"Many small people, who in many small places, do many small things, can alter the face of the world."
Mühlenstraße, Berlin, Germany.
[EN] The East Side Gallery is an open-air gallery in Berlin. It consists of a series of murals painted directly on a 1,316 m (4,318 ft) long remnant of the Berlin Wall, located near the centre of Berlin, on Mühlenstraße in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg. The gallery has official status as a Denkmal, or heritage-protected landmark. According to the Künstlerinitiative East Side Gallery e.V., an association of the artists involved in the project, "The East Side Gallery is understood as a monument to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the peaceful negotiation of borders and conventions between societies and people", and has more than three million visitors per year.
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 actual border at this point had been the river Spree. The gallery is located on the so-called "hinterland mauer", which closed the border to West Berlin.
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. East Side Gallery, Berlin
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.
In July 2006, to facilitate access to the River Spree from O2 World, a 40 m (130 ft) 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.
[DE] Das Denkmal East Side Gallery in Berlin-Friedrichshain ist eine dauerhafte Open-Air-Galerie auf dem längsten noch erhaltenen Teilstück der Berliner Mauer in der Mühlenstraße zwischen dem Berliner Ostbahnhof und der Oberbaumbrücke entlang der Spree.
Im Frühjahr 1990, nach der Öffnung der Berliner Mauer, wurde dieses Teilstück von 118 Künstlern aus 21 Ländern auf einer Länge von 1316 Metern bemalt. Die Künstler kommentierten in gut einhundert Gemälden auf der ehemals Ost-Berlin zugewandten Seite der Mauer mit den unterschiedlichsten künstlerischen Mitteln die politischen Veränderungen der Jahre 1989/90. Wegen städtebaulicher Maßnahmen ist sie mittlerweile nicht mehr durchgehend erhalten, und anstelle der Originale von damals existieren heute nur noch die im Jahr 2009 entstandenen Repliken.
Die eigentliche Grenze bildete an dieser Stelle das Kreuzberger Ufer der Spree. Die Galerie befindet sich an der so genannten Hinterlandmauer, die das Grenzgebiet nach Ost-Berlin hin abschloss. Längs dieser Grenzanlagen verlief mit der Mühlenstraße eine der Hauptausfallstraßen in Richtung Süden. Aufgrund der räumlichen Gegebenheiten waren die zuletzt üblichen Betonröhren bereits hier aufgesetzt, so dass die Hinterlandmauer in diesem Bereich untypischerweise optisch, aber etwas überhöht, der äußeren Mauer glich. (Wikipedia)
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