View of a small part of the Jewish Museum Berlin's art vending machine

Art Vending Machine

2013–2018

High quality photo prints, printed textiles, and small sculptures – the art vending machine, at the Jewish Museum Berlin from August 2013 to June 2018, offered a wide range of surprising contemporary art hiding in its 30 compartments. The small-format unicums were created by international Jewish artists living in Berlin. All works of art were made exclusively for the art vending machine and are hand signed limited editions. Once they were sold, they were gone.

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

Where

Libeskind Building, ground level, Eric F. Ross Gallery
Lindenstraße 9–14, 10969 Berlin

Contemporary Art for 6 Euros

Visitors were able to draw a piece of contemporary art from the machine – a redesigned and rebuilt vending machine from the 1970s – for 6 €, payable in three two-€ coins. (How did a vending machine start selling art? Find out from a post on our blog.)

Artists and Artworks

The following artists were involved in the project:

A large white vending machine with the word "ART" in black bold letters on it, the small compartments of the vending machine say "Buy Me"

The art vending machine in the previous permanent exhibition; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe

(9 items)
  • Two wineglasses with colorful dreidel-shaped charms around their stems

    Shai Keren, Dreidel (Sevivon)
    Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe

  • Canvas bag covered in pictograms of furniture, boom boxes, megaphones, horse-drawn carriages, and the label “alte Sachen,” meaning “old things,” in German and Yiddish

    Shai Keren, alte sachen (old things)
    Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe

  • An oblong shape made of hard white plaster with a smooth surface and irregular round protrusions, possibly a worry stone due to its size and texture, on a square of wine-red fabric

    Keren Shalev, Organic Souvenir
    Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe

  • Three Popsicles cast out of a mixture of cement and plaster in the usual shape with wooden Popsicle-stick handles and varying decorations

    Yifah Raz, Popsicle FORnEVER
    Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe

  • A slightly unfolded book with a concertina binding and the handwritten label “Present” above a closed book labeled “Past”

    Shira Orion, Past and Present
    Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe

  • A picture-puzzle piece made of photo mounting board has been sewn with red thread onto the center of a piece of black cardboard

    Maja Gratzfeld, The dispersal project
    Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe

  • Two “tablets of commandments” with curved tops made of a medium-density fiberboard and painted with blackboard paint behind a white chalk pencil

    Alona Rodeh, The Black Tablets of Commandments
    Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe

  • Nearly square piece of fabric from a used duvet cover with fraying edges and a multicolored “swoop” pattern with English words written on it, including the word “home” traced over in thread

    Adi Liraz, Whispering Home
    Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe

  • Photo: In the foreground, a man with long dark hair is standing in front of a fallow field with deep furrows and is wrapped tightly in a white cloth that leaves half his torso exposed. On his head, some foliage reminiscent of the crown of thorns.

    Shimrit Kalish, Foreign Land – Moses as Jesus
    Jewish Museum Berlin

(12 items)
  • A black and white photo of two girls standing on a wide wooden swing. Only their legs are visible

    Birgit Naomi Glatzel, Angela and Me, photo project You and Me
    Jewish Museum Berlin

  • An art piece that appears to be a blurry picture of gondola that is signed by in the artist on the bottom left corner

    Birgit Naomi Glatzel & Benjamin Seide, Going to Jerusalem
    Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe

  • The ends of wooden branches that are green with moss appear to be floating in a white empty space

    Daniela Orvin, Dyslexic Dysgraphia, 2006, Edition 2015
    Jewish Museum Berlin

  • A dark blue rectangle is smeared with strokes of bright red paint

    David Benforado, Abstract bits from the Painting Makams series, 2014
    Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe

  • A red painted rectangle is caked and splattered with a layer of white and green paint

    David Benforado, Abstract bits from the Between Sound and Silence series, 2015
    Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe

  • A man wearing sunglasses and holding a beer sits next to a wall with graffiti

    Joachim Seinfeld, HeimatReisen – Oldenburg
    Jewish Museum Berlin

  • A historical black and white photograph of a crowd outside a large building. On the right there is a naked man sitting on cloth, on the left there is a man holding a picket sign

    Joachim Seinfeld, HeimatReisen – Berlin-Schlossplatz
    Jewish Museum Berlin

  • A four pannel repeated black and white scene of two young girls wearing identical outfits sitting next to each other on the same wooden chair

    Noga Shtainer, Twins: Duo Morality, Edition, 2015, #1
    Jewish Museum Berlin

  • A four pannel repeated black and white scene of two older men with large grey mustaches leaning against a rusting fence

    Noga Shtainer, Twins: Duo Morality, Edition, 2015, #2
    Jewish Museum Berlin

  • Miniature clay sculptures of a chair and a tombstone shaped figure

    Rachel Kohn, 100 Chairs, 100 Houses
    Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe

  • Grainy squares layered together to form a collideoscope shape, there is hand written German text at the bottom

    Shira Wachsmann, Liebe Grüße aus Namibia, Postcard, 2015
    Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe

  • The back of a white unfilled postcard, there is a quote on the top an a picture of a skull where the postage stamp should be

    Shira Wachsmann, Liebe Grüße aus Namibia, Postcard, 2015
    Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe

(15 items)
  • Golden paper Hebrew letters, a mannequin with binoculars, and two challah bread loafs are composed on red velvet fabric

    Anna Adam, MAZEL TOV! Everything in your home is kosher today!
    Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe

  • Art piece depicting instructions on paper about how to make a "Kosher Elf"

    Anna Adam, MAZEL TOV! Everything in your home is kosher today!
    Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe

  • CD mix tape with bright yellow CD paper case

    Howard Katz, MIX Tape, 2014
    Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe

  • White DVD with bright green paper DVD case

    Howard Katz, 4 Short Films, 2015
    Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe

  • Three sculptures of brown and white birds

    Maria und Natalia Petschatnikov, SPARROWS, Acrystal, 2014
    Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe

  • Painting of four silver and gold Euro coins on a white table

    Maria und Natalia Petschatnikov, 4 Euros
    Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe

  • Blue and turquoise water color print on white paper of an abstract landscape with stamps of Hebrew letters in dark ink

    Deborah S. Phillips, T'chelet Fragments, lithograph, monotype & rubber stamp print, 2014
    Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe

  • Blue print on white paper of an abstract mountainous-like landscape with layers of Hebrew letters in multicolored ink

    Deborah S. Phillips, T’chelet ve Argaman, lithograph & rubber stamp print, 2015
    Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Oliver Stratz

  • Geometric black and blue geometric print with multiple different patterns and shapes

    Georg Sadowicz, The Mill, offset print, 2014
    Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe

  • Red, blue, and black abstract geometric print of a profile of a man's face and his right hand

    Georg Sadowicz, The Prayer Leader, offset print, 2014
    Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe

  • Black and white photograph of a topless woman with multiple piercings and tattoos laying on the floor with her arms framing her face

    Hadas Tapouchi, Daniel, Photograph from the series Third Generation, 2013, stamped
    Jewish Museum Berlin

  • Black and white portrait photo of two men with beards standing in front a cinderblock wall with their arms around each other

    Hadas Tapouchi, Tomer and Haled, Photograph from the series Third Generation, 2013, stamped
    Jewish Museum Berlin

  • Multiple panels of photographic close ups of a man using his hands in several different poses to stretch out the skin of his face

    Daniel Wiesenfeld, SMILE, 2014
    photo: Detlef Baltrock

  • Abstract geometric charcoal or graphite drawing of faces surrounded by a pattern of hexagons

    Daniel Wiesenfeld, Charcoal drawings, drawing with charcoal on both sides of the pages of small sketchbooks, 2014
    Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe

  • Inky black and white watercolor of a still life of a living room complete with fireplace, couch, and various picture frames

    Daniel Wiesenfeld, A Bed, a Chair, a Table
    Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe

(11 items)
  • Vintage photograph of a single tree in the middle of a fence, surrounded by an enormous clear blue sky

    Ruthe Zuntz, 9 m from the PHOTOMAT: Challenging WallMAT series, Israel/Berlin, photoprint on aluminium Dibond, 2013-2014
    Jewish Museum Berlin

  • Vintage photograph of the back of a muscular, tan, older man doing a handstand by the shore of a beach

    Ruthe Zuntz, Tel Aviv II from the PHOTOMAT: Challenging WallMAT series, Israel/Berlin, photoprint on aluminium Dibond, 2013-2014
    Jewish Museum Berlin

  • Black and white photograph of a house, the foreground is blurred as if the photographer was moving while the picture was being taken

    Daphna Westerman, Highway, Berlin, 2011, Postcard from the Film In and Between the Cities, 2010-2012
    Jewish Museum Berlin

  • Black and white photograph of a grocery store aisle, a pile of watermelons is surrounded by boxes of food and snacks that line the shelves

    Daphna Westerman, Supermarket, Frishman St. Tel Aviv, 2010, Postcard from the Film In and Between the Cities, 2010-2012
    Jewish Museum Berlin

  • Piece of white paper with German and Hebrew text with two wooden yellow and red buttons

    Lina Khesina, Tsemed Chemed – "Fast Friends." Two colorful buttons to strengthen the bonds of friendship, wooden buttons, painted and inscribed by hand, 2013
    Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe

  • A small wire sculpture attached to a small stone depicting a human figure next to a tan card with text on it

    Deborah Wargon, Das Vermächtnis der Friede Traurig / The Legacy of Friede Traurig. It's never too late to have a happy childhood, wire wrapped around rail track gravel, February 2014
    Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe

  • Black and white print depicting the silhouettes of a child, an umbrella, and other adults

    David Moses, The Balcony – 2013.DG.HD.13.9.0001, woodcut in an edition of 150, 2013
    Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe

  • Abstract drawing of dark green and black figures, the strokes are harsh and energetic

    David Moses, The Balcony – 2013.DG.TD.13.9.0001, color etching from two plates in an edition of 50, 2013
    Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe

  • Ink splatter in between two graphite drawings of a side view of a human skeleton's ribs and pelvis encircled by a ring of burnt paper

    Victor Alaluf, Essence, ink screen-printing on hand-burned velvet, 2013
    Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe

  • Ink drawing of an human embryo figure encircled by a ring of burnt paper

    Victor Alaluf, Essence, ink screen-printing on hand-burned velvet, 2013
    Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe

  • Two small brightly colored mineral or rock like objects with a keychain ring in each one

    Assaf Gruber, Spares, cut bowling balls, 2014
    Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe

(8 items)
  • A woman and a man sit on a small couch and smile at the camera, the man has his arm around the woman's shoulders

    Mascha Danzis, In Their Fathers’ Arms, photo series with 9 photos, 8 cm x 8 cm, framed behind a passepartout, 2013, original Series: 90 cm x 86 cm, framed, 2007
    Jewish Museum Berlin

  • A woman leans against a piano while putting her arm around a man who is sitting next to her. The room is filled with various instruments

    Mascha Danzis, In Their Fathers’ Arms, photo series with 9 photos, 8 cm x 8 cm, framed behind a passepartout, 2013, original Series: 90 cm x 86 cm, framed, 2007
    Jewish Museum Berlin

  • Root or worm like sculpture with a wick a one end.

    Alexis Hyman Wolff, Root Candle, beeswax, wick, 2013
    Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe

  • Two flattened red aluminum soda cans displayed vertically by two metallic clips

    Andrei Krioukov, CocaCola, Aluminium can, crushed, signed, 2013
    Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe

  • Folded letter with a paperclip with the handwritten words "A letter to Deutsche Post" written in the middle

    Alex Martinis Roe, A Letter to Deutsche Post, A4 colour inkjet print, 2013
    Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe

  • A linear pannel of black and white prints with a blue and yellow paper title at the beginning

    Zara Verity Morris, The Mezuzah, comic, digital print, 2013
    Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe

  • Black abstract line drawing of a figure with multiple limbs, faces, and animal features

    Atalya Laufer, The Guardian/Sycamore Group, 2013
    Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe

  • A mirror is seen in the daylight to reflect a set of chairs placed around a table

    Daniel Laufer, Black Pitch, video still from the movie The Fourth Wall, inkjet print 2013, signed
    Jewish Museum Berlin

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