The Berlin Wall across the world
Location: Dalian International Hotel (missing since end of 1990s) 3 segments Since 1984, the East China port city Dalian, China’s northernmost ice-free port, is a special trade area with branches of international and German companies. Most of their employees check into one of the of the Wanda Group Hotels, i.e. the Dalian Interational Hotel. In 1995, three […]
Location: Bengal Gallery of Fine Arts 1 segment In Bangladesh, a Wall segment only had a short spell: In May 2010, it was temporarily exhibited at the Bengal Gallery of Fine Arts, an institution of Bengal Foundation. Further details unknown. Additional information can be uploaded via comment on this side. To upload a photo, please follow […]
Location: in front of Mandela Rhodes Foundation 1 segment The Mandela Rhodes Foundation is a joint venture of the Nelson Mandela Foundation and the Rhodes Trust. Their scholarships support the training of leaders in Africa – in the spirit of Nelson Mandela, by leadership and reconciliation, and in the spirit of Cecil Rhodes, who represented education […]
Location: Janco-Dada-Museum 1 segment In the immediate post-reunification period, the Berlin Museum Haus am Checkpoint Charlie organized an exhibition on the inner-German border, that was shown in many cities and met great interest. In Israel, the development in Germany was seen rather critical and distant. Nevertheless, the Janco-Dada-Museum brought the exhibition Jenseits der Mauer to the […]
Location: in front of Central House of Artists (missing since 1991) 1 segment As part of the 1991 initiated exhibition End of the Berlin Wall – Start of a new Europe a Wall segment was set up in front of the Gorky Park in Moscow. The project of the Sakharov Foundation was supported by the Berlin Museum […]
Location: in front of Sakharov Center 1 segment Even before the collapse of the Soviet Union, Elena Bonner, widow of the human rights activist Andrei Sakharov who died in late 1989, founded together with companions, close associates and colleagues a foundation to preserve the heritage of Sakharov. This resultrd in an international conference, which took place in […]
Location: at the edges of Vatican Gardens 1 segment from Waldemarstraße Born in Rome in 1952, Marco Piccininni descended from a prestigious industrial family with good contacts into the Vatican. Thus, it is well to explain that Piccininni donated a segment, which he auctioned in Monte Carlo in 1990, to Pope John Paul II in the same year. […]
Location: Garden of Malteser Caritas Hilfsdienst 2 segments Hungary was the first country to open the Iron Curtain in May 1989. Thousands of East German refugees sought shelter in the German Embassy in Budapest in the summer of 1989. As more and more people crowded there and wanted to force exit permit to the West, a […]
Location: House of Terror 1 segment Since November 2010, a Wall segment is standing in front of the House of Terror in Budapest as a memorial memorial for breaking down walls and overcoming borders. The House of Terror is dedicated to the victims of totalitarian rule. The building has a memorable past: 1880 initially built as […]
Location: Parque de la Libertad fragments (parts of a 5-piece ensemble from Sevilla) These fragments in Utrera are originally part of an ensemble which was exhibited in Sevilla during the EXPO ’92. After the end of the EXPO the brothers Luis and Ramon Gonzales Parreño asked for the smaller parts to displaying them in Utrera. […]