Zakhor/Ricorda: Shoah Memory Exhibition Across Six Rome Civic Museums
The exhibition ZAKHOR/RICORDA, curated by Giorgia Calò, is hosted across six civic museums in Rome as part of the Memoria genera futuro initiative. It showcases six video pieces created by second-generation Israeli artists. At Museo dell'Ara Pacis, Vardi Kahana presents Three Sisters (1992), featuring his mother and aunts displaying their Auschwitz tattoo numbers. Other participating venues include Centrale Montemartini (Boaz Arad), Museo di Roma (Dani Karavan), Museo di Roma in Trastevere (Simcha Shirman), Galleria d'Arte Moderna (Micha Ullman), and Museo di scultura antica Giovanni Barracco (Maya Zack). This exhibition commemorates the 80th anniversary of Ludwig Pollak's deportation in October 1943 and aligns with Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27.
Key facts
- Exhibition ZAKHOR/RICORDA runs across six civic museums in Rome.
- Curated by Giorgia Calò, it is part of the Memoria genera futuro initiative.
- Six video representations of works by second-generation Israeli artists are shown.
- Vardi Kahana's Three Sisters (1992) at Museo dell'Ara Pacis shows Auschwitz tattoo numbers.
- Micha Ullman's Seconda Casa. Gerusalemme – Roma is a permanent installation since 2004.
- Museo di scultura antica Giovanni Barracco honors former director Ludwig Pollak, deported in 1943.
- The exhibition uses video to symbolize the fragility of culture lost during the Holocaust.
- Rome culture assessor Miguel Gotor stresses the need to engage young audiences.
Entities
Artists
- Giorgia Calò
- Vardi Kahana
- Boaz Arad
- Dani Karavan
- Simcha Shirman
- Micha Ullman
- Maya Zack
- Ludwig Pollak
Institutions
- Museo dell'Ara Pacis
- Centrale Montemartini
- Museo di Roma
- Museo di Roma in Trastevere
- Galleria d'Arte Moderna
- Museo di scultura antica Giovanni Barracco
- Palazzo Odescalchi
- Artribune
Locations
- Rome
- Italy
- Tel Aviv
- Israel
- Auschwitz
- Poland
- Piazza di Monte Savello
- Gerusalemme
- Jerusalem