November 7th through the 9th, Berlin will celebrate the 25th anniversary of Mauerfall, or The Fall of the Wall. One of the events is an art installation called Lichtgrenze by artists Christopher and Marc Bauder, in which 8,000 illuminated balloons will be lighting up the 15 kilometer route of the wall. On the night of the 9th, the balloons will be released, carrying messages with them.
Every 500 feet along the path of the lights there will be historical footage and imagery of what each area was like when the wall was still intact, leading up to its world-watched destruction in 1989. While there were walls, mines and no-mans-land zones outside of Berlin as well, there is something particularly powerful about the way the boundary impacted Germany’s capital, slicing it brutally through its center, often cutting streets and even buildings in half.
Read more about the art installation at Web Urbanist. -via reddit
Read about the fall of the Berlin Wall.
(Image credit: © Kulturprojekte Berlin_WHITEvoid / Christopher Bauder, Photo: Daniel Büche)