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 Programme started officially and completes the lively and interactive concept of URBAN NATION. The visitors…
Last weekend hundreds of thousands celebrated this year’s Christopher Street Day in Berlin. The URBAN NATION MUSEUM FOR URBAN CONTEMPORARY ART participated for the first time and was excited to welcome Nomad Clan and their take on this years motto of the March: “My body – my identity – my life”. Together with colourful and cheerful visitors of…
British born artist Hayley Welsh, has established herself as one of the newest creatives in the Western Australian art scene. There is something quite fantastical and a little bit dark lurking in Hayley’s work. Her latest work of art was created for the URBAN NATION and kicks off “The Monster Project”. We took the chance…
Dutch artist Super A never falls short of baffling the spectator with his highy metaphoric scenarios rendered in a supreme (hyper)realist style. Often his works resemble a Pandora’s box giving rise to an endlessly detailed flood of visual references How he came up with the idea for the motif for the façade and what else…
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 and real division in between: like reciprocal reflections that interpret each other while floating/sinking separately,…
Dutch artist Super A never falls short of baffling the spectator with his highy metaphoric scenarios rendered in a supreme (hyper)realist style. Often his works resemble a Pandora’s box giving rise to an endlessly detailed flood of visual references. His latest work for URBAN NATION is a creative hattrick! First: it is a world premiere,…
Welcome to Mural Madness in May – this month will be awesome. As one of the many partners of the Berlin Mural Festival and as a non-profit organization, we will make the city a bit more colorful and ringing in Berlin’s Art Summer! Curated by our director Yasha Young, we have managed to win some…
In urban art united! The year 2018 at URBAN NATION is under the motto “United”. Artists from all over the world come to Berlin, either work on a common theme, use a space together and coordinate their different techniques for the same creative goal. The prelude was the crossover of the Argentinean street artist Francisco…
Young Jarus is one of the most famous artists from Canada. His paintings and murals are all over the world and have many international fans. End of April he paid URBAN NATION a visit and left a visible mark! Together with the Argentinean street artist Francisco Bosoletti he adapted the ancient story of “Apollo and…
URBAN NATION had the great honor to welcome the Cologne street artist Christian Böhmer in Berlin at the end of March. His trademarks are pictures and paintings of people, who carry a paperbag on the head. The paper bag is on the one hand a simple mask, but on the other hand an abstract means…