The Berlin Wall across the world
Location: temporarily; current site: Esplanade du Gaumont 2 segments In 2011 Benoît Maubrey created a very impressive electroacustic sculpture with 1,000 recycled loudspeakers, radios, and amplifiers, which was installed in a modified form in Berlin. People could call up the sculpture and talk through it for 3 minutes. The whole sculpture amplifies peoples‘ statements and […]
Location: Vaprikkii Museum Center 1 segment of the Hinterlandmauer The Tampella Ltd. was an engineering company but also operated in the wood-based production. In the early 1990s the company was smashed after a bankruptcy.The factory building has been used by the Vaprikkii Museum Center since then. The Wall segment, that was set up here in 2008, is a […]
Location: Gallery Galschiøt 2 fragments of the Hinterlandmauer The gallery Galschiøt is a 2,500 qm large, factory-like studio and Museum of the Danish artist Galschiøt. According to the owner, Denmark’s largest and most spectacular art workshops take place here. In the adjacent sculpture garden two fragments from the Hinterlandmauer are standing, each approximately 2m high. They were presented […]
Location: Cold War Museum 1 segment from Potsdamer Platz During the Cold War, the Danish Langelandsfort was an important outpost of the Western Allies in the Baltic Sea. The Fort was built in 1952-1953 as a part of the Danish Sea Defence in the south of the Island Langeland. The primary task of the base was […]
Location: beside the cultural center 1 segment In 2006 the city council of Sofia would have liked to have a Wall segment for the extension of the Memorial to the Victims of Communism. The German Federal Government followed to the wish and donated a segment. Click to enlarge: Photo above and background:© by Svetla Encheva. Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA […]
