BLACK MILK

Black Milk – Holocaust in Contemporary Art, 2014 presented thirteen international artists' works responding to the Holocaust at the Museum of Contemporary Art raising the question of how the Holocaust can or should be dealt with in art today. Miroslaw Balka (PL), Yvette Brackman (DK), Zoya Cherkassky (IL), Steven Cohen (ZA), Jonathan Horowitz (US), Claudia Joskowicz (BO), Menashe Kadishman (IL), Know Hope (IL), Zbigniew Libera (PL), Tom Sachs (US), Piotr Uklanski (PL), Gitte Villesen (DK), Artur Zmijewski (PL) broached subjects such as victim versus torturer, enemy images, demagogy, collective memory and the aftermath. The participating artists, with their varied approaches and diversified works, showed us why and how the Holocaust still torments us today as a historical trauma and as a symbol of humanity’s crime against itself.