From November 7th to 9th 2014, the inner city of Berlin was temporarily divided from Bornholmer Strasse to Mauerpark and the Berlin Wall Memorial on Bernauer Strasse, past the Reichstag, the Brandenburg Gate and Checkpoint Charlie to the East Side Gallery: a light installation featuring 8,000 luminous white balloons commemorated the division of Berlin. Developed by Christopher Bauder and Marc Bauder, the installation’s emotional and visual power evoked the dimension and brutality of the Wall.
Large format screens at selected public locations showed the impressive film collages MAUERSTÜCKE by Marc Bauder made from historic, often little-known archive footage.
"A shining and delicate symbol of peace and light, in stark contrast to the brutality of the heavy slabs of grey concrete." BBC
"LICHTGRENZE was the visual highlight of a multitude of events and gestures celebrating the anniversary" THE NEW YORK TIMES
"Die Kunstaktion zum 25. Jahrestag des Mauerfalls hat in der ganzen Welt für Aufsehen gesorgt." DER SPIEGEL
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light installation for 25th anniversary of the fall of the wall. 7.-9.11.2014 in Berlin
idea LICHTGRENZE: Christopher Bauder und Marc Bauder
development and production light installation: Christopher Bauder, WHITEvoid
Production of LICHTGRENZE: WHITEvoid, bauderfilm und Kulturprojekte Berlin
length: 15,3 km
about 8000 Ballons
Film-Highlight: MAUERSTÜCKE
by Marc Bauder
a coproduction of whiteVOID, bauderfilm and Kulturprojekte Berlin
founded by the Lottostiftung Berlin.
