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 […]
Curatorial Talk with Maria Anna Potocka
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Opening of the MOCAK Museum in Krakow
The project of creating a museum of contemporary art in Kraków, which had been discussed for years both within the artistic community and the local government, finally became reality towards the end of 2004, when the Municipality of Kraków purchased the land and buildings on the site of the former Schindler factory at Lipowa Street […]
The program of the MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow
The program of MOCAK, which has been active since February 1, 2010, encompasses the presentation of the latest international art, education, and research and publication projects. MOCAK’s two most important aims are the presentation of the art of the two last decades in the context of the post-war avant-garde and conceptual art, as well as […]