In order to deepen "friendly relations" with the Soviet Union, the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR organized a cross-border trip as part of an exchange of artists. The artists Nikolai Blagovolin and Raschid Abduraschitow were to get to know Bitterfeld in the GDR and Christian Heinze, Erhard Großmann and Christine Stäps were supposed to visit places in Tajikistan. The focus of the trip was the four-week stay at the construction site of the Nurek Dam. Other stops included a cotton harvest during a visit to a collective farm and a joint bivouac in the Pamir Mountains.In conversation with Art in Networks, Christian Heinze talks about the impressions and encounters that were artistically processed both on site and afterwards.
In 1977, Christian Heinze once again traveled to Tajikistan, but on his own. In an interview for the newspaper Märkische Union Potsdam (August 13, 1977), he states: "For a day, I took advantage of the hospitality of the Germanteacher and his family. He showed me the details of Tadzhik folk art, which has survived for centuries and is cultivated by today's generation in clothing, household items and house decorations." (translated by Art in Networks)
This encounter resulted in the painting "Alijew and son" which was shown at the GDR's VIII Art Exhibition in Dresden that same year.
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