Cultures of Remembrance / exhibition

Letters

Two photos art print on paper

Sigrun Drapatz

Languages: GER, ENG

Snapshots-capture the moment
Documents-retain and create memories
Images-represent memories and give them significance

Two young people happen to meet briefly and exchange addresses. A love story shaped by the post-war period in separated Germany, Poland and Cold war time. Letters from 1957-1960

Sigrun Drapatz

Sigrun Drapatz was part of the trip to Moldova. She works as an artist and curator focusing on historical narratives, religion, and migration. “My motivation is to break through the emotional appropriation of these topics by specific groups.” She develops her work through an interplay of scholarly research and artistic exploration.
https://www.sigrun-drapatz.de/

Other works:

Letters to Berlin

Kai* Brust, Hani חאני Esther Indictor Portner

LGBTQ+ Vycinanki

Series of papercut that combines traditional Belarusian cultural motives with modern LGBTQ+ culture.

Valerie Viecnazialony (Belarus),

in between – from the margins of memory

This is an attempt of collecting the little spaces in between different backgrounds, layered identities and intergenerational experiences of occupation, starvation, war and prosperity. Ottoman, Russian, Soviet, Romanian, European, Roma, Gagauz, queer, Ukrainian, diasporic…

travel participants, Paula Mittrowann, Lilu Knape

The right to a life of one’s own

The podcast was created as part of the social work degree programme. Focusing on the attitude of social workers, it accompanies an inclusive workshop with participants with and without cognitive impairments on “Aktion T4”. The term refers to the systematic extermination of people with disabilities during National Socialism.

Sandra Merseburger

Brest Stories Guide

A series of documentary audio performances in the city space. A history told by the Brest citizens

Aksana Haiko, Andrey Bogdanov, Sviatlana Gaidalionak, Dmitry Martynyuk, Dmitry Dudko, Video: Valter Tsurkan, Eugene Hlushan

Spectrum of In_justice – Gender nonconforming lives under Nazi rule

Each object of the online exhibition tells the story of at least one person and touches a point on the spectrum of in_justice.

Educat Kollektiv, Unicode, Kai* Brust, Prismatica, Lambda Berlin-Brandenburg

Commemoration practices in anti-authoritarian movement in Ukraine

Solidarity Collectives

Queer as Folk

Sim (he/she/they) is a queer Belarusian collage artist in exile, based in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Memory of war: pride or sorrow?

Associations map as a reflection of collective trauma

Anonymous group of activists

The Unrelenting (2014-2023)

Affirming both our valuable place in this community and our unrelenting accountability to each other through reclaiming the black triangle symbol

Elizabeth Sweeney

Yom HaShoah*

The exhibition entry showcases the memorial ceremony on the eve of the commemorative day at the kibbutz, where Zvi, as the last living Holocaust survivor in Ma’abarot, lights the candles.

Richard Haufe-Ahmels

Georgia. Recording in Progress

A Memory of Georgia in audio and graphic recordings – you are invited to take a stroll through the streets and histories of Tbilisi with participants of the Bridges of Remembrance project in October 2023.

Hanna Launikovich, Paula Mittrowann, Bradley Williams Cohen

Denkmalverdacht

A Collaborative Inventory

Die Exponauten, Berlin in cooperation with FHXB Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Museum and Jugendkunstschule FRI-X BERG

Where memory gathers bones*

Traces of forced labor from Mercedes-Benz in Ludwigsfelde

Marlene Pardeller, Dominique Hurth

I remember

An illustration on Armenian genocide remembrance inspired by the poem

Amassia Niziblian, Najwan Darwish

House of Remembrance

Installation of canvases from the art workshop of Lebenshilfe Berlin

The Art Workshop of Lebenshilfe Berlin

Correspondences (2023)

Our collaborative work Correspondences reflects on the Bridges of Remembrance trip to Georgia in the form of a letter. In the letters we weave together memories and thoughts of our mutual interest in memory, reflections on the Bridges of Remembrance and artistic friendship.

Linda Jiayun Gao-Lenders, Janis Jirotka

Belarusian Quilt of Queer Pride

The quilt was sewn in Minsk and transferred to Vilnius in the autumn of 2024. It was also presented on the closing event of the project “Queer Identities in Different Times”. The patches were made by 28 people from different cities of Belarus. For the online version of the quilt more patches were created in the workshops together with Belarusian queer community in exile in Warsaw and Vilnius.

Prismatica and Educat Kollektiv

Grieving

In this collection of illustrations Mariam Naiem visualises the specifics of colonial trauma and grief, and the effect they have on everyday life.

Mariam Naiem (Ukraine)

From November Pogroms 1938 to Good Neighbourliness

The collages were done within a workshop organised by Nasta from our project partner Human Constanta in Warsaw in November 2026

Kiryl, Alhen, Alena, Sveta, Oleg, Sonia

Remembering Käte

Visibility for trans victims of National Socialism

Bitter truth – Горчива истина

“Bitter truth” explores Bulgarian reality in which denial (Oпровержение) is common when it comes to cultural remembrance.

Donka Kioseva, Liana Georgi, Sareh Oveysi

Curling

The work “Curling” explores the state of a person in migration — a state between places, identities, and a sense of belonging.

Memory is an animal which barks with various mouths

The film aims to unveil the hidden personal memories of individuals and families during WWII in russia, exposing governmental manipulation and mainstream narratives, to bridge generational gaps in how we remember and which historical events stay in our collective consciousness

Jeanna Kolesova

Trans History During Nazi Rule – Interactive CityWalk Berlin

A citywalk that can be done offline in Berlin or digitally, based on the story of Käte Rogalli, a trans woman who lived during Nazi rule.

Educat Kollektiv, Unicode, Kai* Brust, Lambda Berlin-Brandenburg

Film t4

Filmed and processed by o.film

How do you remember?

Tools and methods to talk about the Second World War with young people

Educat Collective

Deadly Times Diaries Map

Comic Corner

“A German journalist once asked me: a comic about Auschwitz – isn’t that terribly tasteless? My answer was no. I think Auschwitz was terribly tasteless.” Art Spiegelman

Deadly times diaries

Interactive map of Leningrad during the siege from September 1941 to April 1942

Ivan G., Alexandr M., Maryia A.

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