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One segment installed in 2015 at Höfði, where Reagan and Gorbachev met in 1986 — an argument about causation, made in concrete.
The piece at Höfði was put in the car park on 3 October 2015. The Reagan–Gorbachev summit at Höfði in October 1986 failed publicly and is generally read as the turning point towards the treaties that followed. Placing a piece of the Wall at that address is an argument about causation, made in concrete.
The city's own announcement and the Reykjavík Art Museum, which lists the segment in its collection of public art, record it as a section from Potsdamer Platz painted by the street artist Jakob Wagner for Neu West Berlin's 2011 exhibition on the Spree, about four tonnes and 3.6 metres high, received for the city by the mayor, Dagur B. Eggertsson; the Foundation adds that Wagner came back in 2017 to restore the weathered painting.
How did it get here?
Gifted by the Neu West Berlin art centre for the twenty-fifth anniversary of German reunification; from Potsdamer Platz, painted by Jakob Wagner in 2011.
Sources
Listed by the Federal Foundation as #132 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #352.
List of Berlin Wall segments — Wikipedia ↗
Installed 3 October 2015 at Höfði, a gift from the Neu West Berlin gallery.
General referenceSource accessed 2026-09-17
Hluti úr Berlínarmúrnum settur upp við Höfða ↗
The City of Reykjavík's own announcement of 3 October 2015: the mayor, Dagur B. Eggertsson, formally received the segment at Höfði as a gift from the Berlin art centre Neu West Berlin; it was painted by the street artist Jakob Wagner, weighs about four tonnes, came from Potsdamer Platz and had been shown in Berlin in 2011 for the fiftieth anniversary of the Wall's construction; the siting at Höfði was chosen for the 1986 summit.
Institutional sourceSource accessed 2026-09-17
Berlínarmúrinn / Jakob Wagner - Listasafn Reykjavíkur ↗
The Reykjavík Art Museum's collection record for the work, titled Berlínarmúrinn and attributed to Jakob Wagner: a section of the Berlin Wall 360 cm high and about four tonnes, at Borgartún by Höfði, given to Reykjavík by Neu West Berlin, one of several segments street artists painted for its 2011 exhibition.
Institutional sourceSource accessed 2026-09-17
Berlínarmúrinn áminning fyrir Reykvíkinga ↗
Vísir's report of 3 October 2015 on the installation at Höfði: the segment, painted by Jakob Wagner, had stood at Potsdamer Platz, and the United States and Russian ambassadors attended.
Press reportSource accessed 2026-09-17
Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry ↗
The Foundation's own entry for this listing: the segment on the grounds of Höfði, installed on 3 October 2015 for the twenty-fifth anniversary of German reunification, a gift from Neu West Berlin, painted by Jakob Wagner in 2011 for the Freedom Park exhibition on the Spree, from Potsdamer Platz, and restored by Wagner in 2017 after weather damage.
Inventory listingSource accessed 2026-09-17
Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide ↗
The source lists this place as a Berlin Wall location. Coordinates, where supplied, are source-reported and may represent a general area. This is not independent verification of authenticity, current presence, or public access.
Inventory listingSource accessed 2026-09-17 · Source record 132
Berlin Wall Archive ↗
The source lists this place as a Berlin Wall location. Coordinates, where supplied, are source-reported and may represent a general area. This is not independent verification of authenticity, current presence, or public access.
Inventory listingSource accessed 2026-09-17 · Source record 352
Source-reported segments: 1. This is not a separately verified count.
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