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 […]
Opening of the exhibition at the Goethe Institute in Hong Kong
Seven Places. For a year now, Seven Places in Germany has shown not only the catastrophe of National Socialism and the destruction of Jewish life in Germany, but also its resurrection and the culture of remembrance to this day. Now Seven Places is taking the step from the digital world into reality and will also […]
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 […]
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 […]
First “Stolperstein” (stumbling block) laying in Ruppichteroth
For the first time in 2017, after a visit to their great-grandfather’s homeland, the descendants of Hermann Gärtner asked the community of Ruppichteroth to think about laying “Stolpersteine” in order to remember the fate of the murdered and expelled Jews of the village. In 2018, two final classes from the secondary school who, after a contemporary […]
Solingen gets an education institution and memorial center
In early 2019, the “Arbeitskreis Verfolgung und Widerstand in Solingen 1933–1945” (Working Group Persecution and Resistance in Solingen 1933–1945) campaigned for the establishment of an educational institution and memorial center at the site of the former newspaper Bergische Arbeiterstimme and the scene of the murder of Max Leven in the pogrom night. This is where […]
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. […]