Café Ma­gné­tique: La Prose du Trans­sibérien

The third part of the event series Café Magnétique is dedicated to Cendrars and Delaunay-Terk's artist’s book and to the diverse moments of exchange and collaboration within the École de Paris. In a lecture performance, curator Shelley Harten joins the live artists Tiziana Beck and Johanna Benz from graphicrecording.cool and the actress Marina Frenk to explore the intersection of migration, the avant-garde, and artistic networks in early twentieth-century Paris.

Parisian cafés functioned as places to meet people and gather together on a daily basis, and often also as a first port of call for new arrivals. They served as parlors and studies for many artists, and were essential for the self-organization of migrants in a new, foreign environment: The cafés were used to establish contacts, find rooms and studios, and to prepare exhibitions. Famous Parisian cafés such as the Café de Dôme in Montparnasse were the focal point of this migrant and particularly Jewish-influenced art scene, which soon became known as the École de Paris. The Café Magnétique series revives the Parisian cafés in the Jewish Museum Berlin, inviting you to exchange ideas about the École de Paris over food and drinks.