History of Berlin for a unified Germany. Loshitzky depicts the role of the Berlin Wall as a symbol of the Cold War, détente, and the collapse of the Communist regimes in Eastern Europe. She divides the history of the Wall into six major stages: the erection of the Wall (1961); the period of the "geography of fear" from the Cold War; the period of détente; the short period of glasnost and perestroika; the fall of the Wall (1989); and after the Wall. On August 13, 1961 the Communist East German government started to build a wall, physically separating West Berlin from East Berlin
9th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art 9th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art The 9th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, held in 2016, was curated by the collaborative project DIS and titled "The Present in Drag". The 9th Berlin Biennale proposed to explore the present moment which, according to the official press release “[...] is unknowable, unpredictable, and incomprehensible—forged by a persistent commitment to a set of fictions.” DIS chose to create a separate website for the 9th Berlin Biennale, in addition to the institutional website. Thus the internet is considered one of the venues within which the Biennale occurred and is now archived. Babak Radboy (of