Belonging and Not Belonging: Émigré Artists in Britain after 1933
Monica Bohm-Duchen considers the experiences of the visual artists who sought refuge from Nazi persecution in Britain.
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Pallant House Gallery 8-9 North Pallant, Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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The Escape Act – A Holocaust Memoir
Circomedia St Paul’s Church, Portland Square, Bristol, United KingdomA 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.
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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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Beyond Bauhaus – Modernism in Britain 1933–66
Architecture Gallery, RIBA 66 Portland Place, London, London, United KingdomThis 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.
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László Moholy-Nagy in Britain: Between the New Vision and the New Bauhaus
RIBA First Floor Gallery, 66 Portland Place, London, United KingdomThis 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.
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The Kindertransport in 21st Century Public Discourse
University of London Senate House Room 243, Malet Street, London, London, United KingdomLecture 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
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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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Art Treasures that defied Nazi Terror: The Story of Alfred, Thekla and Hans Hess and their Passion for German Expressionism – Lecture by Simon Lake
12 Star Gallery Europe House, 32 Smith Square, London, United KingdomBen Uri Gallery and Museum is delighted to present three free linked talks following on from the recent exhibition curated by the Ben Uri Research Unit, marking the contribution to art in Britain by the so-called ‘Hitler émigrés’ on the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War.
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The Berlin Blues Cabaret
Brixton Library Brixton Oval, London, United KingdomThis will be an opportunity to celebrate the poetry of the late Beata Duncan with selections from her collections Apple Harvest (Hearing Eye), Berlin Blues (Green Bottle Press) and the forthcoming Breaking Glass (WritesideLeft Press), all of which will be on sale on the night.
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Living with the wire: guided walks
Manx Museum Manx Museum, Douglas, Isle of Man, United KingdomAs part of the Isle of Man’s annual Heritage Open Day weekends in October, there will be a programme of guided walks around the Island’s capital, Douglas and nearby Onchan, looking at the sites of various Second World War civilian internment camps.
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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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Mendelsohn’s De La Warr Pavilion
De La Warr Pavilion Marina, Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, United KingdomExplore Erich Mendelsohn’s design legacy with a talk on his life and a tour of the De La Warr Pavilion. A refugee from Hitler’s Germany, Erich Mendelsohn had already established an international reputation when he won the commission led by the 9th Earl De La Warr to design a new Pavilion for Bexhill. The result, a ‘people’s palace for art and culture’, was and continues to be an expression of a specifically social and moral agenda.
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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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Exiled Lit Cafe: Opening Lands
Poetry Cafe 22 Betterton Street, London, United KingdomA chance to hear excerpts from three upcoming books with Ziba Karbassi reading from Lemon Sun, Marta Dziurosz reading from Renia’s Diary and Stephen Duncan reading from Beata Duncan’s Breaking Glass.
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‘Why the English have no taste’: The Bauhaus and British Design in the 1930s
Alan Powers discusses the relationship between British design culture and the Bauhaus.
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Jankel Adler and Josef Herman: Friends, Orphans, Refugees – Dr Glenn Sujo and David Herman in Conversation
Ben Uri Gallery and Museum is delighted to present three free linked talks following on from the recent exhibition curated by the Ben Uri Research Unit, marking the contribution to art in Britain by the so-called ‘Hitler emigres’ on the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War.
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Living with the wire: guided walks
Manx Museum Manx Museum, Douglas, Isle of Man, United KingdomAs part of the Isle of Man’s annual Heritage Open Day weekends in October, there will be a programme of guided walks around the Island’s capital, Douglas and nearby Onchan, looking at the sites of various Second World War civilian internment camps.
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Modernist Hampstead Walk
Hampstead Tube Station Hampstead High Street, London, London, United KingdomDiscover the revolutionary Modernist homes and idealistic architecture built in Hampstead in the 1930s
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Migration at the RNCM
Royal Northern College of Music 124 Oxford Road, Manchester, United KingdomMigration has been in the DNA of the RNCM from its earliest roots, when in 1893 the German-born conductor Sir Charles Hallé realised his vision of founding a Northern conservatoire which became the Royal Manchester College of Music.
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Hungarian Lit Night: Moholy-Nagy in Britain
Get familiar with Moholy-Nagy’s unique perspective at a night of immersive activities. A talk by the author Valeria Carullo will be accompanied by interactive performances by experimental artist Steven J Fowler that take you to a journey into Moholy-Nagy’s world.
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“Collar the lot!” Artists, Aliens and Aspects of Internment in Britain c. 1940 – Four Short Talks Chaired by Monica Bohm-Duchen
Ben Uri Gallery and Museum is delighted to present three free linked talks following on from the recent exhibition curated by the Ben Uri Research Unit, marking the contribution to art in Britain by the so-called ‘Hitler emigres’ on the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War.
Talks by Charmian Brinson, Julia Winckler, Fran Lloyd and Rachel Pistol
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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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Nikesh Shukla and Chimene Suleyman: The Good Immigrant USA
Southbank Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, United KingdomJoin Nikesh Shukla and Chimene Suleyman as they discuss the experience of editing and contributing essays to both the US and UK editions of The Good Immigrant.
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East West Street: A Song of Good and Evil
Southbank Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, United KingdomA partly staged reading inspired by international human rights lawyer Philippe Sands’ award-winning bestseller about the Nuremberg trials.
£15 – £25