Die letzten Europäer. Jüdische Perspektiven auf die Krisen einer Idee - JÜDISCHEN MUSEUM MÜNCHEN

23 November 2022 – 29 May 2023

Photo by Eva Junger

Commissioned and purchased by the Jewish Museum Munich. Exhibited as part of the exhibition: "The Last Europeans. Jewish Perspectives on the Crises of an Idea", curated by Felicitas Jelinek-Heimann.

The installation consists of transparent lenticular prints installed in three light boxes as a composition of 500 x 230 cm. Each work contains up to six text layers, which can be percieved in fragments from different viewing positions and which "overwrite" each other as in a deconstructed "palimpsest". The chosen texts, selected in collaboration with curator Felicitas Jelinek-Heimann include Agnes Heller, Ludwik Zamenhof, Bernard-Henri Lévy, André Gkucksman, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Jaques Derrida und Jürgen Habermas appear in three languages: German, English and Esperanto. With the exception of Zamenhof, these texts by European intellectuals, philosophers and activists reflect on the ongoing European crisis and reflect a grave personal disappointment in the collapse of enlightenment and liberal values, not only in Europe, but worldwide.

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