21.05.2025 – 11.01.2026
The exhibition of the Jewish Museum Hohenems in the Graz Museum deals with current and burning questions such as: What was ‘Project Europe’ and what has become of it? And what will become of it? In times of worrying global challenges, has the European community moved further apart instead of closer together? Are national interests increasingly being played off against European solutions? Against the backdrop of these questions, we look at Jewish individuals who, in the face of the destruction of Europe in the 20th century, crossed national and cultural borders, reclaimed the universal validity of human rights and vehemently pursued a European dream. Based on their commitment to a united and peaceful Europe, the exhibition curated by Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek and Michaela Feurstein-Prasser also explores its renewed threat. The museum opens up as a place of debate about the future of Europe, about the real and ideal substance of the European Union, about threats and opportunities, about forward-looking and outdated concepts. The European Enlightenment will be debated here, as will its children: secularisation and modernity, emancipation and participation, nationalism and chauvinism, colonialism and capitalism.
The last Europeans – Jewish perspectives on the crises of an idea
21.05.2025 – 11.01.2026
Graz Museum
Sackstraße 18
8010 Graz
www.grazmuseum.at
