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URBAN NATION MUSEUM FOR URBAN CONTEMPORARY ART URBAN NATION is the world’s first noncommercial museum-quality institution focusing on urban art. Come visit us!

URBAN NATION MUSEUM FOR URBAN CONTEMPORARY ART is an international institution for art, creative projects and social exchange. In September 2017, the URBAN NATION museum opened at Bülowstrasse 7 – in central Berlin between the rainbow district on Nollendorfplatz and the new art district around Potsdamer Strasse. The museum presents a unique overall picture of current urban contemporary art from ci

ties around the world thanks to high-calibre, permanent art exhibitions the likes of which have not been seen before. URBAN NATION is the only player in the art world with the objective of giving a home to fleeting and ephemeral street art – urban art – and of documenting the history of this fully fledged artistic movement. In Berlin, urban art is especially significant: it has characterised the city over the last few decades, conveying an international image as an artistic metropolis. That the first urban art museum appeared here of all places is no coincidence. But the museum’s appeal shines out far beyond Berlin. Because urban art is current and global – a democratic, low-threshold art form, interactive and accessible to all, moving all generations and nations, and provoking social dialogue. The museum‘s Excecutive Director is Jan Sauerwald. URBAN NATION is backed by Berliner Leben, a foundation of Gewobag. For more information check out our website www.urban-nation.com and follow us on Facebook and Instagram ().

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03/02/2023

🟣 Chapter #4 of our current exhibition ‘Talking… & Other Banana Skins’ is raising the question: Would more public sphere lead to more interaction between people?

In an age when digital modes of communication and social media are the main avenues of social interaction, the question of what constitutes the public sphere takes on a completely new meaning. For all the time we spend texting, commenting, liking and sharing posts, we remain isolated from each other, separated in time and space. Controversially, digital communication channels always leave traces which, in turn, generate data that can be exploited for commercial purposes.

What’s more, the way we communicate digitally can be controlled and censored. On Instagram, for instance, female ni***es, even if they are part of a work of art, are censored. Given the growing popularity of social media, it is worth drawing comparisons with historical models of the public sphere. Views are mostly exchanged anonymously on specialized forums, merely affirming each individual’s interests or political and ideological attitudes. Dialogue among the broad public is now rare and the role played by the public sphere as a space for diverse or even controversial exchange is fading.

Artists in this chapter: Isaac Cordal, SEPE, Jaz, El Mac, Aec Interesni Kazki, Olek, Inside Out - JR, Jimmy Turrell, Vera Kochubey, Rich Thorne, Anna Lukashevsky
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TALKING… & OTHER BANANA SKINS
ℹ️ | The new exhibition at URBAN NATION Museum for Urban Contemporary Art
📍| Bülowstr. 7, Berlin-Schöneberg
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Produced by:
Yes and... Productions
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📸 | Photos: Nika Kramer

31/01/2023

Last chance 🚨The deadline for the application phase of our 9th Fresh A.I.R. cohort is coming up on Monday, 6th February 2023!

Next year’s Fresh A.I.R. scholarship by Stiftung Berliner Leben is putting an emphasis on the topics of play and childhood. Under the title "UNSUPERVISED: Childhood Dreams & Fantasy Rebels", the focus is on play as a creative force and culture-forming factor and connects with the potential of childhood.

You can find more information here: https://urban-nation.com/artist-in-residence-scholarships/

🔴 Funding will be provided for:
♦️ projects that incorporate playfulness and children's worlds of fantasy and imagination, and that experiment with children's pictorial languages and narratives

♦️ projects in which children's ways of playing are reflected and staged as a concept to perceive the world with autonomous rules

♦️ projects in which childlike play spaces will be generated, which are aimed at creative production with children, and awaken children's joy in playing

♦️ projects that artistically ventilate philosophical approaches to play or production-aesthetic theories on the connection between art and play.

🚨 | PLEASE NOTE: Applications are only accepted via our application platform: https://freshair.stiftung-berliner-leben.de/bewerbung/92694B72/?lang=en

27/01/2023

💡Now online: The URBAN NATION Quiz!

Students at the Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Oberschule Berlin, a partner of the in the context of Stadtraum!Plus, have created a quiz for our visitors in the exhibition TALKING... & OTHER BANANA SKINS!

After a short introduction to the themes of the exhibition, the young people got down to work. Finally, they presented and tested their quiz with their classmates: the questions and possible answers they came up with are available for download on our website at

➡ Plan your Visit ➡ Guided Tours & More, in 🇬🇧English, 🇩🇪German and even 🇫🇷 French!

Whether as an individual visitor or as a group, don't miss the opportunity to go in search of the keys to the answer!

25/01/2023

United rather than divided, together instead of alone: this is especially what those murals stand for that are created by artists working collaboratively - just like the huge paste up ‘Berlin City Life’ by Miss Glueniverse and Joanna Wietecka created together at the end of 2021.

📸 | Photo: Berlinartcore / Streetartcore
📍 | Location: Frobenstraße 4, Berlin-Schöneberg

20/01/2023

Coming soon: 🛠 Workshops at URBAN NATION!

💬 | From February, discover a wide range of workshops in 🇬🇧 English and 🇩🇪 German.

🎨 | Experience graffiti, stencils, stickers, tape art and much more with Berlin artists in our facilities at the URBAN NATION Museum

🚨 | Please note that you can only book workshops for groups!

ℹ️ | Of course we will inform you about all further details on our channels. Keep them in mind, and we hope to see you soon!

📸 | Photos: Imedart, Aurelio Schrey, Nika Kramer Photography, Berlinartcore / Streetartcore

19/01/2023

MARTHA COOPER LIBRARY: BOOK RECOMMENDATION⁠

📖 | Title: Banksy in New York
📚 | Media group: Book
🖋 | Author: Mock, Ray (author); Banksy (artist)
🗓 | Year: 2019
💬 | Language: English
🔗 | For more info check out:https://open.urban-nation.com/en-us/Book-Reviews

For 31 days in October of 2013, UK street artist Banksy “gifted” New York City with daily new surprises on the streets in all five boroughs – effectively involving citizens in his self-designed residency. It is traditional for graffiti writers in New York to claim to go “all-city” and author Ray Mock has covered the tags, fill-ins, and pieces by hundreds of writers as a one-man documentarian of graffiti at Carnage publishing. Here he tracks the daily movements of Banksy through the city to document the usual, unusual, and often witty acts of one of the most famous, yet anonymous, street artists and his presumed team of assistants, actors, and performers. Each installation has a story that is social or political, often with a deep sense of critique.

“Banksy in New York” is well-illustrated with shots of the odd and interesting installations of his “Better Out Than In” show as it was unveiled via social media. He also captures the scenes, sometimes containing mayhem, that popped up around them as word spread on social media that a new Banksy had appeared. For a New Yorker proud of his turf and a wizened observer of the rise in popularity of street art, Mock examines the various installations and looks for a personal firsthand voice to describe the art and the events so the reader may feel like they understand what it was like to be there.

The book captures how the Banksy team, with intention, wit, and flare, sets a new standard in the street art world by creating a direct link between his digital presence and the parallel physical artworks that included a full-city scavenger hunt, puppets, theater, performance, surprises, beef on the street, and a few sidewalk fights. It appears that Mock is surprised and bemused as well after a career of graffiti-chasing.

Text: Steven P. Harrington & Jaime Rojo Brooklyn Street Art
Fotos: Eveline Wilson

12/01/2023

to LADY AIKO's URBAN NATION facade - a beautiful gift for martha cooper in celebration of the photographer’s big retrospective show last year 🎁

📸 | Photo: LADY AIKO by Nika Kramer Photography

09/01/2023

🔔 APPLY NOW: Fresh A.I.R. #9!

In the 9th edition of the artist scholarship, emphasis will be placed on the topics of play and childhood. Under the title "UNSUPERVISED: Childhood Dreams & Fantasy Rebels", the focus is on play as a creative force and culture-forming factor and connects with the potential of childhood.

🔴 Application:

♦️ Application start: Monday, 9th January 2023
♦️ Application deadline: Monday, 6th February 2023
♦️ Applications are only accepted via our application platform [Link in Bio]

ℹ️ The Fresh A.I.R. scholarships of the Stiftung Berliner Leben offer art and cultural practitioners
the time, space and resources to devote themselves to an artistic project. Up to 13 European artists are invited to residencies in Berlin Schöneberg for one year – starting in January 2024 and ending in December 2024.

You can find more information at https://urban-nation.com/artist-in-residence-scholarships/

🔴 Funding will be provided for:

♦️ projects that incorporate playfulness and children's worlds of fantasy and imagination, and that experiment with children's pictorial languages and narratives

♦️ projects in which children's ways of playing are reflected and staged as a concept to perceive the world with autonomous rules

♦️ projects in which childlike play spaces will be generated, which are aimed at creative production with children, and awaken children's joy in playing

♦️ projects that artistically ventilate philosophical approaches to play or production-aesthetic theories on the connection between art and play.

05/01/2023

You definitely have to have a thing for heights if you want to paint the sky!

📸 | Photo: Broken Fingaz Crew by Nika Kramer Photography

02/01/2023

🤩2023, we are ready for you!

Happy new year! Full of joy, we are looking forward to the upcoming 12 months: New big and small murals all over Berlin, exciting exhibitions, workshops for the whole family, a special audio guide, new Fresh A.I.R. scholarship holders and much more. Stay tuned!

📸 | Photo: Nika Kramer Photography, UNARTIG – Street & Art Festival, June 2022

#2023

29/12/2022

💪 At the end of 2022, we are proud to have put a particularly strong focus on our Education & Outreach programme as part of the project Stadtraum!Plus offered by Stiftung Berliner Leben.

🌟 THE OPEN FAMILY APARTMENTS
During a workshop at UN, artist Markus Georg, Christian Rothenhagen and Götz Drope taught kids involved with Offene Familienwohnungen in Spandau about the principles of street art.

🌟STREET ART AND STREET PLAY
Multipliers from the field of education gathered together at the Museum with Peter Plappert of Fördern durch Spielmittel e.V. and curators Steven and Jaime of Brooklyn Street Art.

🌟TRANSCULTURALITY IN SPACE
Fresh A.I.R. director Janine Arndt invited students of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Carola Neugebauer of RWTH Aachen University to engage with the works of the 12 Fresh A.I.R. artists.

🌟UNARTIG
On the occasion of the UNARTIG – Street & Art Festival there have been a variety of interactive workshops where the kids were able to create, explore and experiment.

🌟ENCOUNTER AND MOVEMENT
In summer, we welcomed young people who had just arrived from Ukraine at Lomonossowschulen Berlin offering experiences with art, culture and sports.

🌟GRAFFITI WRITING
As part of the festival Draussenstadt, we hosted a workshop with Akte One where the children learned the basics of graffiti writing.

🌟RATSGYMNASIUM STUDENTS
Students from Osnabrück became part of the artistic research of Fresh A.I.R. artist Denise Ackerl.

🌟EXPERIENCE URBAN ART
During a workshop and a visit to the museum, students were able to learn about the technique of stenciling and develop their own experience and knowledge in dealing with positions of urban art.

🌟SPRAY YOUR OWN GRAFFITI!
As part of the diverse program of KinderKulturMonat Berlin we invited kids from Berlin to learn more about stencil and spray can techniques.

🌟TRENDS & CO.
Anna-Freud-Schule visited the museum as part of their class project in which they learned how to use various media in order to pass on their knowledge in their work with students.

📸 | Photos: Nika Kramer, Berlinartcore / Streetartcore, Stiftung Berliner Leben

28/12/2022

2022 - What a year! 🎊

So much has happened in the past 12 months that we would like to take a moment for a review:

🌟January/February:
The first few weeks of the year have been relatively quiet, but we have had some exciting additions to our MC Library, Martha Cooper and BSA answered our most burning questions about the extensive collection of books and we have been full of anticipation for the redesign of the MCL Reading Room this year.

🌟March:
We celebrated the opening of the Fresh A.I.R. #6 exhibition "Reflecting Migration".

🌟April:
In April, our year started to pick up speed! We hosted the first event of the MCL PRESENTS series entitled MCL PRESENTS together with MadC and martha cooper, moderated by Nika Kramer Photography.

We also opened the second Versus exhibition in our project space at Bülowstraße 97.

🌟May: It was with heavy hearts that we said goodbye to the exhibition "Martha Cooper: Taking Pictures", which ended after one and a half years.

🌟June:
Our biggest highlight of the year: The opening of our new permanent exhibition "Talking... & Other Banana Skin", which we celebrated with a dazzling three-day street festival.

🌟July:
After our fabulous opening, Berlin headed off for its summer holidays and the city was sweltering under the July heat.

🌟August:
Museum visitors were able to enjoy our new exhibition until after midnight at the end of August as part of the Lange Nacht der Museen.

🌟September:
The Inside Out Project Photobooth stopped in front of our museum, and 333 people had their pictures taken!

Furthermore, our Fresh A.I.R. class #7 opened their final exhibition "Picturing Democracy" and opened their studios to the public.

🌟October:
Broken Fingaz Crew released the limited edition screenprint Dog Sniff Dog which they had painted on the URBAN NATION museum facade.

🌟November/December:
On the one hand, we have concluded the year and at the same time we have already prepared the first projects for 2023. It will be another great year and thanks for being with us on this crazy ride!

📸 | Photos: Nika Kramer, Berlinartcore / Streetartcore, Aurelio Schrey, URBAN NATION

27/12/2022

👾Let’s play!

We've put together a nice scavenger hunt for you to discover the newest (and some legendary) artworks in the neighborhood of the URBAN NATION Museum. You can find the answers to the questions in the comments. Have fun!

📍 Start: Bülowstraße 94 (across the street from the URBAN NATION Museum) ➡ 🏁 End: Bülowstraße 55
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1.
📍| Location: Bülowstraße 94
❓| Community Wall
🎨 | Artist: Tamara Djurovic, also known as Hyuro
🔧 | Technique: Painting
🏅| Question: Why did the mural have to be repaired at the beginning of 2021?⁠
…
2.
📍| Location: Bülowstraße 7
❓| Facade of the URBAN NATION Museum: ‘Dog Sniff Dog’
🎨 | Artists: Broken Fingaz
🔧 | Technique: Painting
⁠🏅| Question: The painting is inspired by the Latin proverb 'Homo Homini Lupus Est'. How does it translate?
…
3.
📍| Location: Frobenstraße 7
❓| Community Wall
🎨 | Artist: Jonathan James
🔧 | Technique: Monoprint
⁠🏅| Question: What materials does the artist use for his monoprints?
…
4.
📍| Location: Frobenstraße 7
❓| Community Wall: ‘Berlin City Life”
🎨 | Artists: Miss Glueniverse & Joanna Wietecka
🔧 | Technique: Paste up
⁠🏅| Question: How many metres does the work cover?
…
5.
📍| Location: Bülowstraße 94
❓| Community Wall
🎨 | Artist: El Bocho
🔧 | Technique: Paste-up
🏅| Question: Before it is put on the wall, where is the painting created?
…
6.
📍| Location: Bülowstraße 94
❓| Community Wall
🎨 | Artists: Paradox
🔧 | Technique: Graffiti
🏅| Question: What term does the artist use to describe his hieroglyphic letters?⁠
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7.
📍| Location: Bülowstraße 95
❓| Community Wall: ‘Cage Fight’
🎨 | Artist: Timo Waldner of wandART
🔧 | Technique: Painting
⁠🏅| Question: What situation in our society is the artist denouncing with this painting?⁠
…
8.
📍| Location: Bülowstraße 31
❓| ONE Wall
🎨 | Artists: Shepard Fairey & DFace
🔧 | Technique: Painting
🏅| Question: How many works has Shepard Fairey created together with URBAN NATION in Berlin?⁠
…
9.
📍| Location: Bülowstraße 55
❓| Community Wall
🎨 | Artists: Michelle Hundertzehn
🔧 | Technique: Painting
🏅| Question: What kind of facility is behind the walls on which this picture was designed?⁠
…
📷 | Photos: Sebastian Kläbsch + Nika Kramer

24/12/2022

HAPPY HOLIDAYS from all of us at URBAN NATION ❄️

✨ We wish you calm and peaceful days, full of love and warmth. Hold your friends and family close, enjoy good food and unwind from this turbulent year.

Please note that we have some closing days in the coming weeks:
URBAN NATION and the 'Picturing Democracy' exhibition will be closed over Christmas as well as over New Year:

❌ 24 – 26 December 2022
❌ 30 December 2022 – 02 January 2023

The Martha Cooper Library will be additionally closed
❌ 27 December 2022 – 30 January 2023

From 3 January 2023 we will be open as usual!

But keep your eyes open for some specials and surprises we have prepared for you in the meantime!

19/12/2022

Never enough colors 🌈

📸 | Photo: Aurelio Schrey

16/12/2022

MARTHA COOPER LIBRARY: BOOK RECOMMENDATION⁠

📖 | Title: SPRAYCAN ART
📚| Media group: Book
🖋 | Publisher: Henry Chalfant, James Prigoff
🗓 | Year: 2009
💬 | Language: English

For more info check out: https://open.urban-nation.com

The legendary SUBWAY ART illustrated book by Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfant was the first to summarize graffiti writing, documenting the initial simple name-writing and the subsequent development of the motifs into masterpieces on the New York subway. Alongside films such as Style Wars, Wild Style! and Beat Street, the book exported the previously local phenomenon and thus gave the starting signal for a global graffiti movement.

SPRAYCAN ART from 1987, published three years later, shows the effects that the graffiti boom had worldwide in the meantime. Henry Chalfant and James Prigoff clearly focus on mostly elaborately designed legal New York wall productions, also by well-known train writers such as LEE, SEEN, T-KID or REVOLT, who did not yet play a major role in SUBWAY ART. In these Hall of Fame pieces, murals and commissioned works, figurative motifs are more in the foreground and the focus is on the high level of craftsmanship that the writers have now achieved.

In addition to the Five Boroughs, the events in American cities such as Philadelphia, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles are also highlighted. Although the New York writers were influential in shaping the style of the first graffiti wave, independent styles appeared in London, Amsterdam and Paris just a few years later, especially in Europe.

SPRAYCAN ART not only documents the rapid spread of the writing movement from Berlin to Sydney and Cleveland to Barcelona in the mid-1980s, but also showed the New York founders that their culture was not merely imitated, but adapted, understood and further developed.

Text: Sascha Blasche
Photos: Sebastian Kläbsch

14/12/2022

✨Podcast: CREATIVE BERLIN AND URBAN NATION ✨

In episode 11 of Radio ’s podcast Kiez & Schnauze on the “creative stronghold of Berlin”, the board of Stiftung Berliner Leben, Hans-Michael Brey, talks to artist Gita Kurdpoor and André Kraft from Komische Oper Berlin. Hear more about participation and equal opportunities, about the projects of Stiftung Berliner Leben and the role that URBAN NATION plays in them.

🎧 | Have fun listening: wir.berlin/kampagnen/podcast

📸 | Photo: Nika Kramer

13/12/2022

We absolutely LOVE stickers!! 🖤

📸 | Photo: SLÄP! Sticker Van by Berlinartcore / Streetartcore

08/12/2022

🖼 Fresh A.I.R. #7 Exhibition: Picturing Democracy

The works of the eleven scholarship holders of Fresh A.I.R. #7 equally address the fragility and the need for protection of democratic values such as freedom, equality and the rights of minorities:

🔗 Click thist link and discover the artists' exclusive online showcase: https://www.stiftung-berliner-leben.de/fresh-a-i-r-7-exhibition-of-the-artists-in-residence-picturing-democracy/

🔸Denise Ackerl pleads for the right to freedom of movement as an expression of a diverse democratic society.

🔸Anna Barnaföldi scales the visibility of democratic action and asks on which levels democracy becomes tangible.

🔸Eleni Danesi explores how interdependent relationships between species can be actively practiced to grow the sense of democracy within.

🔸How can democracy be mapped? Razvan Dumitru's visualization of democracy is a balance found, but also easily lost.

🔸For Samuel Henne, the object of the American "Thank You" plastic bag becomes a metaphor for impending doom and social failure within capitalist valences.

🔸In his work, Oscar Lebeck shows the specific possibilities of art to make historical events tangible and to bring the past into the present

🔸Karin Lindstén deals with the coexistence of animals and humans in the big city and explores the corresponding characteristics and difficulties.

🔸In a site-specific work, Johnny Pavlatos deals with the q***r Schöneberg of the Weimar Republic.

🔸For Sonia Sagan, a carpet is representative of the role that coffee houses can play in the process of social democratization.

🔸In her artistic research project, Elektra Stampoulou approaches the field of democracy through scents.

🔸In her audiovisual work, Ilona Stutz explores interjections made during a Bundestag session based on stenographic recordings

📍UN Project Space | Bülowstr. 97
until 31.03.2023
Tue + Wed: 11 am - 6 pm
Thu - Sun: 1 - 8 pm

📸 | Katerina Sysova & / Streetartcore

06/12/2022

📚 Working together makes you less lonely - MCL is now a member of the One Person Library association 📚

Since September 2022, the Martha Cooper Library has been a member of the One Person Library Arbeitskreis Berlin-Brandenburg, a regional library network for the exchange of experiences and information.

💡 The community, which has existed since 1998, is a platform for librarians from small libraries that are supervised by a single person or a single full-time staff member. Since these so-called One Person Libraries deal with just the same variety of tasks as big ones, but no other professionals are available for exchange, they are dependent on networks like OPLBB to collaborate together on all questions and tasks that might occur.

The group meets every three months on Fridays from 4 pm in one of the participating libraries.

📸 | Photos: Nika Kramer & Eveline Wilson, MCL Librarian

02/12/2022

Floating mural by Boa One as part of our UNARTIG - Street & Art Festival 🎉

This piece, along with seven other temporary murals created by 21 artists, was only on display from Friday 17 to Sunday 19 June 2022. Did you get a chance to see it?

📸 | Photo: Boa One by Berlinartcore / Streetartcore

01/12/2022

Please note that we have some additional closing days in December!

The URBAN NATION Museum will be closed on:

❌ Friday 2 and ❌ Friday 16 December 2022!

The Fresh A.I.R. #7 exhibition 'Picturing Democracy" can still be visited these days.

Also, take a note of our closing days during the 🎄 holidays:

URBAN NATION and the 'Picturing Democracy' exhibition will be closed over Christmas as well as over New Year:

❌ 24 – 26 December 2022
❌ 30 December 2022 – 02 January 2023

From 3 January 2023 we will be open as usual!

30/11/2022

Book our guided tours in 🇬🇧English or 🇩🇪German for your group!

Did you know that we also offer Guided Group Tours of the Museum and the neighborhood? Here are some details:

🤗| We offer an introduction to the exhibition ‘Talking... & Other Banana Skins’ as well as a Street Art Tour through the neighborhood.

⌚️| Each tour is 50 min long leaving you enough time to discover the show in the museum or the scholarship exhibition #7 of Fresh A.I.R. ‘Picturing Democracy’ on your own as well.

🏢 | Guided Tours of the Museum:
🌱| Tuesdays & Wednesdays: 10 – 11 am
🌱| Thursdays & Fridays: 2 – 3 pm

🏙| Street Art Tours of the neighborhood around the museum:
🌱| Thursdays & Fridays: 1 – 2 pm

👭 | The maximum group size for pupils and students: 31 persons / €80.00
👭 | for adults: 15 persons / €165.00

The tours can be paid on site by card. Cash payment is not possible.
📧 | Registration under [email protected]. Please note: this offer is only for groups! Individual registrations are unfortunately not yet possible.

Get in touch to find out more. We look forward to welcoming you!

📸 | Photos: Aurelio Schrey & Nika Kramer

28/11/2022

⚫️ CHRISTMAS SALE – 20% DISCOUNT ON EVERYTHING goes on until Wednesday ➡ Last chance! ⚫️

https://shop.urban-nation.com/

Yesterday heralded the start of the Christmas season, the first winter markets have already opened, the holidays are just around the corner. You know what that means: it's time to start shopping for presents 🎁

But don't worry, we certainly have your back! Browse our web shop or visit the museum shop on site because from today until Wednesday we offer a 20% discount on EVERYTHING 🫢 Hoodies, tote bags, catalogs, markers… you name it!

❌ Use the code UN-CHRISTMAS2022 at checkout and the amount will be deducted from your bill.

And because we love you, we're waiving the shipping costs, too 🖤

So what are you waiting for? Happy shopping! 🛒

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New facade by Broken Fingaz Crew

Out now: The making of our new facade by Broken Fingaz Crew! 🎨| Artists: Broken Fingaz Crew 🔧| Production: YAP⁠ 🤝| Cooperation partner: Israel in Deutschland 📹| Shot: Jrm.Bln ✂️| Edit: Michelle Hundertzehn 🎼| Music: Maya Dunietz, Raw Tapes 📍| Location: URBAN NATION Museum, Bülowstraße 7, Berlin-Schöneberg Find out more about the new facade here: https://urban-nation.com/2022/07/new-museum-facade-by-broken-fingaz/

🎉 | UNARTIG – Street & Art Festival Fr, 17–Sun, 19 June 2022⁠ –– 🌟| What: PERFORMANCE by Yoann Bourgeois 🗓: Fr, 17 June: 7.30 pm 🗓 Sa, 18 June: 1 pm, 4.30 pm, 6.45 pm, 8.15 pm, 🗓 Sun, 19 June: 2.15 pm, 4.30 pm, 6 pm – 📍| Where: Speakers’ Corner in front of the URBAN NATION Museum Zietenstraße 12, Berlin-Schöneberg – Fugue/Trampoline is a small spectacular dance piece, somewhere between circus and poetry, for a man and an object, composed on Philip Glass' Metamorphosis n°2. Turning a seemingly ordinary movement into something off-beat, Yoann Bourgeois fools the vacuum, plays with the laws of gravity and weightlessness to reach a state of freedom between balance and the lack thereof. In this visual poem, the artist reinvents a breathtaking and sensitive march towards the suspension point, the instant of the absolute present, when the flight of a body reaches its peak and the fall has not yet begun. No weight. Anything is possible. – 📹 | Video: Pascale Cholette

🔴 | CHAPTER #7: HYBRID HISTORIES Art can provide a mechanism for the retelling of history and propaganda. Artist duo Various & Gould work on collective memory – with their sculptures and urban interventions, they symbolically remove colonial figures off the pedestal and shift the shadows of history and the present. ❓These observations bring us back to the initial question: Are we prepared to consider different perspectives and really learn from history? Let us know in the comments what you think! . . TALKING… & OTHER BANANA SKINS ℹ️ | The new exhibition at URBAN NATION Museum for Urban Contemporary Art 🎊 | Opening 17 June 2022 📍| Bülowstr. 7, Berlin-Schöneberg . . Artist’s in this chapter: Broken Fingaz Crew, Various and Gould, Faisal Hussain, Simon Menner, Ida Lawrence ⁠ -⁠ Proudly presented by Stiftung Berliner Leben . Produced by: YAP Media partners: urbansh*t_official tip Berlin

⚫️ | CHAPTER #4: THE FORUM Based upon the ancient Forum, this chapter brings together political works which encourage cultural tolerance (Vera Kochubey, the underlining of the world community (Inside Out Project) and the pitfalls of modern communication and technological advances in creating isolation in society (Isaac Cordal) ❓These observations bring us back to the initial question: Would more public sphere lead to more interaction between people? If you think so, please tell us more about it in the comments! . . TALKING… & OTHER BANANA SKINS ℹ️ | The new exhibition at URBAN NATION Museum for Urban Contemporary Art 🎊 | Opening 17 June 2022 📍| Bülowstr. 7, Berlin-Schöneberg . . Artist’s in this chapter: Isaac Cordal, SEPE, Franco Fasoli - JAZ, El Mac, Aec Interesni Kazki, Olek, Inside Out Project Jimmy Turrell Vera Kochubey Rich Thorne Anna Lukashevsky ⁠ -⁠ Proudly presented by Stiftung Berliner Leben . Produced by: YAP . Media partners: urbansh*t_official tip Berlin

🟢 | CHAPTER #1: WE NEED TO TALK This chapter highlights the communication paradox of our time: there is, despite large technical possibilities, a fundamental lack of dialogue. Here the artworks are presented in conversation with each other, offering different perspectives on the same topic. Such as Low Bros and Josephine Sagna point out structural racism. Through examining the privileges of white people (Low Bros) and the conflict of identity through BiPoC women (Joséphine Sagna). ❓These observations bring us back to the initial question: Is my perception the only true one? Please discuss in the comments! . . TALKING… & OTHER BANANA SKINS ℹ️ | The new exhibition at URBAN NATION Museum for Urban Contemporary Art 🎊 | Opening 17 June 2022 📍| Bülowstr. 7, Berlin-Schöneberg . . Artist’s in this chapter: Andreas Englund Art, Icy And Sot, 1UP CREW, Le Fou, Joséphine Sagna, Amartey Golding, Tezz Kamoen, Low Bros, Ana Barriga, Jeff Hong ⁠ -⁠ Proudly presented by Stiftung Berliner Leben . Supported by: Juxtapoz Magazine urbansh*t_official Fifth Wall YAP Find out more: https://urban-nation.com/talking-other-banana-skins/

❗️Reminder❗️ Don’t miss your chance to win one of three prints by artist Christian Hundertmark and Patrick Hartl of the LAYER CAKE artist duo! What you have to do: Until 31 May you will find a box at the desk of the show ‘Layer Cake – The Versus Project 2’ at URBAN NATION Project Space in Bülowstraße 97, in which you can leave a card with your name and email address. From all entries, three winners will be drawn in the first week of June during an Instagram Live. The lucky winners will be notified by email that they can collect their prize in person at the museum (please note: the prints cannot be shipped!) 🎨 | What: The Versus Project 2 📍| Where: URBAN NATION Project Space⁠⁠, Bülowstraße 97, Berlin-Schöneberg⁠⁠ 🗓 | 10 April - 31 July 2022 🕙 | Opening hours: Tue–Wed, 10 am to 6 pm, Thur–Sun 12 to 8 pm Curated by Layer Cake 📹 | Video: Michelle Nimpsch

We sat down with martha cooper and Steven P. Harrington and Jaime Rojo of Brooklyn Street Art to talk about Martha Cooper's major retrospective at the URBAN NATION Museum, discuss the newly opened library based on the photographer's donation, and ask about new trends in the street art movement and how to spot them. The full version of the interview will soon be up on our website, stay tuned! 🖤

MARTHA COOPER LIBRARY: BOOK RECOMMENDATION⁠ ⁠ 📖 | Title: Graffiti A New York⁠ 🖋 | Author: Andrea Nelli⁠ 🗓 | Year: 1978⁠ 📚 | Publisher: Cosenza, Lerici⁠ ℹ | Description: VII, 121 p. : numerous ill.⁠ ⁠ As early as 1978, Andrea Nelli published “Graffiti a New York,” an extensive essay, after he had already been confronted with the name prints in the cityscape six years earlier during his first trip to the city. For his research he interviews actors, gallery owners, collects newspaper reports and analyzes the rapidly changing movement. Due to the bankruptcy of the publishing house only a few weeks after the publication of his dissertation in 1978, the work received little attention from researchers and only became a coveted collector’s item in scene circles.⁠ ⁠ But forty years after Nelli’s first visit to New York, “Graffiti a New York” was rediscovered, translated into English, and reissued in 2012 by the Italian publisher Wholetrain Press. In addition to the original text, there are over 100 historical photographs by the author, showing arguably the most important phase of the evolution towards classic graffiti. Both the original and the new edition are part of the holdings of the Martha Cooper Library.

Attention Berlin: martha cooper , along with Steven P. Harrington and Jaime Rojo of Brooklyn Street Art , welcome you to the UN Museum tonight to celebrate the release of @Obey Giant's print "People's Discontent"! ⁠ ⁠ The doors will be open from 8 pm Berlin time (GMT +1). But don't worry: even if you can't attend the event, you still have the chance to get your hands on a copy via our web store. The online sale starts simultaneously at 8 pm: https://shop.urban-nation.com/en Shepard Fairey⁠ People’s Discontent⁠ 2020⁠ 75,00 €⁠ Screen print on thick cream Speckletone paper⁠ Limited Edition of 550⁠ 24 x 18 inches (61 x 46 cm)⁠ Hand signed & numbered by Shepard Fairey⁠ ...⁠ 📹 | Video: Michelle Nimpsch + @New Deal Skateboards

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Hybrid Sculptors "it is nothing without you"

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UN-FOLD The Power of Art as a Social Architect

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Drone Shot - Telmo Miel & James Bullough

ONE WALL BY MILLO FROM ABOVE - DRONE VIEW

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He is a real door opener.....

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Thank you 2017!

Well.. Crazy, wonderful, colorful, amazing 2017 is about to end! We did soooo many cool things together with dozens of great people and artists, supporters and people believing in the idea of UN! We are happy and thankful for everything we were part of this year, first of all the opening of the URBAN NATION MUSEUM in September but also the #ProjectM/-Exhibitions in February and May, the work for the Up North Festival, Lollapalooza Berlin, Lange Nacht der Museen Berlin Juxtapoz Magazine CLUBHOUSE in #Miami and many many more.. Not to forget all the great artists from all around the world realizing their works for our #OneWall projects. Now time to speed a bit down and take some time for fresh energies, more ideas and things to plan and do in 2018! Wishing you all a great break!! ❤ Merry X-mas and see you back in 2018! ❤

URBAN NATION One Wall innerfields

We are working away in #Miami with Nuno Viegas Mimi Scholz Arts Insane 51 and #MateusBailon during our collaboration of the years biggest Art event Art Basel Miami Beach where artists, gallerists and collectors are gathering to finish the year with a colorful and creative bang. But of course we keep you informed about cool stuff going on in #Berlin in the meanwhile: Amazing Innerfields❗is working on the latest URBAN NATION #OneWall project. Here is a sneak!! We will keep you posted on the finished project, until than follow also our instagram for little daily updates! #onewall #innerfields #urbannation

URBAN NATION PROJECT HUZUR

Exactly two weeks ago, we had he pleasure to reveal our latest project in the neighborhood at Huzur a great place and meeting point for seniors and people living in the building right next to our Production Office in Bülowstrasse 94. Artists Felix Rodewaldt, OSTAP Artist and the SELFMADEcrew created a colorful and bright space out of the formerly rather outdated entry way integrating portraits of some of the seniors living there. Thank you all who supported and came out to help , contribute and visited especially the artists. Check out the final video👇and come visit us at the museum !! While you walk down the street you can see some of the work in the windows!

THANK YOU!

Thank you all for your generous support! 👏👏 Since the museum opened in September, our visitors from all over the world donated more than 10.000 Euros to support the work of URBAN NATION. Thank you! Vielen Dank! Merci beaucoup! Muchas gracias! Grazie mille! Dziekujemy! Teşekkürler! Dank je wel! Terima kasih! We are very grateful!

UN-project @HUZUR

Hey, out there! 👋Our current cooperation project with OSTAP Artist, the SELFMADEcrew and Felix Rodewaldt is in the making. Good day! See our teaser on the project below. Final results soon to be find on our web. Stay curious 😊

Another #funday at work! We spent this tuesday with these amazing kids from the Heinz Brandt school Berlin who came to ask questions about the art and the technique. They guessed the amount of stencils and if it was reaaaaaally painted cause it looks too real so we spoke about realism and futurism and they came up with a new category "antiism" where nothing matters and you just paint all categories in one - so there's a challenge for all creatives out there.☝ We tagged, we stenciled and we laughed. Yasha was told that she needs to produce masks made out of recycled material and sell them cheaper than 8 dollars ... a successful afternoon all in all! ✌ #kiezkids #crewlove #urbannation #teamspirit #urbancontemporaryart #berlin #socialproject #community #thefuture #nextgen

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URBAN NATION is the world’s first noncommercial museum-quality institution focusing on urban art. The museum presents a unique overall picture of current urban contemporary art from cities around the world thanks to high-calibre, permanent art exhibitions the likes of which have not been seen before. URBAN NATION is the only player in the art world with the objective of giving a home to fleeting and ephemeral street art – urban art – and of documenting the history of this fully fledged artistic movement.

In Berlin, urban art is especially significant: it has characterised the city over the last few decades, conveying an international image as an artistic metropolis. That the first urban art museum appeared here of all places is no coincidence. But the museum’s appeal shines out far beyond Berlin. Because urban art is current and global – a democratic, low-threshold art form, interactive and accessible to all, moving all generations and nations, and provoking social dialogue.

The museum‘s Excecutive Director is Jan Sauerwald. URBAN NATION is backed by Berliner Leben, a foundation of Gewobag.

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ZUM VERGEBEN / TO FORGIVE
Marker on paper, 80x120cm, 2022
Shown at TALKING ... & OTHER BANANA SKINS exhibition at Urban Nation Museum, museum for urban contemporary art
URBAN NATION

BSA FILM FRIDAY: 06.17.22

BSA SPECIAL FEATURE: GRAND OPENING OF “TALKING…& OTHER BANANA SKINS / UNARTIG
TALKING… & OTHER BANANA SKINS

In the UK and English-speaking Europe, the term “banana skins” means a sudden unexpected situation that makes a person appear silly or causes them some difficulty. We have no idea what it means in the US because we’ve never heard the saying. To paraphrase, you could slip and make a sudden problem with your words these days.

At Urban Nation this weekend, a new show aims to broadly address the fact that attitudes are so polarized today that almost any opinion threatens to antagonize someone else and start a heated discussion. With a wide range of artworks expressing different viewpoints in vastly different ways, UN encourages visitors to question some of our perspectives. When it comes to graffiti and street art and nearly six decades of history in cities worldwide, you are guaranteed many views will be expressed.

“Conflicts and issues are multi-faceted, not to be pigeonholed,” says curator Michele Houston and the team who are mixing permanent collection pieces with brand new ones. “The artworks presented in the eight chapters of the exhibition are asking how and what is being communicated within society and the urban environment,” she says. “-Putting exchange and dialogue back at the center.”

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https://www.brooklynstreetart.com/2022/06/17/bsa-film-friday-06-17-22/

Dieses Wochenende eröffnet die neue Dauerausstellung im URBAN NATION Museum Berlin 👊. Am Freitag geht's los und zum Start gibt es nicht nur im Museum Kunst, sondern im ganzen Stadtteil.

Wir sehen uns in Berlin!

Für alle die gerade in Berlin sind. Dieses Wochenende unbedingt beim URBAN NATION Museum vorbeischauen.

🎊 Herzlichen Glückwunsch an Júlia Mota Albuquerque, Gewinnerin des Streetart Contests „MORE ART less litter“!

Mit einer farbenfrohen Gestaltung zeigt die Künstlerin Júlia Mota Albuquerque verschiedene Charaktere, die Verpackungen weitergeben, die meistens nur für den einmaligen Gebrauch
bestimmt sind. Ihre Arbeit wird nun als Mural auf einer Gebäudefassade am Jakob-Kaiser-Platz realisiert.

🚚 Platz 2 und 3 gehen an Sr Papá Chango und Seboh Creation. Ihre Entwürfe werden für 6 Monate auf Werbeflächen von Müllfahrzeugen der Berliner Stadtreinigung (BSR) präsentiert.

Wir gratulieren herzlich und bedanken uns bei allen beteiligten Künstler*innen. Im Sommer berichten wir über die Realisierung der Kunstwerke!

Gemeinsam mit der Stiftung Naturschutz Berlin in Kooperation mit der Berliner Stadtreinigung - BSR, und dem URBAN NATION sowie YAP hatten wir Künstler*innen aufgerufen, sich kreativ mit den Themen Abfallvermeidung, Verpackungsmüll und Recycling auseinanderzusetzen. Aus den von der Jury ausgewählten 10 Finalist*innen konntet ihr euren Favoriten wählen.

Gefördert durch den Förderfonds Trenntstadt Berlin.⁠
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📸 Foto & Mockup: Berlinartcore / Streetartcore

Greetings From Home, 2022
Fresh A.I.R. #6 Scholarship exhibition
“Reflecting Migration”

March 12th – July 31st 2022
11 am – 6 pm (Tuesday-Sunday)
Bülow90 | Bülowstr. 90
Free admission!

More info on the URBAN NATION page:
https://urban-nation.com/.../fresh-a-i-r-6-scholarship.../

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Greetings From Home, 2022
Fresh A.I.R. #6 Scholarship exhibition
“Reflecting Migration”

March 12th – July 31st 2022
11 am – 6 pm (Tuesday-Sunday)
Bülow90 | Bülowstr. 90
Free admission!

More info on the URBAN NATION page:
https://urban-nation.com/event/fresh-a-i-r-6-scholarship-exhibition-reflecting-migration/

Photo by Victoria Tomaschko

good time in Berlin with Nika Kramer and martha cooper at URBAN NATION, thanks to everyone who came and Brooklyn StreetArt

Great crowd! Great Hosts! Great location!

Thanks to everyone who came out for our first MCL Talks programs for the Martha Cooper Library at Urban Nation https://www.brooklynstreetart.com/2022/05/09/martha-cooper-library-presents-from-street-to-canvas-martha-cooper-madc-and-nika-kramer/

StreetArt in Germany Graffiti Art magazine URBAN NATION Nika Kramer Nicholas Ganz Nuart Aberdeen Janette Beckman Juxtapoz Magazine Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam ICP - International Center of Photography Sean Corcoran Selina Miles Christian Omodeo Dave Chino Javier Abarca Jay Edlin Brooklyn Museum Sharon Matt Atkins Lars Pedersen Michelle Houston Aileen La Rock DRAGO Random House Prestel Verlag MadC Martha Cooper

Martha Cooper Library Presents: From Street to Canvas. Martha Cooper, MadC and Nika Kramer.

With the foundation’s Dr. Hans-Michael Brey doing the intro, YAP’s Sam Walter in the audience along with our show catalog contributor Christian Omodeo, and us in the front row – it was a great way to end our “Martha Cooper: Taking Pictures” exhibition at Urban Nation by looking forward at library plans while surrounded by the best team ever.

On our last Friday night in Berlin, we celebrated inside the exhibition with a live panel discussion featuring the evening's host Nika Kramer, and her guests Martha Cooper and the German graff writer and abstract painting powerhouse MadC. During a far-ranging discussion before a two-room audience in the museum and a live audience online, the three spoke about the graffiti/street art/mural scene from personal and professional perspectives – and how often the street has intersected with contemporary art in the gallery setting over the last decades.

The occasion was an inaugural MCL Talk that officially begins another component of programming related to the research library that we’ve been working on here, now open, called the Martha Cooper Library at Urban Nation. We will aim to make it the premier research library of graffiti, street art, and related urban art: the first place you think of when you need to begin your investigation into this remarkable global democratic people’s art movement.

https://www.brooklynstreetart.com/2022/05/09/martha-cooper-library-presents-from-street-to-canvas-martha-cooper-madc-and-nika-kramer/ URBAN NATION martha cooper Nika Kramer YAP

MC Library Presents Martha Cooper, MadC & Nika Kramer. From Street to Canvas. Urban Nation Museum Berlin. (photo © Jaime Rojo)