Jewish Museum in Vienna Shows Political Acts of Contrition

More+More+ ♦ Published: October 12, 2022; 20:05 ♦ (Vindobona)

The Jewish Museum Vienna is showing a video installation by film artist James T. Hong as the museum's first project to have more influence on social discourse. The exhibition "Apologies" displays apologies by heads of state for crimes approved or ordered by the state.

The video installation can be seen on the second floor of the Jewish Museum in Dorotheergasse in the so-called Extra Room until February 12, 2023. / Picture: © Wikimedia Commons / Bwag / CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)

The video installation of the Taiwanese-American film artist with apologies of heads of state strung together without commentary will be shown until February 2023 on the second floor of the Jewish Museum in Dorotheergasse in the so-called "Extrazimmer" (Additional Room).

Beginning with Willi Brandt, who fell to his knees in front of the monument to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in…