The exhibit of the Museum Center for Persecuted Arts at United Nations Headquarters New York is part of the events of The Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme to commemorate the victims and survivors of the November Pogrom (9–10 November 1938). The exhibit highlights the importance of art for Holocaust remembrance today, through the […]
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 […]
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 […]
Kichka. Life Is a Cartoon
In the late summer of 2018, the documentary film of the MOCAK and the Center for Persecuted Arts, Kichka. Life Is a Cartoon, was premiered in the competition of the Montreal World Film Festival in Canada. Its world premiere had already taken place in Brussels in March 2018, in the presence of the Kichka family. […]
„Poland – Israel – Germany. The Experience of Auschwitz“ in Solingen
Curated by Delfina Jałowik and Jürgen Kaumkötter, Poland – Israel – Germany. The Experience of Auschwitz was also presented in Solingen from December 9, 2015 to January 24, 2016—again adapted to the location. The project was accompanied by two publications. In the first publication, the curator Delfina Jałowik describes the works of the twenty-one contemporary […]
Remembering the Shoah: a common goal
„The memory of the Holocaust unites the Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków (MOCAK) and the Center for Persecuted Arts in the Solingen Art Museum. Maria Anna Potocka (Director of MOCAK), Delfina Jałowik (Head of the Art Department at MOCAK), and I have been working closely together since 2015. Our exhibition and projects do not […]
The first joint exhibition by MOCAK and the Center for Persecuted Arts
The first joint exhibition of the MOCAK and the Center for Persecuted Arts was Poland – Israel – Germany. The Experience of Auschwitz, which took place in 2015. It picked up on and continued the inaugural exhibition of the Center for Persecuted Arts, which was shown in the German Bundestag in January 2015 on the […]
Exhibition in the German Bundestag on the occasion of the seventieth anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp
On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp, Bundestag Vice-President Claudia Roth and Bundestag Vice-President Peter Hintze opened the exhibition “Death does not have the last word – no one witnesses for the witness” in the Paul Löbe house on January 27, 2015. The exhibition featured works of […]
The public broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk commits itself to the preservation of Auschwitz
On November 19, 1998, NDR editor Patricia Schlesinger reported in the magazine “Panorama” about the use of donations that ARD viewers had donated over several years to build and maintain the Auschwitz concentration camp memorial. „The fall of the Iron Curtain also opened paths leading back into the darkest chapter of German history. The Norddeutscher […]