The record
Two segments in an installation by the collector Ludwik Wasecki, handed to the university's institute on 4 June 2014, the 25th anniversary of Poland's first partly free elections.
The Institute of European Culture is the Gniezno branch of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, on the Collegium Europaeum campus on the Kostrzewskiego Street, next to the Museum of the Origins of the Polish State. For 4 June 2014, twenty-five years after the first partly free elections in post-war Poland, it invited the town to a Święto Wolności, a festival of freedom, whose programme its own page sets out: at 9.30 the students' project Ścieżka do wolności in the institute's gallery, from 10.30 a conference on Poles' struggle for freedom and the history of the Berlin Wall, and at 14.00 the handing over by Dr Ludwik Wasecki and the Fundacja Mury of an artistic installation with a fragment of the Wall — by which, the invitation says, Gniezno would join Fátima, Washington and the Vatican as an owner of the symbol of post-war Europe.
The local news site Moje Gniezno described the work the week before: original segments of the Wall, tilted and being bored through by a huge drill, as a symbol of the overthrow of the totalitarian system and the division of Europe, designed and made by Wasecki, a performance artist and collector, and sited by Professor Yoshimi Hashimoto of the sculpture department of the Berlin university. The organisers were the Fundacja Mury, the Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation, the institute and the district authority, with the partner district of Teltow-Fläming among the partners.
The Wall Net, whose entry the Berlin Wall Archive's listing follows, found two segments in front of the institute when it wrote the place up in April 2016, and two is the count both give. No later page from the institute about the installation was found.
How did it get here?
Made by Ludwik Wasecki from original segments and handed over, with the Fundacja Mury, to the institute on 4 June 2014.
Sources
Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #146.
Ścieżka do wolności — Instytut Kultury Europejskiej UAM w Gnieźnie ↗
The institute's own invitation to the Święto Wolności of 4 June 2014 at its gallery, ul. Kostrzewskiego 5–7: the students' project Ścieżka do wolności at 9.30, a conference on Poles' struggle for freedom and the history of the Berlin Wall from 10.30, and at 14.00 the handing over by Dr Ludwik Wasecki and the Fundacja Mury of an artistic installation with a fragment of the Berlin Wall, by which Gniezno would, alongside Fátima, Washington and the Vatican, become an owner of the symbol of post-war Europe; organised by the Fundacja Mury, the Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation and the institute.
Institutional sourceSource accessed 2026-09-17
„Nad podziałami”, czyli 25 lat od pierwszych wolnych wyborów w Polsce — Moje Gniezno ↗
Andrzej Bukowski, 28 May 2014: the programme for 4 June 2014 at the institute's gallery on the Collegium Europaeum campus included the handing over of an artistic installation with original segments of the Berlin Wall, tilted and being broken through by a huge drill as a symbol of the overthrow of the totalitarian system and the division of Europe, designed and made by Dr Ludwik Wasecki, performance artist and art collector, and sited according to Professor Yoshimi Hashimoto of the sculpture department of the Berlin university; the campus adjoins the Museum of the Origins of the Polish State; the organisers were the Fundacja Mury, the Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation, the institute and the district authority, with the partner district of Teltow-Fläming among the partners.
Press reportSource accessed 2026-09-17
Gniezno, PL — The Wall Net ↗
Entry of 20 April 2016: two segments; in spring 2014, for the coming 25th anniversary of the fall of the Wall, a memorial by the Polish artist Ludwik Wasecki was set up in front of the Institute of European Culture, inaugurated during the events 'The victory of freedom over totalitarianism' organised by the institute of the Adam Mickiewicz University with the district of Teltow-Fläming and the foundation Mury.
General referenceSource accessed 2026-09-17
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 146
Source-reported segments: 2. This is not a separately verified count.
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