAN SKIN

Pietro Ruffo / Jan Bauer 4 July – 18 October 2026URBAN NATION Project SpaceBülowstraße 97, 10783 Berlin Opening events:Artist talk at the Embassy of Italy in Berlin: Thursday, 2 July 2026, 6pmExhibition opening: Friday, 3 July 2026, 7 pm A […]

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Books in the MCL: Shoe’s Black Book: Graffiti in the 1980s. Niels “Shoe” Meulman.

Niels “Shoe” Meulman. Shoe’s Black Book: Graffiti in the 1980s. 2025 There are black books that function as polished archives, and then there are black books that still feel alive—creased at the edges, unstable, carrying the residue of graffiti movement, […]

  • Martha Cooper Library
  • May 6, 2026
Books in the MCL: Urban Art Legends. Alan Ket (KET)

Alan Ket (KET). Urban Art Legends. 2016 Urban Art Legends is a concise, image-driven survey of artists who helped propel graffiti and street art from subcultural practice to global cultural presence. Written by Alan Ket—known professionally as KET, a longtime […]

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Cityscapes and Communities – A Tour of the Global Street Art Movement

As part of the “Cohesion in Diversity” event day, the URBAN NATION Museum in Berlin is hosting a special program. Under the title “Cityscapes and Communities: A Tour Through the Global Street Art Movement,” four free guided tours will be […]

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  • April 27, 2026
Books in the MCL: Rafael Schacter. Monumental Graffiti: Tracing Public Art and Resistance in the City

Monumental Graffiti: Tracing Public Art and Resistance in the City. Rafael Schacter. 2024 In Monumental Graffiti: Tracing Public Art and Resistance in the City, Rafael Schacter proposes a reconsideration of monumentality through the lens of graffiti and street-based practices. Rather […]

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  • April 24, 2026
Sketch Circle @ URBAN NATION Museum

May 17, 2026, 2–4 PMURBAN NATION Museum, Bülowstr. 7, 10783 BerlinFree admission, no registration required Urban Sketch Circle: Letters & Beats with Dejoe and Planet 256 In this special workshop for International Museum Day, you’ll dive into the world of […]

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Artist / Cologne, Germany
Gizem Erdem

Gizem Erdem is an artist and illustrator from Ankara, Turkey, currently based in Cologne. Her artistic focus lies in figurative illustrations, character designs, print design and positive abstractions of everyday life.

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Jan Bauer

Jan Bauer, born in Schwerin in 1972, spent the 2000s in Berlin. He currently lives and works in Bavaria. From 1993 to 2000, Bauer completed his studies in Leipzig at the Academy of Fine Arts (specialist class A. Klein). In

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Pietro Ruffo

Pietro Ruffo (*1978, Rome) studied Architecture at the University of Rome before receiving a reasearch fellowship at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies at Columbia University, New York, in 2010. He won the Cairo Prize in 2009 and the New

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NIELS POPKEMA

The Berlin-based Dutch illustrator, graphic designer, comic artist, muralist Niels Popkema has been developing characters, comics and illustrations for many years and is the creator of his own comic book series. His personal work features colourful, doodly and funky characters

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ONE WALL by Roberto Rivadeneira
Video / September 25, 2020
ONE WALL BY ROBERTO RIVADENEIRA

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 […]

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ONE WALL STOHEAD Artpark Tegel
Video / July 30, 2020
ONE WALL BY STOHEAD

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 […]

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URBAN NATION Exhibition Retrospective
Video / October 4, 2018
UN-FOLD – About the vernissage of the new exhibition and the opening of the artist residences

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 […]

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