This year’s Long Night of Museums is themed “Crime in Berlin.” The URBAN NATION Museum for Urban Contemporary Art takes up the theme and invites visitors to reconsider common ideas of crime, rule-breaking, and social norms from the perspective of Urban Contemporary Art.
TRIPL a.k.a. FURIOUS. Repainting Subway Art. 2024 Before opening this book, try to imagine what it would take for one artist to recreate a publication so deeply embedded in graffiti culture that it has been called its Bible. Talent and […]
Starting in October 2026, we’ll be launching a new workshop. In Dejoe’s “Sketch Circle,” you’ll work alongside him and other artists from the graffiti scene to design letters, styles, and motifs. Step by step, you’ll receive tips and feedback from these artists and learn how to develop your own unique style from your initial sketches.
As part of Democracy Month in Berlin, the URBAN NATION Museum invites you to the “Tape for Democracy” workshop on September 6, 2026, to express your own ideas and perspectives through art. Using colored tape, participants will create unique works that showcase the many ways democracy can be conceived and lived.
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 […]
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.
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.
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.
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 […]
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, […]
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.
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
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
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 […]
