SCHUBERTH AND SCHUBERTH

Objects and the sto­ries they tell about the peo­ple who once col­lect­ed them, held them in their hands, passed them on and found them again are the focus of the exhi­bi­tion at the Jew­ish Muse­um Vien­na. Wal­ter Ben­jamin described liv­ing in that era as hous­ing. It bears the imprint of its inhab­i­tants — to emboss a case, just as cas­es and com­pass box­es were art­ful­ly made and lined with vel­vet. The exhi­bi­tion design varies these motifs with col­ors, spa­tial ele­ments and graph­ic wall reliefs.

Spa­tial scenes are staged at impor­tant sta­tions, com­posed of the black-and-white inte­ri­ors as wall­pa­per, large-for­mat pho­tos of the char­ac­ters, orig­i­nal objects and lit­er­ary quo­ta­tions. This is com­ple­ment­ed by reshaped and rein­ter­pret­ed props from the fam­i­ly his­to­ry: Charles’ yel­low arm­chair as vel­vet seat­ing, the yel­low car­pet in Emmy’s Vien­nese dress­ing room. A par­al­lel strand is the pre­sen­ta­tion of the small fig­urines, the net­suke, which run through the exhi­bi­tion like a com­mon thread — an exhi­bi­tion with­in the exhi­bi­tion.

Design of the exhi­bi­tion: “The Ephrus­sis. A jour­ney through time“
from Novem­ber 6, 2019 to March 8, 2020 at the Jew­ish Muse­um Vien­na,
Dorotheer­gasse 11, 1010 Vien­na

Cura­tors: Gabriele Kohlbauer-Fritz, Tom Junck­er
Graph­ics exhi­bi­tion and cat­a­log: Ste­fan Fuhrer
Team: Ele­na Mali