6 November 2008 – 8 February 2009

Munio Weiraub/Amos Gitai - Architecture an Film in Israel

The exhibition on the Bauhaus-trained architect Munio Weinraub (1909-1970) and his son, the internationally acclaimed director Amos Gitai (born 1950), presents a protagonist of New Building in Israel and a critical film-maker and chronicler of his country. The juxtaposition and confrontation of the works of father and son provide an intensive insight into the developments and problems of Palestine und Israel.

The architect Munio Weinraub belongs to the generation who helped to build the State of Israel. Influenced by Hannes Meyer, Mies van der Rohe and Ludwig Hilberseimer he came to Palestine as a young architect in 1934. He designed some 300 buildings and projects and taught for over twenty years at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. He constructed residential accommodation, kibbutzim and schools and developed his first plan for a national memorial Yad Vashem in 1942. Weinraub’s buildings make a significant contribution to the Zionist project of creating a national home for the Jewish people and they are a central element in the establishment of the state’s identity through modern architecture.

Weinraub’s son Amos Gitai was trained as an architect, but since the 1970s has chosen to dedicate himself increasingly to the medium of film. To date, the mostly important Israelian film maker of the present has made some 80 short films, documentaries and feature films, for which he has been awarded a number of international prizes – in 2008 he won honorary leopard at the film festival in Locarno. It was with his documentary „House“ - based on a building in West-Jerusalem as a way of representing expulsion/occupation and the loss and significance of „house and home“ - that he first achieved international recognition in 1980. Gitai’s films repeatedly reflect past and present, home and exile, boundaries and overstepping boundaries. In long film takes and impressive snapshots he lets reality take centre stage, steering the focus onto displacement, ideologies and myths.

The exhibition documents the dialogue of creative tension between father and son, between the Zionist establishment of the state of Israel and post-Zionist reflection on the complex problems in the Middle East.

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Pinakothek der Moderne
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Daily 10 a.m. - 6 p.m., Thursday 10 a.m. - 8 p.m., closed on Monday

Description of the Museum

With four major museums presenting art, works on paper, architecture and design under one roof, the Pinakothek der Moderne is one of the world’s greatest collections of 20th and 21st century art. The open and spacious building invites visitors to explore, to discover connections and gain new and surprising insights. Temporary exhibits and events from various cultural domains complete the supradisciplinary program.

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