Edmund de Waal is creating a major new two-part exhibition to be displayed in the 500-year-old Jewish Ghetto in Venice, coinciding with the opening of the 58th Biennale.
The first part is located in the spaces surrounding the Canton Scuola, the beautiful 16th century synagogue in the Ghetto Nuovo, which is now part of the Jewish Museum.
New installations of porcelain, marble and gold will reflect the literary and musical heritage of this extraordinary place. The intention is to animate spaces that are little known and little understood by visitors to the Biennale and to bring new audiences into the Ghetto.
The second part of the work will be a pavilion based at the Ateneo Veneto, the fifteenth-century building near the Fenice Opera House that has been an historic centre for cultural debate in Venice. Here, de Waal is constructing a small building within the main space that will house 2,000 books by exiled writers, from Ovid to the present day.
An exhibition of photographs by Christian Schuster, focusing on the traces of Jewish (often rural) life in northern Bavaria’s Franconia region.
The opening ceremony is at 14:00 on May 12, 2019.
A major exhibit at the Bologna Jewish Museum will focus on the city’s “lost” medieval Jewish cemetery: it was destroyed in 1569 by order of Pope Pius V and was rediscovered during excavations in 2012-2014.
the exhibit features material found in the graves — including gold, silver, and bronze jewelry incorporating gemstones and amber, as well as other precious artifacts, using them to tell the story of medieval Jewish life in the city.
It was curated and organized by the Bologna Jewish Museum and the Superintendency of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape for Bologna and the provinces of Modena, Reggio Emilia and Ferrara, in collaboration with the Jewish Community of Bologna.
See our JHE article about the exhibition
The Colours of Judaism in Italy: Precious textiles and fabrics from ancient Jerusalem to contemporary ready-to-wear
The exhibition at the famed Uffizi Gallery explores various aspects of the Jewish world’s relationship with fabrics and textiles for both religious and secular use, up to and including fashion and business in the 20th century, via such themes as the role of writing as an ornamental motif, the use of textiles to adorn synagogues, embroidery as secret labor, and the role of women. .
The exhibit is included in the general admission ticket to the Uffizi.
Opening of the photographic exhibition of abadoned Jewish heritage sites in eastern Europe, by Christian Herrmann.
The exhibit runs until December 29, open on Saturdays and Sundays, 2 – 5 p.m
Exhibition of Photographs by Vincent Giordano.
The photographs are part of a multi-media archive, created by Giordano, who died in 2010, that was sponsored by International Survey of Jewish Monuments and in 2019 will find a new home at the Hellenic American Project and Special Collections at the Library of Queens College, New York.
Giordano’s photographs document two related communities of Greek Romaniote Jews – in Ioannina, in northwestern Greece and on Broome Street on New York’s Lower East Side. Romaniote Jews trace their religious and cultural heritage to the Judaism of the ancient Greco-Roman world two-thousand years ago, and these two tiny congregations are among the few remaining to follow these traditions. Romaniotes have their own liturgy and cultural traditions, as well as their own language, a dialect of Greek that combines words and phrases from Hebrew and Turkish. This luminous black and white photo essay includes a poignant exploration of liturgy and ritual, conveying how people engage with religious space and carry on their time-honored sacred traditions.
The exhibition will open on Thursday, September 19th , 2019 at 6:00 p.m. it will continue through October 3rd, 2019.
A panel discussion by experts will take place at the Consulate on Wednesday, September 25th, 2019 at 6:00 p.m.
Kyiv fine art gallery Triptych: Global Arts Workshop with the support of the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Kyiv presents ‘IN FADING LIGHT: Jewish Traces in the East of Europe’.
Photographs by Christian Herrmann
🔸The exhibition will be on display 26th September to 9th October 2019, Mon-Sat 11.00-19.00.
🔸Sunday closed.
🔸Entrance is free.
🔸Private view: Thursday 26th September at 19.00.
🔸Artist Talk: Saturday 29th September at 17.30.
This exhibition is part of a wider programme of events commemorating the Babyn Yar massacre (29-30th September 1941). It presents for the first time 14 photographs of Jewish heritage sites taken during the photographer’s travels in Ukraine and Belarus in 2018 and 2019: synagogues, batei midrash, private houses, and cemeteries, some ruined or abandoned, others repurposed.
Kyiv fine art gallery Triptych: Global Arts Workshop with the support of the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Kyiv presents ‘IN FADING LIGHT: Jewish Traces in the East of Europe’.
Photographs by Christian Herrmann
🔸The exhibition will be on display 26th September to 9th October 2019, Mon-Sat 11.00-19.00.
🔸Sunday closed.
🔸Entrance is free.
🔸Private view: Thursday 26th September at 19.00.
🔸Artist Talk: Saturday 29th September at 17.30.
This exhibition is part of a wider programme of events commemorating the Babyn Yar massacre (29-30th September 1941). It presents for the first time 14 photographs of Jewish heritage sites taken during the photographer’s travels in Ukraine and Belarus in 2018 and 2019: synagogues, batei midrash, private houses, and cemeteries, some ruined or abandoned, others repurposed.
Kyiv fine art gallery Triptych: Global Arts Workshop with the support of the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Kyiv presents ‘IN FADING LIGHT: Jewish Traces in the East of Europe’.
Photographs by Christian Herrmann
🔸The exhibition will be on display 26th September to 9th October 2019, Mon-Sat 11.00-19.00.
🔸Sunday closed.
🔸Entrance is free.
🔸Private view: Thursday 26th September at 19.00.
🔸Artist Talk: Saturday 29th September at 17.30.
This exhibition is part of a wider programme of events commemorating the Babyn Yar massacre (29-30th September 1941). It presents for the first time 14 photographs of Jewish heritage sites taken during the photographer’s travels in Ukraine and Belarus in 2018 and 2019: synagogues, batei midrash, private houses, and cemeteries, some ruined or abandoned, others repurposed.
Kyiv fine art gallery Triptych: Global Arts Workshop with the support of the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Kyiv presents ‘IN FADING LIGHT: Jewish Traces in the East of Europe’.
Photographs by Christian Herrmann
🔸The exhibition will be on display 26th September to 9th October 2019, Mon-Sat 11.00-19.00.
🔸Sunday closed.
🔸Entrance is free.
🔸Private view: Thursday 26th September at 19.00.
🔸Artist Talk: Saturday 29th September at 17.30.
This exhibition is part of a wider programme of events commemorating the Babyn Yar massacre (29-30th September 1941). It presents for the first time 14 photographs of Jewish heritage sites taken during the photographer’s travels in Ukraine and Belarus in 2018 and 2019: synagogues, batei midrash, private houses, and cemeteries, some ruined or abandoned, others repurposed.
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