MEMORY IN (POST-) TOTALITARIANISM
An ongoing project by Martin Krenn

Exhibition in the Centre for Visual Introspection (CIV), Bucharest, 13 November - 24 December 2010

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MARTIN KRENN AMINTIRI IN (POST-) TOTALITARISM / MEMORY IN (POST-) TOTALITARIANISM

13 November - 24 December 2010
Opening 12 November 2010, 7pm

Str. Biserica Enei nr. 16, Bucuresti, sector 1 Bucharest, Romania

In his exhibition Memory in (Post-)Totalitarianism, Martin Krenn reconstitutes a visual journey depicting various historical locations, memorials and archives that analyzes the historical evolution of the politics of memory and history in its different forms. The artist traces the communist and fascist presences investigating the way it is
reshaped the space of politics in post-totalitarian societies, the way history is being communicated and the way we deal with the places of remembrance.

For the presentation of the project at the Centre for Visual Introspection, a three-channel slide-installation was developed, which now constitutes the core of the exhibition. A multi-facetted collage of images and texts unveils the Krenn’s research, which until now has been conducted in Bucharest and Sighet in Romania, Weimar and
Buchenwald in Germany.

The second part of the exhibition comprises video-interviews with the survivors Liviu Beris and Oliver Lustig, who recount their experience of the Holocaust and discuss topical historical and political issues in Romania.

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INTERVIEW PARTNERS
Slide Projection

ANA BLANDIANA
is a poet and essayist. She founded together with Romulus Rusan the Memorial of the Victims of Communism and of the Resistance.

ROBERT FÜRTOS
is a museographer and a curator of the Memorial Sighet.

RIKOLA-GUNNAR LÜTTGENAU
is a historian and media scientist, director of the Buchenwald memorial and alternate director of the foundation Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora.

NORBERT KONDRAD
is a historian and a guide of the Memorial Sighet.

ANDREI LASCU
is a historian, he worked for the Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crime and participated in several archaeological campaigns to detect and recover the bones of former political prisoners.

PHILIPP NEUMANN
is a historian, he works in the Buchenwald Memorial and is responsible for public relation.

ANDREI OIŞTEANU
is a historian of religions and mentalities, ethnologist, cultural anthropologist, literary critic and novelist. He served in the jury for the holocaust memorial in Bucharest.

TIVODAR VASILE
was a political prisoner in numerous Romanian prisons from 1952 until the general amnesty in 1964.

FELICIA WALDMAN
is a philologist and philosopher. She is a founding member of IDEE (Initiatives for Democracy in Eastern Europe). She teaches at the Goldstein-Goren Center for Jewish Studies at the State University of Bucharest.

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OLIVER LUSTIG
survived the camp Birkenau-Auschwitz and Landsberg (sub-camp of Dachau).He is a writer and journalist and the author of several books on Holocaust.

LIVIU BERIS
survived the Romanian Holocaust. He is the president of the Association of Romanian Jews Victims of the Holocaust. He also took part in the International Commission for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania (Wiesel Comission).

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Special thanks to: Karin Cervenka, Felicia Waldman, Andrei Oişteanu, Alina Serban, Carla Albert and Dan Angelescu