The Berlin Wall across the world
Location: Musée des blindés 1 segment The four occupying powers of Germany were constantly present in Berlin during the Cold War. With the end of this period, their task have become redundant, the forces were withdrawn, sites were closed. When the French troops left, they were given a Wall segment by the Berlin Senate as […]
Location: La Gibauderie (private property) 1 segment In 1990, a dazzling auction took place in Monte Carlo, where first Wall segments were offered to art lovers and enthusiasts from around the world. 80 Wall segments came up for auction on behalf of Limex and the LeLeBerlin. The buyers were i.e. Jaguba Rizzoli and Ljiljana Hennessy, the latter former actress and heiress […]
Location: Esplanade du 9 novembre 1989 formerly Porte de Versailles 1 segment In 2006, the square Porte de Versailles in front of the Paris Exhibition and Congress Centre in the 15th Arrandissement was renamed in Esplanade du 9 novembre 1989, chute du mur de Berlin. The name change was accompanied by the erection of a Wall segment, however, […]
Location: Place de Coupole 3 segments from Kreuzberg’s Waldemarstraße King Buffo is the name of the distinctive graffito that was sprayed on the wall in Kreuzberg’s Waldemarstraße by Kiddy Citny in 1984. In 1990 the segments changed hands for 300,000 Mark and came with stopovers in Bonn and Strasbourg to Paris, where they were set […]
Location: Blangy le Chateau (private property) 1 segment For Hans-Olaf Henkel, the Wall segment at his country house in the Normandy, is a personal memory of turbulent times: After the fall of the Wall Henkel was member of the Board of Directors of the Treuhandanstalt and adviser to the former East-German Prime Minister Lothar de Maizière. […]
Location: on the estate of the Rizzoli family (private property) 1 segment In 1990, a dazzling auction took place in Monte Carlo, where first Wall segments were offered to art lovers and enthusiasts from around the world. 80 wall segments came up for auction on behalf of Limex and the LeLeBerlin. The buyers e.g. were next Ljiljana Hennessy […]
Location: Parc de Axel Springer 2 segments In 1990 Jean Broaweys, employee in Berliner Axel Springer Verlag, bought two Wall segments to set them up on his property in Brittany along with other memorabilia. The ensemble was called Parc de Axel Springer. In 2005 the property was sold, the new owner kept the name. […]
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 […]
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