In addition to his portraits of boxing legend Muhammad Ali, photographs by Andy Warhol and works from Hoepker’s “Berlin Wall Children” series will also be on display. Thomas Hoepker (1936-2024) gained his first experience with the medium of photography at the age of 14. He received two ...
There are a wide range of approaches to see the Berlin Wall while in the city. In the event that spots like Checkpoint Charlie feel excessively touristy, head to the Berlin Wall Memorial, referred to in German as the Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer. It’s a remembrance to the endless men, ...
Brandenburg Gate gate dates back to the 18th Century as it used to be one of the old gates leading in to the city. Now after the wall came down in 1989 this became a symbol of unity between East and West Germany. This neoclassical triumphal arch is one of the most important sites to ...
A historic‘must-see’for us when we visited Berlin was the infamous Berlin Wall. Whilst most of the wall has been removed, parts of the original wall have been retained as a memory, particularly by the Berlin Wall Memorial and Checkpoint Charlie – the most famous crossing of the wall dur...
Before we reach the Baltic Sea, our trip begins in Rostock, home to a mish-mash of architecture, sculptures and fountains. Our tour will also take us through what used to be the GDR, German Democratic Republic, aka former East Germany, before the Wall came down in 1989. The city, like...
strasse – in 2010. I took the one below almost exactly five years later. Now this large (un)polished image of Lenin was still on this building – and only a few hundred metres from the Brandenburg Gate – twenty-one years after the Wall came down. Check the dates on the photographs....
As he gives me the grand tour, he leads me into the kitchen, where a portrait of Alan the Studio Cat graces the wall. “This is Alan’s shrine,” Cameron says and then points at another wall with photographs: “And these are Alan’s kittens.” Alan is a she...
The church’s front door was unlocked when we arrived around 5 pm on a Sunday, allowing us to enter the vestibule. The church interior was visible, but only through a glass wall. So we walked around the exterior, took photos, and then the caretaker arrived to close the front door for ...
It all looks very good, and the scenes in which Corbijn recreates the famous photographs we already know are impressively accurate, but there seems to be very little going on below the surface. And finally, “Knight of Cups,” jointly our number one Most Anticipated title of 2015 (alongside...
After the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, unused plots of land and buildings were ready to be filled with new life by clubs, bars, galleries, workshops and studios. "All of a sudden, everyone was able to program their own world. With its DJing, producing, launching magazines and printing T-...