Ulrike Grossarth: Die Schule von Lublin
Studio exhibition in the Philosophikum, Domplatz 23, 48143 Münster,
15.11.2021 to 26.11.2021 during building opening hours.
Developed in a practical seminar with the artist in summer 2021.
A cooperation between the Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn and the Central Custody of the WWU with the Institute for Art History and the Institute for Jewish Studies of the WWU.
Opening: 14.11.2021, 6:00 p.m. - Ulrike Grossarth Tauschhandel
You can order the booklet accompanying the exhibition free of charge here: kultur@wwu.de.
A 3G certificate is required for the visit!
The dancer, artist, documenta participant and until 2018 professor (HfBK Dresden) Ulrike Grossarth (*1952) has been working on her artistic project "School of Lublin" since 2006. In performances, exhibitions and individual works, she deals with Lublin's Jewish heritage and questions cultural-historical traditions of thought, language and representation.
The visual starting point for this research is the photo archive of Stefan Kiełsznia, which shows street scenes from the 1930s in Lublin, then one of the most important centres of Jewish life in Europe and today a twin city of Münster. Increasingly, Grossarth's work also refers to Hasidic writings and teachings, such as those of Jakob Jitzchak Horowitz (1745-1815), known as the "Seer of Lublin". Grossarth understands her "School of Lublin" metaphorically as a school of thought and an attempt to expand the usual canon of art and cultural concepts with foundations from Jewish approaches to thinking and teaching.
