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The Wall in Our Heads: American Artists and the Berlin Wall

Curated by Paul M. Farber

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Featured Artists:

Lindy Annis Still from “Paternoster Trilogy (Part II), 1991 Performative Installation for 17 Figures and a Circulating Elevator Photographs by Holger Schnaars Collection of the Artist — Lindy Annis

Alexandra Avakian Young West German Men Attack the Berlin Wall while East German Guards Shoot Water Cannon through the Cracks, 1989 Collection of the Artist — Alexandra Avakian

Jonathan Borofsky Running Man, 1982 Collection of the Artist — Jonathan Borofsky

Chuck D By the Time I Got to Arizona, 2011 SceneFour — Chuck D

Frank Hallam Day Checkpoint Charlie, 1997 Addison/Ripley Fine Art — Frank Hallam Day

Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0/b.a.n.g. lab The Transborder Immigrant Tool (TBT), 2009 Installation at the Goethe-Institut Washington, 2014 Collection of the Artists Photograph by Michael Schiffer — Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0/b.a.n.g. lab

Ron English Two-Headed Donkey on the U.S.-Mexico Border Wall, c. 2011 Collection of the Artist — Ron English

Allen Frame Butch and Frank, Berlin, 1984 Gitterman Gallery — Allen Frame

Leonard Freed American Soldiers Stand Guard as the Berlin Wall is Put Up, 1961 Brigitte Freed/Magnum Photos — Leonard Freed

Nan Goldin Suzanne in the Green Bathroom, Pergamon Museum, East Berlin, 1984 Matthew Marks Gallery — Nan Goldin

Keith Haring Berlin Wall Mural at Checkpoint Charlie Polaroids, 1986 Keith Haring Foundation — Keith Haring

Oliver Harrington Untitled (Neo-Nazis) and Untitled (West Berlin Vices), c. 1989 Walter O. Evans Collection Photographs by Lisa Boughter — Oliver Harrington

Carol Highsmith The Wall Project Presented by the Wende Museum. Portions of the Berlin Wall, Los Angeles California, 2012 Library of Congress — Carol Highsmith

James Huckenpahler Destroy What Destroys You (for S.H.), 2014 Hemphill Fine Arts — James Huckenpahler

Allan Kaprow Sweet Wall, 1970 Getty Research Institute/Allan Kaprow Estate and Hauser & Wirth — Allan Kaprow

Farrah Karapetian Souvenir #1, 2009 Wende Museum — Farrah Karapetian

Nilay Lawson What I Learned, 2014 Collection of the Artist — Nilay Lawson

Oliver Miller Documentation of Dr. Pong, 2001–ongoing Collection of the Artist — Oliver Miller

Adrian Piper Everything #5, 2004 Installation at the Goethe-Institut Washington Adrian Piper Research Archive Foundation, Berlin — Adrian Piper

Stephanie Syjuco The Berlin Wall, 2008–ongoing Catharine Clark Gallery — Stephanie Syjuco

Shinkichi Tajiri Berlin Wall 1969-1972 (Selection) Shinkichi Tajiri Estate — Shinkichi Tajiri

Bill Van Parys and Reyes Melendez Under the Berlin Wall, 1983-1988, 2009 Collection of the Artists — Bill Van Parys and Reyes Melendez

Lawrence Weiner Production Still from A Second Quarter, 1975 Goodman Gallery/Moved Pictures Archive — Lawrence Weiner