The workshop invites visitors to participate in the creation of a large, collaborative tapestry, with each participant contributing a single knot. Inspired by the symbolic meaning of the knot in Judaism, the tapestry represents the power of collective action and unity, with each knot representing a personal connection to the community and to the collective narrative of resistance and cohesion.

This workshop is part of the project Spurensuche ins Jetzt (Searching for Traces in the Now), which is funded by the Action Fund Against Anti-Semitism.

As part of the Museum Sunday (Museumssonntag) programme at Kunsthaus Dahlem
Cost: Admission and participation are free of charge

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The artist Jessica Ostrowicz comes from London. At the same time, Jessica – “a person of Eastern European Jewish heritage” – calls the fact that half of her family ended up in London a direct result of the pogroms and the Shoah. Her attempts to deal with the family heritage led her to the topic that has long been the main focus of her interest, namely transgenerational trauma and how such traumas are passed on genetically. This family heritage also played an important role in the emergence of the current topic of the artist’s interest, which is the possibility of (re)creating a sense of home. However, there is also another stunning factor: for the last year, Jessica has been working as an art teacher in a prison. The way prisoners try to create a sense of home in there, she says, has, in some ways, changed her perspective on the subject.

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