The installation, previously known as
Vittoriale of the East Germans (
das Vittoriale der Ostdeutschen), critically addresses GDR period captured in German museums that thematized socialism after 1990. In the same token, it critiques the writing of history in post-reunification Germany.
The installation was created by Richard von Gigantikow in 1990 and it includes objects created and collected before 1989. The largest share of the objects
… viac included in the installation were collected in 1990 from the vacant Central Committee of the FDJ (Free German Youth – the once official youth movement of the GDR) located at Unter den Linden in Berlin. A great part of this collection includes devotional objects of socialism, such as the GDR flag and statues, which have been recontextualised by the artist. menej