Christoph Tannert

Christoph Tannert
THE EAST IN THE WEST. New Perspectives on Art Production in the GDR

#1 2021 (70), Special issue. GERMANY - RUSSIA: ON THE CROSSROADS OF CULTURES

Thirty years after the fall of the GDR, East and West Germany are still not on equal footing in terms of either economic standards of living or art production. Although “GDR art” has long been reduced to State-sanctioned artists here and courageous dissidents there, recent exhibitions and museum presentations are taking a new and different look at East German art. And it’s about time, says Christoph Tannert, who calls for mutual recognition and re-evaluation of the canon.