ELAINE JACOBS GALLERY AT WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY / SO WHAT KIND OF NAME IS THAT? PAINTINGS WITH TEXT BY KEN APTEKAR
CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART / TALKING TO PICTURES
French psychoanalyst Chantal Maillet’s essay inspired by Nachbarn
Following the opening of the exhibition, Nachbarn/Neighbors, French psychoanalyst Chantal Maillet cast a wise eye on the project from an odd and unpredictable angle: Broken Glass. The writer Caroline Brothers noted that “the most extraordinary symbolism of Chantal Maillet’s story is its echoes, over all the intervening decades, of a Kristallnacht reversed.” You can find…
Nachbarn/Neighbors in MyHeimat.de (and on a bus stop!)
Click to read on MyHeimat.de (in German): In der Lübecker Kunsthalle: Bemerkenswerte und beeindruckende Werke des Künstlers Ken Aptekar
Nachbarn/Neighbors featured in PRATT NEWSLETTER
CLICK to read Pratt Newsletter article on Nachbarn/Neighbors, “Alumnus Ken Aptekar Explores Religious Tolerance in Unique Exhibition in Lübeck, Germany”
THE GUARDIAN on Nachbarn
Click to read Stuart Jeffries on Ken Aptekar and Nachbarn/Neighbors in Lübeck
German Media on NACHBARN
Review, Kunstforum International, Jens Rönnau, “Ken Aptekar: Nachbarn at Kunsthalle St. Annen, April 2016 (Band 239), READ HERE Front page, Lübecker Nachrichten: http://www.ln-online.de/Nachrichten/Kultur/Kultur-im-Norden/US-Kuenstler-malt-Luebecker-Geschichte German Television: http://www.ndr.de/fernsehen/sendungen/schleswig-holstein_magazin/Ken-Aptekar-stellt-in-Luebeck-aus,shmag37798.html Best of the North of Germany NDR.de: https://www.ndr.de/kultur/kunst/schleswig-holstein/Nachbarn-Dramen-von-nebenan,aptekar100.html MyHeimat.de: http://www.myheimat.de/luebeck/ratgeber/in-der-luebecker-kunsthalle-bemerkenswerte-und-beeindruckende-werke-des-kuenstlers-ken-aptekar-d2741680.html http://www.hl-live.de/aktuell/textstart.php?id=104493 http://www.luebeckische-blaetter.info/2016/08_LB181.pdf (see pages 140-41) https://www.vile-netzwerk.de/kultur-in-anderen-bereichen/articles/museum-und-synagoge-als-nachbarn.html http://www.altertuemliches.at/termine/ausstellung/37627 http://der-neue-merker.eu/infos-des-tages-sonntag-7-februar-2016 (SCROLL DOWN) http://www.weiss-rote.de/referenzen/st-annen-museum-luebeck/index.html President of Lübeck welcomes Ken Aptekar at Rathaus…
NACHBARN/NEIGHBORS: Die Flüchtling Aus Lübeck (The Refugee from Lübeck)
Rodolfo Hofmann was born in Lübeck, Germany, in 1923. His family fled to Santiago, Chile, in 1936. Before he left Lübeck forever, he celebrated his Bar Mitzvah in the Lübeck Synagogue. In this video Rodolfo (1923-2014) recounts his Jewish experience before and after leaving Germany. This video is included in Ken Aptekar’s exhibition, NACHBARN, at…
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