Beuys | Kantor: Remembering

The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (Nathan Cummings Building for Modern and Contemporary Art)


Tadeusz Kantor

This exhibition traces the parallel story of the life and work of German artist Joseph Beuys (1921–1986) and Polish artist Tadeusz Kantor (1915–1990) - two revolutionary figures of 20th-century art. Both returned again and again to their personal life stories and both addressed complex issues of German-Polish-Jewish relations and the traumatic upheavals of European history that each had experienced in very different ways. Both worked in a wide range of fields and media, deliberately testing limits and crossing lines. Although they drew constantly, and Kantor also painted, they are chiefly known for their actions – happenings, theater performances, street manifestations, lectures, debates, and more.