Micha Ullman: "Under" ("Unten")
Micha Ullman: Under. Alexander Ochs Galleries Berlin | Beijing
© Photo: Heinrich Hermes
Micha Ullman is one of the most important Israeli sculptors of his generation. His family fled a Thuringian village in 1933 to Palestine, where he was born in Tel Aviv in 1939. His work has been shown in public places in Germany since the 1970s. Best-known is his memorial to the book burning at Bebelplatz.
Exhibition opens
17 March 2011, 7pm
When
18 March to 31 July 2011
Where
Libeskind Building, ground level, Eric F. Ross Gallery in the permanent exhibition
Admission
with the museum ticket (5 euros, reduced rate 2 euros)
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. Here Micha Ullman picks up on a thread that runs through many of his works, namely that the object itself is absent, invisible, and inaccessible. He thus enters into congenial dialog with the architecture of Daniel Libeskind and his concept of voids.
