Cultural policies and receptions of art related to Africa. Art historian Yvette Mutumba on a comparison between the two German states.

Yvette Mutumba is an art historian, curator and editor of the magazine C&. in 2012 she finished her PhD at Birkbeck University of London with a thesis titled (Re-) Presentations, Receptions, Expectations: Contemporary Art by Artists from Africa and the Diaspora in the German Context 1960s – 2011. Her doctoral research focused on exhibitions by artists of African origin and their reception in the respective cultural and political contexts of the GDR and the Federal Republic of Germany. In the interview, she describes how she came up with the topic of her PhD and how views on the subject have changed since the German reunification.