Collecting Images [08]

A Certain Jewish Something

Exhibition: Collecting Images [08] – A Certain Jewish Something

Collecting Images [08]

A Certain Jewish Something

Collecting Images [08]
A Certain Jewish Something

In the final exhibition in the “Collecting Images” series, the Jewish Museum Munich presents “A Certain Jewish Something,” created in conjunction with its visitors. How this exhibition has taken shape is highly unusual. Through invitations and advertisements, friends of the museum and visitors alike were asked to actively take part in creating the exhibition by bringing along “a certain Jewish something” together with a brief history of the item.

In this way a collection was built up of more than 120 objects, which comprised the familiar and the unexpected, the traditional and the enigmatic,…

Collecting Images [08]
A Certain Jewish Something

In the final exhibition in the “Collecting Images” series, the Jewish Museum Munich presents “A Certain Jewish Something,” created in conjunction with its visitors. How this exhibition has taken shape is highly unusual. Through invitations and advertisements, friends of the museum and visitors alike were asked to actively take part in creating the exhibition by bringing along “a certain Jewish something” together with a brief history of the item.

In this way a collection was built up of more than 120 objects, which comprised the familiar and the unexpected, the traditional and the enigmatic, enabling a multifaceted insight into a very personal and contemporary involvement with all things Jewish.

Duration of exhibition

June 22 - August 1, 2008

Curator

Katarina Holländer
Michael Guggenheimer

Es sind nicht immer die wertvollen Objekte, die eine Ausstellung sehenswert machen. Manchmal ist es ein kleines Objekt des Alltags, sind es Kunsthandwerkliches und privater Krempel, die Neugierde wecken.

 

Donaukurier, 27. Juni 2008

The Jewish Museum Munich has mounted an exhibt this summer actually called „That Certain Jewish Something“. It takes a creative and rather provocative approach to explore the intangibles that can imbue objects, situations and even individuals wit a sense of Jewishness.

 

Jerusalem Post, 07. August 2008

Mit dieser ungewöhnlichen Schau nähert sich das Museum seiner eigenen Geschichte.

 

Damals, 31. August 2008
Ein Museum der Landeshauptstadt München