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EAST SIDE GALLERY

Art gallery – Arts centre
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2024
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2024

Berlin open-air gallery featuring paintings by dozens of artists on the 1.3 kilometer-long Berlin Wall.

It's perhaps the most famous of Berlin's galleries... because it's in the open air and has the famous Berlin Wall as its backdrop! 1.3 km long, this painted segment of the Wall along Mühlenstraße is a unique souvenir that you won't find anywhere else in the city. It's also the longest segment of the Wall still standing. In 1989, just after the fall of the Wall, dozens of artists came to paint the eastern section of the Wall, which had remained inaccessible until then. A totally spontaneous project, it was all the joy and euphoria of the moment that was expressed on this wall. Their works are so many messages: there's a man spanning the Wall, there are doves lifting the Brandenburg Gate, there's a Trabant piercing the Wall, etc. Not all of them are interesting, but the only one that stands out is the one on the wall. Not all are interesting, but the mere presence of works of art on a wall that divided the city for 28 years is an eloquent symbol. Unfortunately, time has taken its toll and the paintings are fading. Many tourists have also found it necessary to immortalize themselves with graffiti alongside Brezhnev and Honecker, which doesn't make things any better... The city regularly restores the Wall, but the narcissistic impulse of clever people who want to leave their name on this historic monument sometimes seems stronger. What's more, the East-Side-Gallery is located next to a grey, sanitized construction site built around the Mercedes-Benz-designed auditorium. We'll drop in to see the Wall and soon leave this soulless district behind.

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fute_495660
Visited in november 2022
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Une belle plongée dans le passé
Cette fresque permet de cheminer sur un peu plus d'un kilomètre et de découvrir les oeuvres réalisées par des artistes du monde entier sur cette portion du mur conservée après sa chute (la plupart des oeuvres de 1989 ont été réactualisées en 2009). Il est juste dommage que quelques peintures soient tagguées par des vandales sans talent.
danaix
Visited in july 2022
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Superbe
Une galerie en plein air sur une belle partie du mur de Berlin.Beaucoup d'artistes ont laissé des belles fresques et de quoi philosopher.
juju1908
Visited in april 2022
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Un incontournable historique
Toute l’histoire pendant la guerre froide repose sur ces morceaux de murs restants ! Pourquoi aller à Berlin si l’on ne va pas voir East Side Galery !?
Malheureusement, ils sont recouverts par de nombreux chewing-gum…
Bouboue27
Visited in october 2021
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magnifique
Cette galerie à ciel ouvert, est superbe. Le mur de Berlin est conservé à cet endroit et donne un aperçu du Berlin d avant 1989
Romain63118
Visited in august 2019
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Incontournable...
L'East side Galery est la partie la plus longue du mur de Berlin conservée pour notre plus grand plaisir. Les peintures ont continué d'évoluer depuis la chute du mur, certaines sont d'époque. On est enthousiaste devant une telle diversité d'expression. Tous n'est pas équivalent mais la balade le long de ce pan de mur est évidemment incontournable.

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