Category Archives: Exhibition

There is still a lot to tell

Posted on by under Central Ukraine, Eastern Galicia, Exhibition, Jewish Cemeteries

Galicia, Kyiv, Greece and some exhibitions. There is still a lot to tell about the past year. The forced break caused by the corona virus gives me the opportunity to do it.

Lviv – Tikvat Zion synagogue
Lviv – Tikvat Zion synagogue
Lviv – Yiddish shop sign
Lviv – trace of a mezuzah
Brody – mezuzah
Brody – trace of a mezuzah
Pomoriany – destroyed Jewish cemetery
Pomoriany – destroyed Jewish cemetery
Pomoriany – destroyed Jewish cemetery
Pomoriany – cold storage made from Jewish tombstones
Pomoriany – cold storage made from Jewish tombstones
Pomoriany – former collective farm
Pomoriany – former collective farm
Pomoriany – former collective farm
Pomoriany – former collective farm
Vienna airport – traveling Hasidim
Vienna airport – traveling Hasidim
Vienna airport – traveling Hasidim
Kyiv – exhibition opening at Triptych: Global Arts Workshop – © Triptych: Global Arts Workshop
Kyiv – exhibition opening at Triptych: Global Arts Workshop – © Triptych: Global Arts Workshop
Kyiv – German Embassy – © Myroslava Hartmond
Kyiv – House with Chimaeras
Kyiv – House with Chimaeras
Kyiv – Podil Synagogue and Community Centre
Kyiv – Podil Synagogue and Community Centre
Ioannina – house decoration
Ioannina – house decoration
Cologne – exhibition opening at Lew Kopelew Forum
Cologne – exhibition opening at Lew Kopelew Forum – © Lew Kopelew Forum
Cologne – exhibition flyer

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“In Fading Light” exhibition opening and an excursion into Augsburg’s Jewish past and present

Posted on by under Central Europe, Exhibition, Jewish Cemeteries, Synagogues

The city of Augsburg made me happy. On Thursday night, I had an exhibition opening at Bukowina-Institut and my dear friend Katharina Haberkorn was so kind to guide me through Jewish and non-Jewish sites in the city.

Katharina Haberkorn
Anna Hahn
exhibition opening
exhibition opening
exhibition opening
exhibition opening
exhibition opening
Augsburg Jewish Museum
Augsburg Jewish Museum
Augsburg synagogue
Augsburg synagogue
Kriegshaber synagogue
Kriegshaber synagogue
Kriegshaber synagogue
Kriegshaber synagogue
Kriegshaber synagogue
Kriegshaber synagogue
Kriegshaber synagogue
Kriegshaber Jewish cemetery
Kriegshaber Jewish cemetery
Kriegshaber Jewish cemetery
Kriegshaber Jewish cemetery
Kriegshaber Jewish cemetery

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Media coverage of my new book, an award and more exhibitions

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A lot happened since my last post in July. On 4 September, my new book “In Fading Light. Traces of Jewish Life in the East of Europe” was released. Since then, the book was kindly recepted by the media. And there was more: On 2 September, I was awarded with a “Key to the City” in Lviv. Bookstore and gallery Böttger exhibits a selection of my photos in Bonn and there are plans for a bigger exhibition in Augsburg.

Cover “In Fading Light”
In Fading Light
In Fading Light
Jüdische Allgemeine, print edition
Screenshot “NDR”
Screenshot “Der Spiegel”
“Key to the City”, photo: Jay Osborn

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“Remembrance and Oblivion” Photo Exhibition Opened in the City of Bochum

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Olena Petrenko’s students of Bochum University – Nina, Judith, Patrik, Sebastian, Bea and Thorben – organised a wonderful exhibition opening with a selection of my photos at Kunsthallen Rottstraße 5 in Bochum last night. Thank you all for keeping the memory of Jewish Eastern Europe alive!

Bochum exhibition opening
Bochum exhibition opening
Bochum exhibition opening – the organisers team
Bochum exhibition opening – the organisers team
Bochum exhibition opening
Bochum exhibition opening
Bochum exhibition opening
Bochum exhibition opening
Bochum exhibition opening
Bochum exhibition opening
Bochum exhibition opening – Edgar Hauster speaking
Bochum exhibition opening – Sebastian Döpp speaking
Bochum exhibition opening – Judith Brinkmann speaking
Bochum exhibition opening – Olena Petrenko speaking
Bochum exhibition opening
Bochum exhibition opening

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“The Search for Traces” on Exhibit in Berlin

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Since May 7, Stillpoint Spaces in Berlin’s district Neukölln hosts an exhibition of my analogue black and white photos. They document Jewish heritage sites in Ukraine, Moldova, Romania and Poland. The exhibition will be accessible until end of July. If you are around, come in!

Exhibition opening at Stillpoint Spaces Berlin
Exhibition opening at Stillpoint Spaces Berlin – Jakob Lusensky speaking
Exhibition opening at Stillpoint Spaces Berlin
Exhibition opening at Stillpoint Spaces Berlin – Adam Kerpel-Fronius speaking
Exhibition opening at Stillpoint Spaces Berlin – Adam Kerpel-Fronius speaking
Exhibition opening at Stillpoint Spaces Berlin
Exhibition opening at Stillpoint Spaces Berlin

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“Present, Absent – Jewish Heritage in Eastern Europe” Photo Exhibition Opened in Berlin

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So far, I exclusively exhibited black and white photos. For the first time, the show in Auferstehungskirche in Berlin’s district Friedrichshain assembles some of my colour photos. Places do not only have a past, they also have a present. Colour photography may express this better.

Photo exhibition in Berlin Friedrichshain
Klaus-Dieter Ehmke speaking at the exhibition opening
Matthias Heyl speaking at the exhibition opening

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Compiling a new exhibition

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My first photo exhibitions about the Jewish heritage in Eastern Europe consisted of black and white images. To me black and white is connected to memory and commemoration – maybe because the photos of my childhood are in black and white, but also because most of the historical material preserved is in black and white. My interest in colour photography rose when I understood that heritage sites not only have a past, but also have a present. Synagogues are part of present urban space, a trace of a mezuzah is still visible, farmers let their animals graze in old cemeteries. But also absence is part of the present: cemeteries became markets, whole towns vanished. Having a good part of work already done, it’s a good moment to reflect some of the topics of the new exhibition, which will be shown by the end of January next year for the first time.

Botoșani Jewish cemetery, Romania
Botoșani Jewish cemetery, Romania
Botoșani synagogue, Romania
Bratslav synagogue, Ukraine
Brodno Jewish cemetery, Warsaw, Poland
Brodno Jewish cemetery, Warsaw, Poland
Busk mass grave, Ukraine
Câmpulung Moldovenesc synagogue, Romania
Mortuary at the Jewish cemetery, Chişinău, Moldova
Mural in the Groisse Shil, Chernivtsi, Ukraine
Chernivtsi Jewish cemetery, Ukraine
Dubasari mass grave memorial, ‘Transnistria’, Moldova
Horodenka synagogue, Ukraine
Itcani New Jewish cemetery, Romania
Płaszów concentration camp site, Kraków, Poland
Lutsk synagogue, Ukraine
Golden Rose synagogue, Lviv, Ukraine
Tomb of the Baal Shem Tov in Medzhybizh, Ukraine
Meylakh Sheykhet in front of Golden Rose synagogue, Lviv, Ukraine
Mykhailivka concentration camp site, Ukraine
Rezina Jewish cemetery, Moldova
Sniatyn Jewish cemetery, Ukraine
Trochenbrod, Ukraine
Trochenbrod, Ukraine
Vadul Raşcov, Moldova
Former Jewish cemetery in Zhovkva, Ukraine
Zhovkva synagogue, Ukraine

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Exhibition on the Holocaust in the Galician Oil Belt opened in Cologne

Posted on by under Eastern Galicia, Exhibition

On 18 February ‘A Story of Destruction and Rescue’, an exhibition documenting the Holocaust in the eastern Galician towns of  Drohobych and Boryslav was opened in Cologne. The exhibition was created by an international team from Poland, Israel, Ukraine and Germany. It was already on display in several locations in Poland and Ukraine and will be shown in more places in Israel and Ukraine this summer. The Cologne exhibition will remain open to the public until 31 March.

Visitors at the exhibition opening
Activists of Action Reconciliation Service for Peace, among them Georg Goosmann
Galician sounds by Trezmorim Klezmer Band
Galician sounds by Trezmorim Klezmer Band
Jürgen Wilhelm – head of the Regional Assembly of the Rhineland – speaking
Exhibition curator Klaus Hasbron-Blume speaking
Varda Ghivoly – representative of Drohobycz Borysław and Vicinity Organisation – speaking

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‘A Search for Traces’ photo exhibition opened in Bonn

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Today my photo exhibition consisting of  black and white pictures from Jewish heritage sites in Ukraine, Poland and Romania opened in the Böttger bookstore and gallery in Bonn. It covers works from summer 2012 to 2015. I was glad because of the many visitors, nice conversations and positiv feedback.

before the opening
exhibition opening
exhibition opening
exhibition opening – photo: Klaus Hasbron-Blume

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