BERLIN - SCHICHTEN
When the Second World War ended in May 1945, every seventh person among the remaining population in Berlin was a slave laborer. Forced labor was a prerequisite for the National Socialist war economy and part of everyday life in Berlin. A quarter of a century later, the city shows only a few traces of this former presence. The artist Hadas Tapouchi has put former crime scenes of forced labor in Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf into the picture for this exhibition. The exhibition locates the photographs in a topography of the slave labor in the district, traces the tradition of the slave labor system and reflects memories of former slave laborers. SCHICHTEN thus opens up a space for questions about the relationship between forced labor, visibility, city and memory.
SCHICHTEN is a combination of exhibitions: From June 10 to August 8, 2020, Schoeler.Berlin shows, along with other photographs by Hadas Tapouchi, artistic positions by Stanislaw Fijalkowski and Jehoshua Rozenman. See more at www.schoeler.berlin
