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The Wall in Our Heads

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