• Insiders/Outsiders

    Charleston Firle, Lewes, East Sussex, United Kingdom

    Monica Bohm-Duchen will discuss the importance of cultural cross-fertilisation with eminent art historian and curator, Norman Rosenthal and novelist Esther Freud

    £16
  • Fifth Biennial Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Prize Exhibition

    Piano Nobile Kings Place 90 York Way, London, Kings Cross, United Kingdom

    Celebrating contemporary British and Irish self-portraiture, the Ruth Borchard prize offers a unique opportunity for new and established artists to compete for £10,000 and an opportunity for their work to be purchased for the Ruth Borchard Next Generation Collection.

  • Edith Tudor-Hart and Wolfgang Suschitzky

    Tate Britain Millbank, London, London, United Kingdom

    Following the rise of Fascism in Vienna in the 1930s, brother and sister Edith Tudor-Hart (1908–73) and Wolfgang Suschitzky (1912–2016) found sanctuary in Britain, where both became leading documentary photographers. This display offers a rare opportunity to see a substantial group of photographs by brother and sister together.

    Free
  • Showcasing Art History: Britain ∩ Europe

    Courtauld Institute of Art, Vernon Square Campus Penton Rise, London, Kings Cross, United Kingdom

    Encounters in Art: Women Émigré Artists: Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, Milein Cosman, Else Meidne

  • Berlin/London: The Lost Photographs of Gerty Simon

    The Wiener Library 29 Russell Square, London, United Kingdom

    The Wiener Library’s summer 2019 exhibition showcases the remarkable work of German Jewish photographer Gerty (Gertrud) Simon

    Free
  • Refugees, Newcomers, Citizens: Migration Stories from Picture Post, 1938-56

    Peltz Gallery 43, Gordon Square, London, United Kingdom

    This exhibition brings together for the first time over sixty original prints by renowned émigré photographers Gerti Deutsch and Kurt Hutton, together with Bert Hardy and Haywood Magee, revealing Picture Post magazine’s stories of refugees and immigrants to Britain from the 1930s to the 1950s. 

  • Elman Poole Concert: Egon Wellesz and other Emigrés in 1930s Britain

    Lincoln College, Oxford Turl St, Oxford, United Kingdom

    This concert will feature some of Egon Wellesz’ works, written before and after his emigration, alongside those of fellow emigrées Ferdinand Rauter, Karl Rankl, Hans Gál and Robert Kahn, who all have recently featured in the research and performance project ‘Singing a Song in a Foreign Land’ at the Royal College of Music.

    Free
  • Ellen Ettlinger: A Folklorist Flees the Nazis

    Pitt Rivers Museum South Parks Road, Oxford, United Kingdom

    This display marks the eightieth anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War by highlighting the work of Ellen Ettlinger, a Jewish folklorist who was forced to flee Germany in 1938 due to persecution by the Nazi regime.

    Free
  • Book Talk: A Small Dark Quiet

    Wiener Library 29 Russell Square, London, United Kingdom

    Miranda Gold​ will be discussing her haunting novel, A Small Dark Quiet​, with ​writer, critic and former deputy director of English PEN​, Catherine Taylor​.

    Free
  • Walter Nessler: Post-war Optimist

    Pallant House Gallery 8-9 North Pallant, Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom

    A significant display of the work of German-born artist Walter Nessler

  • Insiders/Outsiders Talk: Monica Bohm-Duchen

    Five Leaves Bookshop 14a Long Row, Nottingham, United Kingdom

    Refugees from the Nazis and their contribution to British visual culture: a talk by art historian, Monica Bohm-Duchen, the creative director of the Insiders Outsiders Festival

    £3
  • Edith Tudor-Hart, the Bauhaus and Isokon

    Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art 75 Belford Road, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

    Leyla Daybelge and Magnus Englund, authors of new publication ‘Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain’ will speak about Bauhaus graduate Edith Tudor-Hart, her photography of the Isokon building and the émigré community in 1930s London.

  • Celebrating Jewish Architecture – Routemaster Bus Tour

    Jewish Museum London Raymond Burton House 129-131 Albert Street, London, United Kingdom

    Jump on board a classic Routemaster! In this tour with architecture expert Joe Kerr, you will have the chance to see buildings designed by famous Jewish architects whose work was crucial to the rebuilding of twentieth century London

    £30
  • The Social Eye of Picture Post

    Birkbeck Cinema 43 Gordon Square, London, United Kingdom

    Picture Post magazine was the publishing sensation of the 1940s and early 1950s. Founded by anti-Nazi refugee journalists and photographers it blended continental large format photography with British social documentary to produce moving, funny, hard-hiting stories about Britain in times of war and peace. This event will hear from the two co-curators, Professor Amanda Hopkinson and Mike Berlin, about the themes they have explored in the current exhibtion at the Peltz gallery: Refugees, Incomers, Citizens: Migration Stories from Picture Post (4 June-5 July) with Professor Lynda Nead and Professor Steve Edwards in discussion.

    Free
  • Friedrich Nagler: A Personal Mythology

    Hove Museum and Art Gallery 19 New Church Road, Hove, East Sussex, United Kingdom

    Exhibition celebrating the extraordinary work of self-taught Jewish artist Friedrich Nagler, who fled Nazi-occupied Austria in 1938.

    Free
  • Talk: Women Exile Photographers in Britain

    The Wiener Library 29 Russell Square, London, United Kingdom

    When Gerty Simon was forced into exile in 1933 she was one of many photographers who fled Germany and Austria during the 1930s.  John March has made a study of the group of two dozen women exile photographers, some well-known, and others with brief or unrecognised careers.

    Free
  • 20:20 vision

    Victoria and Albert Museum Cromwell Road, London, South Kensigton, United Kingdom

    20:20 vision is a dynamic arts and community legacy project from not-for-profits Salusbury WORLD Refugee Centre and FotoDocument, which celebrates the contribution of refugees to the UK. The project focuses on 20 children from diverse backgrounds who arrived in the UK circa 1999 and casts a long lens over their lives and achievements fast forwarding 20 years later to 2019.

  • ‘You, me and those who came before’: V&A

    V&A Cromwell Rd, Knightsbridge, London, United Kingdom

    As part of  Refugee Week Festival 2019, Counterpoints commissioned the celebrated photographer, Jillian Edelstein to respond to this year’s theme of the festival – ‘You, me and those who came before’. The result is a stunning series of portraits featuring first and second generation ‘refugees’, many of whom are public figures who we would not commonly associate with displacement.

    Free
  • ‘You, me and those who came before’: Queen Elizabeth Hall

    Southbank Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, United Kingdom

    As part of  Refugee Week Festival 2019, Counterpoints commissioned the celebrated photographer, Jillian Edelstein to respond to this year’s theme of the festival – ‘You, me and those who came before’. The result is a stunning series of portraits featuring first and second generation ‘refugees’, many of whom are public figures who we would not commonly associate with displacement.

    Free
  • The Bauhaus in Britain

    Tate Britain Millbank, London, London, United Kingdom

    This free display considers connections between Germany’s Bauhaus School (1919–33) and the visual arts in Britain

    Free