PRESS RELEASE
MEMO_RAISING
An interactive exhibition project by the third generation
OPENING: 21 MAY 2010, 19:00
Exhibition at the Freies Museum Berlin, Potsdamer Strasse 91, 10785 Berlin
From Saturday, 22 May 2010 until Saturday, 29 May 2010
Mon-Sat 12:00 - 19:00 I Thur 12:00 - 22:00 I Sun 15:00 - 18:00
Artists: ANNTON BEATESCHMIDT, FLORIAN PAUL SIEGERT from Germany, TRUDY DAHAN from Israel, GREGORY DESARZENS, MARGOT POINT from France , DEN GONTO from Lithuania, MICHAL DABROWSKI from Poland and MARYNA MARKOVA from Ukraine
Berlin, 10 May 2010. The public MEMO_RAISING process will be ushered in on 21 May with the opening of an exhibition at the Freies Musuem in Berlin. Young Berlin artists will be asking about the meaning of the Holocaust in the third generation. The upcoming exhibition provided the impetus for taking a fresh look at topics such as remembrance, identity, marginalisation and tolerance. Through paintings, video art and installations, eight young international artists from different backgrounds and with different family histories will engage in direct exchanges with visitors to the exhibition.
An Israeli family with multinational roots inspired a video installation that looks at how we define identity. A French artist uses video to play with various ideas and concepts and their associations. An interactive performance piece uses the well-known family game Memory to involve visitors to the exhibition – provided that players are willing to contribute their own biography to the game. A Berlin artist has staged a 1930s corner shop selling tolerance drops and identity candy as a way of exploring how we manage our everyday encounters with strangers.
MEMO_RAISING was initiated by scholarship recipients supported by the Foundation “Remembrance, Responsibility and Future” (EVZ). Taking up the theme of the 2009/2010 scholarship year “Marginalised and persecuted – Answers to experiences in 20th century Europe”, a project team set about finding talented Berlin artists to work on the subject of Art and the third generation. The project is supported by the Foundation EVZ, the Humboldt University in Berlin and private sponsors.
The eight artists will be pleased to give interviews in the run-up to the exhibition.
Contact
Foundation “Remembrance, Responsibility and Future”
Nadine Reimer
Tel.: +49 (0)30-259297-26
reimer@stiftung-evz.de
