Transnational artistic creation has become a matter of course in our globalized world. But what did migrant art production look like in the GDR? The volume highlights, among other things, the cultural diplomacy of the GDR and its effects, employment relationships of contract workers and taboo racism. Foreign artists from the socialist brother countries such as Egypt, Ethiopia, Israel or Uruguay studied at the art academies of the GDR. What became of them and why they are not mentioned in retrospectives on GDR art? Their works are now the center of attention. At the same time, the history of immigration and the memory of reunification are told from the perspective of East German migrants.
Shines a light on the cultural diplomacy of East Germany, the working conditions of contract workers, and the taboo subject of racism.
Though foreign artists from Egypt, Ethiopia, Israel, and Uruguay studied at art schools in the German Democratic Republic, their work is absent from reviews of East German art. Re-Connect remedies this omission, drawing our attention to art created by migrants from the so-called socialist brotherlands, including work by César Olhagaray, Getachew Yossef Hagoss, Michael Touma, and Teresa Casanueva. The volume also recounts the history of immigration and reunification from the perspective of migrants and their descendants. Art by young people of color with biographical connections to the GDRsuch as Philipp Farra, Minh Duc Pham, Alina Simmelbaur, and Sarnt Utamachotecomplements this discussion. An insightful look at transnational art created in Germany, the catalog accompanies a 2023 exhibition at the Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig.
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