A new generation of artists and activists is sparking a formerly taboo conversation.
April 30, 2021
A cyclist rides by two billboards put up by local artists to protest against the nearby Christian Friedrich Flick Collection at the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum in Berlin in 2004. The signs say free admission for former forced laborers and tax-evaders show us your treasures. Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images.
Last fall, German-Jewish artist Leon Kahane installed a work down the street from art collector Julia Stoschek’s exhibition space in Berlin. Though it was not part of the esteemed collector’s program, its proximity was intentional: Kahane’s video installation