East Side Gallery, Berlin

East Side Gallery, Berlin (Germany)

The East Side Gallery memorial in Berlin-Friedrichshain is a permanent open-air gallery on the longest surviving section of the Berlin Wall in Mhlenstrae between the Berlin Ostbahnhof and the Oberbaumbrcke along the Spree. It consists of a series of murals painted directly on a 1316 m long remnant of the Berlin Wall located near the center of Berlin on Mhlenstrae in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg. In the spring of 1990 after the opening of the Berlin Wall this section was painted by 118 artists from 21 countries. The artists commented on the political changes of 198990 in a good hundred paintings on the side of the Wall that was formerly facing East Berlin. Due to urban development measures it is no longer completely preserved and instead of the originals from then only the replicas from 2009 exist today.