“[It] felt like stumbling into a piece of street theater, a drama of redemption fit for one of the city’s famous opera houses, part morality play, part masquerade, part theater of memory—all performed above an abyss. […] Jewishness is being staged and celebrated everywhere, from theater to klezmer to Jewish cooking, but this “Jewish revival” often feels less like an act of healing than some novel form of disfigurement.”
—Frédéric Brenner in his essay on the exhibition ZERHEILT: HEALED TO PIECES
Wed 2 Mar 2022, 7.30 pm
Where
W. M. Blumenthal Academy,
Klaus Mangold Auditorium
Fromet-und-Moses-Mendelssohn-Platz 1, 10969 Berlin
(Opposite the Museum)
The livestream will start on 2 March 2022 at 7.30 pm; Jewish Museum Berlin 2022
In this artist talk, the photographer Frédéric Brenner will speak with the historian Daniel Schönpflug about how to contextualize his work ZERHEILT: HEALED TO PIECES, which is currently on display at the Jewish Museum Berlin. Does the photographic essay fit within a practice of staging Jewishness? Or are the photographs an echo of a farewell, perhaps an expression of a new beginning? Are Jews already losing their symbolic function for Germans?
In his photographic essay ZERHEILT, the internationally renowned photographer Frédéric Brenner explores Berlin as a site of various stagings of Jewishness. The exhibition offers fragmentary glimpses of life in this city that are replete with paradoxes, dissonances, gaps, and opposing narratives between grappling with the past and the desire for redemption.
Frédéric Brenner
Frédéric Brenner is known for his photographic investigations of longing, belonging, and exclusion. In his works, he creates a visual memory of contemporary Jewish people.
Daniel Schönpflug
Daniel Schönpflug is a professor of contemporary history at the Freie Universität Berlin and the academic coordinator at the Wissenschaftskollegs zu Berlin (Berlin Institute for Advanced Study).
Frédéric Brenner; photo: Ali Ghandtschi
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Program Accompanying ZERHEILT: Hevrutah: Zerheilen – Healing to Pieces (4)
Hevrutah: Zerheilen – Healing to Pieces
At the center of the program accompanying Frédéric Brenner’s exhibition ZERHEILT: HEALED TO PIECES is the practice of “Hevrutah” (“friendship”), a gathering for the purpose of shared learning. We invite the cast and the public to come together over a text, to read it and discuss it.
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Homeland/Diaspora
With Akiva Weingarten, Sonia Simmenauer, Elad Lapidot, and Aviva Ronnefeld (in German)
Discussion
Wed 16 Feb 2022, 7.30 pm (in person and via livestream) -
Staging Jewishness
Artist talk with the photographer Frédéric Brenner
Artist Talk
Wed 2 Mar 2022, 7.30 pm (in person and via livestream) -
Otherness/Responsibility
With Liad Hussein Kantorowicz, Benyamin Reich, Irene Runge, and Adam Joachim Goldmann
Discussion
Thu 9 Dec 2021, 7.30 pm (video recording available, in German) -
Memory/Place
With Yemima Hadad, Netanel Olhoeft, Dekel Peretz, and Barbara Steiner
Discussion
Wed 6 Oct 2021, 7.30 pm (video recording available, in German)
Frédéric Brenner (Photographer)
Frédéric Brenner – ZERHEILT: HEALED TO PIECES
Photo exhibition
Exhibition
3 Sep 2021 to 13 Mar 2022
Without the leaves, I would not have started.
Frédéric Brenner about his new photographic essay, ZERHEILT: HEALED TO PIECES, and Jewish life in Berlin
Essay
2021
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