Piotr Piotrowski, Professor of Art History at Poznań University (Poland), is a renowned specialist for 20th century East and Central European art history. From October through November 2013 he stayed with the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies in Regensburg as a Visiting Fellow. There he met with Anna Baumgartner, Alice Buzdugan, Anna Juraschek, Berenika Szymanski-Düll, Patricia Vidović and Emanuel Tatu from the study group “Construction, Translation and Lifting Borders in Art and Literature” to discuss the relationship between art and democracy.