Eigen + Art

This article analyzes an initiative undertaken by the EIGEN + ART Gallery, founded in Leipzig in 1983 in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR), which involved opening a four-month branch in New York’s SoHo district. The branch operated in the spring of 1993, during a period marked by a severe crisis in the American art market and a deep recession in reunified Germany. The event was widely covered in the German media, which regarded it as an act of courage.

East Germany Comes to New York - The 1993 SoHo Venture of Leipzig’s EIGEN + ART Text: Lynn Rother in cooperation with Frank Eckart Published at MIEJSCE 10/2024 All Images from the Archive of Galerie EIGEN + ART Leipzig/Berlin The article is in English.