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A section painted by Thierry Noir in 2007 in the exhibition hall of Doha's convention centre, a German gift for the 2017 year of culture.
A section of the Berlin Wall stands in the exhibition hall of the Qatar National Convention Centre in Education City, carrying a design by Thierry Noir completed in 2007 — long after the Wall came down, so this is Noir painting a piece of it again rather than a survival of his 1980s work on the west face. That is Qatar Museums' account: one section, given by the German embassy in 2017 as part of the Qatar–Germany Year of Culture, together with a second, original panel that now stands in the atrium of Georgetown University in Qatar under a kilometre away.
The Federal Foundation counts two segments here, not one, and gives them a longer story. Both were among the fifteen painted in 2007 by pupils of the Carl-Zeiss-Oberschule in Berlin-Lichtenrade under Noir's direction, in the Kreuzberg yard of the builders' merchant Dämmisol, and each carries a large eye. The German foreign ministry bought them from Veloform, which had taken six of the pupils' segments when Dämmisol gave up the site in 2008, after Sheikha Al-Mayassa, chair of the Qatar Museums Authority, had asked the foreign minister Sigmar Gabriel for pieces of the Wall during his visit to Doha in July 2017. Gabriel handed them over symbolically in Berlin that November, and they were installed in the entrance hall of the convention centre's extension and inaugurated in June 2019. Qatar understands them, the Foundation notes, as a statement against the blockade imposed on the emirate by several neighbouring states in 2017 and lifted at the beginning of 2021. Both counts are kept.
The Foundation publishes one text, covering both Education City sites, on each of its two Doha entries. The second entry is pinned within two hundred metres of the convention centre and is the listing carried on this page; the first, pinned at the Georgetown atrium, is carried there.
How did it get here?
By Qatar Museums' account, painted by Thierry Noir in 2007 and given by the German embassy to Qatar Museums in 2017 for the Qatar–Germany Year of Culture; by the Federal Foundation's, two segments painted by Berlin pupils under Noir in 2007, bought from Veloform by the German foreign ministry, handed over in November 2017 and inaugurated in June 2019.
Sources
Listed by the Federal Foundation as #255.
Sections of the Berlin Wall — Qatar Museums, public art ↗
A section of the Berlin Wall in the Exhibition Hall of the Qatar National Convention Centre, designed by Thierry Noir in 2007 and gifted by the German embassy to Qatar Museums in 2017 as part of the Qatar–Germany Year of Culture.
Institutional sourceSource accessed 2026-09-17
Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, second Doha site entry ↗
Two further segments from the 2007 Carl-Zeiss-Oberschule project, each painted with a large eye, bought from Veloform by the German foreign ministry after Sheikha Al-Mayassa's request to Sigmar Gabriel in July 2017, handed over symbolically in Berlin in November 2017 and inaugurated in the entrance hall of the convention centre's extension in June 2019, with the Foundation's note on the blockade. The entry's map pin lies within two hundred metres of the convention centre.
Inventory listingSource accessed 2026-09-17
Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry (Doha) ↗
The Foundation's first Doha entry carries the same text as the second; its map pin lies at the Georgetown atrium, so that listing is carried on the Georgetown page rather than here.
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 255
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