30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall

To mark the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Peaceful Revolution, seven open-air exhibitions are planned at historic locations in Berlin.  more

Berliners and their guests will celebrate the evening of 9 November with a big show at Brandenburg Gate.  more

As part of a major art campaign to mark the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, 30,000 messages will float above Straße des 17. Juni.  more

The state of Brandenburg commemorates the fall of the Wall 30 years ago with an event at the Glienicke Bridge between the cities of Berlin and Potsdam.  more

An aquatic light installation by the artist Rainer W. Gottemeier will draw border lines on the Spree River as part of the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.  more

Most visitors to Berlin want to see the Wall. But of the concrete barrier that once divided the German capital, only remnants remain. Where to find pieces of the real thing.  more

The Documentation Centre known as Dokumentationszentrum Berliner Mauer is an important source of information and an original documentary source/archive devoted to the history of the Berlin Wall.  more

After the German reunification, artists have turned this former stretch of the Berlin Wall into the largest open-air gallery in the world.  more

Checkpoint Charlie was the best-known border crossing between East and West Berlin during the Cold War. At the height of the Berlin Crisis in 1961 U.S. and Soviet tanks faced each other here.  more

The exhibition at Martin-Gropius-Bau displays works of art that deal with the concept of demarcation through borders and barriers 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall.  more

East German Portraits 1989-1990: In the period of upheaval following the fall of the Berlin Wall, photographer Stefan Moses used the opportunity to portray people from the GDR.  more