East Side Gallery
The East Side Gallery turns a war boundary into a public mural corridor: it is a permanent open-air gallery on the longest surviving section of the Berlin Wall along the Spree. Here, artists painted directly onto a Berlin Wall remnant—1,316 meters long—on Mühlenstraße between Berlin Ostbahnhof and the Oberbaumbrücke. In spring 1990, shortly after the Wall’s opening, 118 artists from 21 countries created a little over a hundred paintings commenting on the political changes of 1989 and 1990. The setting was still shaped by the border geometry of the time: the actual line here ran along the Kreuzberg bank of the Spree, with much of the gallery on the western wall that faced into West Berlin. That inner wall was thicker and more fortified than the outward-facing side. Urban development measures meant the original 1990 artworks could not all be preserved, and today the gallery shows replicas from 2009. …
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