15.112026 – 03.10.2027
After 1945, many Austrians wanted to forget what had happened and the part they had played in it. This ‘culture of forgetting’ was only broken by the Waldheim affair in 1986. The research that began at that time into Austria’s role in National Socialism, the remembrance of the victims and the demand for accountability set many processes in motion and rescued these events from oblivion. In the meantime, however, we are witnessing the rise of a new movement that seeks to leave history behind and pits cultures of remembrance relating to different experiences of violence against one another, rather than engaging with them. It is therefore important to discuss the mechanisms of forgetting and to ask what is repressed and overwritten, what is overlooked, and what is deliberately erased. The exhibition invites visitors to understand forgetting as part of a complex engagement with history and the present.
Participating artists
Arnold Dreyblatt, Dani Gal, Brigitte Kowanz, Maya Schweizer, Sigrid Sigurdsson, William Utermohlen, Gali Yudilevich, Patrick Zachmann
Forget everything
15.112026 – 03.10.2027
Jüdisches Museum Hohenems
Villa Heimann-Rosenthal
Schweizer Str. 5, 6845 Hohenems
www.jm-hohenems.at
