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West Berlin Walls: Public Art and the Right to the City
Ist Teil von
Public art dialogue, 2014-01, Vol.4 (1), p.100-120
Ort / Verlag
Routledge
Erscheinungsjahr
2014
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
During the fifteen-year period before the fall of the Berlin Wall, roughly 250 murals were painted in West Berlin. The initiative for their creation often came from local residents in the neighborhoods where the murals were located. There was a range of skill levels and various involvements by local government, but even when municipal programs were created to underwrite murals, they were a response to what had already been initiated at the community level. Many murals address the quality of urban life by protesting specific urban or industrial changes or projecting alternative cityscapes. The shift in mural art to neighborhood locations and to themes addressing local issues suggests a new role for public art and a new position for murals in relation to public space. In the context of pre-1989 West Berlin, murals became a vehicle for citizens to contribute to the discourse of urban development by challenging mainstream practices, creating solidarity, redefining citizens' place in the urban community, and reimagining the design and experience of the city. Using urban structures to intervene in the processes that were defining urban experience became a way by which the broader community could claim a right to the city.