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Artist talk: Shelley Harten in Conversation with Maya Schweizer

Part of the Exhibition Sans histoire

A woman with long dark hair leans against the wall in an exhibition room with her arms folded, behind her you can see a film screen on which the word "one" can be read.

Maya Schweizer; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: André Wagenzik

The artist Maya Schweizer won the 2023 Dagesh Art Award with the video installation Sans histoire. In her work, she engages with the Jewish Museum Berlin (JMB) as a site of remembrance, and calls into question general mechanisms of storing knowledge. Sans histoire presents the thought experiment of a consciousness that is “without history:” What happens when memory fades in the face of historical upheavals, climate catastrophe, and, ultimately, the finitude of human existence?

In the current exhibition Sans histoire, the JMB presents Maya Schweizer's video work of the same name as well as three of her other films. In the Artist Talk, curator Shelley Harten (JMB) will speak with the artist about the making of her films, their perspectives on collective and individual remembrance – and on forgetting – and what questions they prompt in the context of the Jewish Museum Berlin.

Past event

Map with all buildings that belong to the Jewish Museum Berlin. The Old Building is marked in green

Where

Old Building, ground level, “Meeting Point” in the Glass Courtyard
Lindenstraße 9–14, 10969 Berlin

Video still: robot fish swimming through water.

Exhibition Maya Schweizer: Sans histoire: Features & Programs

Exhibition Webpage
Maya Schweizer: Sans histoire: Dagesh Art Award 2023: Exhibition webpage with information on the exhibited works, 5 May to 27 Aug 2023
Accompanying Events
Current page: Artist talk: Shelley Harten in Conversation with Maya Schweizer: 6 July 2023
Digital Content
Speech for the Presentation of the Dagesh Art Award 2023: by curator Shelley Harten, for Maya Schweizer, 4 May 2023
See also
Maya Schweizer: website of the artist
The Violence We Have Witnessed Carries a Weight on Our Hearts: Dagesh Art Award 2021
Open, Closed, Open: Dagesh Art Award 2019

Where, when, what?

  • WhenThu 6 Jul 2023, 6.30 pm
  • Where Old Building, ground level, “Meeting Point” in the Glass Courtyard
    Lindenstraße 9–14, 10969 Berlin
    See location on map
  • Entry fee

    Free of charge

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