Please note: Menashe Kadisman’s art installation is not accessible to visitors between 20 and 24 March 2023.
For the Gallery of the Missing, the artist Via Lewandowsky developed three opaque showcases titled Order of Disappearance. As visitors draw near to these trapezoidal sculptures, they hear audio recordings on special headphones that describe obliterated objects in German and English.
The sound pieces are about objects that serve as examples of the larger destruction of Jewish cultural property. According to the artist, they are meant to remind visitors of the existence and nature of “what no longer exists.”

Where
Libeskind Building, ground level, Eric F. Ross Gallery
Lindenstraße 9–14, 10969 Berlin
The sound pieces each contain an auditory description of a missing artifact from the arts, academia, or society:
- Otto Freundlich’s sculpture Large Head ("The New Man"), presumed to have been destroyed
- The Encyclopedia Judaica, which was never finished beyond the letter K
- The head of the goddess Hygieia as the final relic of the Jewish Community Hospital of Frankfurt
The project channels Daniel Libeskind’s architecture. The Voids Libeskind inscribed into the building embody the unspeakable loss that Berlin and Germany sustained with the murder of Jews.
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