Urban Nation Museum in Berlin, German Contemporary Art Building, Design Images
Urban Nation Museum in Berlin
Modern Art Gallery in the German Capital City – design by GRAFT, Architects
4 Dec 2017
German Art Museum in Berlin
Design: GRAFT
Location: Bülowstrasse 7, 10783 Berlin, Germany
Urban nation museum for urban Contemporary art

photo © Benjamin Pritzkuleit
The URBAN NATION MUSEUM FOR URBAN CONTEMPORARY ART, in short Urban Nation Museum, is the first German museum for urban art, built in the Berlin quarter of Schöneberg.

photo © Tobias Hein
GRAFT developed the architectural concept for the conversion of a former residential building, located on the crossroads of Bülowstrasse and Zietenstrasse.

photo © Tobias Hein By a modular changeable façade, the building itself became a piece of art. It gives artists from all over the world the opportunity to use the façade as a canvas, which will be changed periodically. The elements of the building façade can then be added to the collection of the museum as artworks.

photo © Tobias Hein
The interior reveals a radical and unexpected space: enfilades of rooms create height and width by spreading over two and even three floors. In this museum, the anamorphic techniques of urban art enter the architectural concept and allow for the art to form a symbiosis with the architecture.

photo © Tobias Hein
The street extends into the interior of the museum. A high line connects the exhibition spaces and facilitates the ...