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#SharedEurope – EXIT: 1939 A Very Different Europe

Ben Uri at the 12 Star Gallery

1939 saw a very different Europe and this exhibition shines a spotlight on the forced journeys of many of central Europe’s most distinguished, talented and pioneering artists, who escaped tyranny in search of artistic and personal freedoms. The exhibition features émigrés from European countries including Austria, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Russia by artists including Jankel Adler, Frank Auerbach, Martin Bloch, Marc Chagall, Hans Feibusch, Eva Frankfurther, Lucian Freud, Henryk Gotlib, George Grosz, Josef Herman, Oskar Kokoschka, Heinz Koppel, Else Meidner, Ludwig Meidner, Kurt Schwitters, Chaïm Soutine, Elisabeth Tomalin, Feliks Topolski and Harry Weinberger. The majority of works are drawn from the Ben Uri Collection, complemented by a small number of works from private collections.

September 2019 marks the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World. ‘ART-EXIT’ is a vivid reminder of the violence, devastation, economic and social chaos that can so easily be caused by super-nationalism subsuming proud-patriotism. As Europe as a whole experiences a growing nationalist momentum, these artists, their works and forced journeys, followed by new lives and significant contributions as immigrants in their new homelands, all have fascinating, important and relevant stories to tell.

Co-curated by Sarah MacDougall and Rachel Dickson of The Ben Uri Research Unit for the Study of the Jewish and immigrant Contribution to the Visual Arts in Britain since 1900.

Details

Start:
July 17, 2019 | 10:00 am
End:
September 11, 2019 | 6:00 pm
Cost:
Free
Website:
https://ec.europa.eu/unitedkingdom/events/exhibition-art-exit-1939-very-different-europe_en

Venue

12 Star Gallery, Europe House
32 Smith Square
London, SW1P 3EU United Kingdom
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