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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!
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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 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. URBAN NATION is an initiative 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 ().

13/10/2026

Last week to explore THE URBAN SKIN!

What can the surfaces of a city tell us about its past, present, and future? The final week of the exhibition THE URBAN SKIN, is also a chance to take a closer
look at the Resonance Laboratory. It’s a space for reading, research, and creative exploration that extends the exhibition beyond the artworks themselves.

Discover publications on architecture, urban history, ruins, ecology, and memory, alongside selected materials from URBAN NATION’s Martha Cooper Library. Five original etchings by Italian artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi offer another perspective on how cities, monuments, and ruins have been imagined and represented across time.

The Resonance Laboratory invites you to look more closely, analyze images, draw, and develop your own perspectives on Berlin on special postcards. Visitors’ individual observations become part of a growing archive of how we experience and understand the city. A heartfelt thank you to everyone who has contributed to the Resonance Laboratory over the past months, sharing their ideas, drawings, and thoughts 🖤

THE URBAN SKIN
Pietro Ruffo & Jan Bauer

📅 Through October 18, 2026
📍 URBAN NATION Project Space, Bülowstraße 97, Berlin
🎟️ Admission free

Opening hours:
Monday: closed
Tuesday and Wednesday: 11 am – 6 pm
Thursday – Sunday: 1 – 8 pm

Curated by Janine Arndt and Chiara Zampetti Egidi

Held under the patronage of the Italian Embassy in Berlin

📸 Photos: Hirschberg Studios & Stiftung Berliner Leben

08/10/2026

Letters, beats & sketching

Last weekend, we kicked off the Urban Sketch Circle with graffiti writer Dejoe, joined by our first guest, Zebster. Together, participants explored letters, styles and motifs, exchanged ideas, and experimented with their own visual language, while Dejoe provided the Hip Hop soundtrack.

And this was just the beginning: Urban Sketch Circle takes place once a month, with Dejoe and a different guest artist each time.

Save the dates:

2026
November 1 — Dejoe & Niels Popkema
December 6 — Dejoe & Planet 256

2027
February 7 — Dejoe & Kerim by Ennicolor
March 7 — Dejoe & Age Age
April 4 — Dejoe & MONIK

All sessions take place on Sunday from 2–4 pm at the URBAN NATION Museum and are free of charge. No registration required.

📸 Photo: Stiftung Berliner Leben

06/10/2026

If you haven’t visited THE URBAN SKIN yet, now is the time!

What can the surfaces of a city tell us about its history?
Only two weeks left to discover THE URBAN SKIN at URBAN NATION Project Space! The exhibition brings together the work of Italian artist Pietro Ruffo and German artist Jan Bauer.

Both artists look at architecture and urban surfaces not as static backgrounds, but as places where time, memory, politics and change leave their traces. From Rome to Berlin, from ancient monuments to weathered walls, their works invite us to look more closely at the many layers that shape our cities.

THE URBAN SKIN
📅 Until October 18, 2026
📍 URBAN NATION Project Space, Bülowstraße 97
🎟️ Admission free

Opening hours:
Monday: closed
Tuesday and Wednesday 11 am – 6 pm
Thursday – Sunday 1 – 8 pm

Curated by Janine Arndt and Chiara Zampetti Egidi

Held under the patronage of the Italian Embassy in Berlin

02/10/2026

Art, color and urban vibes. Explore the URBAN NATION Museum in Berlin 🎨✨

URBAN NATION Museum
📍Bülowstraße 7, Berlin
💸 free

02/10/2026

Seven Walls, One Neighborhood 🎨

In Part 2 of our Staaken Art Walk, seven very different walls invite you to look at the neighborhood through the eyes of the people who live there: their favorite places, everyday objects, activities, ideas and stories.

🚶‍♀️Walking time: approx. 25 min / 1.8 km
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📍 1 — Various & Gould | Obstallee 45

Young people from the neighborhood created colorful paper collages of faces with the artist duo Various & Gould. Reassembled on the wall, they become a collective portrait of the neighborhood.

📸 Photos: Luis Limberg

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📍 2 — Gizem Erdem | Obstallee 22

Reading, playing, dancing, walking, daydreaming: Gizem Erdem turned activities shared by local residents into a flowing visual narrative along the Staaken Center passageway. Children from KiK also contributed to the work.

📸 Photos: Britta Leuermann

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📍 3 — Mots | Obstallee 22

For their Objectum project, the artist duo Mots asked Berlin residents
about objects with personal meaning. Shells, a sweater, a toy duck and other everyday things became the starting point for this abstract mural.

📸 Photos: Victoria Tomaschko

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📍 4 — Jumu Monster | Maulbeerallee 31

Colorful creatures, plants, everyday objects and comic-inspired forms fill this Community Wall by Jumu Monster, created together with children from Christian Morgenstern Elementary School. A section painted with blackboard paint leaves the work open for the
neighborhood to add to it.

📸 Photos: Nika Kramer

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📍 5 — DXTR | Maulbeerallee 49

Pixelated plants, animals and geometric forms float through a bright blue world. DXTR 's digital-inspired visual language brings a playful, surreal atmosphere to the wall.

📸 Photos: Nika Kramer

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📍 6 — VIDAM | Maulbeerallee 53

An anthropomorphic figure floats upside down in an empty space. This Community Wall by VIDAM reflects on a sense of disorientation in a world shaped by war, economic uncertainty, AI and the climate crisis.

📸 Photos: Nika Kramer

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📍7 — c | Magistratsweg 10

Jumu Monster created this large-scale portrait of Staaken from more than 450 residents’ favorite places and activities, from Hahneberg and playgrounds to soccer fields and balconies.

📸 Photos: Nika Kramer & Jurena Muñoz Lagunas

30/09/2026

KinderKulturMonat starts on October 1, and URBAN NATION is happy to be once more part of Berlin’s month-long celebration of arts and culture for children.

Tape, spray, markers, and a blank canvas: in our ‘Shapes, Colors, Spray’ workshop, kids aged 10 to 12 can explore different techniques inspired by urban art. Step by step, they will create their own abstract artwork, experimenting with paint, shapes, and layers.There are no rules about what the final picture should look like. The focus is on trying things out and discovering new possibilities with colors and forms.

And of course, everyone gets to take their finished artwork home 🖤

The workshop is already fully booked, but you can still join the waiting list via the link in our bio 🔗

📅 Saturday, October 10, 2026, 10 am–12 pm
📍 URBAN NATION Museum, Bülowstraße 7, 10783 Berlin
👧 For children aged 10–12, without adult accompaniment
🎟️ Free of charge

📸 Photo: Stiftung Berliner Leben

23/09/2026

🟡 Post Vandalism by Moses & Taps

Post Vandalism (2024) by German artist collective Moses & Taps transforms a deconstructed yellow Deutsche Post mailbox into a sculptural object. An axe lodged in the altered steel structure adds an unexpected and striking element to the piece.

The work reflects Moses & Taps’ approach to pushing graffiti in new formal and conceptual directions. Since forming in 2007, the artists have expanded graffiti through satirical actions, installations, and interventions, both in the urban environment and in the institutional context. Their signature cyan blue and yellow have become recurring elements of their visual language.

Post Vandalism is part of DE-CONSTRUCT TO CONSTRUCT, one of the chapters in our current exhibition LOVE LETTERS TO THE CITY. It brings together works that challenge familiar ideas of urban space and transform everyday elements into something unexpected.

LOVE LETTERS TO THE CITY
URBAN NATION Museum
Bülowstraße 7, 10783 Berlin

Admission free

📸 Photo: Neaparat

15/09/2026

Tamara Djurovic (Hyuro). Beauty of a Tragedy. 2009–2019 (2022)

Beauty of a Tragedy brings together the work of Argentine muralist Tamara Djurovic, known as Hyuro, who died in 2020 at the age of 46. Combining murals, paintings, drawings, sketches, and her own writings, the book offers a portrait of an artist whose workstood apart from the spectacle-driven street art of the 2010s.

Hyuro’s figures are often cropped, obscured, or faceless. Her colors are restrained, her gestures quiet. Rather than offering immediate visual impact, her murals ask viewers to slow down and look more closely.

Across her work, she addressed questions of women’s autonomy, political violence, war, displacement, identity, and the everyday realities of care and community. Her murals turn these subjects into poetic images that invite reflection rather than providing easy answers.

The book also includes reflections by figures including photographer Martha Cooper, street art festival curator Monica Campana, publisher/editor/curator Evan Pricco, and street artist Escif, adding different perspectives to Hyuro’s practice.

Beauty of a Tragedy reveals an artist who used the visibility of the street not to create spectacle, but to make space for vulnerability, questions, and connection. Her work asks us to look more carefully at the world we have made.

📘 Discover Hyuro’s thoughtful and quietly powerful approach to muralism.

📖 Explore this publication at the Martha Cooper Library at URBAN NATION Museum Berlin. Make an appointment and drop by the reading room. More info on our website!

You can find the detailed review by Jaime Rojo and Steven P. Harrington Brooklyn Street Art at https://urban-nation.com/about-us/martha-cooper-library/

📸 Photos: Neapărat

11/09/2026

Something has changed at Emily Eldridge’s ONE WALL. We’re challenging you to find all 9 differences. 👀

Swipe through the first two images and take a close look at the artwork. What has changed? A tiny detail, a missing element, something added where it shouldn’t be…

Think you’ve found them all?

👉 Swipe to the end for the reveal.

How many did you spot? Let us know in the comments!

🎨 Artwork: Emily Eldridge, The Thread That Ties Us Together, 2020
📍 Location: Wassertorstraße 63/64, Berlin-Kreuzberg

📸 Photo: Nika Kramer Photography

10/09/2026

✏️ FROM SKETCH TO STYLE

How does a simple sketch become your own style?

In our upcoming workshop series Urban Sketch Circle, Berlin graffiti legend Dejoe invites you to explore the world of style writing from first sketches to individual letters, styles, and motifs as part of his his SKETCH CIRCLE.

Together with Dejoe and different guest artist from the graffiti scene, you’ll learn about composition, proportion, and expression, get tips and feedback, and experiment with different approaches to develop your own visual language.

And there’s more than drawing: As a DJ, Dejoe brings the soundtrack to the session, connecting the visual energy of stylewriting with the music and culture of hip-hop.

No experience needed. Whether you’re young or old, come alone, with friends or family, and find your own style.

📅 Dates:

2026
October 4
November 1
December 6

2027
February 7
March 7
April 4

🕞 Each session: 2–4 PM
📍 URBAN NATION Museum, Bülowstraße 7

Free admission, no registration required

📸 Photo: Neapărat

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