OPENING: Friday, April 26, 2024, 6 to 9 pm, Layer Cake will be present GALLERY WEEKEND BERLIN: April, Saturday 27 and Sunday 28, 11 am to 7 pm OPENING HOURS: Friday to Sunday, 1 to 6 pm EXHIBITION DATES: April 27 to September 30, 2024 ADDRESS: URBAN NATION Satellite Gallery, Sonnenallee 126, 12059 Berlin URBAN NATION presents the international group exhibition “The Versus Project V” by the artist duo Layer Cake at the Satellite Gallery. In their collaborative works, Patrick Hartl and Christian Hundertmark (C100) question the unwritten graffiti rule of never painting over another graffiti write ..read more

Did you know that we also offer guided group tours of the Museum and the neighborhood? Book our guided tours in English or German for your group! Photo: Aurelio Schrey Photo: Aurelio Schrey Photo: Aurelio Schrey Photo: Oluwaremi Dasho-Stierand Photo: Aurelio Schrey We offer an introduction to the exhibition TALKING… & OTHER BANANA SKINS as well as a Street Art Tour through the neighborhood with all the Community Walls including a short introduction to the exhibition PICTURING DEMOCRACY. Each tour is 50 min long leaving you enough time to discover the show in the museum and ..read more

Talk with René Kästner and Sven Niemann February 29, 2024, 6.00 to 7.30 pm URBAN NATION Museum | Bülowstr. 7, 10783 Berlin Vandalism or message? Sprayers reach for the can when they want to convey a political message to a broad audience in highly visible and public places. The volume “Political Graffiti” was recently published in the Guernica Society’s “Art and Politics” series. René Kästner and Sven Niemann discuss graffiti as a tool of political agency. Sven Niemann, author of the book’s contribution “Bomb the System! Politische Pieces als Partizipationspraktik im öffentlichen Raum” (“Bomb t ..read more

Ann Van Hulle, ROA Codex. 2019 “ROA Codex,” a comprehensive exploration of the enigmatic Belgian street artist ROA, compiled by Ann Van Hulle with notable contributions from Lucy Lippard and Johan Braeckman and others, offers an unfiltered window into a decade of work that defies conventional artistic boundaries. ROA’s journey, beginning in the industrial landscapes of Belgium, extends to global outdoor canvases, where his art disrupts the mundane, evoking a primal connection to the natural world. In this monograph, ROA’s artistry is portrayed as large-scale murals and an ongoing dialogue be ..read more

Felisbret and Mariah FoxAl Diaz, Eric Felisbret, and Mariah Fox. City of Kings: A History of NYC Graffiti. Second Edition 2022 “City of Kings: A History of NYC Graffiti” is a crafted exploration of the graffiti scene’s historical roots in New York City. Born from a prominent exhibition co-curated by Al Diaz, Eric Felisbret, and Mariah Fox, this book transcends the role of a mere catalog to become a substantive text that presents a detailed overview of the graffiti movement in a structured, academic, and engaging manner. Al Diaz, an original New York graffiti writer and a member of the influen ..read more

Talk with René Kästner and Sven Niemann December 1, 2023, 6.30 to 8 pm, admission from 6 pm URBAN NATION Museum | Bülowstr. 7, 10783 Berlin Vandalism or message? Sprayers reach for the can when they want to convey a political message to a broad audience in highly visible and public places. The volume “Political Graffiti” was recently published in the Guernica Society’s “Art and Politics” series. René Kästner and Sven Niemann discuss graffiti as a tool of political agency. Sven Niemann, author of the book’s contribution “Bomb the System! Politische Pieces als Partizipationspraktik im öffentlich ..read more

The artist duo Mots (Jagoda Cierniak, Poland, and Diogo Ruas, Portugal) explored the emotional power and aesthetic expression of objects during their stay in Berlin as part of the Fresh A.I.R. #4 residency program. One result of their artistic research is the ONE WALL at Spandauer Obstallee 22 that was painted in March, 2021. “We live in a world full of objects. Some of these things have deeper meaning for us because they carry stories, beliefs and memories” consider Mots. Therefore, as part of their “Objectum” project, they met 25 people who live in Berlin and asked them to tell their story a ..read more

Steven P. Harrington, Jaime Rojo, and Martha Cooper, Martha Cooper: Taking Pictures. 2020 “Martha Cooper: Taking Pictures” is both a book and a catalogue published to accompany the eponymous exhibition of the photographic career of Martha Cooper at the Urban Nation Museum in Berlin (October 04, 2020 – May15, 2022). The book features lavish photo spreads showcasing Martha’s photographic journey over six decades, with a primary focus on Cooper’s pioneering documentation of the nascent graffiti and hip-hop movements in late 1970s New York City. Additionally, the book highlights lesser-known seri ..read more

On October 7, 2023, the URBAN NATION Museum once again hosted KinderKulturMonat, this time with a stencil workshop for children aged 10 to 12, led by Imed Art. The workshop started with an interactive part as well as an introduction to stencils and how to use them for drawing, cutting, coloring and spraying. Some kids were already familiar with street art or different spraying techniques. For others, it was initially difficult to get involved with the tasks. Eventually, they all succeeded in creating a simple but unique design, cutting it out and spraying it on their personal t-shirts and bag ..read more

Berlin street artist Christian Hinz aka “Kera” realized a new ONE WALL for Gewobag in October 2023. At Holtheimer Weg 25/27 in Berlin-Lichterfelde, a six- and seven-story building has been extensively renovated over the past three years. Characteristic of the architecture, which dates from 1964, is the access to the apartments via arcades. Visually, the yellow parapet cladding stands out, to which Kera responds with both its color palette and its geometrically abstract formal language. For two walls of the exterior stairwells, he designed dynamically jagged forms that span a tota ..read more