JR installs scaffolding collage at Brandenburg Gate for Berlin Wall anniversary

French artist JR created a large-scale installation at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate to mark the 28th anniversary of German reunification. The work, inaugurated on October 3, 2018, features a 25-meter-high scaffolding structure displaying a collage of photographs taken on November 10, 1989, the day after the Berlin Wall fell, showing people from East and West celebrating atop the wall. JR, known for politically engaged public art, previously installed a piece along the US-Mexico border depicting a child peering over the wall, critiquing Trump's separation policies, and created a collage of refugee faces for the Armory Show in New York. Concurrently, a previously unknown section of the Berlin Wall was discovered in the Mitte district, confirmed by city councilor Ephraim Gothe and Günther Schulsche of the Berlin Wall Foundation, who noted it was part of the outer defense barrier and that other hidden sections may exist.