The Berlin Wall across the world
Location: World Council of Churches, Route de Ferney 3 segments Three Berlin Wall segments are in the garden of the World Council of Churches (WCC) in Geneva. In 2009, WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia commented on the 20th anniversary of the event that brought to an end the cold war era:Twenty years ago in […]
Location: Hanbit Square 6 segments The world’s fair in 1993 (Exposition Universelle Internationale, shortly: EXPO) took place in the than developing South Korea – exactly 100 years after Korea’s first participation at an EXPO (1893 in Chicago). The overall subject of the EXPO ’93 was The Challenge of a New Road of Development. Germany, […]
Location: Museo de la Moda, temp. spring to autumn 2018 1 segment (on loan of German Embassy in Santiago de Chile) Siendo el futuro: 1889-1918 / 1989-2018 – being the future – is a temporary exhibition of the Museo de la Moda, a fashion museum in the Chilean capital. Sociopolitical, technical and cultural subjects are […]
Location: private property, Historische Bauelemente 2 segments from Pankow After the German Unification, a lot of demolition works, core removals and renovation was done in the new federal states. Scrapped stuff was dumped. Olaf Elias soon got specialized in saving historical components and antiques from the Renaissance to Bauhaus and GDR-Objectivity and has made it […]
Location: culture bunker 3 segments During the Korean war, an anti-tank defense shelter was build in the Northwest of the South Korean capital Seoul in order to prevent the advance of the North Korean military. The apartments within the complex were basically for the soldiers but also a camouflage for the military facility underneath it. […]