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Events

Excursion

Marian Ruzamski, Cloth Halls Kraków/Still Life (work on both sides), 1921, oil on canvas, private collection

Encountering the past — art and memory in Krakow and Auschwitz

Study and remembrance trip to Poland

On the occasion of the opening of the exhibition “Marian Ruzamski. Art of Remembrance” at the Palace of Arts in Krakow, the Center for Persecuted Arts offers a guided study trip to Krakow and Auschwitz.

Vernissage

Biography “Against the tide? Memoirs 1904—1945”, Solingen 2000. The cover photo shows Änne Wagner in 1934.

“Änne Wagner” exhibition

Biographical and artistic engagement with a Solingen eyewitness

On Aenne Wagner's 122nd birthday, we speak with her daughter Regine Weiß at the opening of the exhibition. 9th grade students from the Humboldtgymnasium Solingen will then present artistic collages, sketches for graphic novels and creative texts created as a result of dealing with the biography of Änne Wagner. The exhibition is on view until April 26.

Guided Tour

Drawings by Else Lasker-Schüler in the permanent exhibition, photo: Daniela Tobias © Citizens' Foundation for Persecuted Arts — Else Lasker-Schüler-Zentrum — Gerhard Schneider Art Collection

Public Sunday tour of the permanent exhibition

and the exhibition “Manya Gutman. Change of view.”

Do you know Else Lasker-Schüler? She will be known to most as a poet, but she also drew and exhibited in well-known galleries. Our art mediators bring you closer to artists who have been forgotten over the last few decades. Her biographies are characterized by various forms of persecution and her artistic works have been blocked, prevented and partly destroyed by dictatorships and totalitarian regimes. The exhibition “Blickwechsel” also shows the diversity of female Jewish artists in the age of extremes.

Reading

Hanka Grupińska, photo: Mikołaj Starzyński

“We were just simple soldiers”

Discussion with Hanka Grupińska

Four decades ago, Hanka Grupińska began recording the voices of Jewish resistance. On the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, renowned journalist Hanka Grupińska presents her book at the Center for Persecuted Arts in Solingen.

Concert

Photo: Bergische Symphoniker, Simon Roloff

4th Chamber Concert of the Bergische Symphoniker 2026

With Elgun Aghazada, Shino Nakai, Odysseas Lavaris, Won Cheol Jung and Ina Bijlsma

Benjamin Britten (1913—1976): Three Divertimenti for String Quartet

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756—1791): “A musical fun” Divertimento in F major for strings and two horns K. 522

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770—1827): Sextet in E flat major for two horns and strings op. 81b

Guided Tour

Yva, drawing by Manya Gutman, photo: Daniela Tobias

Public Sunday tour of the permanent exhibition

and the exhibition “Manya Gutman. Change of view.”

Do you know Else Lasker-Schüler? She will be known to most as a poet, but she also drew and exhibited in well-known galleries. Our art mediators bring you closer to artists who have been forgotten over the last few decades. Her biographies are characterized by various forms of persecution and her artistic works have been blocked, prevented and partly destroyed by dictatorships and totalitarian regimes. The exhibition “Blickwechsel” also shows the diversity of female Jewish artists in the age of extremes.

Guest Talk

Rocko Schamoni, photo: David Köngismann

Rocko Schamoni in conversation

about Dada, nonsense, absurdity and humor in art

Rocko Schamoni talks to us on the occasion of the exhibition “Unlock your head at last! — Dada as political art between the World Wars” about Dada, nonsense, absurdity and humor as a means of style and struggle in art.

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Marian Ruzamski, Cloth Halls Kraków/Still Life (work on both sides), 1921, oil on canvas, private collection
4/9/26
4/13/26

Excursion

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Encountering the past — art and memory in Krakow and Auschwitz

Study and remembrance trip to Poland

The Center for Persecuted Arts offers from April 9 to 12/13, 2026 on the occasion of the exhibition “Marian Ruzamski. Art of Remembrance” in Krakow a guided study trip to Poland.

Biography “Against the tide? Memoirs 1904—1945”, Solingen 2000. The cover photo shows Änne Wagner in 1934.
4/16/26

Vernissage

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“Änne Wagner” exhibition

Biographical and artistic engagement with a Solingen eyewitness

Students from the Humboldtgymnasium present collages, sketches for graphic novels and texts that were created as a result of dealing with the biography of Änne Wagner.

Drawings by Else Lasker-Schüler in the permanent exhibition, photo: Daniela Tobias © Citizens' Foundation for Persecuted Arts — Else Lasker-Schüler-Zentrum — Gerhard Schneider Art Collection
4/19/26

Guided Tour

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Public Sunday tour of the permanent exhibition

and the exhibition “Manya Gutman. Change of view.”

In the Center for Persecuted Arts, you can discover artists who have been forgotten over the last few decades. “Blickwechsel” shows the diversity of female Jewish artists.

Hanka Grupińska, photo: Mikołaj Starzyński
4/23/26

Reading

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“We were just simple soldiers”

Discussion with Hanka Grupińska

On the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, renowned journalist Hanka Grupińska presents her book at the Center for Persecuted Arts in Solingen.

Photo: Bergische Symphoniker, Simon Roloff
4/26/26

Concert

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4th Chamber Concert of the Bergische Symphoniker 2026

With Elgun Aghazada, Shino Nakai, Odysseas Lavaris, Won Cheol Jung and Ina Bijlsma

Members of the Bergische Symphoniker will play works by Britten, Mozart and Beethoven at the 4th Chamber Concert 2026 at the Center for Persecuted Arts.

Yva, drawing by Manya Gutman, photo: Daniela Tobias
4/26/26

Guided Tour

:

Public Sunday tour of the permanent exhibition

and the exhibition “Manya Gutman. Change of view.”

In the Center for Persecuted Arts, you can discover artists who have been forgotten over the last few decades. “Blickwechsel” shows the diversity of female Jewish artists.

Rocko Schamoni, photo: David Köngismann
5/31/26

Guest Talk

:

Rocko Schamoni in conversation

about Dada, nonsense, absurdity and humor in art

Rocko Schamoni talks to us on the occasion of the exhibition “Unlock your head at last! — Dada as political art between the World Wars” about Dada, nonsense, absurdity and humor

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