and reimagining industrial landscapes paint jobs by street artist mix show that functional can be playful to. welcome to arts and culture here in berlin the city where hitler and his men planned the murder of 6000000 jews the jewish museum stands as a symbol of transformation the building by architect daniel levy grabbed headlines around the world when it opened in 2001 but there were issues the exhibition inside came as an afterthought to the imposing architecture more recently the museum's last director got tangled up in controversy now after lockdown the museum is reopening under new leadership with a new permanent exhibition. it's been a long slog but after almost 2 and a half years of construction and delays due to the pandemic berlin's jewish museum has a new core exhibition. germany's culture minister has high hopes for the opening.

the opening of the new permanent exhibition marks the beginning of a new era in this place which is so important for us all. as space has been created where jewish people can recognize their own lived experience and when non jewish visitors can also read and learn about the richness of jewish culture and german jewish relations. there are also high hopes for the museum's new director hetty beg she took over in april and has an exciting and challenging road ahead. the jewish museum striking design for summit zigzag shape resembles the shattered star of david fathers a bolt of lightning. bug attacked daniel libeskind won the commission in 1908 the year before the fall of the berlin wall.

was consort not to simply design a museum but also say something about jewish history people around the world marveled when his museum opened its doors in 2001 the museum made headlines again in 2018 when the exhibition welcome to jerusalem was said by some to be and to scientist. the museum's then curator peter schaffer resigned of accusations that he was supporting the palestinian led b.d.s. movement to boycott to fist from and sanction israel a wave of controversy the museum has tried to move on from. the new exhibition is part of the museum's bid for a new start existing a burst of installations about the holocaust remain now with 1700. years of jewish german history in similarly innocent fashion with information meeting virtual reality 2 was it destroyed synagogues sound installations and sculpture. and my

colleague mike a crew goes here to chat about this new chapter for berlin's jewish museum welcome mike now on a really personal note i have to say i actually was really relieved about this new exhibition because the 1st time i remember the 1st time i went to this museum and i was just incensed also being jewish myself that there was all of this all of these exhibitions about the extermination of jews but i got no real sense that there was an understanding that jews are living people exactly i had exact the same feeling you that day that i missed information about the jewish culture and the religion they really needed to change and it didn't really reflect the experience of jewish people nowadays now to be fair to the jewish museum so this exhibition the building is really it looks great but it is not an easy building not at all it's built like a sculpture not not as a building with chop angles and even floor very challenging full

curators in the nevertheless the ritual prominent exhibition that received more than 11000000 visit is now everything is a bit different we have visual media the true reality interactive games because the audience has changed it's the digital generation and there is much more interest in the jewish culture and history far beyond the cost and of the same time you have anti-semitism rising all around the world and one very important one of the critiques of this museum has been that it doesn't really show it's called the jewish museum but it doesn't really show a jewish perspective how will we expect that to change a thing the new. direct back will ensure this because she is jewish herself. and no asteroid person is director wasn't previously surprisingly indeed and she's

a very good networker she's been doing this job for years and amsterdam and she really cleaned out quite a bit in the museum the roles are less overloaded now and at the same time they are more original i thames so that it fits perfect with the architecture and i think she's able at that mall britches between the institution and of course the jewish community in germany as was missing in the past the museum is still the museum is still a gem institution that now on the jewish leadership there and we talked to her just a little while ago but hear what she had to say about how the museum's approach has changed though what i really love is that we have several contemporary works of art where these artists reject i dare to do. historical periods or to do theme and in debt with the school temporary comments on what we are and what we are tending and it's also a good way for the board humans to relate to it and there are of course

a lot of hope spirit put on had to bear it as the new director of berlin's jewish museum micah thanks so much for coming on the thank you david. and now to something completely different the accordion as generally speaking not considered the sexiest of instruments you won't find crowds of screaming teenagers following accordion players around but if anyone can change that it is hard to miss live its guess a 30 year old lithuanian virtue osso is knocking a layer of dust off the old squeeze box with performances full of dynamism and passion and recordings that range from classical through lady gaga covers actually for years he's tried to prove that the accordion is fit for more than just folklore well now finally he's ready to go back to his roots. a long time in my life i tried to run away from fall.

but then because i lived in london so i met a lot of people who wanted to know more about me deeply so yeah it means a lot of fun and i'm happy that i came back to it. but if. you can remain martina snippets instead since you couldn't play since you might not expect 20 steelworks factory on jimmy's ball to coast. new places for old fashioned instruments a lot of people see it as very old fashioned. granny's type of instrument but it is one of the youngest and in the entire music instrument family.

martine this is 1st experience of the accordion came as a young boy in his parents' summer house. he didn't start formal training until the age of 8. he then went on to study the instrument at university in london and spain . today in my tennis leviticus has his own orchestra together explore the accordion in obits fastened. together with the composer younus about modernist plans to take part in the make limbo west pomerania music festival with a music piece based on the sounds of industrial metal production

a shower suite or steel suite the festival has been postponed till next summer juge the coronavirus forward the musicians a busy collecting sounds. from a childhood that saw him taking inspiration the far outside little when his capital be only us to the world stage. the accordion. is on his way. and spray paints are. got his start like most tagging walls illegally at night now the artist gets paid to cover entire buildings from top to bottom with his designs transforming eyesores into colorful surprises that bring a little bit more tearfulness into germany industrial landscapes. everyone knows bricks but not like the. martin hoyer vault isn't

in the colorful little plastic pieces in a completely new way these oversized lego bricks in different colors have completely changed the appearance of the plane concrete bridge. closures and walls and i wanted to do something different and unique something the viewer doesn't really expect. i tried using a wooden services or try to ice at some point i spoke to my partner about it and she was in a bit of a hurry and then said why don't you try using lego that's how they idea came about . this work in the german facade award in 2012 which made him a wound renowned artist makes as he's known in the graffiti art scene gives buildings a totally new identity like this maintenance house tricity company. green hoping to please the residents here but the residents really didn't like it or the

construction site and then they contacted me and i came here and had a look at the place and i did what i always enjoy doing here to painting nature trees plants i think it's perfect for the site this used to be a factory for binders and folders makes enjoys playing around with the architecture of the buildings he uses as his canvas his pieces have a reference to each building painted onto this bus. so far. this has been used to project makes 10 to have been 32 metre high chimney in bronze into a gigantic work of ott. but it'll might miss house now blends in with its surroundings. tea for the start of march harvest across was a scene that i painted there it's something i could imagine painting on to my own private house 2 or another houses so i'm happy with it and we were able to bring a couple of things together that make sense to everyone in my home. and if you take

a close look at his artworks you'll soon recognise mixes the small signature. that's it for this edition of arts and culture don't forget there you can find us on our website at d.f.w. dot com slash culture for more arts and culture reports we hope to see you there thanks for watching about it for now. it.

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not laughing out of the gym i just sometimes i am but i stand up and whip it that. thinks deep into the german culture of looking at the stereotypes the question but if you think this leaves the country that i'm not blaming. need to be good for this drama play out to me it's all about ok nothing i'm a joke join me for me condemning bundy w. post they've been robbed of their soul that's what a people experiences when their heritage is taken from them. countless cultural artifacts were brutally stolen from africa by colonialists and carted off to europe . that left wounds that have yet to heal what should be done with the stolen art from africa. stolen soul starts september 7th on g.w. .

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