The Berlin Wall across the world
Location: Rue Wirtz, visitor entrance to the EP 1 segment This segment was temporarily set up at a number of places in Brussels. Finally, on occasion of the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Wall in 2014, it was permanent set up in the Rue Wirtz close to the visitor entrance to the hemicycle […]
Location: Bert-Kämpfert-Platz (temp. in June 2017) 2 segments The German-Mexican artist collective CARTEL DEL ARTE hosted a streetart festival in Hamburg a few weeks before the G20-Summit 2017 took place. Cartel Del Arte, for short CADEART, unites international trends of urban art and culture. The multi-day festival was characterized by tolerance and cultural diversity and presented […]
Location: in front of the Council of Europe (temp. in 1990) 3 segments Stopover in Strasbourg en route to Paris: Three distinctive Berlin Wall segments from Kreuzberg Waldemarstraße were set up in front of the Council of Europe already in spring 1990. Far away from Berlin, these segments should enable Strasburg citizens to have a […]
Location: Florastraße 1 segment Hohen Neuendorf was bordering West-Berlin in the North. Four young people were killed in this community while trying to escape: Joachim Mehr on December 3rd, 1964 (at the age of 19), Willi Born on Juli 7th, 1970 (three weeks before his 20th birthday), Rolf Kabelitz on Januar 7th, 1971 (also 19), […]
Location: Skate & BMX Park Kalijodo 4 segments Teguh Ostenrik was a student in West Berlin when the wall fell. Twenty-seven years later, he looks around Indonesia and still sees a lot of walls separating people from each other. “There are ‘walls’ among our pluralistic society that divide us into groups like race, religion, and […]