AN interactive art installation due to open in Belfast today has been postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The 'Disappearing Wall' exhibition, celebrating Europe’s diversity of languages and ideas, had been scheduled to go on display at CastleCourt Shopping Centre.
But organisers last night said it had been postponed "due to a tightening of Covid-19 restrictions".
Belfast had been set to join a number of European countries in hosting the art installation.
Consisting of a plexiglass frame with 6,000 individual wooden blocks, it contains a wide range of quotes from the likes of Albert Einstein and Jean-Paul Sartre to The Beatles and Monty Python.
Visitors take home a block containing a quote, until it eventually 'disappears' with only the clear plexiglass grid that held them remaining.
Belfast was due to be the only city in the UK to host the installation, which is based on an idea proposed by Maria Jablonina in a workshop carried out by the architect and engineer Werner Sobek and initiated by the Goethe-Institut.
Katharina von Ruckteschell-Katte, director of the Goethe-Institut London, said: "Due to a tightening of Covid-19 restrictions, we have unfortunately had to postpone the visit of The Disappearing Wall to Belfast.
"We are still looking forward to welcoming the people of Belfast along to this phenomenal art installation and hope to announce a new date and change of venue soon - so keep your eyes peeled for further details."
