The theme of the 1997 Berliner Festspiele was “Images of Germany”. For this purpose, the Berlin gallery owner Dieter Brusberg curated an exhibition on five artists from East Germany at the Kunstforum on behalf of the GrundkreditBank. Gerhard Altenbourg, Bernhard Heisig, Wolfgang Mattheuer, Harald Metzkes and Werner Tübke were represented with works from the GrundkreditBank collection and loans.