New Exhibition as part of the Triennale der Moderne festival - Instytut Pileckiego

"Urban networks of modernism and the role of Jewish architects – the case of Gdynia (Poland)”

New exhibition: „Urban networks of modernism and the role of jewish architects – the case of Gdynia (Poland)”

Vernissage: 11.11, 18.00
Accompanying event (lecture + panel discussion): 17.11.2022 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

The exhibition will be presented in english and german in the BHROX bauhaus reuse pavillion, (Ernst-Reuter-Platz, Mittelinsel, 10587 Berlin) as part of the Triennale der Moderne festival, from 11.11.2022 to 24.11.2022.

Opening hours: Monday to Sunday, 12:00 - 20:00. The exhibition opening will be accompanied by a curatorial tour.

The Exhibition is a collaboration between the Association for Research on the Lives and Works of German-speaking Jewish Architects and the Pilecki-Institut Berlin as part of its Exercising Modernity programme.
Curatorial team: Dr. Małgorzata Jędrzejczyk, Witold Okun, Marie-Josée Seipelt, Dr. Ing. Günter Schlusche Research Contributors: Dr. Jarosław Drozd, Dr. Joanna Majczyk, Witold Okun, Dr. Agnieszka Tomaszewicz Professor of Wrocław University of Science and Technology

„Urban networks of modernism and the role of jewish architects – the case of Gdynia (Poland)” exhibition presents Gdynia’s interwar architecture through the lens of selected works by Polish architects of Jewish origin. They were an important group of creators involved in modernization projects for rebuilding and reshaping the country in the interwar period, and they also actively contributed to the development of modern architectural language. In the late 1930’ some of them were stripped of the right to practice their profession and with the outbreak of the WW II forced to escape for their lives, or even persecuted and murdered by the German occupation regime. Some of these figures are unknown today because of what happened in the war and postwar years. Others are still remembered, but their life and work ought to be valued again.

The group of architectural examples presented at the exhibition is only a part of the richer oeuvre of Jewish architects active in Gdynia between the wars. Great part of these buildings, like those shown at the exhibition, have survived to the present day and their original design documentation has been preserved too.

Accompanying event:
17.11.2022 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Lecture: Dr Robert Hirsch - Municipal Conservator of Monuments in Gdynia, Professor of Gdańsk University of Technology

Discussion with: Winfried Brenne (Architect, Berlin), Dr Małgorzata Jędrzejczyk (Head of Exercising Modernity Programme, Pilecki-Institut Berlin), Dr Günter Schlusche (Architect and planner, Gesellschaft zur Erforschung des Lebens und Wirkens deutschsprachiger jüdischer Architekten), Dr Marek Stępa (Head of the Heritage Preservation Department, City Hall of Gdynia). Moderation: Tomasz Kurianowicz (Chief editor, Berliner Zeitung).