Featured images: Eva Frankfurther: Workers’ Tea Break, c. 1955; Woman with Two Children, c. 1955. Collection: Family of Eva Frankfurther. Photos: Miki Slingsby. West Indian Waitresses, c. 1955. Ben Uri Collection, London. Presented by the artist’s sister Beate Planskoy, 2015. Photo: Ben Uri Gallery and Museum. Self-Portrait in Headscarf, c. 1957. Collection: Family of Eva Frankfurther. © Eva Frankfurther Estate. Design: Yevheniia Havrylenko.

• Opening programme
• Support
• Cooperation partners

Update: Watch the recording of the Instagram livestream for the exhibition opening on 22 October 2026 here.

You are warmly invited to the opening of the exhibition Eva Frankfurther – Drawn from Life, which will take place on Thursday, 22 October 2026, at 7 pm at the Café in Kunsthaus Dahlem.

The exhibition presents the work of the Berlin-born Jewish artist Eva Frankfurther (1930–1959), who emigrated with her family to London in 1939 to escape Nazi persecution. More than 40 paintings and works on paper portray immigrant and working-class communities in London’s East End, offering a nuanced perspective on migration, exile and cultural diversity in postwar Europe.

Opening programme

Welcome remarks and introduction to the exhibition

Speakers:

• Dorothea Schöne (de, en)
  Artistic Director, Kunsthaus Dahlem
• Ruth Ur (en)
  Director, Exilmuseum Berlin
• Sarah MacDougall (en)
  Exhibition curator

We look forward to welcoming you!

SUPPORT

DAXTEN GmbH

Herbert und Elsbeth Weichmann-Stiftung

Сircle of friends Freundeskreis Kunsthaus Dahlem – Bernhard Heiliger e. V.

COOPERATION PARTNERS

Exilmuseum Berlin