On Wednesday, December 9th, 2020, the Curatorial Talk with Maria Anna Potocka, Director of the MOCAK Museum for Contemporary Art Krakow and Jürgen Kaumkötter, Director of the Museum Center for Persecuted Arts Solingen took place as a ZOOM video conference. Built on the site of Oskar Schindler’s former factory, the work of MOCAK is always […]
Opening of 7places
On November 9, 2020, Federal Foreign Minister Heiko Maas and Melissa Fleming, Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications of the United Nations opened the online exhibition “7Places – Seven Places in Germany”. The United Nations and the Museum Center for Persecuted Arts Solingen are presenting the multilingual online exhibition “7Places – Seven Places in Germany” in this […]
Polyphony of the Holocaust
One quintessence of all these projects is the book Polyphony of the Holocaust. Voices on the Culture of Remembrance, edited by Maria Anna Potocka. In 2015, following the controversy surrounding the exhibition Poland – Israel – Germany. The Experience of Auschwitz, the MOCAK invited various people, including philosophers, historians, literary scholars, psychiatrists, artists, curators, and […]
‘Phantoms: Journeys Following the Relics of Totalitarism’ by Dana Arieli
My work on the Phantoms Project started in 2009. At that point I was teaching history of the art in Bezalel (Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem) and my research dealt mainly with the interrelations between art and politics in Germany and Israel. During that year I was invited to a tour by the […]
Two generations remember: Henri and Michel Kichka
Michel Kichka is one of the most influential comic artists in Israel. He was born in Belgium in 1954 and emigrated to Israel in 1974. Kichka teaches at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem and works regularly as a caricaturist for international newspapers, including the Courrier International and the Herald Tribune. He […]
The art of remembering
On the occasion of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp, the German Bundestag continued its cooperation with the Center for Persecuted Arts, and both the MOCAK, represented by the curator Delfina Jałowik, and the German public broadcaster ARD now participated under the auspices of the Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (rbb) with the […]