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East Side Gallery

Berlin

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East Side Gallery

An East German Trabant car, which appears to be breaking through the concrete. Honecker and Breschnew locked in a kiss of brotherly, socialist love. With the East Side Gallery, a segment of the Berlin Wall has been turned into the longest open air gallery in the world. The open-air East Side Gallery is located along the banks of the river Spree in Friedrichshain. At 1,316 metres, it's also the longest segment of the Berlin Wall that is still standing. Right after the fall of the Wall, this stretch was painted by 118 artists from 21 different countries. Using various techniques, the artists commented on the political events that took place in 1989 and 1990 in over 100 works of art found on the eastern side of the wall.

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  • Address: East-Side-Gallery, Mühlenstraße 1, Berlin-Friedrichshain
  • Email: info@eastsidegallery-berlin.com
  • Phone: +49 30 21 30 85 123
  • More Info: www.stiftung-berliner-mauer.de/en/east-side-gallery
  • Address: S Ostbahnhof, Warschauer Straße
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