With its rich heritage of Street Art and Graffiti, it is only fitting that Germany’s first museum dedicated to the art forms should open in Berlin – the Urban Nation Museum for Urban Contemporary Art. For the first time impressive art work of world-known and emerging artists of the urban contemporary art are brought together […]
Urban Nation Museum for Urban Contemporary Art – Construction Begins
With its rich heritage of Street Art and Graffiti, it is only fitting that Germany’s first museum dedicated to the art forms should open in Berlin – the Urban Nation Museum for Urban Contemporary Art. Graffiti and street-art are part of Berlin and vice versa. They function here as a local art form: it helped […]
Fintan Magee Berlin Mural ‘Cycle of Life’: VIDEO
Franco-German TV network ARTE filmed the painting of the Fintan Magee Berlin Mural Cycle of Life for Urban Nation in Berlin. The mural is 42m high by 15m wide and working on such a large scale is a challenge for Magee. In order to help get the proportions of the piece right he marks out a grid […]
Fintan Magee Cycle of Life Mural for Urban Nation Berlin
In the summer of 2015, Australian street artist, Fintan Magee, was in Berlin to paint a 42m high mural for Urban Nation Berlin in Reinickendorf. The mural, entitled Cycle of Life, depicts a man and a woman, who holds a baby in her arms, standing on rubble and staring up at the sky. Around them […]
Tristan Eaton Berlin Mural for One Wall – Attack of the 50 Foot Socialite
Looming over passersby and covering very nearly the whole side elevation of a residential building at Am Friedrichshain 33 in Prenzlauer Berg, Attack of the 50 Foot Socialite by LA artist, Tristan Eaton has to be one of Berlin’s most eye-catching street art murals. The 5-storey painting is Eaton’s interpretation of the iconic film posters […]
Don John Mural for Urban Nation Berlin
Since I first saw a Wolf Beard stencil from Danish artist Don John, I’ve been hoping to see more of his street art in Berlin so I was particularly excited to hear he had been in town painting a huge mural for the One Wall Project from Urban Nation Berlin. With One Wall, Urban Nation […]