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GHENT
BELGIUM
Location:
The Wall at Flanders Expo, Ghent
© Lode Anseel
A segment of the Berlin Wall has been on display in front of the main building at the “Flanders Expo” multi-purpose indoor arena since 1998. Lode Anseel, former chief accountant for the company and Berlin enthusiast, had the 2.6 tonne section of Wall brought to Belgium. He purchased it alongside a second piece in the mid-1990s in Berlin, where he remembered it had once separated Potsdamer Platz into East and West. Anseel succeeded in convincing the former Flanders Expo management to buy one piece and install it as an attraction on the company grounds. During a small public celebration, the segment was finally installed to the sounds of “The Wall” by British rock band Pink Floyd. The piece, branded on both sides with bright graffiti, is passed by tens of thousands of visitors on their way to the building every year.
ZWEVEZELE WINGENE
BELGIUM
Location:
The Wall in Lode Anseel’s garden, Zwevedele Wingene
© Lode Anseel
The Berlin Wall has become a passion for Belgian photographer, Lode Anseel. The fate of the divided city and its world famous concrete Wall have not left him since his first school visit in 1977. Anseel wanted to get back to Berlin immediately on 9th November 1989 when he saw reports about the Fall of the Wall all over the press. However, it was not until 1990 that he actually made the journey. He was in Berlin when the famous border control point “Checkpoint Charlie” was closed on 22nd June 1990. Anseel took countless photographs as well as a few small chunks of the Wall. He sold the chunks of Wall to a street-seller for four GDR Marks. In 1995, he opened his first larger photo exhibition about Berlin in Belgian Menen. Four years later, his pictures were presented to the public in Wingene – ten years after the Fall of the Wall.