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Remembering Berlin’s Post-Communist Art Colony—Before It Became ‘Kitsch for the Rich’

The Berlin winter sky is orange one evening as we turn off Oranienburger Strasse into Tacheles courtyard, where a Trabant is planted nose-first in the sand, a laconic memorial to a lifestyle that no longer exists.

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Remembering Berlin’s Post-Communist Art Colony—Before It Became ‘Kitsch for the Rich’
Kunsthaus Tacheles stairway with graffiti, photographed by Roi Boshi in 2008

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