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  • PROJECT SPACE 2022
  • Urban Nation
  • March 21, 2022
OPENING: URBAN NATION & LAYER CAKE present THE VERSUS PROJECT 2

April 10th – Juli 31st 2022Tue – Wed: 10am – 6pmDo – So: 12pm – 8pm free admission! URBAN NATION Project SpaceBülowstr. 97, 10783 Berlin For The Versus Project 2, the artist duo LAYER CAKE (Patrick Hartl and Christian Hundertmark/ […]

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  • May 13, 2022
The Open Family Apartments Falkenhagener Feld West and Heerstrasse/ Maulbeerallee as Guests at URBAN NATION

Six years ago, the concept of the Open Family Apartments in the district of Spandau was born. There, “the vision of a more just and safe life for local people” was developed. On the occasion of the fifth anniversary, the […]

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  • Education & Outreach
Streetart and Streetplay – “Fördern durch Spielmittel e.V.” meets Brooklyn Street Art

Global learning affects all areas of life, with the goal of initiating different and unusual learning processes: How can street art and street play contribute to this?  On the afternoon of April 29, 2022, multipliers from the field of education […]

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The Anna Freud School as Guests at the URBAN NATION

Every year, the students and future educators of the Anna Freund School develop preventive offers. This time, on October 29, 2021, came the project group “prejudice-conscious rapedagogy”. Here the future educators learn to teach the young people a conscious approach to the culture of hip hop.

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“Our Housing Machine” – How Kids Reinvent a Housing Block

As a part of the program Stadtraum!Plus, the URBAN NATION, the Pallasseum, the Spreewald Elementary School, and the sculptor Thomas Bratzke invited a group of 12 children to understand, reflect and rethink a residential ensemble.

STOHEAD WATERKANT ONE WALL
  • Urban Nation
  • May 12, 2022
STOHEAD WATERKANT – ONE WALL

The artist STOHEAD designed a ONE WALL for the new residential quarter WATERKANT. The mural typographically refers to the name of the newly emerging neighborhood in Berlin Spandau. The words WATER and WATERKANT were designed in the artist’s iconic font […]

Getting Up. Subway Graffiti in New York - Craig Castleman
  • Martha Cooper Library
  • May 8, 2022
Books in the MCL: Craig Castleman. Getting Up. Subway Graffiti in New York

Getting Up. Subway Graffiti in New York – Craig Castleman, 1982 While teaching at the High School of Art and Design in Manhattan in the late 1970s, Craig Castleman helped his students produce a booklet (NASTY STUFF) on their favourite subject: graffiti […]

Martha Cooper: Taking Pictures Opening
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One Week left with “Martha Cooper: Taking Pictures”

Visit the exhibition until May 15th at the URBAN NATION Museum After 1.5 years of Martha’s photographs at the URBAN NATION Museum, the last week of the exhibition begins today. So if you haven’t been able to visit, now is your […]

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  • April 26, 2022
MCL PRESENTS #1: E=MC² MADC AND MARTHA COOPER – „FROM STREET TO CANVAS”

Friday, April 29th6pm – 8pmAdmission: 5.30pm URBAN NATION MuseumBülowstr. 710783 Berlin Event with live broadcast in English you can watch the full video here. URBAN NATION kicks off the “Martha Cooper Library Presents” event series with a talk featuring MadC and […]

Books in the MCL: Boulevard – On Trespassing and Culture No. 2 – INSTITUTION
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  • April 13, 2022
Books in the MCL: Boulevard – On Trespassing and Culture (No. 2 – INSTITUTION)

Parallel to the art world’s growing interest in graffiti, street art, and urban art, scientific research on these fields has also increased steadily in recent years. While standard works can be found in specialized libraries, more in-depth texts and primary sources […]

Miss Glueniverse- Joanna Wietecka Community Wall
  • Urban Nation
  • March 31, 2022
INTERVIEW WITH MISS GLUENIVERSE UND JOANNA WIETECKA

In October 2021, the artists Miss Glueniverse and Joanna Wietecka designed a 14-meter-long Community Wall in Frobenstraße/ Berlin Schöneberg, not far from the URBAN NATION Museum. Despite some difficulties caused by Corona, we passed on some questions to them. In […]

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Joanna Wietecka

Joanna Wietecka was born in 1984 in a small town in Poland. Despite her family’s expectations and hopes, she already has a vision at the age of 8: “I’m going to be a painter or a writer!” In 2005 she

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Miss Glueniverse

Miss Glueniverse is a Berlin-based collage and street artist with Austrian roots. As a self-taught artist, she experiments with different media such as magazine cutouts, old street posters from Berlin, usable everyday objects, photographs, acrylic and spray paints and combines

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Aslı Dinç and Zeynep Okyay

Aslı Dinç studied painting at the University of Marmara. She is a multidisciplinary artist. Her works, which are at the crossroads of art, technology and science, focus on the production of speculations, loops, installations and performances, with particular emphasis on dystopian

  • Fresh A.I.R. #6
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Nikki Spanou

“I studied ancient and contemporary theater in Greece. I have been involved in theater and the performing arts my whole life. After graduating from my theater studies in 2017, I have been exclusively working at the theater as a performer,

  • Fresh A.I.R. #6
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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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