Germania (1995): Love, Promise and Reckoning in 1990s Germany

“Germania” (1995) is both a personal and social painting by Heiner Buhr about love, promise, consumerism and the hopes of reunited Germany in the 1990s.

“Germania” (1995) is both a personal and social painting by Heiner Buhr about love, promise, consumerism and the hopes of reunited Germany in the 1990s.

In the mid-1990s Caucasus, trade meant survival. Years later, one encounter became a painting about memory, exchange, and human resilience.

A time traveler
the blocks of sticky seconds
dried up the road of rocks and hope
side horses carry ax and wood
fiber cables batteries Nokia phones