Berlin Wall East Side Gallery

East Side Gallery is a special place, where art has become the expression for a unique point in time of the history of a separated Germany. It is a meeting point that talks about an old Berlin and a new Berlin, a separated and a unified Germany.

Between Oberbaumbrucke (Oberbaum Bridge) and the Ostbahnhof, along the former borderline that ended at the Spree and Muhlenstrasse, stretches a unique picture palette that marks a sign of overcoming inhumanity. After the Wall came down in 1989, hundreds of artists from all over the world gathered and transformed the eastside of the Wall that had been untouchable up to now, with their paintings, giving the Wall a new face in a new time.

This new face is the East Side Gallery. The paintings at the East Side Gallery document that time of change and express the euphoria and great hopes for a better and different future that characterized the time of when the Wall came down. The project developed to an enormous picture wall with its over 100 paintings, that unfortunately now, 10 years later, is in such a bad condition that you can hardly see the colorful strength the paintings expressed.