As Part of the Program Accompanying the Exhibition "Defiance: Jewish Women and Design in the Modern Era"
In Studio Talks I-III, exhibition curator Michal S. Friedlander and moderator Shelly Kupferberg will present the life stories and experiences of German-Jewish women in the applied arts, putting them in dialogue with contemporary female designers in Berlin.
Image gallery
Hanna Litten
In the second studio talk, the ceramist Margarete Heymann-Lobenstein, the doll maker Maria Luiko and the illustrator Käte Wolff will be used as examples to explore the experience of exclusion and new beginnings.
The Studio Talks I-III series sheds light on the historical challenges faced by German-Jewish women and their struggle for self-determination amid the tension between Jewish culture and tradition and majority society. These women were pioneers who founded their own businesses and found creative ways to market and distribute their products.
Themes such as the marginalization of independent Jewish women in crafts, design, and fashion remain relevant today as they did 100 years ago. These themes tie in with current international discourses on gender, Jewish perspectives, flight, and self-determination.
(IN GERMAN)
Exhibition "Defiance: Jewish Women and Design in the Modern Era"
Additional information
Meeting point: W. M. Blumenthal Akademie, Klaus Mangold Auditorium Fromet-und-Moses-Mendelssohn-Platz 1, 10969 Berlin
Price: €6.00
Reduced price: €3.00
Price: €6.00
Reduced price: €3.00
Dates
October 2025
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