ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN PERSPECTIVES
Event program in the art space hase29
February – April 2024
Against the background of the resurgent anti-Semitism in Germany, the increasing threat to Jewish but also Muslim people and in view of the polarization between people who lean towards either the Israeli or the Palestinian "side", the art space hase29 continues with the extensive event program "Israeli-Palestinian Perspectives “a sign of solidarity and solidarity with the victims of the terrorist act carried out by Hamas on October 7, 2023, as well as with the victims of the resulting acts of war in Israel and Gaza.
The event program creates a space for encounters and exchanges that opens up differentiated perspectives and invites the audience to engage with Israeli and Palestinian culture. In times of increasing polarization, we would like to encourage peaceful and democratic, but also critical, dialogues and make a contribution to intercultural coexistence in the city of peace Osnabrück.
Organizer hase29
in cooperation with the German-Palestinian Society Osnabrück, the Osnabrück Diocesan Museum, the European Media Art Festival, the Osnabrück Film Festival, the Osnabrück Art Gallery, the West Lower Saxony Literature Office, the Osnabrück Museum Quarter and the VHS Osnabrück
The cooperation partners are responsible for their respective events, but not the overall program. The sponsors do not always represent the content or opinions presented in the individual events of the program.
We would like to thank all participating institutions for their willingness to contribute to a multi-perspective event program.
Events February - April 2024
Exhibition: “Double Take / The Second Look - “Rehearsing the Spectacle of Specters”
The exhibition “Double Take / The Second Look” in the art space hase29 shows the video work “Rehearsing the Spectacle of Specters” (2014) by the two Israeli artists Nir Evron and Omer Krieger. The center of her work is Kibbutz Be'eri, a collective community founded in 1946 in southern Israel near the Gaza Strip. In this geopolitically explosive situation, Kibbutz Be'eri was one of the places hit hardest in the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023.
With their work, Nir Evron and Omer Krieger create a poetic image of the kibbutz - a unique collective social way of life that emerged as part of the Zionist movement. The video emphasizes the architecture of coexistence and collective coexistence. Today – around 10 years after it was created – the work offers viewers irretrievable insights into a community and a built environment that have been forever changed by the events of the last few months.
Free entry!
Image: Rehearsing the Spectacle of Spectres (film still), 2014, Nir Evron and Omer Krieger
Film program in the art space hase29
17.02.2024/13.04.2024/29-XNUMX/XNUMX/XNUMX – art space haseXNUMX
“Once I Entered a Garden” (IL/FR/CH, 2012) by Avi Mograbi
selected by Nir Evron and Omer Krieger
It begins with a dream about an impossible encounter between Avi Mograbi and his grandfather Ibrahim outside their home in Damascus in 1920. What language did they speak? Avi only knows rudimentary Arabic, while Ibrahim hasn't even learned Hebrew. To make his dream come true, Avi turns to his Arabic teacher and good friend Ali Al-Azhari and suggests that they make a film together, “down to the last touches,” as Ali puts it. In typical Mograbi fashion, the filmmaker weaves a narrative about filmmaking into the film itself, a film about identity that questions our fundamental assumptions about what makes us who we are. (100 mins)
“The Great Book Heist” (IL/USA/UK, 2007-2012) by Benny Brunner
selected by the German-Palestinian Society
The film tells the little-known story of the destruction of Palestinian culture in 1948 and is based on the scientific research of Israeli doctoral student Gish Amit. Using interviews with eyewitnesses and historical images, Benny Brunner sheds light on the experience that had a decisive impact on the cultural identity of the Palestinian population. (57 mins)
Free entry!
Exhibition in the outdoor showcase of the art space hase29: “Skateboarding in Gaza”
17.02.2024/13.04.2024/29-XNUMX/XNUMX/XNUMX – outdoor showcase / art room haseXNUMX
in cooperation with the German-Palestinian Society
Skateboarding helps young people, especially in crisis regions, build self-confidence. The young people learn to get up again after a fall, to help each other and to face the challenges of their surroundings. The exhibition in the outdoor showcase of the art space hase29 presents photographs of girls and boys who are using skateboards on the streets of Gaza thanks to the support of the skate-aid international eV association founded in 2009 by Titus Dittmann.
The photo exhibition with images by Palestinian photographers was organized by the German-Palestinian Society and the Network of Photographers for Palestine and has already been exhibited several times. A selection of the pictures can be seen in the outside showcase of the art space hase29.
Free entry!
The exhibition is also the starting point for a workshop for young people, in which Titus Dittmann and Ursula Mindermann, Vice President of DPG eV, report first-hand how skateboarding can give young people in crisis areas vital impulses to cope with their everyday lives. In the subsequent creative part, the students can experiment with street art techniques together with the artists Nina Lükenga and Eva Lause.
Lecture: “To be free in our country – Israel and Palestine”
by Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Robert (political scientist)
Tuesday, February 20.02.2024th, 19, at 29 p.m. – Kunstraum haseXNUMX
in cooperation with the VHS Osnabrück
The terrorist attack by Hamas on the State of Israel raises the question of the origins of the conflict between Jews and Muslims. Is this a conflict that is thousands of years old or a development that only took place in modern times? The lecture aims to show the complex history of the conflict and in this way enable an independent judgment to be made.
Moderation: Dr. Tobias Pischel de Ascensão (Managing Director, VHS Osnabrück)
Free entry!
Film screening: “The Great Book Heist” (IL/USA/UK, 2007-2012)
by Benny Brunner
Tuesday, February 27.02.2024th, 19, at 29 p.m. – Kunstraum haseXNUMX
in cooperation with the German-Palestinian Society
The film tells the little-known story of the destruction of Palestinian culture in 1948 and is based on the scientific research of Israeli doctoral student, Gish Amit. Using interviews with eyewitnesses and historical images, Benny Brunner sheds light on the experience that had a decisive impact on the cultural identity of the Palestinian population. (57 mins)
Subsequent discussion with Nazih Musharbash (President, German-Palestinian Society)
Free entry!
Image: The Great Book Heist (film still), 2007-2012, Benny Brunner
Panel discussion: boycotts and cancellations. How broken is the cultural sector?
with Johan Holten (director, Kunsthalle Mannheim), Mira Anneli Naß (art historian, photo theorist and art critic, University of Bremen), Uta M. Reindl (art critic, curator) and Wolfgang Ullrich (art historian, journalist)
Moderation: Ann-Katrin Günzel (art historian, editor-in-chief, Kunstforum international)
Friday, March 01.03.2024st 19, at seven p.m. – Kunstraum hase29
As part of the panel discussion, the art experts will focus on the effects of the Middle East conflict on the German cultural scene and discuss the controversial anti-Semitism clause, the BDS resolution of the German Bundestag, the boycott call “Strike Germany” and the topic of freedom of expression the art.
Free entry!
Lecture: “Anti-Semitism in art and caricature – what are the problems?
matic images and how do we deal with them?”
by Dr. Andreas Mertin (theologian, art historian, curator)
Tuesday, February 12.03.2024th, 19, at 29 p.m. – Kunstraum haseXNUMX
in cooperation with the VHS Osnabrück
With documenta fifteen, for the first time in Germany, there was a public conversation about anti-Semitism and Israel-related anti-Semitism in the visual arts and in culture in general. The debate has intensified, especially since October 07, 2023. But what are “anti-Semitic images” and what traditions can they draw on? The cultural scientist Dr. Andreas Mertin had already analyzed some of the incriminated works at documenta fifteen in 2023 and examined them for their anti-Semitic content. Based on these analyses, he wants to address the history of anti-Semitism in Christian art, which still plays an important role in contemporary imagery. He will then present three exemplary works from Documenta fifteen with their problematic content and finally take a look at the caricatures that were created worldwide after October 07th, 2023. The question is always: How can you tell that an image is anti-Semitic?
Moderation: Dr. Hermann Queckenstedt (Director, Osnabrück Diocesan Museum)
Free entry!
Dr. Andreas Mertin (*1958) is theologian, art historian and exhibition curator. He gives the e-zine tà katoptrizómena. Magazine for art, culture, theology and aesthetics and deals with the relationship between visual culture and religion. He is currently working on the topic of “Criticism of Israel in Caricature”.
Film screening: “Cinema Sabaya” (Israel/2021)
by Orit Fouks Rotem
Wednesday, March 13.03.2024th, 18, at XNUMX p.m. – Osnabrück warehouse
in cooperation with the Osnabrück Film Festival
When director Rona creates a video workshop for Arab and Jewish women in a community center, a close bond between the women initially seems impossible. Their cultural and religious lives are too different. But with every self-made film that the women share with each other, they come closer to themselves and the others. Week after week, the course participants search for images of their unspoken wishes, dreams and thoughts as mothers, daughters, wives and women. An intimate look at nine lives with the courage to see yourself and others in a new light.
(Hebrew/Arabic original version with English subtitles, 91 min.)
Admission: €8 / reduced €7
Image: Memento International, Photo: Ella Barack
Film screening: “The Heart of Jenin” (Germany/Israel, 2008)
by Marcus Vetter and Leon Geller
Sunday, March 17.03.2024, 11.30, at XNUMX:XNUMX a.m. – Cinema Arthouse
in cooperation with the Osnabrück Film Festival
The film tells the story of the Palestinian Ismail Khatib from Jenin, who donated the organs of his son, who was shot by Israeli soldiers, to Israeli children. This impressive document by Leon Geller and Marcus Vetter, created in 2008, shows the seemingly insurmountable resentment between Israelis and Arabs, but also that humanity and willingness to help could one day overcome this conflict. (Recommended age: 14 years)
(Hebrew/Arabic original version with German subtitles, 89 min.)
Subsequent conversation with the director Marcus Vetter.
Admission: €7 / reduced €6
Photo: Eikon
Unfortunately the concert has been canceled due to illness!!
Concert: Jewish music from klezmer to classical and Palestinian poems
Thursday, February 04.04.2024, 19, at 29 p.m. – Kunstraum haseXNUMX
Christiane Kumetat (violin) and Viola Mokrosch (piano) present Jewish music between klezmer and classical with works by Ernest Bloch, John Williams and Paul Ben-Haim. Reinhold Mokrosch reads Palestinian poetry by Mahmoud Darwish and Fadwa Touqan. Music and poetry reflect a search for identity and concern about losing it on both the Jewish and Palestinian sides.
Free entry!
Interreligious leadership³: Christians, Jews and Muslims in conversation
Tuesday, April 09.04.2024, 17, 20 p.m. - XNUMX p.m. - meeting point St. Peter Cathedral
in cooperation with the Osnabrück Diocesan Museum
During the tour, Jessica Löscher (museum educator, diocesan museum), Dua Zeitun (Islamic theologian) and a representative of the Jewish community lead together through St. Peter's Cathedral, the Ibrahim Al-Khalil Mosque Osnabrück and the Osnabrück Synagogue and offer insights into everyday religious life the respective religion. The focus is on the question of what connects the world religions with each other - but also what separates them from each other.
Registration via the Diocesan Museum on: 0541 318 481
Free entry!
Film screening and discussion: “Redemption & Education"
with the Forum for Democratic Culture and Contemporary Art and Nanne Buurman
Thursday, February 11.04.2024, 18, at 29 p.m. – Kunstraum haseXNUMX
in cooperation with the Kunsthalle Osnabrück and the Museumsquartier Osnabrück
It is relatively new that the cultural dimensions of anti-Semitism are also being debated in contemporary art. Anti-Semitism has always been part of the zeitgeist. Anti-Semitism has always been popularized through the language and images of art. The film “The Redemption Complex” (DE, 21:09 min) from the Forum for Democratic Culture and Contemporary Art is about this continuity.
After the film screening, the audience is invited to a conversation between the artists and the art and cultural scientist Nanne Buurman.
Free entry!
Further information on the Forum for Democratic Culture and Contemporary Art
The Forum for democratic culture and contemporary art is a place for artistic cultural criticism. It was founded by the two artists Fabian Bechtle and Leon Kahane. In cooperation with cultural institutions, the forum produces artistic contributions and accompanying programs on current socio-political debates with a particular focus on the cultural continuities of anti-Semitism. Previous activities of the forum included, among others, the conference “Anti-Semitism as a Continuity of Culturally Pessimistic World Views” in the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (2018), the discussion event “For the Sake of Dear Peace” in the Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig (2019), the discussion series “Continuities of Anti-Semitism” in the Volksbühne Berlin (2019-2021), the video lectures “Antimodern Continuities” for the Weserburg Museum for Modern Art in Bremen (2020), the production of the “Forum Infoclips” as part of the exhibition “I will survive” by Hito Steyerl at the K21 in Düsseldorf (2020/2021), the exhibition “Forum TV” in the Traklhaus Salzburg (2021), the podcast “Anti-Semitism in the Art Field” (2021), the film production “Freiham/Neuaubing” for the Departure Neuaubing project of the NS Documentation Center in Munich (2022 ), the exhibition “Walhalla to Birkenau” in the Kunsthalle Osnabrück (2022) and the film production “The Redemption Complex” for the conference “Covered by Art Freedom?” in the Wannsee Conference House (2023).
Further information about Nanne Buurman
Nanne Buurman is a research assistant for art theory at the University of Cologne. From 2018 to 2020, as a research assistant for documenta and exhibition studies at the Kassel School of Art, she was involved in setting up the documenta Institute and the transdisciplinary research center for exhibition studies (TRACES) at the University of Kassel and co-founded the web platform documenta studies. In 2019, Nanne Buurman led the project seminar “trained in freedom // being natural is simply a pose”, in which she and students from the Kassel Art University critically questioned the use of nature and naturalness by (new) right-wing movements and neoliberal sustainability marketing. The discussions with the political ambivalences of life-reforming purification movements of the last hundred years resulted in an exhibition in Kassel, which was held as a performative guest performance as part of the “Show and Try Again” anniversary program of the master's degree program in Curatorial Cultures in the gallery of the Leipzig University of Graphic Arts and Books was listed. From 2020 to 2022 she co-led the “dis_continuities” research group to research Nazi continuities at documenta. In this context, she founded the cross-university project “Right Continuities in Art Education and at Art Colleges” with colleagues from Leipzig in 2020 and curated the experimental arrangement “We are all ghosts: haunting infrastructures” at the Kassel Art Association in 2021. In 2022, as part of documenta fifteen, Nanne Buurman organized the project “g/hosting the past” at the invitation of the Ghetto Biennale Haiti, which was about dealing with invisibilized ethnic-national and colonial histories from exhibitions like documenta. Her contribution “angels of history: gothic gowns/formless forms” problematized, among other things, anti-Semitic continuities in German culture, especially in documenta (pre-)history.
Portrait, Forum DCCA, 2022 © DCCA
Production still “The Redemption Complex”, Forum DCCA, 2023 © DCCA
Performative citizen reading: “Talking. Classify. Be in solidarity.”
Saturday, April 13.04.2024th, 19, at 29 p.m. – Kunstraum haseXNUMX
in cooperation with the West Lower Saxony Literature Office and the VHS Osnabrück
In the jungle of media reporting surrounding the Middle East conflict and the events since October 7, 2023, the performative reading by the VHS amateur theater group “Scene 17/15” under the direction of Britta Habuch highlights selected aspects and questions in press articles that are characteristic of the current debate about the limits of freedom of art and expression and the treatment of artists. The second element of the event evening is an audience discussion following the performance in order to enter into dialogue about the experienced positions and arguments.
This audience discussion will be moderated by Lydia Ziemke, who as a freelance director has worked intensively in Arabic-speaking countries and also in Israel and can therefore bring her special perspective to the current debate.
Free entry!
