The record
Two four-tonne sections in a park rebuilt after the 2011 earthquake, deliberately kept as a living surface that street artists repaint.
Each section is 3.6 m tall and stands at the Cashel Street end of Rauora Park, in the central city. They were gifted in 2017 and installed in 2019, in time for the thirtieth anniversary. The two are recorded as segments 88 and 143: one painted by a group of Berlin students with learning disabilities around 2014, the other with themes from Doctor Who. Christchurch treats them as a living surface rather than a relic — the city council appointed Fiksate Studio & Gallery as curator and custodian to commission street artists to repaint them, which makes this one of the very few sites where the Wall is still being painted.
How did it get here?
Gifted to Christchurch in 2017; installed in Rauora Park in 2019 for the thirtieth anniversary of the opening.
Sources
Listed by the Federal Foundation as #267 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #79.
Pieces of Berlin Wall unite in central Christchurch — Christchurch City Council Newsline ↗
The council's own account: two slabs at the Cashel Street end of Rauora Park, dimensions, the 2017 gift and 2019 installation.
Institutional sourceSource accessed 2026-09-17
Christchurch's Berlin Wall remnant gets a makeover — Otago Daily Times ↗
Segments 88 and 143, their original painters, and Fiksate Studio's role commissioning repaints.
Press reportSource 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 267
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 79
Source-reported segments: 2. This is not a separately verified count.
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