The Collector Who Founded Germany’s First Urban Art Museum

From collecting comics to opening Germany’s first museum for Urban Art, the collecting journey of Christian Utz spans already over 25 years. Back then and when he exchanged a Warhol against his first Banksy work 10 years later, he would not have guessed that he is going to be a pioneer in the German art scene. His recently opened Museum of Urban and Contemporary Art (MUCA) in Munich displays works by artists from Banksy to OSGEMEOS or Shepard Fairy in an area of nearly 2000 square metres and has huge plans for the future. For the third exhibition, which will kick off in April 2017, Christian Utz gathered the finest works from international private Street Art collections and will show them in a “Collector’s Show” at his museum.Larry’s List spoke to Christian about the influences of the institutionalisation of Urban Art and about why there was a need to found an Urban Art museum in Germany…

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