Following the very successful Part One, where Members of the Second and Third Generations spoke about their use of theatre and music to commemorate and engage with their Holocaust heritage, on this panel we have two Second Generation visual artists: Network Member, Maarten van der Heijden and Monica Petzal. Maarten lives and works as an autonomous visual artist in Amsterdam. He graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Art Academy Amsterdam in 2010 with works that reflect his Second Generation identity – his grandfather was murdered in Auschwitz. In 2022, he opened the Jewish Second Generation Art & Family Museum at his home in Amsterdam. He will speak about his museum, focussing on his photographic artwork and other projects, and how his Second Generation background plays a part in his work. Monica, the child of German Jewish refugee parents, studied painting at Kingston and the Royal College of Art and printmaking at the Camberwell School of Art, before co-founding The Foundation for Women’s Art and starting her own gallery ‘Printroom’. She will talk about her well known panels entitled ‘Dissent and Displacement’ and how her Second Generation roots have influenced her work. There will be time after their presentations for questions and for you to share your own experiences of using art to explore and express your own Holocaust heritage. If you missed Part One, with Roger Peltzman and Clare Fraenkel, there is a recording in the Members’ Area of the Network website.
Eventbrite link: https://Creative-Arts-Pt2.eventbrite.co.uk
Second Generation Network
For the children and families of survivors of and refugees from Nazi persecution