The many cultural events organized  to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall   provide the opportunity for the resurfacing of many of the elements that shaped artistic creation. It also recreated some of the  circumstances, both internal and external, that modulated history and its cultural path in East and West Germany.

Marked by two eras of repression during which only a single style, forcefully imposed, was allowed to prevail as  the only aesthetic valid truth, individual and collective dynamism broke those coercing barriers, and despite the attempt to annihilate the natural cultural fabric accumulated over centuries of creativity and artistic expression, it evolved and found new ways of expression.

Defying the compulsory Social Realism according to which the Regime portrayed the ideal life of the happy worker, many an  artist transgressed the imposed limits in an eagerness of research and experimentation ...

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