Taking Gerty Simon’s striking image (c. 1929) of the sculptor Renée Sintenis as a starting point, this talk will explore Simon’s photographs as part of a wider culture of the artistic face and body in Weimar modernity.
20:20 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.
Käthe Schuftan was a Jewish artist who escaped from Berlin in June 1939. Her work was linked with both Käthe Kollwitz and the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) movement, including Otto Dix and George Grosz.
Selected dates from September to April
The Ken Stradling Collection is very pleased to be taking part in the international celebrations marking the centenary of the Bauhaus.
This one-day symposium will examine the contribution of refugee dancers from Nazi Europe and their contribution to British Culture.
New exhibition celebrating the contribution of Polish artists who fled Nazi-dominated Europe to British culture.
New exhibition celebrating the contribution of Polish artists who fled Nazi-dominated Europe to British culture.
After decades of making sculpture, in the last two years, Maurice Blik has identified a unique and personal way of working to externalise his thoughts and feelings. Now his sculptures leap, dance, stride, walk, hurry, peer, to express what it feels like to be alive.
Dr Nadia Valman, senior lecturer in the Department of English at Queen Mary University of London, will give a talk on Anna Gmeyner and Elisabeth de Waal
Lecture given by member of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, based at the Institute for Modern Languages Research, University of London
Dr Jochen Hung gives a critical introduction to the history of Weimar Republic and the era that shaped Simon and her sitters.
Art historian Ines Schlenker introduces the life and varied oeuvre of Milein Cosman (1921–2017). Best known for her drawings of musicians and dancers, she excelled at chronicling contemporary life, developing a unique drawing technique that enabled her to capture the most fleeting of moments.
An exhibition of collage works by artist Gil Mualem-Doron of printed textiles, which will include The New Union Flag. Commissioned by the Mayor of London for “We Are All Londoners: Celebrating Our European Culture and Communities”.
This 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.
A one-woman theatre show incorporating circus and puppetry, it is the true story of Irene, a Jewish acrobat who survived the Holocaust hiding and performing at a German circus. The show switches between past and present, intersecting Irene’s life with the performer’s experiences growing up a grandchild to Holocaust survivors.
Hampstead has been a place of refuge, reflection and community for centuries. This exhibition aims to show the response of some of its most creative residents to the tumultuous political events of the early twentieth century; from the Spanish Civil War to the rise of the Nazi party and the outbreak of the Second World War and beyond.
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.
Monica Bohm-Duchen considers the experiences of the visual artists who sought refuge from Nazi persecution in Britain.
A one-woman theatre show incorporating circus and puppetry, it is the true story of Irene, a Jewish acrobat who survived the Holocaust hiding and performing at a German circus. The show switches between past and present, intersecting Irene’s life with the performer’s experiences growing up a grandchild to Holocaust survivors.
Poster 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 […]
This exhibition revisits the impact of three notable Bauhaus émigrés: Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer and László Moholy-Nagy. Centred on the brief period of 1934-37, when they came to live and work in Britain, it traces this fertile moment in British architectural history and considers where its legacy has had the most enduring impact.
This display draws on the RIBA’s unique holdings to demonstrate both the range of Moholy-Nagy’s British work and the strong ties that he established with modernist architects in Britain.
Lecture by Andrea Hammel, member of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, based at the Institute for Modern Languages Research, University of London
The 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.