Exodus | Atalya Laufer & Nora Sternfeld

In the organizer's words:

The work Exodus by Atalya Laufer, which is currently on display in the exhibition ... so that the sound of war subsides, its roar, is about her father's escape. Like around 4,500 other Jewish Holocaust survivors, Laufer's father boarded the ship of the same name with his parents in 1947 at the age of three to travel from France to Palestine, then a British Mandate territory. Entry was refused and the ship was forced to return to Port-de-Bouc. Many of them ended up in a German refugee camp for a short time.

The book documents Atalya Laufer's artistic reflection, her immersion in the memories of an ageing man of a formative experience as a child through painting. She installed her Exodus series, which consists of long lengths of fabric, among other things, in four different locations, each in a very different and impressive way. In an artist's book published in 2025 (permanent verlag), four texts accompany the work, as well as the father's transcribed memories in German and English.

Price information:

Free admission. No registration necessary. More information and visitor info at nsdoku.de/program.