Arendt Project

Shay Abady –Arendt Project – Curator: Daniel Cahana-Levensohn

October 2006 is the 100th anniversary of Hannah Arendt’s (1906-1975), one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th Century. Though Arendt’s complex thought and personality were the source for a long controversy, in recent years there is a revived interest in Arendt in Israel.
The Arendt Project creates a dialogue between her portraits and the conceptual representations of her world. Abady focuses on her personality and on the way her changing visual images mirror the turmoils of the twentieth century. A catalogue will accompany this exhibition, including text by Tali Tamir, Michal Ben-Naftali, and others.

This exhibition is Curtecy of the Heinrich Boll Foundation and the Goethe Institut, Jerusalem

During the exhibition panels and a gallery talk will take place at The Jerusalem Artists House:
Panel 1: “Arendt – A Personal Encounter” – Thursday, 26.10.06, 19:00.
Participants: Eyal Sivan, Gilly Ben Ozilyo (Reading), Michal Ben Naftali, Annabel Herzog and Shai Lavi

Panel 2: “Commemorating and Forgetting in Israeli Art and Culture” – Tuesday, 07.11.06, 19:00. Moderator: Daniel Cahana – Levensohn, Participants: Gideon Ofrat, Tali Tamir.

Gallery Talk – Saturday 18.11.06, 12:00: Shy Abady, Daniel Chanah-Levenshon

During the exhibition three events will take place at The Goethe-Institute:
Documentary portrait by J. Miermeister (Germany 1996, 3sat 2004, 45 min) Monday 23.10.06 7 p.m.
“Günter Gaus talks to Hannah Arendt” (TV Talk, Germany, 1964, 45 min) Monday 23.10.06 8 p.m.
Between Friends: The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy, 1949-1975 – Two “femmes de lettres”: a reading by Dagmar Schwarz and Hannah Szpirglas Tuesday 21.11.06 7 p.m.