Berlin: A Jewish Ode to the Metropolis

July 14 - September 10,2023

From Holocaust Museum Houston:

"Holocaust Museum Houston (HMH) will open Berlin: A Jewish Ode to the Metropolis, Friday, July 14, 2023. The exhibition features 27 photographs by artist Jason Langer from his series of the same name.

The project is deeply personal to Jason Langer and the product of a five-year reconciliation of the impressions of the Holocaust that were seeded in the photographer as a 10-year-old living on a kibbutz in Israel. Over the five-year process, Langer was able to undo the fearful impressions about Germany implanted in his mind as a child. He was able to see that Berlin is a city of dichotomies and there are symbols of division and reunification everywhere.

The photographs themselves seem timeless, characteristic for the artist’s work. His photographs are formally composed, rich and moody, favoring darker tones. Langer lends a poetic sensibility to both classic views of Berlin as well as smaller, hidden places which often tell specific, individual stories.

This exhibition is generously supported by the Ronald Grabois Family Endowment Fund. Berlin: A Jewish Ode to the Metropolis is on view in the Museum’s Spira Central Gallery, in memory of Brenda Spira, July 14 through September 10, 2023. For more information, visit hmh.org/Berlin.

Holocaust Museum Houston, Lester and Sue Smith Campus, is fully bilingual in English and Spanish. Located at 5401 Caroline Street, HMH is closed Mondays except Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Memorial Day and Labor Day from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; open Tuesdays through Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sundays from noon to 5 p.m. The Museum’s Legacy Café is open during Museum hours. Admission is $22 for adults; $16 for seniors (ages 65+) and AARP members; free for active duty servicemembers and their families through Labor Day; always free for children and students through age 18; and free to all visitors with new extended hours Thursdays from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. through August 24. Parking is available at the Museum’s adjacent lot for $8 for a four-hour period. Tickets are available exclusively online. For more information, visit hmh.org/visit."

On View: July 14, 2023 | 12-5 pm

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