Martha and AIko Collaboration for Urban Nation Museum in Berlin

Since the beginning of the week, we’ve been reporting from Berlin on the Martha Cooper entire career retrospective “Martha Cooper: Taking Pictures” exhibition curated by Steven P. Harrington and Jaime Rojo of BrooklynStreetArt.com.

To celebrate the one-year anniversary of the opening and some 40,000 visitors despite a few closings due to covid, a new facade honoring the photographer had just been painted on the Urban Nation museum here in the Schöneberg neighborhood of Berlin. Lady Aiko, the Japanese street artist living in New York City was asked to paint the facade of the museum with selected portraits from Martha’s best-known documentation of breakers who formed the Hip Hop scene – along with Aiko’s own iconic bunny character.

Martha Cooper x Aiko. Urban Nation Museum. Berlin. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Martha is in Berlin with us to see the exhibition for the first time to actually see Martha Cooper: Taking Pictures in person since travel restrictions held us all back from being here in person up to now. Here she is looking at the mural for the first time as well. And, of course, taking pictures of it.

Martha Cooper x Aiko. Urban Nation Museum. Berlin. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Martha Cooper x Aiko. Urban Nation Museum. Berlin. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Martha Cooper x Aiko. Urban Nation Museum. Berlin. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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