T R A N S I T - Pictures from exile

Examination of the theme of persecution, flight and exile of a Jewish family from Dresden in the works of the Argentinian artist Mónica Laura Weiss from Buenos Aires

WHERE:

KABINETT im Zentralwerk e. V. - Riesaer Straße 32 - 01127 Dresden

WHEN:

January 9 to February 8, 2026, Thursday - Saturday 4 to 8 pm,

Sunday 3 to 6 pm

Exhibition opening: Thursday, January 8, 2026, 6 p.m.

NOTE:

Guided tours for groups and school classes on all weekdays from 10 a.m. by prior arrangement at: info@alter-leipziger-bahnhof.net

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ABOUT THE EXHIBITION:

Persecution and flight did not just begin with the outbreak of war by the German Wehrmacht on 1 September 1939. Hatred and agitation, exclusion, persecution and stigmatization of supposed foreigners and dissidents began with the transfer of power to the National Socialists in 1933.

The Argentinian artist Mónica Laura Weiss is the daughter, niece and granddaughter of the Reizes family from Dresden. The family never returned to Dresden from their vacation in Marienbad in 1933. The father's sister, Paula, had warned the Gestapo, who had been looking for "forbidden" correspondence and foreign currency in Rudolf Reizes' company. Thus began the Jewish Reizes family's odyssey of escape from the National Socialist terror regime via Austria, Palestine and Argentina. Paula, married to Gutmann, was able to warn her brother Rudolf's family of the Nazi persecution; she herself was deported from Breslau to Theresienstadt and did not survive the Shoah.

In her works, the artist processes her family's German-Jewish roots and the "long shadows of the past", as she herself calls it. Her pictures reflect motifs of persecution, flight, a lost homeland and the experiences of an existence caught between two cultures. The artist's daughter contrasts her mother's life in exile in Dresden with images of her own childhood in Argentina, using documents from the family trove that has been handed down to her. Against the background of photographs and other documents, her designed book objects contain both small objects and poems in German by various authors who were also driven into exile.

This exhibition is suitable for self-exploratory learning on the following topics: Nazi dictatorship using the example of the Reizes family, expulsion and flight as well as exile.

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