If you walk along where the Berlin Wall used to be around Bernauer Strasse, you will see a meat mural that might be our favorite street art piece in Berlin. This enormous painting shows the side of buildings cut by a large knife, with the city’s shape represented in some white tissue.
This shows how the Berlin Wall was a scar running along with the city.
It all came to be in the summer of 2016 when there was a call for submissions for a mural. The theme was “If walls could talk…” The people behind Talenthouse Kreativplattform received almost 400 designs from more than 50 countries and decided to go with the work from Marcus Haas, a designer from Munich.
His meat mural was created with the help of Xi-Design and the artists Size Two and Mario Mankey.
For us, this painting explores the history of East and West Berlin and is eye-catching and raw at every level. Sometimes, it might be too intense for some people based on the comments we received on one of the pictures we posted on this meat mural on Instagram. Some people can’t handle a flesh mural like this one.
But we love how this meat mural shows the city’s division due to the Berlin Wall in a unique way.
The fact that it is located so close to where the Berlin Wall used to stand between 1961 and 1989 is a plus, and it can teach all the people who visit the Berlin Wall Memorial on Bernauer Strasse.
If you want to see where this Meat Mural from Marcus Haas is located, follow the map below. But be aware that it might be too late. The mural went up in the summer of 2016 and was supposed to stand there for only three months.
We were in the area around July 2017 to take these pictures, and it was still there. So, maybe they will replace it with something else soon, or perhaps you will get lucky and see it there.
If Walls Could Talk… — A Meat Mural by Marcus Haas where the Berlin Wall used to be
Bernauer Str. 94 – 13355 Berlin
