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8,000 Glowing Balloons Recreate 10 Miles of the Berlin Wall To Mark the 25th Anniversary of the Wall’s Fall

by E.D.W. Lynch on November 9, 2014

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Today is the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. As part of Berlin’s Fall of the Wall 2014 celebrations, 8,000 illuminated balloons have been installed along a 10-mile corridor in the city for an installation entitled LICHTGRENZE (Light Border). The line of balloons follows the former border between East and West Berlin–between 1961 and 1989 that border was demarcated by a deadly no-man’s land and the Berlin Wall. The installation was created by brothers Christopher and Marc Bauder, in collaboration with Robert Havemann Gesellschaft and Kulturprojekte Berlin.

We recently posted about Google’s video doodle commemoration of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

LICHTGRENZE Berlin Wall Balloon Installation
photo by Hamish Appleby

LICHTGRENZE Berlin Wall Balloon Installation
photo by Hamish Appleby

LICHTGRENZE Berlin Wall Balloon Installation
Balloons along one of the few remaining sections of original wall. Photo by Alexander Rentsch

LICHTGRENZE Berlin Wall Balloon Installation
photo by Alexander Rentsch

LICHTGRENZE Berlin Wall Balloon Installation
LICHTGRENZE and the Brandenburg Gate. Photo via Fall of the Wall 2014

via Wired


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