The East Side Gallery is an international memorial for freedom. It is a 1316 m long section of the Berlin Wall located near the centre of Berlin on Mühlenstraße in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg. The actual border at this point was the river Spree. The gallery is located on the so-called "hinterland mauer", which closed the border to West Berlin.
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Description
The Gallery consists of 105 paintings by artists from all over the world, painted in 1990 on the east side of the Berlin Wall. The East Side Gallery was founded following the successful merger of the two German artists' associations VBK and BBK. The founding members were the speche of the Federal Association of Artists BBK Bodo Sperling, Barbara Greul Aschanta, Jörg Kubitzki and David Monti.
It is possibly the largest and longest-lasting open air gallery in the world. Paintings from Jürgen Grosse alias INDIANO, Dimitri Vrubel, Siegfrid Santoni, Bodo Sperling, Kasra Alavi, Kani Alavi, Jim Avignon, Thierry Noir, Ingeborg Blumenthal, Ignasi Blanch i Gisbert, Kim Prisu, Hervé Morlay VR and others have followed.
The paintings at the East Side Gallery document a time of change and express the euphoria and great hopes for a better, more free future for all people of the world.
In July 2006, to facilitate access to the River Spree from O2 World, a 40-meter section was moved somewhat west, parallel to the original position
A 23-meter section was scheduled to be removed on March 1, 2013, to make way for luxury apartments. None of the artists whose work will be destroyed were informed of these plans. The demolition work actually started on March 1, 2013. According to German news FOCUS, authorities were not aware of the start of the demolition. Due to the involvement of protesters, demolition was postponed until at least March 18, 2013.
Eastside Body Shop Video
Remediation
Two-thirds of the paintings are badly damaged by erosion, graffiti, and vandalism. One-third have been restored by a non-profit organization which started work in 2000. The objective of this organization is the eventual restoration and preservation of all the paintings. Full restoration, particularly of the central sections, was projected for 2008. Remediation began in May 2009.
The restoration process has been marked by major conflict. Eight of the artists of 1990 refused to paint their own images again after they were completely destroyed by the renovation. In order to defend the copyright, they founded "Founder Initiative East Side" with other artists whose images were simply copied without permission. Bodo Sperling launched a test case in the Berlin State Court in May 2011, represented by the Munich art lawyer Hannes Hartung and with the support of the German VG Bild-Kunst. The Court will address the question of whether art should be listed as destroyed and then re-copied without the respective artists' permission. The outcome of the trial will be a landmark declaration for European art law.
Artists
- Oskar: (Hans Bierbrauer)
- Narenda K. Jain: Die sieben Stufen der Erleuchtung
- Fulvio Pinna: Hymne an das Glück
- Kikue Miyatake: Paradise Out Of The Darkness
- Günther Schaefer: Vaterland
- Georg Lutz Rauschebart
- César Olhagaray: No title
- Jens-Helge Dahmen: Pneumohumanoiden
- Gábor Simon: Space Magic
- Siegrid Müller-Holtz: Gemischte Gefühle
- Ursula Wünsch: Frieden für Alles
- Oliver Feind, Ulrike Zott: No title
- Ana Leonor Rodriges
- Muriel Raoux, Kani Alavi: No title
- Muriel Raoux: Les Yeux Ouverts
- Ditmar Reiter: No title
- Santoni: Trilogie-Maschine Macht
- Bodo Sperling: The Trans-formation of the penta gram to a peace star in a big Europe without walls
- Barbara Greul Aschanta: Deutschland im November
- Willi Berger: Soli Deo Gloria
- André Sécrit, Karsten Thomas: Du hast gelernt, was Freiheit ist
- Theodor Chezlav Tezhik: The Big Kremlin's Wind
- Catrin Resch: Europas Frühling
- Irina Dubrowskaja: Die Wand muss weichen wenn der Meteorit der Liebe kommt
- Dmitri Wrubel: Mein Gott hilf mir, diese tödliche Liebe zu überleben
- Marc Engel: Marionetten eines abgesetzten Stücks
- Alexey Taranin: No title
- Michail Serebrjakow: Diagonale Lösung des Problems
- Rosemarie Schinzler: No title
- Rosemarie Schinzler: Wachsen lassen
- Christine Fuchs: How's God? She's Black
- Gerhard Lahr: Berlyn
- Karin Porath: Freiheit fängt innen an
- Lutz Pottien-Seiring: No title
- Wjatschleslaw Schjachow: Die Masken
- Dmitri Vrubel: Danke, Andrej Sacharow
- Jeanett Kipka: No title
- Gamil Gimajew: No title
- Jürgen Große: Die Geburt der Kachinas
- Christopher Frank: Stay Free
- Andreas Paulun: Amour, Paix
- Kim Prisu (Joaquim A. Gocalves Borregana): Métamorphose des existences lié par un mobile indéfini
- Greta Csatlòs (Künstlergruppe Ciccolina): Sonic Malade
- Henry Schmidt: Vergesst mir die Liebe nicht
- Thomas Klingenstein: Umleitung in den japanischen Sektor
- Karsten Wenzel: Die Beständigkeit der Ignoranz
- Pierre-Paul Maillé: No title
- Andy Weiß: Geist Reise
- Gabriel Heimler: Der Mauerspringer
- Salvadore de Fazio: Dawn of Peace
- Gerald Kriedner: Götterdämmerung
- Christos Koutsouras: Einfahrt Tag und Nacht freihalten
- Yvonne Onischke (geb. Matzat; Künstlername seit 2005 Yoni): Berlin bei Nacht
- Peter Peinzger: No title
- Elisa Budzinski: Wer will, daß die Welt so bleibt, wie sie ist, der will nicht, daß sie bleibt
- Sabine Kunz: No title
- Jay One (Jacky Ramier): No title
- Klaus Niethardt: Justitia
- Mirta Domacinovic: Zeichen in der Reihe
- Patrizio Porrachia: No title
- Ines Bayer, Raik Hönemann: Es gilt viele Mauern abzubauen
- Thierry Noir: Ohne Titel
- Teresa Casanueva: Ohne Titel
- Stephan Cacciatore: La Buerlinca
- Karina Bjerregaard, Lotte Haubart: Himlen over Berlin
- Christine Kühn: Touch the Wall
- Rodolfo Ricàlo: Vorsicht
- Birgit Kinder: Test the Rest
- Margaret Hunter, Peter Russell: Ohne Titel
- Peter Russell: Himmel und Sucher
- Margaret Hunter: Joint Venture
- Sándor Rácmolnár: Waiting for a New Prometheus
- Gábor Imre: Ohne Titel
- Pal Gerber: Sag, welche wunderbaren Träumen halten meinen Sinn umfangen
- Gábor Gerhes: Ohne Titel
- Sándor Györffy: Ohne Titel
- Gruppe Stellvertretende Durstende
- Laszlo Erkel (Kentaur): You can see Infinity
- Kani Alavi: Es geschah im November
- Jim Avignon: Miriam Butterfly, Tomas Fey: Doin it cool for the East Side
- Peter Lorenz: Ohne Titel
- Dieter Wien: Der Morgen
- Jacob Köhler: Lotus
- Carmen Leidner: Niemandsland
- Jens Hübner, Andreas Kämper: Ohne Titel
- Hans-Peter Dürhager, Ralf Jesse: Der müde Tod
- Jolly Kunjappu: Dancing to Freedom
- Susanne Kunjappu-Jellinek: Curriculum Vitae
- Mary Mackey: Tolerance
- Carsten Jost, Ulrike Steglich: Politik ist die Fortsetzung des Krieges mit anderen Mitteln
- Brigida Böttcher: Flora geht
- Ignasi Blanch i Gisbert: Parlo d'Amor
- Kiddy Cidny: Ger-Mania
- Petra Suntinger, Roland Gützlaff: Ohne Titel
- Andrej Smolak: Ohne Titel
- Youngram Kim-Holdfeld: Ohne Titel
- Karin Velmanns: Ohne Titel
- Rainer Jehle: Denk-Mal, Mahn-Mal
- Kamel Alavi: Ohne Titel
- Kasra Alavi: Flucht
- Ingeborg Blumenthal: Der Geist ist wie Spuren der Vögel am Himmel
- Youngram Kim
In popular media
- The gallery was seen in Wolfgang Becker's movie Goodbye, Lenin!
- The gallery was featured in the 5th leg of The Amazing Race 6.
- The gallery was featured in English indie/rock band Bloc Party's single Kreuzberg taken from the album A Weekend in the City
- Panel 32, Gerhard Lahr's "Berlyn", is seen in Anton Corbijn's video for U2's song One.
East Side Gallery photos
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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