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Bruce Clarke, the Author of the Art Installation at the Ninth Fort: Artist Has to Give Tools to Understand

“Knowing history helps us to better understand the present,” says Litvak origin artist Bruce Clarke. From 29th of June till July 20th, 2022, the famous artist is visiting Lithuania: he is beginning to create an artistic installation “ECCE HOMO: Those Who Stayed” at Kaunas Ninth Fort Museum. The presentation of the installation will take place in September, on the commemoration of the National Memorial Day for the Genocide of Lithuanian Jews. In order to learn more about art, painful historical events and the project in Kaunas we invite you to read the interview with Bruce Clarke.“ECCE HOMO: Those Who Stayed” is a part of the international project, which is organised by Kaunas Ninth Fort Museum and Kaunas European Capital of Culture 2022.*By using art, you are looking for ways of expressing really complex and painful topics such as the Holocaust. What made or inspired you to focus on them?Beyond this question is another: how I conceive the role of art. I conceive it as something, which plays an active role in society and which says something about the world in which we live or about its history. So, it’s both contemporary and past history. If you are an artist, you ...

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BUTOH. Memory Movements

Choreography performance2022 January 22 d. 13:00Mysterious, sensitive, engaging… Choreography performance “BUTOH. Memory Movements”, which will take place on 22nd of January, 2022, at 13:00, will invite you to pause, to think, to feel the surrounding world and yourself and it will inspire you to join and become the part of the event. The event is presented by “Kaunas – European Capital of Culture 2022”.In the underground passage next to the Kaunas Railway Station, performers will show the original performance of Butoh dance. Butoh is a genre of modern dance, formed in the 1950s in Japan. It is characterised by vivid tragic emotions, slow movements, the desire to get closer to the primary energy. By using the art of movement, this choreography performance will invite you to go deeper into the subject of the Holocaust – to empathize, to feel, to emote.  Viewers, who will feel the emotions and rhythms of the movements expressed by the performers, are encouraged not to remain passive observers – they are given a unique opportunity to get involved in the performance themselves.*Performance time: January 22nd, 2022, at 13:00, 13:20, 13:40.Location – underground passage next to the Kaunas Railway Station.*Choreography of performance “BUTOH. Memory Movements” was created by ...

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In Germany – an Exhibition KAUNAS 1941

On the16th of November, 2021, an exhibition by the artist Rainer Viertlböck was opened at the Jewish Museum Munich to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the deportation of Munich Jews to Kaunas. On November 20th in 1941, almost a thousand of Jews were transported by train from Munich and shot to death in a massacre field near the Kaunas Ninth Fort on 25th of November, 1941, during the “Foreigners Action”.In September 2021, R. Viertlböck, whose grandfather was one of the deported and killed Jews, worked at the Kaunas Ninth Fort Museum – photographed and filmed material for the upcoming exhibition. He expressed his sensitive experience in the photography installation “Kaunas 1941”.“I only found out about him [the grandfather] shortly before my father died, because my grandmother had been persuaded, or she agreed, to indicate the paternity of my father as “unknown”. This might have saved my father‘s life in the Third Reich. Still, this was never discussed in our family, my father only talked about it shortly before he died. Accordingly, I had no emotional connection to my grandfather. I have to say, this changed dramatically when I arrived in Kaunas. So, I drove there completely, more or less, unconcerned, ...

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INNOVACONCRETE KAUNAS VIRTUAL WORKSHOP | 11–12 June 2021

The last virtual workshop “Monument and non-Monument: concrete heritage of the post-war era” of the international project “InnovaConcrete” will be held on June 11-12, 2021. We invite you to register!Registration and more information: https://bit.ly/3fR63nl The international project “InnovaConcrete” aims to preserve cultural heritage created from concrete (monuments built in the 20th century). The project involved experts from different fields who worked together to discover innovative solutions. One of the objects studied by the scientists is the monument for the commemoration of the Holocaust victims that is at the Kaunas Ninth Fort Memorial Complex.  The seminar will be joined by the speakers from other countries who will discuss monuments and other types of structures that can and should remain for the future generations as a relevant part of our history. Virtual location of the seminar: Kaunas Ninth Fort Museum.Organisers: ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on 20th Century Heritage, Kaunas University of Technology, Kaunas Ninth Fort Museum.

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Important Information for the Visitors

On the last Sunday of each month all visitors can visit the museum free of charge. Guided tours in English on the last Sunday of the month are not available.  The free tickets must be collected on the day of the visit at the ticket office located at Žemaičių pl. 73.We would like to note that on the last Sunday of the month the exhibition “Children…” will be closed. We invite you to see the exhibitions on other days.

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