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Due to the high incidence values, the following regulations also apply at our museum:
The 2G rule (vaccinated or recovered) applies to visiting the exhibitions.
Exceptions: The 3G rule applies to children and adolescents under 18 years of age. Students under 16 years of age are considered tested. As proof we ask for the presentation of a student ID.
The mask requirement (OP or FFP2 mask) and the distance and hygiene regulations of the Corona Protection Ordinance of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia still apply.
For indoor events, the 2G+ rule (vaccinated + tested or recovered + tested) applies. In addition to the above-mentioned proof, please have a daily negative test result (not older than 24 hours) ready.
While attending the event, it is mandatory to wear a medical mask (OP or FFP2 mask) and to follow the distance rules.
Before your visit, please find out which regulations of the Corona Protection Ordinance apply on a daily basis.
THE CENTER FOR PERSECUTED ARTS
OVERVIEW AND INFORMATION
– currently closed –
Thuesday – Sunday, holidays 10 am – 5 pm, open every day
Monday, 24., 25., 26., 31. December and new year close
Adults: 9 €, reduced 4,50 €
Students: 4,50 €
up to 18 years: free entrance
Schoolchildren and children’s groups for museum educational events: 2 € per person
No additional entry for special exhibitions
THE CENTER FOR PERSECUTED ARTS
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Address
Center for Persecuted Arts GmbH
Wuppertaler Str. 160
42653 Solingen
Phone
+49 212 2 58 14-18
EMAIL
info@verfolgte-kuenste.de
Access by car:
Four minutes away from A46; exit „Haan-Ost“, follow „Solingen Zentrum“, then „Kunstmuseum Solingen“, parking „Dycker Feld“
Access by public transport:
Ten minutes by bus 683 from Wuppertal Vohwinkel (Railway station), stop „Gräfrath“
The Center for Persecuted Arts is a museum of discovery dedicated exclusively to artists whose opportunities for development and works were blocked, prevented, or annihilated by the dictatorships of the last century and totalitarian regimes up to the present day. It is a cross-genre museum, and its Collection of Art and Literature tells of lost, forgotten, and barely considered works of art, stories, and fates.
Beginning November 18, 2021, the Center for Persecuted Arts will present three exhibitions, all under the title “Kunst kennt keine Grenzen.”
Artist Manaf Halbouni will show his installation ZONE at the center, which encompasses the entire museum building.
The artist Anna VanMatre dedicates her series “To Those Who Fight” to 14 hero:ins who fought against the Nazis in the Krakow Ghetto.
And on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Heinrich Mann’s birth, we are presenting a show of first editions, photographs and first-person documents in the literary department of the house.
The 2G rule (vaccinated or recovered) applies for visiting the exhibitions.
Exceptions: The 3G rule applies to children and adolescents under 18 years of age. Students under 16 years of age are considered tested. As proof we ask for the presentation of a student ID. The mask obligation, distance and hygiene regulations of the Corona Protection Ordinance continue to apply.
The museum’s polyphonic collection is presented in a permanent exhibition, the fund comprises more than 5,000 works of art, literature and images from 1933 to the present – from the ostracized art defamed as “degenerate” by the Nazis to the theater estate of dissident Vaclav Havel.
Here visitors can discover lost and ostracized works of art, stories and fates.
The 2G rule (vaccinated or recovered) applies for visiting the exhibition.
Exceptions: The 3G rule applies to children and adolescents under 18 years of age. Students under 16 years of age are considered tested. As proof we ask for the presentation of a student ID. The mask obligation, distance and hygiene regulations of the Corona Protection Ordinance continue to apply.
The Max Leven Center is named after the Solingen-based cultural critic Max Leven, who was murdered on the night of the pogrom in November 1938. The educational and memorial center is currently under construction. The exhibition presents the success and failure of resistance against the Nazi system, as well as the consequences of a lack of resistance on a local level.
Manaf Halbouni constrains us: With his installation ZONE—a critical reflection of our present—he lets visitors experience where (their) borders lie. Historical motifs in the permanent exhibition are condensed with the artist’s works, which are always critical of the present, into a confrontation with what is taking place at the borders of Europe.
In the Center for Persecuted Arts, pictures, books, journals, documents, and photographs tell little-known stories of flight, expulsion, and persecution—but also of how art can give hope. In the permanent exhibition of the museum’s Collection of Art and Literature and the Civic Foundation for Persecuted Arts – Else Lasker-Schüler Center – Gerhard Schneider Art Collection, as well as in the archive, 3,500 objects can be discovered on more than 700 square meters.
As a measure to combat the spread of the Corona Pandemic, we will not offer public tours of our exhibitions on Sundays at the Museum Center for Persecuted Arts until the end of 2021. You are welcome to request a private tour from us.
To participate in an event or a guided tour, registration is required at info@verfolgte-kuenste.de or by calling the museum at +49 212 258 1418.
For events, 2G+ (vaccinated + tested or recovered + tested) applies. In addition to the above-mentioned proof, please have a daily negative test result (not older than 24 hours) ready.
Immediately after its founding, the Center for Persecuted Arts expanded its forms of expression through the feature-length documentary film Kichka. Life Is a Cartoon, produced in cooperation with the MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art Kraków. Since its founding, the center has also collaborated on the ARD project Auschwitz und Ich (Auschwitz and Me). The accompaniment of projects, exhibitions, and events through films has become an integral part of the museum’s program. Here, you can find many of our films and video contributions…
During the first lockdown of the Corona pandemic in April 2020, the Center for Persecuted Arts launched a podcast series. Born out of necessity, it has become a regular and popular program. The podcasts feature artists represented in the collection of the Civic Foundation for Persecuted Arts, but also respond to current social issues, such as the Black Lives Matter movement and the toppling of monument in the United States, comics in the Third Reich, and the American photographer Lee Miller.
For museums, it is an obligation to actively participate in shaping an inclusive society. We want to be an “open museum for everyone!” Unfortunately, there are still far too many barriers; and, for the past year, we have been working on a series of measures for greater accessibility, inclusion, and diversity at the Center for Persecuted Arts, made possible by funding for cultural networks and institutions from the Social and Cultural Foundation of the Rhineland Regional Council (LVR). In order to be able to create a pluralistic, participatory place for all, our goal is to identify, make visible, and break down barriers and inhibition thresholds in the museum.
On the occasion of the museum’s fifth birthday, an association was founded on November 6, 2020 to support and enrich the program. Sebastian Greif, Barbara Antonia Löcherbach, Sylvia Löhrmann (Chairwoman), and Uli Preuß were elected to the board.
The founding of this association would not have been possible without the commitment of the citizens of Solingen. The aim of the association is to bring together interested people from Solingen and the surrounding area and to help shape the cultural life of the city. Would you also like to get involved in the newly founded association and support our museum? Then please contact
L’chaim means: “To life!” Our “Auf ein Wort” (To a Word) festival welcomes Jewish authors and other protagonists to participate in a lively dialog. Where reading and living coincide, food and drink are not to be missed—in October 2021, we will thus discuss, recite, and dine together.
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