THE JEWISH CHRONICLE
By Toby Axelrod
WITTENBERG---What was a young Jewish artist doing in a
former prison in Wittenberg, Germany? Nailing his art to the wall, of course.
Yury Kharchenko, who turned 31 this month, is one of around 65 international artists — including
Ai Weiwei,
Gilbert and George,
Olafur Eliasson and
Erwin Wurm — who have contributed to an exhibition in the very city where Martin Luther is said to have nailed his revolutionary thesis to a church door, triggering the Protestant Reformation half-a-millennium ago. For Mr. Kharchenko, a rising star, the exhibition "
Luther and the Avant-Garde," which runs until September 17 at the Old Prison, has provided a chance to confront controversial aspects of the Reformation, including Luther’s well-documented antisemitism and its ongoing legacy. [
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| Painter Yury Kharchenko holding up 'Self-portrait as reference to the arrest photo of Herschel Grynszpan of 1938' in front of the Luther memorial in Wittenberg, Germany, |
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