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Landscape on Hanna Melnykova's path from Germany to Ukraine. Photo: Hanna Melnykova
10/8/26
11/8/26

Temporary Exhibition

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Lifelines. Across borders

An art project by Hanna Melnykova

In the summer of 2025, photo artist Hanna Melnykova emigrated from Germany to Ukraine. The Museum Center for Persecuted Arts is showing the photographic documentation of their performative walk.

Photo: Bergische Symphoniker, Simon Roloff
4/26/26

Concert

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4th Chamber Concert of the Bergische Symphoniker 2026

With Elgun Aghazada, Shino Nakai, Odysseas Lavaris, Won Cheol Jung and Ina Bijlsma

Members of the Bergische Symphoniker will play works by Britten, Mozart and Beethoven at the 4th Chamber Concert 2026 at the Center for Persecuted Arts.

Drawings by Else Lasker-Schüler in the permanent exhibition, photo: Daniela Tobias © Citizens' Foundation for Persecuted Arts — Else Lasker-Schüler-Zentrum — Gerhard Schneider Art Collection
4/26/26

Guided Tour

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Public Sunday tour of the permanent exhibition

and the exhibition “Manya Gutman. Change of view.”

In the Center for Persecuted Arts, you can discover artists who have been forgotten over the last few decades. “Blickwechsel” shows the diversity of female Jewish artists.