In 2008, the artists Till Gathmann, Fabian Reimann, Cindy Schmiedichen and Rebecca Wilton started to take a closer look at the history of a former department store, which used to be owned by a Jewish family and was located in Leipzig Plagwitz. This interest caused extensive researches and finally brought up the Projekt Kaufhaus Joske. The location of the former department store at Karl-Heine-Str. 43, 04229 Leipzig, turned into a temporarily venue. A detailed documentation about all activities can be found here →projektkaufhausjoske.de (German).
Boycott of the Jewish department store Kaufhaus M. Joske & Co, Karl-Heine-Straße 43–45, Leipzig, 1.4.1933.
Photo: Stadtgeschichtliches Museum Leipzig
Projekt Kaufhaus Joske, courtyard Karl-Heine-Str. 43, July 2008. Photo: Carsten Humme
2016
- Gedenkort auf Zeit. Formen des Erinnerns in der Kunst, symposium
2013
- Perspektiven auf den Ausstellungsraum, Simultanhalle Köln / Cologne, lecture at the symposium
2010
- Bertram Haude, performance
- László Földenyi and Laszlo Kornitzer, On Imre Kertész, lecture and talk
- Maison de Valeur, WALK #1, performance
- Nils Mollenhauer, Das Unbehagen im Archivarischen, lecture
- Tris Vonna-Michell, Leipzig Calender Works, performance
2009
- Arisierung in Leipzig. Verdrängt. Beraubt. Ermordet, Schindlermuseum Krakow, exhibition
- Jörg Herold, performance
- Harun Farocki, Aufschub, film; Tobias Ebbrecht, Hinter den Bildern, Annäherung an die Vergangenheit als Filmessay, lecture
- Lisa Gathmann, Surrealismus und Realität. Lee Miller in Deutschland, 1945, lecture
- Yuki Higashino, An obvious choice and a few other ideas that followed it, exhibition
- Judith Berkson, concert
- Fabian Reimann, Gustav Metzger. Haltung, lecture
- Katinka Bock, Umland, exhibition
2008
- Opening of the project space Projekt Kaufhaus Joske: Thomas Pletzinger, Andrea Lorz, lecture and guided tour