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Where Have All the Flowers Gone…

Thursday, May 8th - Sunday, January 18th | Museum Judenplatz, Judenplatz 8, A-1010 Vienna

To mark the eightieth anniversary of the end of World War II in 1945, the Jewish Museum Vienna is putting on a photo exhibition dealing with European memory culture and the aftermath of the Shoah and the war today. In his series “World War Two Today,” the Dutch photographer Roger Cremers (b. 1972) has been taking pictures since 2008 of historically contaminated landscapes, former theaters of war, and memorials in Europe in search of answers to the question of how postwar societies have been dealing with the legacy of the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
 
Cremers photographs official commemorative events and reenactments, art projects, excavations, and private visits to memorials. In this way he becomes a chronicler of remembering, suppressing, and forgetting World War II in many parts of Europe and Russia. The exhibition shows the profound impression left on landscapes, societies, and people by the Shoah and World War II even eighty years after they ended.
 
Curators: Adina Seeger, Andrea Winklbauer
Design: Fuhrer, Vienna