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The Walther Collection is pleased to present Taking Stock of Power: An Other View of the Berlin Wall, a project developed by photographer Arwed Messmer and writer Annett Gröschner, both based in Berlin, following several years of collaborative research. Debuting during the 30th anniversary year of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the exhibition recalls the brutality of the Wall’s physical reality and political symbolism, which today resonate anew.

Drawn from extensive research in the previously unexplored archives of the border troops of East Germany, Taking Stock of Power began with the …