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Special Exhibition
5/17/2013
to 8/25/2013
Bedřich Fritta. Drawings from the Theresienstadt Ghetto
The exhibition shows the work of the Czech-Jewish artist and caricaturist Bedřich Fritta produced in the Theresienstadt ghetto between 1942 and 1944. The exhibit focuses on the artistic means by which Fritta comments on and interprets daily life in the ghetto. (...)
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Special Exhibition
5/7/2013
to 9/15/2013
Bambi and the Theory of Relativity. Books on the Nazi Pyre
Albert Einstein’s "Theory of Relativity," "Bambi" by Felix Salten, and with them books by over 350 authors burned on the Nazi pyre. On 10 May eighty years ago, the "Deutsche Studentenschaft" (German Student Union) burned books as the highlight of a large-scale "Action(s) against the Un-German Spirit." (...)
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Special Exhibition
3/22/2013
to 9/1/2013
THE WHOLE TRUTH ... everything you always wanted to know about Jews
When asked why Jews always respond to a question with a counterquestion, a rabbi answers, "Why not?" In the exhibition "The Whole Truth," the Jewish Museum Berlin presents various questions on the theme of Judaism - the FAQs, the uncomfortable, the funny, the clever, and those questions that cannot really be answered. (...)
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Special Exhibition
3/15/2013
to 4/26/2013
ROUNDHOUSE REVERB. A Film Installation by Isabel Robson and Susanne Vincenz set to the Kafka Fragments op. 24, by György Kurtág
Two women travel eastwards from Berlin, a violin and the score of the Kafka Fragments by the Hungarian composer György Kurtág in their luggage. The film installation "ROUNDHOUSE REVERB" explores the absurd potential of Kafka’s text fragments paired with music clips. (...)
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Special Exhibition
9/21/2012
to 1/27/2013
R.B. Kitaj (1932-2007) Obsessions
The American artist R.B. Kitaj was one of the trailblazers of British figurative art in the 1960s. Beginning in the 1970s, Kitaj positioned himself as a Jewish artist, seeing himself as initiating a "diasporic" modern art. The retrospective rediscovers this characteristic throughout Kitaj’s œuvre. (...)
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Special Exhibition
4/20/2012
to 8/26/2012
Russians Jews Germans: Photographs by Michael Kerstgens from 1992 to the Present
Michael Kerstgens documented the immigration of Russian-speaking Jews to Germany from the former Soviet Union. His pictures record religious celebrations and social events within the Jewish community, everyday scenes from transition houses, and individual families’ private moments. (...)
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Special Exhibition
3/23/2012
to 7/15/2012
Berlin Transit: Jewish Immigrants from Eastern Europe in the 1920s
As a hub connecting East and West, Berlin was a place of refuge and a way station for tens of thousands of Jews from Eastern Europe starting in the late nineteenth century, and particularly after the First World War. In six themed rooms and an epilogue, this exhibition shows Berlin as a centre of Jewish emigration in Europe. (...)
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Special Exhibition
9/16/2011
to 1/29/2012
How German is it? 30 Artists' Notion of Home
Is there such a thing as a collective national identity? How do they see themselves, the citizens of the Federal Republic of Germany and the people from other countries who live in Berlin, Munich, or Frankfurt? The exhibition will address debates around these issues. At its core are works by thirty artists who live in Germany with different origins and experiences. (...)
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Special Exhibition
4/8/2011
to 7/24/2011
Radical Jewish Culture
"Radical Jewish Culture" documents the Jewish music scene in New York starting in 1992, when the Festival for Radical New Jewish Music provided a first impetus for the development of a self-confident modern musical idiom. (...)
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Special Exhibition
3/18/2011
to 7/31/2011
Micha Ullman: Under
Micha Ullman is one of the most important Israeli sculptors of his generation. The Jewish Museum Berlin acquired an important work by Micha Ullman last year: The installation "Under" is now on show with sketches by the artist acquired at an earlier date and a video on the artist at the Eric F. Ross Gallery. (...)
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Special Exhibition
11/4/2010
to 2/27/2011
The Sukkah: A Fleeting House for a Jewish Festival
"The Sukkah: A Fleeting House for a Jewish Festival," a photo installation by the architect and cultural historian Miriam Levy Lipis shows contemporary Sukkot from Europe, Israel, and the USA. (...)
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Special Exhibition
9/28/2010
to 1/30/2011
Forced Labor during National Socialism
For the first time in a comprehensive scope, this exhibition shows the various forms of National Socialist forced labor from 1933-1945 both in the Reich and in the German occupied and controlled territories. (...)
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Special Exhibition
9/2/2010
to 1/31/2011
"You've arrived at the perfumers": The Cosmetic Companies Scherk and Dr. Albersheim
The exhibition in the Rafael Roth Learning Center tells the story of the Berlin/Frankfurt cosmetic companies Scherk and Dr. Albersheim. Both companies were rebuilt and reestablished in Germany in the postwar period by the founders' families. (...)
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Special Exhibition
7/23/2010
to 10/10/2010
Jewish Life in Argentina: Contributions to the 200th Anniversary
The Argentine Jews today – 200 years after the country's founding – are an inextricable part of Argentina’s pluralistic and democratic society. (...)
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Special Exhibition
4/29/2010
to 8/8/2010
Heroes, Freaks, and Super-Rabbis. The Jewish Dimension of Comic Art
Superman was first penned by a Jewish illustrator as was Batman, Spiderman and other contemporary heroes. This exhibition shows the Jewish hues of this pop-cultural medium and its history, with objects from more than 45 artists. (...)
