Tue. 27.01.2026

Everything Forgotten

Everything Forgotten deals with the phenomenon of forgetting and shows that forgetting does not only mean loss, but can also exert power or bring liberation. The exhibition highlights historical examples such as internal Jewish excommunication curses, the deliberate erasure of names and collective cultures of forgetting after 1945.
Visitors gain insights into how forgetting shapes people and society and what consequences it has for memory and identity. Everything Forgotten invites visitors to understand forgetting not only as the opposite of remembering, but as part of a complex examination of history and the present.
 
 
Redepausen im Frankfurter Auschwitz-Prozess
Sigrid Sigurdsson
Redepausen im Frankfurter Auschwitz-Prozess
Videostill, Redepausen, Gerichtssaal im Römer, 2024 © Gunnar Brandt-Sigurdsson
Videoarbeit, 1964–2014 © Sigrid Sigurdsson
© Sigrid Sigurdsson
Das schwarze Auge, Selbstporträt
Edith Kramer
Das schwarze Auge, Selbstporträt (The Black Eye), 
New York, 1943
Öl auf Leinwand, 30 x 31 cm
Ankauf durch die FREUNDE des JMW, 2006
JMW, Inv. Nr. 14353
Foto @ Sebastian Gansrigler
© Sebastian Gansrigler
Tora Aufsätze (Rimmonim)
Tora-Aufsätze (Rimmonim) 
Metall
Wien um 1900
Jüdisches Museum Hohenems R 30 (IKG Wien Inv. Nr. 213)
© Jüdisches Museum Hohenems R 30 (IKG Wien Inv. Nr. 213)
Wehrstammbuch Kurt Waldheim
Wehrstammbuch Kurt Waldheim
AT-ÖStA/AdR MilEv WStB Waldheim Kurt
Österreichisches Staatsarchiv, Wien
© Österreichisches Staatsarchiv, Wien
Vergessen
Brigitte Kowanz
Vergessen
Neon/Spiegel
2009
Klocker Museum, Hall in Tirol
© Brigitte Kowanz



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