In summer 1990, 118 artists from 21 countries designed the Berlin Wall in Berlin-Friedrichshain with their art. The open-air gallery has become world-famous as a symbol of the end of the Cold War and as a historical reminder of the inhumane border regime. The preservation of the monument was controversial for a long time: it was only in the 2000s that Berlin began to preserve the historical traces of the once divided city. By then, building permits had long since been granted for the Spree properties, while the artworks fell into disrepair. In five essays, the exhibition catalogue of the Berlin Wall Foundation describes the transformation of the monument and its surroundings and explaines the uses, appropriations and displacements.

Anna von Arnim-Rosenthal was born in 1983 and studied political science and cultural studies in Oldenburg, Bremen, and Leipzig. Her work focusses on German division, remembrance culture, and monument policy as well as extracurricular learning at historical sites and eyewitness work. She was a research volunteer with Stiftung Berliner Mauer,
2010 ¿ 2012; then research associate at the Federal Foundation for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship, 2014 ¿ 2018; and is now Head of the East Side Gallery under Stiftung Berliner Mauer since 2018.

Juliane Haubold-Stolle was born in 1975 and studied history and political science in Göttingen, Torun, and Geneva. She holds a doctorial degree in History and was a research volunteer at the German Historical Museum. She works as an exhibition curator in the public presentation and mediation of history, most recently in 2020¿s ¿Ausgeschlossen.
Archaeology of the Nazi Forced Camps" and was the curator of the permanent open-air exhibition at the East Side Gallery under Stiftung Berliner Mauer, 2020 ¿ 2022.