Overview

• The illumination has drawn over 280,000 visitors since it began nightly projections on June 9.
• The installation uses 24 high-performance projectors to display Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s design on the Reichstag’s west façade.
• Organizers expect visitor numbers to surpass 350,000 before the event concludes on June 20.
• Project initiators Peter Schwenkow and Roland Specker first collaborated on the original Wrapped Reichstag in 1995.
• The light tribute is part of the Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation’s efforts to celebrate the artists’ legacy and mark what would have been their 90th birthdays.