Lecture: Stranger at the Door
At a time when so many problems afflicting our world are the result of our distrust and fear of strangers, we take a timely look at the representations of the Other in art history.
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Platforma 5 : Kent & Medway
Kent & Medway , United KingdomPoster image: A Hostile Environment, 2019 – original artwork by Adam Chodzko, commissioned for Platforma 5 by Counterpoints Arts Kent & Medway Platforma is our biennial festival that spotlights local and national work about displacement and migration. Each edition of the festival is produced in collaboration with different partners and takes place in a different […]
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Migrations: Masterworks from the Ben Uri Collection
Museum of Gloucester Brunswick Road, Gloucester, United KingdomThe exhibition shines a spotlight on a very different Europe 80 years ago in the lead up to, and the start of, WW2. It features the forced journeys of many of central Europe’s most distinguished and pioneering artists, who fled tyranny in search of artistic and personal freedoms.
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In the Footsteps of Fred Uhlman: Art and Refugees in Hampstead
Hampstead Tube Station Hampstead High Street, London, London, United KingdomWe visit sites Uhlman was known to frequent and discuss the role of his artistic friends and neighbours and consider other refugees who settled in Hampstead during this time
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Marie-Louise von Motesiczky
Tate Britain Millbank, London, London, United KingdomThis free display covers the life and work of Marie-Louise von Motesiczky alongside other émigrés who escaped Nazi Europe for the relative safety of Britain.
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Pioneers of Modernism: William Morris and the Bauhaus
Willam Morris Gallery Lloyd Park, Forest Road, London, Walthamstow, United KingdomThe William Morris Gallery’s first major exhibition exploring the relationship between William Morris and the Bauhaus.
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20:20 Stories of Moving Lineage
Brent Civic Centre Engineers Way, London, Wembley, United Kingdom20:20 is a multimedia, touring arts and heritage project that casts a long lens over the personal memories of refugee families who arrived in the UK from 1999 onwards from Kosovo and other major global conflicts.
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20:20 Stories of Moving Lineage
Willesden Library 95 High Road, London, Willesden, United Kingdom20:20 is a multimedia, touring arts and heritage project that casts a long lens over the personal memories of refugee families who arrived in the UK from 1999 onwards from Kosovo and other major global conflicts.
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Heartfield: One Man’s War
Four Corners Gallery 121 Roman Road, London, United KingdomAn exhibition of prints by the renowned photomontage artist John Heartfield. A pioneer of German agitprop and an early member of the Berlin Dada group, Heartfield is known as the inventor of political photomontage. 33 of Heartfield’s scathingly satirical artworks against war, fascism and the Third Reich will be on display.
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Dance of Life: Barbara Jackson
New North London Synagogue East End Road, London, United KingdomThese images convey the comfortable settled life of middle-class Jewry in Germany and the gradual feeling of unease, separation and persecution that overcame them.
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Josef Herman
Flowers Gallery 82 Kingsland Road, London, United KingdomThe first major exhibition for many years to trace the complex life journey of Polish-Jewish artist Josef Herman (1911-2000), from his escape from Nazi-occupied Europe in 1940 through his time spent in Glasgow, South Wales, London and Suffolk.
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Inspiration & Processes: Janet Haig
Hampstead School of Art Penrose Gardens, London, United KingdomJanet Haig is a Hampstead-based ceramicist, whose unique hand-crafted vessels and stoneware torsos have been shown in many galleries and featured in boutiques and magazines.
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“A Camp full of Once and future Very Important Persons”
University of London Senate House Room 243, Malet Street, London, London, United KingdomLecture: Fred Uhlman and Kurt Schwitters in Internment
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A Ceramic Conversation
Hampstead School of Art Penrose Gardens, London, United KingdomJanet Haig is a Hampstead-based ceramicist, whose unique hand-crafted vessels and stoneware torsos have been shown in many galleries and featured in boutiques and magazines. This talk provides an opportunity to understand the life of a maker, to ask questions and share your views.
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Refuge and Renewal: Migration and British Art
Royal West of England Academy Queens Road, Bristol, United KingdomArtist refugees in the last hundred years and their influence on British art
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Albert Reuss Exhibition
Truro Cathedral High Cross, Truro, Cornwall, United KingdomThe works of Reuss are expected to attract art lovers and those interested in his story and will be an integral part of the Holocaust Memorial Day 2020 display and event.
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Talk: Albert Reuss, Artist and Refugee
Truro Cathedral High Cross, Truro, Cornwall, United KingdomTo commemorate the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz on 27 January 1945, Susan Soyinka, Reuss’s biographer, will be in conversation with Revd John Halkes, who was a personal friend of the artist.
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The Life of Herbert Bier through his Archive
Wallace Collection Wallace Collection, Hertford House, Manchester Square, LondonThis will be a chance to view the archive material and hear a talk on the life of the art dealer Herbert Bier (1905-1981) in the Visitors’ Library at the Wallace Collection.
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Dissent and Displacement: A Modern Story – Monica Petzal and Margarete Klopfleisch
New Walk Museum and Art Gallery 53 New Walk, Leicester, Leicester, United KingdomAn exhibition in two parts: wall-mounted prints by Monica Petzal; and sculptures and works on paper by Margarete Klopfleisch
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Belonging and Not Belonging: An Art History Day School
Royal West of England Academy Queens Road, Bristol, United KingdomJoin Peter Wakelin, the curator of ‘Refuge and Renewal: Migration and British Art’ for an Art History Day School packed with fascinating stories of émigré artists and the impact of displacement. Peter will unpack some of the context in which this exhibition sits, and give an overview of this wide topic.
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Naum Gabo
Tate St.Ives Porthmeor Beach, St Ives, Cornwall, United KingdomTate St Ives presents this major exhibition of one of the pioneers of constructivism, Naum Gabo.
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Between Two Worlds
Buxton Museum and Art Gallery Terrace Road, Buxton, United KingdomBetween Two Worlds explores the art created during this tumultuous period featuring work by John Minton, Fred Uhlman, Josef Herman and Ben Enwonwu. It draws exhibits from Derbyshire County Council’s collection, such as the bequest of Arto Funduklian, the son of Armenian émigrés, including work by Marc Chagall, Duncan Grant and Wyndham Lewis.
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Festival of Belonging
Manchester Central Library St Peter's Square, Manchester, United KingdomFrom March 7-14th – featuring one-off events and nights of comedy, theatre, storytelling, films and visual arts to examine how we assimilate in new places, explore what makes us feel that we belong and question what happens when we do not.
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Refuge and Renewal: Migration and British Art
MOMA Machynlleth Heol Penrallt, Machynlleth, Powys, United KingdomThis exhibition looks at how artist refugees in the last hundred years have been received and influenced British art
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