The exhibition “Bad / Good Jews” opens on November 13 in Berlin, in a former Nazi bunker.
Curators Marat Gelman and Yuri Harchenko.
This is a project on what it means to be Jewish today, after October 7, after an upsurge of violence and hatred, as the world again tries to divide people into “good” and “bad.” Five Jewish artists, Alexander Melamid, Art Spiegelman, Arik Wiseman, Michael Grobman, Yuri Harchenko, and Marat Gelman, unite in the former Nazi bunker space to talk about identity, memory, fear, vulnerability and the right to one’s voice.
This conversation is about how art is born out of pain, why the exhibition takes place exactly in Berlin, and how it turns personal experience into political expression. Marat Gelman and Yuri Kharchenko discuss the boundaries between art and activism, whether it is possible to talk about Jewish identity outside of politics today, and whether art about trauma is turning into a ritual that no longer heals but multiplies pain.
The exhibition “Bad / Good Jews” will be held from November 13 to 27, 2025 in Bunker West (Hohenzollerndamm 120, 14199 Berlin).
Opening – November 13 at 7:00 pm.
Further appointment visit: badgoodjews@gmail.com
Article about the exhibition: https://tenoua.org/2025/11/07/exhibition-bad-good-jews/
