I think I will be looking at avant garde art in Berlin. There's an exhibition called "Reality Bites: Making Avant-garde Art in Post-Wall Germany" which is a good start.
Since the fall of the wall in 1989, there is fresh energy and Berlin has reemerged as a creative center within the international art world. After unification and as Germany heads towards globalization and new identify formation, how are contemporary artists looking at/interpreting/portraying the social, economical and political changes? How are contemporary artists employing multimedia art forms to explore themes like national identity? How do artists deal with the historical realities of post-wall Germany? How are modern artists dealing with the social ramifications of German unification? How are young artists today looking back at Germany's history, how are they expressing present day Germany, and how are they predicting the future of Germany?
Even more so, how are the visual arts mediating the effects of unification? How is art being employed to establish the German identity?
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