Human and Catastrophe Project Opening

After the official part of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27, 2015, the opening of the project: Human and Catastrophe took place in the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center. 

Within the framework of the opening of three exhibitions – Loosing Face project by Jan Vanriet, Signs by Jegor Zaika, Architecture of Murder. The Auschwitz-Birkenau Blueprints – the Requiem for the Catastrophe – The Song about the Murdered Jewish People – was performed in the mezzanine of the Museum. This piece of music written in Israel by composer Zlata Razdolina to the poem of Ichak katsenelson has become one of the most famous requiems about the Catastrophe in the world. It was performed by Zlata Razdolina and People’s artist of Russia Marc Rozovsky. 

The representatives of the professional art-society, friends and partners of the Museum were present at the event, among them Olga Sviblova, the founder and director of the Multimedia Art Museum, artists Aidan Salakhova and RostanTavasiev, gallery owner Dmitry Khankin, the representative of Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority Jerusalem, Israel, Russian and European art critics and many others.