Commemorating the European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism and the Day of the Baltic Way, the exhibition of Lithuanian artists is opened in Johannesburg
On August 23, the Ambassador of Lithuania to South Africa Sigutė Jakštonytė opened the exhibition Zakhor! Imaginations of the former Jewish Vilne in modern Lithuanian Art at the Holocaust and Genocide Center in Johannesburg.
The Ambassador greeted the guests by expressing joy that 27 years after the Baltic Way, Lithuanian modern art is connecting people and countries, linking the present and the past and at the same time is helping us to preserve the memory of multicultural Vilnius.
At the exhibition, dedicated to the history of Jewish Vilnius in art, Lithuanian capital is remembered as one of the biggest Central European religious and cultural centers- the city where worldwide known Jewish scientist, philosophers, rabbis, intellectuals, printers and artists lived. The works by Algis Griškevičius, Ramondas Savickas, Linas Liandzbergis and by other contemporary Lithuanian artists are displayed at the exhibition. During the opening ceremony, the documentary by Henrikas Gulbinas about the Zakhor! exhibitions in Vilnius, Berlin and Cape Town was presented to the visitors.
The exhibition was designed by Lithuanian cultural attaché in Germany, Moses Mendelssohn Center for European Jewish Studies and Konrad Adenauer Fund. The project in Johannesburg together with Holocaust and Genocide Center is implemented by Lithuanian Embassy to South Africa.
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