Ben Uri Exhibition History 1925 - 2025

Recording the Refugee and wide Immigrant contribution to British visual Culture since 1900 Some 700 Exhibitions (80 Online) since 1925

Ben Uri 110 / 25

from Local to Global: 1915 - 2025

Ben Uri 110 years: from Local to Global BEN URI 110 / 25: from Local to Global Ben Uri is 110 years young and simultaneously celebrate 25 years of the new Ben Uri positioned in the heart of British mainstream cultural sector This exhibition is built around the further and final expansion of the museum’s strategic plan, first published in 2018, to formalise the adoption of our core public benefit being within academia and online education - and being fully committed to a digital first future.

rational of our future for the rest of this 21st century and hopefully more. The Ben Uri Research and Dissemination Institute will extend our current Research Unit to research, consolidate and record the refugee and wide immigrant contribution to British society since 1900.

20% of the British population / 40% of Londoners are immigrants and their ongoing contribution to the wealth, cultural, scientific and financial, needs to be accurately and proportionately recorded and recognised.

We will continue to be a hybrid institution exhibiting challenging and inspiring art reflecting both our proud Jewish heritage and our current and future, celebrating the contribution of the refugee and wide immigrant communities to our rich and diverse cultural mosaic.

This Institute will provide factual statistics and personal profiles that are designed to be used by schools, universities, scholars, business, politics and press alike as a tool to increase understanding and discredit senseless prejudice mostly based on ignorance of the facts.

One of the important cultural assets of Ben Uri is our policy to prioritise the stories of the artists and their journey to the UK even over their art. We live in an ever-increasing digital world dominated by images flashing across our phones, so image recall is more difficult and time for reflection much impaired. Stories however, particularly exciting often dramatic journeys across borders at times of war or persecution, more easily capture imagination and the recall is much longer.

The catalogue features a revealing essay (and complete schedule) about 100 years of Ben Uri exhibitions by Dr. Rachel Dickson who alongside colleague Sarah MacDougall (and to a far lesser degree me) curated the majority of our 116 exhibitions since we three joined forces close to 25 years ago near the start of our remarkable journey.

The exhibition shares with you more than simply great art from our distinctive collection. The works are situated in different contexts, relating to our history and the exile/ immigrant experience in Britain to tell different but intertwined stories.

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As this is the last exhibition I will curate before my retirement in early 2026, I take this opportunity of paying the greatest tribute to them both for their comradeship, friendship, shared passion and commitment to building Ben Uri into a globally recognised scholarly institution.

Ben Uri would not have achieved its reputation without their expertise and engagement.

David J Glasser Executive Chair

TODAY:

Recording, Sharing and Teaching the Immigrant Contribution to British visual culture since 1900 through 3300 published profiles and another 1800 in the works. See buru.org.uk and diaspora-artists.net

How Ben Uri Uses Art Differently Why Ben Uri Uses Art Differently We prioritise global digital engagement over the physical.

We frame our research within the context of social integration.

We prioritise artists and their milieu over their artworks.

The stories of migrations captures imagination beyond the art.

TOMORROW:

Recording, Sharing and Teaching the Immigrant Contribution to British Society since 1900 - launching in 2026 Rationale: Research on its own no longer generates a positive return on investment. Accurate and inaccurate information is widely available online and with the rise of AI, which promises to misinform as much as inform, factual evidence and testimony is essential.

Ben Uri’s academic research needs to be, and is designed to be, easily understood by scholars, students and the general public alike.

Deliverables: Fact not Fiction

Our research is widely used by universities across Britain and abroad, supporting undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral work across the humanities, with a special focus on bridging the gap between the digital and the physical.

We are developing citizenship modules for schools based on our evidence that a high percentage of superstars and superheroes, in whichever sector of our local communities or national and global societies, are either first or second generation immigrants and often to Britain.

Benefits: We believe that if we can educate children at school, students at university, and the general public at large on the contribution of immigrants to our society, we have a greater chance of minimising racial friction and bigotry based on ignorance and misconception.

12 Key Specialisms within the new Research Institute launching in 2026 are Visual Arts: Design: Architecture Media: Technology: Science

Literature: Performance: Music Business: Sport: Hitler Emigres

25 highlights of the past 25 years Ben Uri 110/25: Local to Global (2025) Cosmopolis: The impact of refugee art dealers (2024) Art Identity Migration: London Art Fair, Islington (2023) Midnight’s Family: 70 Years of Indian Artists in Britain (2020) Jankel Adler: A degenerate artist in Britain (2019) Migrations: Gloucester museum (2019) Mark Gertler: Paintings from the Luke Gertler bequest (2019) Liberators: Extraordinary women artists from the Ben Uri Collection (2018) Bomberg: Touring, Ben Uri, Pallant House, Laing Art Gallery (2017-18) Art out of the bloodlands: A century of Polish artists in Britain (2017) Unseen: London, Paris, New York. Suschitzky, Bohm, Libbert (2016) Out of Chaos: Centenary survey, Somerset House (2015) Video Art from Africa: Still fighting ignorance and perfidy (2014) Looking In: Photographic Portraits by Maud Sulter and Chan-Hyo Bae (2013) Joseph Herman: Warsaw, Brussels, Glasgow, London (2011) Cross Purposes: Shock & Contemplation in Images of the Crucifixion (2010) Forced Journeys, Artists in Exile in Britain: Touring exhibition, London, Isle of Man, Birkenhead (2009-10) Apocalypse: Unveiling a lost masterpiece by Chagall (2010) Whitechapel at War: Isaac Rosenberg and his circle (2008) Auktion 392: Reclaiming the Galerie Stern, Dusseldorf, Touring exhibition (2007) Embracing the Exotic: Jacob Epstein and Dora Gordine (2006) Rediscovering Wolmark: A Pioneer of British Modernism (2004) William Roberts and Jacob Kramer: The tortoise and the Hare (2003) Ludwig and Else Meidner: Artists in exile (2002) The Ben Uri Story: from Art Society to Museum (2001)

Ben Uri has curated 115 exhibitions in the past 25 years since repositioned in the mainstream of British culture and museums.

We have toured exhibitions to 15 different cities in the UK and to 3 continents.

We lend on average 100 collection works, including exhibitions, every year to museums across Britain, Europe and the United States.

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From Local to Global: An obsession for Distinctive exhibitions, 1925 - 2025 2025 marks the 110th anniversary of the founding of Ben Uri in London’s Whitechapel, in July 1915, as an art society to support Yiddish-speaking, Orthodox Jewish artists and craftsmen, newly arrived from Eastern Europe, who had settled in the East End and were unable to access the cultural bastions of assimilated Anglo-Jewry. Just as significantly, however, this year also celebrates the centenary of its inaugural exhibition, which opened on 17 May 1925 at 68 Great Russell Street, London, WC1. In the interim one hundred years, Ben Uri has curated or presented almost 600 exhibitions in its physical spaces, and now, as the 21st century increasingly embraces digitization, it is proud to have pioneered and hosted around 80 exhibitions online.

Despite good intentions to host an inaugural exhibition soon after the Society’s creation, utilising Parisian artist contacts of founder, Lazar Berson (dates), early ambitious plans came to nothing. Exhibitions remained peripheral until the mid-1920s, as the core of a permanent collection was formed and the first of many galleries established, the peregrinations across the capital, in search of a forever ‘home’, reflecting the émigrés’ own journeys and arcs of settlement. The first venue (neither in the East End ghetto, nor the north London neighbourhood of early committee members, who moved outwards as they prospered, nor close to Berson’s west London studio in Notting Hill), was, perhaps, surprisingly, located opposite the British Museum (the nation’s own keeper of cultural heritages), where it confidently announced the arrival of Ben Uri and its fledgling collection, with its smart red-printed exhibition catalogue.

This first formal display presented 37 collection works and focussed on several artists who had sought refuge from the Russian Pale of Settlement, along with those born in the UK of migrant heritage. Exhibits included religious and biblical subjects, landscapes, urban genre scenes, portraiture, and a lone caricature. The opening painting was the monumental, recently acquired, Sabbath Rest by Polish history painter, Samuel Hirszenberg (1865-1908), followed by fifteen works by controversial homosexual painter, Simeon Solomon (18401905), and four by the young iconoclastic, ‘Whitechapel Boy’, David Bomberg, (18901957), including Ghetto Theatre. Only completed in 1920, it remains one of Ben Uri’s most important historic collection works – often requested for loan purposes. In a striking demonstration of continuing art historical relevance, more than 90 years later, in 201718, Ben Uri curated a solo show entitled Bomberg (in the continuing ‘Whitechapel Boys’ series, which commenced with Bernard Meninsky in 2001), which toured to Pallant House, Chichester, and in which this painting remained powerfully central.

Closing after only a year in Great Russell Street, the need for a permanent home was highlighted by Chairman Chechanover: ‘[…] the destiny of Ben Uri is like that of the Jewish people as a whole. Just as a people cannot exist without a home, so an institution cannot exist without a resting place.’

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Ben Uri’s earliest exhibitions were defined mainly by collection displays and solo presentations by notable Jewish artists, often with eastern European heritage. Increasingly secular, catalogues engaged with various arguments around the concept of so-called ‘Jewish art’, as Ben Uri moved from a decorative arts-led agenda towards embracing art in the broadest terms, along with English rather than Yiddish. In 1927 Lena Pillico, wife of Vice-President, Leopold Pilichowski, held the first solo exhibition under the auspices of Ben Uri in her own St. John’s Wood studio – an early example of women playing key curatorial, exhibition, and organisational roles within the society (see PhD in progress by Emily Fuggle, QMUL). Unusually, for a UK art institution, Ben Uri has remained remarkably consistent in presenting both genders since its foundation, the roster of women exhibitors notably high (historically, much beyond the norm of most UK museums).

Ben Uri celebrated its fifteenth anniversary in November 1930 back in the East End, with a new ‘gratis’ space in the Jews Temporary Shelter at 63 Mansell Street, E1. The opening exhibition catalogue listed 77 collection works. Just three years before the rise of Hitler in Germany, in words that would become, once again, tragically prophetic, the ‘Introduction’ described Ben Uri’s foundation during ‘one of the darkest pages in the history of the world, [when] large numbers of people were forced to leave their homeland and seek refuge in foreign countries.’

The 1930s subsequently marked one of the most significant periods in Ben Uri’s chequered exhibition history. The sudden but crucial turn in mid-decade to support living artists, through the introduction of open contemporary shows (therefore, at a single stroke, immediately embracing newly arrived émigrés who were fleeing Nazi persecution in Europe), unintentionally shaped exhibitions, and laid the foundation for much of today’s collection, research and programming – and for Ben Uri’s enduring mission: to champion diverse communities in British art, while honouring the heritage and contributions of Jewish artists, both established and newly arrived. During this pivotal period, Ben Uri not only charted its own institutional path but was also directly influenced by broader currents of migration, cultural upheaval and shifting artistic identities. Every exhibition, in some way, reflected the dynamic interplay between the society’s roots in Jewish tradition and its openness to wider modernist (alongside more conventional) trends, mirroring the experiences of its artists who were navigating new lives in Britain.

Ben Uri thus found itself able to offer exhibition opportunities for the large cohort of recently displaced artists and designers fleeing Nazi persecution. Catalogues reveal that, post-1933, more than 50 Jewish émigrés, mostly German and Austrian, but also Hungarian, Czechoslovak, Polish and Romanian, exhibited with the Society, including a number of so-called degenerates, including Hans Feibusch, Jankel Adler and Ludwig Meidner. Many of these artists, whether established or lesser known, however, not only faced the practical challenges of daily life in a foreign country, but the additional problem that German art was entirely unfashionable. ‘[…To] the general public in Great Britain, modern German art is totally unknown’, observed critic Herbert Read in the publication, Modern German Art, accompanying the 1938 exhibition of the same name, held at the New Burington Galleries. ‘A hiatus in our knowledge of work done in contemporary Germany will now have a chance of being filled’ countered the Jewish Chronicle: ‘About 23% of the Page 6

men and women who have contributed so handsomely to the wealth of German painting and sculpture are Jews.’

Examples of Ben Uri’s handwritten exhibition entry forms, held in the archives, strikingly identify the predominance of these so-called German speaking Hitler émigrés in neighbourhoods clustered around Finchleystrasse (as local bus conductors referred to the Finchley Road, running from Swiss Cottage to Golders Green, and beyond. Notably, Finchleystrasse became the title of an exhibition curated by Ben Uri in the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, London in 2018, to acknowledge the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht and the Kindertransport, highlighting German émigré artists represented in the collection. For these artists, Ben Uri provided a safe exhibition haven, away from the mainstream British art world.

Annual Exhibitions of Works by Jewish Artists in 1934, the first of the annual contemporary open exhibitions, reveals the intertwining of the two cohorts of Jewish émigrés, with works by previous refugee artists from Eastern Europe, such as Alfred Wolmark (1877-1961) and Jacob Kramer (1892-1962), shown alongside The Sacrifice of Isaac by Hans Feibusch, only newly fled from Germany. The following year, with unintentional poignancy, a vanishing world was glimpsed in January 1935 in the Exhibition of Water Colours, Drawings and Sketches of Old Synagogues in Poland and Eastern Europe, XIV-XVIIIth Centuries by Russian-born artist and art historian, George Loukomski (1884–1952).

In early 1936, to further support living artists, Ben Uri formally agreed to display ‘one picture of every artist who submitted […provided] each picture should not have been exhibited the previous year.’ With this dramatic pivot to show contemporary art by Jewish artists in largely unrestricted, annual open shows, the profound and wider implication of Ben Uri’s role was identified in its Summer Exhibition 1944 catalogue, which declared: ‘In the view of the total ruin of Europe by the Nazis, the work of the Society has become of even greater significance.’ At this time, Ben Uri also provided the first/very early UK exhibition opportunities for many Hitler émigrés, including Hans Feibusch, Jankel Adler, Martin Bloch, Josef Herman, and Gustav Metzger.

From 1936–39 the Society held an uneasy tenancy on the third floor of the Anglo-Palestinian Club in Great Windmill Street, W1. Few events are recorded beyond annual exhibitions, and, with the outbreak of war, Ben Uri was again homeless, though it maintained a lecture programme at various venues in an attempt to ‘carry on its artistic and cultural work as far as war conditions would permit,’ in a similar spirit to the National Gallery. Crucially, however, in autumn 1943, ‘in the midst of flying bombs and worse’, it secured central, rentfree premises within a Georgian house at 14 Portman Street, W1, where it could display the collection (now around 150 pieces) alongside loans, and employ its first salaried Curator and Secretary, Fritz Solomonski (1899–1980). Solomonski was an art professional, a German émigré painter and art historian, recently interned in Hutchinson, the so-called ‘artists’ camp’ on the Isle of Man, with Kurt Schwitters, Ludwig Meidner and Erich Kahn. Under his tenure, the ‘magnificent’ re-opening exhibition was unveiled in January 1944 and an academic Hemann Struck exhibition was presented. However, his appointment was clearly unsatisfactory, lasting barely eighteen months, before his sacking in November 1945.

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Clearly, his position as an émigré, outside the closeknit Anglo-Jewish community, did not serve Ben Uri well enough, as ‘it was essential to have an Organising Secretary, who knows the Community, for the future survival of the gallery.’

As the tide turned in the global conflict, the re-opening exhibition featured 173 collection exhibits, plus loaned works by Camille and Lucien Pissarro, Jozef Israëls and Max Lieberman.

Then, as with Out of Chaos, the centenary exhibition held more than 70 years later, Ben Uri demonstrated its high-profile role, exhibiting international masters, alongside recent émigrés, who accounted for more than a quarter of the participants.

In the postwar period, with new secretary, Sadie Buchler, in post, and under Chairman, Ethel Solomon, Ben Uri continued to focus on solo and group exhibitions by the Hitler émigrés.

1949, notably, saw the joint exhibition for husband and wife, Ludwig and Else Meidner, the former’s only British show in twelve years of impoverished exile. Deeply observant, Ludwig had thrived in internment, surrounded by cultured, often Orthodox German-speaking Jews, sustained with kosher food, and able to draw. Jutta Vinzent suggests that on release Meidner and Polish émigré painter, Jankel Adler, attempted to establish a Jewish art organisation, where Orthodox artists could create and exhibit appropriate subject-matter.

Since this initiative failed, Ben Uri was perhaps the most acceptable alternative. Ludwig presented portraits, biblical scenes and overtly Jewish subjects. However, as painter Leo Kahn reflected: ‘The refugee community, pre-occupied with material worries and eagerly trying to adapt itself to the English way of life, generally paid little attention to its own artists […] if Meidner hoped that his religious drawings would hold a special appeal to the members of Jewish congregations he overlooked that it was the spirit of the prophets and the Jewish mystics that lived in his work; a spirit that is all too often lost today.’ Although the exhibition was significant for Ben Uri, for the Meidners its ‘Jewish’ positioning meant limited exposure. Czechoslovak émigré, art historian and critic, Professor J P Hodin, recalled it was ‘practically unnoticed’; Ludwig himself described it as ‘a second class funeral.’

The founding of the State of Israel in 1948 did not immediately affect Ben Uri’s regular exhibiting activities. Cultural links continued, as they had with Palestine. As the 1950s progressed, Ben Uri sought to demonstrate a cultural alignment with its host nation, holding exhibitions which highlighted landmarks in British history and culture. The 1951 nationwide celebration, The Festival of Britain, was acknowledged by Ben Uri’s AngloJewish Exhibition, 1851-1951 Art Section, an adjunct to the main display at University College London. The catalogue introduction by Yiddish writer, Joseph Leftwich testified to ‘[…] the place and the importance of the artist in Anglo-Jewish life’ and ‘the contribution of Jewish artists living and working all or most of their life in Great Britain and the British dominions.’

127 works from the collection were supplemented by loans. Perhaps wishing to present an assimilated profile and to avoid over-identification with Jewish ritual, subjects were mainly secular, including numerous British landscapes. Similarly, Ben Uri presented a Coronation Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture from the Private Collection of Friends of the Ben Uri Art Society in 1953 and a Tercentenary Exhibition of Anglo-Jewish Artists in 1956, celebrating 300 years of the return of Jews to England under Oliver Cromwell.

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Following three years in Berners Street, W1, Ben Uri relocated in early 1964, immediately prior to its 50th anniversary, to a single room in the West End Great Synagogue building in Dean Street, Soho, where it remained until 1996, when the site was redeveloped.

However, the move did little for Ben Uri’s profile outside the community. Alfons Rosenberg observed: ‘whatever the merits of Dean Street, it is simply not where the art lover looks for a gallery […] The Ben Uri is reminiscent of the (Jewish) closed shop, which surely is not at all intended.’

The decade 1971-80, nevertheless, represented a peak of exhibition activity (105) under Secretary, Barry Fealdman. This included seven exhibitions by Israeli artists, held in cooperation with the Cultural Department, Embassy of Israel during 1974-75, as the first generation of native-born sabras explored opportunities beyond their homeland, and as one of the Society’s priorities was ‘to promote the work of Israeli artists to British audiences’.

However, the inaccessible fourth floor space was too small for the gallery’s needs and the former broad range of cultural activities shrunk to exhibitions and the occasional lecture.

Security in Soho, a location which had by the 1970s changed from swinging to sleazy, increased access problems, meaning that income, even from an ever increasing exhibition programme, did not meet expenses and debts grew exponentially, culminating in 1984 when, not yet an accredited museum, Ben Uri sold Gertler’s Merry-Go Round, its most important work, to the Tate. Even this did not raise nearly enough money to facilitate a move to a more suitable building, as some members had demanded. Despite obtaining museum accreditation in 1995, with the demolition of Dean Street, Ben Uri was forced to retreat further within the community, first taking office space at the Jewish charity ORT in Albert Street, Camden, opposite the old Jewish Museum building and subsequently in the Sternberg Centre for Reform Judaism, in Finchley.

However, in October 2000 a new Board was elected, setting a radically different strategy, removing the museum from the community, both physically – in the sense of disassociating itself from an existing community building – and culturally, by introducing a mainstream programme where Jewish content was driven by an appeal to a wider audience. In January 2001 its most ambitious exhibition to date, The Ben Uri Story: from Art Society to Museum, with royal patronage, was launched at Phillips Auctioneers, determining the direction and calibre of future programming, showing a broad range of works by Jewish artists beyond the collection itself. In June 2002, Ben Uri reopened in the former Artmonsky Gallery in Boundary Road, St. John’s Wood, NW8 (an address known for Charles Saatchi’s first gallery) as the ‘London Jewish Museum of Art’, embracing the mainstream in all its activities. In its new home, Ben Uri continued its exhibition journey with the ‘Whitechapel Boys’ series, exploring the contribution of these pioneering, modernist Anglo-Jewish artists who emerged from or had connections with the East End, including Mark Gertler, Alfred Wolmark, Jacob Kramer and William Roberts (the two brothers-in-law), Isaac Rosenberg, and sculptor, Jacob Epstein. Whitechapel at War: Isaac Rosenberg and his Circle (2008) also saw the publication of the first scholarly hardback catalogue to accompany a Ben Uri exhibition, a tangible step towards greater academic recognition for the institution and its co-curators, Sarah MacDougall and Rachel Dickson. This cohort was followed by Ben Uri’s inaugural contemporary exploration of the so-called Hitler émigrés, Forced Journeys (2009-10).

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A visit to the gallery in 2008 by distinguished art historian, Dr. Jutta Vinzent (1968-2021), from the University of Birmingham, who offered her personal collection of artworks to form the nucleus of an exhibition, resulted in the touring display, Forced Journeys: Artists in Exile in Britain c 1933-45 and its accompanying publication, held almost a quarter of a century after the important West German exhibition, Kunst im Exil, and its smaller UK iteration, held at the Camden Arts Centre in 1986. Forced Journeys substantially augmented Vinzent’s collection with works from Ben Uri and from private collections, and in turn, it became a teaching aid for an MA module at the Courtauld Institute, led by Dr. Shulamith Behr (19462023).

Scheduled to coincide with the 70th anniversary of internment in Britain, Forced Journeys manifested in three slightly different iterations, each dependent on location (Ben Uri Gallery: The London Jewish Museum of Art, London; Sayle Gallery, Douglas, Isle of Man; and Wilkinson Art Gallery, Birkenhead). Inevitably, each context, and the emergence of newly discovered artworks and ephemera, during the continuously evolving process of research and curation, impacted each exhibition. In Douglas, the show was extensively re-curated to focus on the work of artist internees, particularly those held in Manx camps who did not appear in the London leg. The Manx show also featured a rare work by a woman artist internee: a terracotta tile by sculptor/ceramicist Erna Nonnenmacher, inspired by the island’s Celtic Calf of Man carving. The third iteration, in Birkenhead, close to where internees embarked on the crossing to the Isle of Man, featured works by more than 20 artists not shown in London, with a small additional section with particular relevance to the northwest, including Kurt Schwitters’ portrait of Leonard Wild, made in the Lake District in 1947-48, perhaps his last commissioned work.

Forced Journeys paved the way for Ben Uri’s burgeoning interest in the Hitler émigré artists and designers, and its development of scholarly expertise and associated exhibitions within this area, particularly as it marked its own centenary with the aforementioned, Out of Chaos: A Century of Ben Uri in London, held at Somerset House, from July-December 2015.

The importance of the exhibition was confirmed by receipt of a significant HLF grant and by Tate’s loan of Gertler’s Merry-Go Round – one of its very rare outings since its acquisition.

The thematic display, which charted the institution’s history and the contribution of émigré artists, also provided the first opportunity to present newly translated and catalogued archive items, historical and contemporary collection works (the latter, encompassing film and photography), alongside recent acquisitions (such as Soutine’s La Soubrette, Chagall’s Apocalypse en Lilas and George Grosz’s Interrogation), with a number by non-Jewish artists.

The display was reprised the following year at Christie’s South Kensington as 100 for 100: Ben Uri Past, Present & Future, with an enhanced contemporary offering. With its important new tag line, Ben Uri moved beyond the singularity of the Jewish émigré story, replacing Ben Uri: The London Jewish Museum of Art with Ben Uri: Art Identity Migration.

Since 2016, as Ben Uri’s scope of enquiry has broadened beyond the ‘Jewish’, to become a truly sustainable and relevant arts organisation into the 21st century, its focus has widened to embrace non-Jewish immigrant artists and communities, with a roster of survey shows spotlighting individual nation states, including Refugees: The Lives of Others - German Refugee Artists in the UK; Out of Austria: Austrian Émigré Artists to the UK; and Art Out of the Page 10

Bloodlands: A Century of Polish Artists in Britain (2017). The latter took place as the Polish population in the UK reached 1,000,000 – representing the largest émigré cohort -and featured more than 40 Polish-born artists and designers (both Jewish and non-Jewish), from Ben Uri and other collections, encompassing both first and second waves of migration, and presenting the double narratives of Polish Jewish and non-Jewish artists and designers within a single context. The display raised the profile of several neglected Polish artists, respected within their own community, but not necessarily known to outsiders, including naïve painter, Andrzej Kuhn (1929-2014); set designer, painter and gallerist, Jan Wieliczko (1919-98); Janina Baranowska (a pupil of Bomberg at Borough Road); Halina Korn (1902-78), second wife of fellow émigré artist, Marek Zulawski (1908-85), and Marthe Hekimi (18841950, née Marta Szostakowska), who had featured in a two-person exhibition at Ben Uri in 1948. The exhibition was celebrated with a catalogue publication in 2020, assisted by the Polish Cultural Institute.

Since its move to Boundary Road in the early 21st century, Ben Uri has presented over 80 exhibitions, with many touring across the UK. Regional venues have included: Gloucester Museum; Bushey Museum; Ferens Gallery, Hull; Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-on-Tyne; Hatton Gallery, University of Newcastle; Pallant House, Chichester; Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, University of Leeds and Manchester Jewish Museum. London locations have included 12 Star Gallery at the European Commission, and the Royal College of Music.

However, in wake of the Covid19 pandemic, a further critical pivot occurred, resulting in a pioneering move away from a reliance on physical exhibitions. Consequently, since 2016 Ben Uri has embraced a new way of working and engaging with audiences, moving from the local to the global, by creating exhibitions that either exist solely online, or that represent a physical exhibition in digital form.

Mostly but not exclusively, and drawing on the continuously evolving permanent collection, the online exhibitions range from the thematic (with subjects including Internment, Holocaust, Self-Portraits, Degenerate art (Entartete Kunst), and Yiddish) to the single artist (such as: David Bomberg, Frank Auerbach, Shanti Panchal, Eva Frankfurther ) or a survey of a particular migrant community (such as: Out of Austria; Midnight’s Family: 75 Years of Indian Artists in Britain, and Czech Routes ) to Finchleystrasse and Thirty-Six Pounds and NinetyFive Pence, both specifically dealing with refugees and migration. Though the subjects of the latter two exhibitions are separated by almost a century, the principal narrative of seeking refuge and making art in a new homeland remains an unwavering constant. In the current 21st century context of unprecedented migration, these subjects have a particular and continuing significance and resonance within Ben Uri’s groundbreaking exhibition programme, as it continues into its second century.

Ben Uri’s online exhibitions can be found at: https://benuri.org/exhibitions A full history of Ben Uri’s exhibitions from 1925 can be found at: https://www.benuricollection.org.uk/bu_exhibitions.php?_ Dr Rachel Dickson Consultant Editor Ben Uri Research Unit Page 11

Ben Uri Exhibitions 2021-2030

Ben Uri Exhibitions 2011 - 2020

2025

2020

Born in the USA: USA to UK - American Immigrant Artists’ Contribution to British Visual Culture since 1900 from the Ben Uri Collection

Midnight’s Family: 70 Years of Indian Artists in Britain

Ben Uri 110 / 25 - From Local to Global

The Anthony Rudolf Collection - Works Gifted to him by Paula Rego Franciszka Themerson: Stories from the Life

2024

Lancelot Ribeiro – Heads In and Out of Our Time Cosmopolis: The Impact of Refugee Art Dealers in London US: From There to Here - Britain’s Gain The Decorative Fair Battersea Park, London Uncharted Streets: Kurt Hutton, Bill Brandt, Edith Tudor-Hart, Charlie Phillips, Markéta Luskačová Selected New Acquisitions to the Ben Uri Collection

2023

“Sheer Verve”: The Women’s International Art Club 1898–1978 A Brush with Evil II: Laura Knight at the Nuremberg Trial The Second World War on the Home Front (supporting A Brush with Evil II: Laura Knight at the Nuremberg Trial)

Internment: In Memory of Eva Aldbrook

Interstices: Discovering the Ben Uri Collection - An Online Exhibition Curated

by René Gimpel New Acquisitions and Long-term Loans

2019

Jankel Adler: A ‘Degenerate’ Artist in Britain, 1940-49

2021

Becoming Gustav Metzger: Uncovering the Early Years, 1945-59

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Bomberg: Touring Exhibition Pallant House Gallery A Farewell to Art: Chagall, Shakespeare and Prospero Art Out of the Bloodlands: A Century of Polish Artists in Britain

Out of Chaos: Touring exhibition Laing Art Gallery

Czech Routes: Selected Czechoslovakian Artists in Britain Friends and Influences: Auerbach, Freud, Kitaj, Kossoff, Bomberg; Chagall, Soutine, Marevna Art-exit: 1939 - A Very Different Europe 12 Star Gallery

Yalta 1945

Art and the Holocaust Unexpected: continuing narratives of identity and migration 100 for 100: Ben Uri Past, Present & Future Christie’s South Kensington Unseen: London, Paris, New York (photographs by Wolf Suschitzky, Dorothy Bohm and Neil Libbert)

2018

Bomberg: Touring Exhibition Laing Art Gallery Adi Nes: Biblical Stories Liberators: Extraordinary women artists from the Ben Uri Collection

Exodus: masterworks from the Ben Uri Collection Bushey Museum

Painting With An Accent: German-Jewish Émigré Stories, in cooperation with the German Embassy London

Thirty-six Pounds and Ninety-five Pence: Artworks by Contemporary Immigrant Artists

Migrations: masterworks from the Ben Uri Collection Gloucester Museum

Shaping the Future: New Arrivals at the Ben Uri Collection

2022

Entartete Kunst (“Degenerate Art”) Remembered

2016

Acquisitions and Long-Term Loan Highlights Since 2001

Joy

Lives by Others: German émigré artists to the UK since 1900 (accompanying Selected Works by Eva Frankfurther (1930–1959)

Mark Gertler: Paintings from the Luke Gertler Bequest & Selected Important UK Collections

A Brush with Evil: Peter Howson’s Holocaust Crowd Scene II

Art, Identity, Migration - Ben Uri at the London Art Fair

2017

2015

Rothenstein’s Relevance: Sir William Rothenstein and his Circle Arts in Harmony: An Art Gallery’s Musical Heritage Museum of Music, Royal College of Music No Set Rules: A Century of Selected Works from the Schlee Collection, Southampton, and the Ben Uri Collection, London

Bomberg

Out of Chaos – Ben Uri: 100 Years in London Somerset House

Out of Austria: Austrian emigre artists to the UK

2014

Finchleystrasse: German artists in exile in Great Britain and beyond 1933-45 Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, London

Roman Halter: Life and Art through Stained Glass Still Fighting Ignorance & Intellectual Perfidy: Video Art from Africa Max Weber: An American Cubist in Paris and London 1905-15 Refiguring the 50s: Joan Eardley, Sheila Fell, Eva Frankfurther, Josef Herman, L S Lowry

2013

2009

2005

Brian Taylor RBS 1935-2013: A Consistent Vision

Homeless & Hidden 2: World Class Collection Homeless & Hidden

Joash Woodrow Retrospective

Looking In: Photographic Portraits by Maud Sulter and Chan-Hyo Bae

Jacques Lipchitz, Master Drawings

Radical and Modest: Work, Leisure and the Everyday

Homeless & Hidden 1: World Class Collection Homeless & Hidden

Abram Games: Maximum Meaning, Minimum Means

Forced Journeys: Artists in Exile in Britain, c. 1933-45

Chagall and his Circle

2008

International Jewish Artist of the Year 2004 (IJAYA)

Whitechapel at War: Isaac Rosenberg & His Circle

The Modern and the New: An Examination of the Permanent Collection alongside New Works by Invited British, European and American Jewish Artists

Art, Identity, Migration: Selections from the Ben Uri Collection

Boris Aronson: The Avant-garde Theatre Costume and Stage Design 1917 Kiev 1929 New York Selected Highlights from over 200 works acquired during 2003-2013 Chagall, Soutine and the School of Paris: touring exhibition Manchester Jewish Museum Uproar! The First 50 Years of The London Group

2012

The Inspiration of Decadence Dodo Rediscovered: Berlin - London (1907-1998) Judy Chicago Chaim Soutine and his Contemporaries from Russia to Paris and School of London works from the Ben Uri Collection

2011

The Land of Light and Promise: 50 Years Painting Jerusalem and Beyond. Ludwig Blum 1891-1974

Homeless & Hidden 3: World Class Collection Homeless & Hidden

Robert Lenkiewicz: Self Portraits

Portraits of a ‘Licensed Heretic’: Chaim Bermant by Judy Bermant

2007

Rediscovering Wolmark: a Pioneer of British Modernism

Auktion 392: Reclaiming the Galerie Stern, Düsseldorf Bomberg’s Relevance Regard and Ritual: Julie Held and Shanti Panchal Journeys

Josef Herman: Warsaw, Brussels, Glasgow, London, 1938-44

Ambiguous Realities: Colour Photographs

by Dorothy Bohm

Ben Uri Exhibitions 2001 - 2010

2006

2010

Love Revealed: Simeon Solomon and the Pre-Raphaelites

Apocalypse: unveiling a lost masterpiece

by Marc Chagall and 50 selected masterworks from the Ben Uri Collection Osborne Samuel Gallery, London

Alexander Walker: A Tribute Jenny Stolzenberg: Forgive and Do Not Forget

Summer in the City: Contemporary Responses

Forced Journeys: Artists in Exile in Britain, c. 1933-45, touring exhibition Williamson Art Gallery & Museum

2004

Israel & Art: 60 Years through Teddy’s Eyes

London Senses and Experiences: Art in the Big City - Michael Andrews, Frank Auerbach, Lucian Freud, Ron Kitaj, Leon Kossoff, Euan Uglow

Cross Purposes: Shock and Contemplation in Images of the Crucifixion

Children of Jerusalem: Painting Pain, Dreaming Peace

Artists Fortnight Solo Shows Israeli Contemporary Applied Arts

Outside In or Inside Out: Dora Holzhandler Recent Acquisitions 2001-2006 Embracing the Exotic: Jacob Epstein & Dora Gordine

2003

William Roberts & Jacob Kramer: The Tortoise and the Hare ‘Him too…??’ Oz Almog’s Concise Index Judaeorum: A Chronicle of a Cultural Obsession Director’s Choice: Highlights from the Ben Uri Permanent Collection Making Waves: Modern British Masterpieces from a European Trust A Storm in Europe: Béla Kádár, Hugo Scheiber and Der Sturm Gallery in Berlin

2002

The Ben Uri Gallery Church Farm Museum Children and the Holocaust Church Farm Museum Ludwig and Else Meidner Mark Gertler: A New Perspective

2001

Secrets from the Ben Uri Collection Manor House The Ben Uri Story: from Art Society to Museum Phillips / Bonhams, Bond Street, London Bernard Meninsky: A Singular Vision University of Liverpool // Belgrave Gallery, London

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Ben Uri Exhibitions 1991 - 2000 2000

1996

Recent Paintings by Julie Held Ben Uri Gallery, Dean Street, London Meir Appelfeld, Carlos Sapochnik

Jewish Cartoonists and Political Caricaturists Ort House, London

Michael Salaman

NU2U Manor House

Nationwide Art Event 1995 (WIZO)

Take Five WIZO House

1999

Open Exhibition 1999 Ort House

1992

Open Exhibition 1992 Paintings by Rachelle Bomberg Watercolours by Willy Tirr (1915-1991) A Memorial Exhibition

1995

Paintings and Poetry by Winners of the Zionist Federation’s Jerusalem Competition for Children and Youth

Irene Scheinmann and Dania Appel

Paintings and Pastels by Jacqueline Crofton

‘As Above ... So Below’: Recent Paintings by Hervé Constant and Yair Meshoulam

Drawings by Arnold Daghani (1909-1985)

Hans Feibusch: The Heat of Vision

Jewish Artists at the Slade: Auerbach, Bomberg, Cohen, Gertler (and recent acquisitions)

Bernard Scott 1918 - 1990

Claude Rogers: Paintings and Drawings

Ben Uri New Acquisitions of Works by Bernard Meninsky Ort House

The Ben Uri Art Society: Eighty Years of Jewish Art 1915-1995

The Legends of the Baal Shem Tov’: An Exhibition of Colour Lithographs by Ferenc Flamm Ort House

1994

Sculpture and Works by Leonard Baskin

Paintings and Ceramics by Kalman Kemeny

Jewish Stage and Film Designers Ort House

Exhibition of works by Henry Edion

Open Exhibition 1991

Contemporary Artists of ‘Promise’ Ort House

No Inhibitions: An Exhibition of Paintings, Sculptures, Ceramics and Textiles by students from the Creative Studies Departments of Ravenswood

Israel ‘91: Life Behind The Mask - CohenZvi

1998

Artists: Messengers of Peace Ort House Characters from the Bible Ort House Landscapes of Israel: Israeli Artists and Scenes from the Ben Uri Collection Etz Chayim Gallery, Northwood

1997

Recent Paintings by Oliver Gollancz

Bernard Cohen: Thirty Five Years of Drawing Visages du Ghetto: Paintings, Drawings and Etchings of Jewish Europe before the War by Paul Jeffay Jewish Artists: The Ben Uri Collection, Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Sculpture

1993

Open Exhibition 1993

Paintings by Over 20 Jewish Artists from 20 Eastern and Western European Countries Ort House

Paintings by Louise Korin Benatar and Amanda Jayne Gates and Sculpture by Rosalind Jacobs

Haifa Print Makers / Towards 2000 Ort House

Paintings and Sculpture by Sima Vassilieva and Oleg Yanushevsky

The Art of Prayer: Featuring Rabbis, Scholars and Scribes Etz Chayim Gallery, Northwood

Jerusalem: A Burst of Light. Oil, gouache and watercolour paintings by Hava Intrator-Barkar

Jewish Artists in London: Works from the Ben Uri Collection Exeter University Gallery

Alphabetical Alignment (Ellen Alt), One or More (H. Levene)

Scenes from the Holy Land: Pictures from the Ben Uri Permanent Collection with works for sale

1991

Cartoons For Care: A Unique Collection of Cartoons by Jewish Artists Discernible Traces? Contemporary Jewish Art Exhibition Ya’akov Boussidan Abram Games - Designs for Jewry

Ben Uri Exhibitions 1981 - 1990 1990

Shtetl Scenes: A Selection from the Society’s Permanent Collection together with New Acquisitions Open Exhibition 1990 ‘Innocence and Persecution’: The Art of Jewish Children, Germany 1936-1941 Printers Inc. Ralph Pope and Helen Keats G. Calvert: From the Beast to the Bride Art of the Nineties: Arts and Crafts from Nightingale House Ben Uri Highlights: Key Works and Figures Solomon J. Solomon RA

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1989

Open Exhibition 1989 Exhibition of Bette Spektorov Paintings Exhibition of Paintings by Bernard and Christine Scott Prints and Sculpture from the Permanent Collection and Recent Acquisitions Prints and Drawings from the Permanent Collection Memories of the Holocaust: Edith Birkin (Hofmann) Emmanuel Levy 1900-86 - A Memorial Exhibition

1988

Zalmon Winer on Jewish Religious Themes Open Exhibition 1988 Pamela Silver: Watercolours from Jerusalem

1986

Jewish Images: Zalmon Winer and Hazel Alexander Open Exhibition 1986 Aaron, Black, Franklin, Gottschalk Annette Rowdon Peter Baer: Recent Paintings Edward Toledano Paintings & Constructions Marcel Ronay: an Exhibition of Drawings and Watercolours Harry Blacker Retrospective Exhibition

1985

Selected Works from the Permanent Collection Open Exhibition 1985

Manchester Jewish Artists

Agatha Sorel: Prints, Pastels, Watercolours, Sculpture Hans and Julian Schwartz

Recent Acquisitions and Selection from the Permanent Collection

Four Naïve Painters at the Ben Uri: Hessing, Maurer, Holzhandler, Wilson

Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture of Pamina Mahrenholz, Refinement in Colour Photography by Rolf Mahrenholz

Sylvia Finzi

David Gryn and Laura Godfrey-Isaacs Life’s Eye Gerald Ososki: Celebration Exhibition ‘Hampstead in the Thirties’ and ‘Romance with Nature’ Open Exhibition 1987 Tania Gordon Iris Blain and Lotti Reizenstein

1987

Joe Rose

1984

Josef Herman and Moelwyn Merchant Stanislav Brunstein: A retrospective exhibition for the artist’s birthday

1982

Exhibition of Selected Works from the Permanent Collection including Recent Acquisitions Three Printmakers: Goodman – Shaverein – Shukman Jewish Faces (a contemporary view) by The Contemporary Portrait Society Ruth Rosengarten and Abraham Newman Marek Zulawski, Chaim Stephenson Mark Gertler: The Early and the Late Years Jerusalem Landscapes: Drawings by Anna Ticho Jerusalem: Then and Now - Lithographs by David Roberts

1981

Judy Bermant – Ruth Jacobson – Nigel Konstam Issai Kulvianski Exhibition of Selected Works from the Permanent Collection Open Exhibition 1981 Him: Ancient and Modern Naomi Alexander and Doreen Collins Fay Pomerance Paintings, Drawings, Prints Exhibition by 7 Israeli Artists

David Bomberg in The Holy Land 19231927

Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture by Pamina Mahrenholz

Cecily Sash, Robert Erskine

Edward Toledano: A Retrospective Exhibition

John Goodman, Marianne Hellwig John Jacob Kramer, Reassessed Gallery Ben Uri Art Gallery

David Bomberg and Family: David Bomberg, Lilian Holt, Leslie Marr, Dinora Mendelson

1983

Open Exhibition 1983

Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Peter Morrell and Helene Halstuch

David Rose (paintings, poems, drawings)

Monica Winner

Four Promising Young Artists

Helen Keats

Judy Goldhill, Mark Green, Diana Haber, Lynn Leon, Yona Zaloscer: photographic exhibition Selected Works from the Permanent Collection Jack Bilbo, Lottie Reizenstein, Henry Sanders memorial exhibition Roman Vishniac: A Vanished World Belinda Harding and Ellen Kuhn

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Ben Uri Exhibitions 1971 - 1980 1980

1977

Robert Cannon: Glass Sculpture and Paintings Batia Ouziel and Miri Soffer

Helene Halstuch and Ilona Guinsberg

Hans Feibusch: Sculptures and Gouaches

Open Exhibition 1980

Selections from the Permanent Collection: Watercolours, Drawings, Graphics

Paintings and Drawings by Lilian Holt

Annual Summer Exhibition 1977

Prints and Sculptures by Peter Baer and Edith Greenwood

Paintings by Gerald Davis

Ivor Weiss Retrospective

Mati Basis etchings, Dalia Amotz-Weislib photographs

Paintings by Enid Grizzard and Sculpture

by Maurice Blik

Joe Rose

Exhibition of Selected Works from the Permanent Collection of the Ben Uri Art Gallery

1976

Epstein Centenary 1980: Bronzes, Drawings and Watercolours Gallery Ben Uri Art Gallery

1979

Raya Kruk Beatrice Rozenberg Original Vicky Cartoons and Drawings together with items from the permanent collection

Paintings, Watercolours, Drawings and Sculpture

Robin Richmond

Margaret Marks Retrospective Exhibition

Steffa Reiss

Judith Rothenberg and Victoria Moiseiwitsch

Fay Pomerance Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Woodcarvings

Painting and Sculpture by Ferdynand Zweig Exhibition of Selected Works from the Permanent Collection: Paintings, Watercolours, Drawings and Sculpture Annual Exhibition 1979 Job: Exhibition of 28 Pen and Ink Drawings

by Ernest Degasperi and 24 Sculptures by Chaim Stephenson Patricia Fleur Bagrit The Other Hand Gallery Ben Uri Art Society

1974

Rudolf Lehmann Woodcuts Moshe Hoffmann Woodcuts David Gerstein Gouaches, Watercolours and Prints Harold Kopel Paintings Avraham Ofek: Paintings Painting by Israeli Artist Yeshayahu Sheinfeld and Lorraine Lubner Annual Exhibition 1974 Bornfriend. Harris

1973

Tova Yanay Annual Exhibition 1973 Diana Cvibah Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings by Adele Reifenberg Arthur Segal: Exhibition of Woodcuts

1972

Agathe Sorel – Ya’akov Boussidan Painting and Etchings by Leadora

1975

Nahoum Cohen David Maccoby Retrospective Exhibition Scarlet Nikolska Menachem Gueffen Paintings and Drawings Offer Lellouche and Bashir Abu-Rabia Paintings Annual Summer Exhibition 1975 Judith Yellin-Ginat - Rivkah Mayer Beatrice Rozenberg - Margarete Marks

Annual Exhibition 1972 Howard Baer 80th Birthday Retrospective Exhibition of Oil Paintings by Cyril J. Ross Archibald Ziegler Memorial Exhibition Else Meidner

1971

Adam Muszka

Graphic Work by George Him

Tova Berlinski Paintings and Pastels

Some of my Best Jokes are Jewish – a New Collection of Cartoons by Nero (Harry Blacker)

Woodcuts by Jacob Pins

Cartoon and Caricature Exhibition

Etchings by Zena Flax

Paintings, Prints, Etchings and Sculpture

by Ruth Collet and Margaret Levinson

Jewish Child Art Exhibition 1975

Annual Exhibition 1971

Renate Meyer

Scottie Wilson

1978

Jonathan Sandler (paintings), Alice Goldin (woodcuts) and Freda Goitein (mosaics) New Works by Emmanuel Levy Celia Sevitt and Samson Flax Annual Exhibition 1978

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Shmuel Dresner Paintings

Ben Uri Exhibitions 1961 - 1970

1966

1961

Machzor Lipsia Exhibition

Kathe Strenitz Paintings

1970

Anatoli Kaplan Lithographs for Sholem Aleichem’s story ‘The Bewitched Tailor’ and ‘The Song of Songs’

Eric Doitch, Adele Reifenberg, Emmanuel Levy

Annual Exhibition 1970 Margaret Marks and Henry Sanders Ruth Collet, Lottie Reizenstein and Frances Baruch Jewish Child Art Exhibition 1970 Leo Schatz and Itzhak Ady Paintings from the Ben Uri Art Gallery Hans Feibusch: Paintings, Gouaches, Drawings

1969

Phyllis Lawson Drawings

Open Exhibition 1966

Fiftieth Anniversary Special Exhibition

1965

Maurice Sochachewsky (1918-1969) 16th Jewish Child Art Exhibition David Camrass Genesis: Wood Engravings by Hermann Fechenbach Sandra Blow, Henry Inlander, Leon Kossoff, Helena Markson, Archibald Ziegler

1968

Archibald Ziegler Paintings, Drawings, and Original Designs for Greeting Cards Max Liebermann, Isidor Kaufmann, Lesser Ury, EM Lilien, Hermann Struck, Jacob Steinhardt

1967

Fay Pomerance: The Sphere of Redemption Nata Kaplan, Raphael Wachash, Oded Halahmy

Exhibition of Fifty Drawings by Josef Herman from the collection of Dr. Henry Roland Exhibition of Oil Paintings by Cyril J. Ross Ten Artists, Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture

Ben Uri Exhibitions 1951 - 1960 1960

Dan Reisinger Margaret Marks: Mosaics, Paintings, Drawings

Horace Brodzky Retrospective Exhibition

Selections from the Permanent Collection

1964

1959

12th Jewish Child Art Exhibition Paintings from Terezin 80th Birthday Exhibition of Frederick Feigl

Exhibition of Recent Paintings and Drawings by Frederick Feigl Alfred Harris: 12 drawings

Opening Exhibition at Dean Street

Exhibition of Recent Paintings and Drawings by Chenoch Lieberman

Else Meidner - Retrospective Exhibition

Hilde Goldschmidt: Paintings-Monotypes

Maxa Nordau

Exhibition of Original Designs for Rosh Hashana Greeting Cards

Annual Summer Exhibition 1964 Landau 1898-1962: Memorial Exhibition

1963

Ziegler: Painting, Drawing and Sculpture Gilbert Solomon (1891-1954) Retrospective Exhibition

Mané-Katz Memorial Exhibition

Scottie Wilson Recent Drawings

Martin Bloch 1883-1954: Memorial Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings

Phoebus Tuttnauer Paintings

Horace Brodsky Retrospective Exhibition Eight Contemporary Artists

Recent Paintings by Henry Sanders Lottie Reizenstein: Paintings of Yugoslavia Sir Jacob Epstein: Exhibition of Bronzes

1962

Housewives’ Art: 6th National Exhibition presented by the people Exhibition of Recent Acquisitions (Seventh Collection)

Exhibition of lithographs, etchings, woodcuts and screen prints

Nina Grey

Summer Exhibition 1967 Gallery Ben Uri Art Gallery

Alfred Wolmark, 1867-1961, Memorial Exhibition of Paintings

Howard Baer Paintings: First London Exhibition

Jewish Child Art Exhibition

10 Contemporary Artists

Opening Exhibition

Pictures for the Home

Tapestries by Miriam Sacks Annual Exhibition 1969

Willi Rondas Paintings

Exhibition of Paintings on a Biblical Time Eva Frankfurther 1930-1959, Retrospective Exhibition

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1958

1955

1952

Lilly Pier Paintings

Sculpture by Fredda Brilliant, Georg Ehrlich, Jacob Epstein, Lippy Lipshitz, Abraham Lozoff and Karel Vogel

Abram Games: 80 Posters and Other Work

Annual Exhibition: Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture

Twelve Contemporary Artists Sculpture and Drawings by Zehava Elath Exhibition of Recent Acquisitions (Sixth Collection) Devi Tuszynski Miniatures Erich Wolfsfeld Memorial Exhibition Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Alfred Cohen Gallery Ben Uri Art Gallery

1957

Annual Exhibition of Paintings, Water Colours, Drawings and Sculpture

Ziegler: Recent Paintings

Exhibition of Woodcuts and Colour Prints

by Jacob Pins Annual Exhibition 1955 Archibald Ziegler: Recent Paintings Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Schreter An Exhibition of Type Design, Lettering and Bookwork by Elizabeth Friedlander Water Colours by Wilhelm Jondorf

Henry Sanders Moshe Maurer Drawings, Lithographs and Etchings by the Israeli Artist Yehuda Bacon

Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Alfred Harris, Renate Meyer and Lawrence Marcuson Exhibition of Drawings and Paintings by Henry Sanders

Exhibition of Water Colours and Gouaches

by Leo Kahn

Jankel Adler 1895-1949, Mark Gertler 1891-1939, Bernard Meninsky, 1891-1950

Studio Group Exhibition

Painting and Water Colours by Harry Weinberger Exhibition of Photographs of Israel and Greece by Anna Riwkin-Brick Epic and Image: Paintings and Drawings

by Fay Pomerance Fortieth Anniversary Exhibition: Selected Works by Artists Exhibited over the Past Forty Years Tercentenary Exhibition of Contemporary Anglo-Jewish Artists

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Alexander Sandor Jaray Memorial Exhibition Memorial Exhibition of Works by Amy J. Drucker 75th Birthday Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings (1893-1951) by Alfred Wolmark

Festival Exhibition of Israeli Arts and Crafts

Julius Rosenbaum 1879-1956 Memorial Exhibition

Eric Doitch, Fritz Kramer, Lottie Reizenstein

Summer Exhibition by Contemporary Jewish Artists

1954

Contemporary Jewish Artists of France

1956

Exhibition of photographs by Laelia Goehr

Studio Group Exhibition

Collages and Water Colours by Judith Yellin-Gaertner

Annual Exhibition: Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture

Exhibition of Ketuboth

Exhibition of Recent Acquisitions, Fifth Collection, Friends of the Art Museums of Israel

Exhibition of Jewish New Year Cards Rhona Stern: Sculptures

Winter Exhibition by Contemporary Jewish Artists

Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Jewish Artists

1953

Exhibition of Jewish Child Art Exhibition of Drawings of Israel by Sochachewsky Walter Le Wino Paintings Ceramics by Wolfgang Meyer-Michael Exhibition of Recent Acquisitions, Friends of the Art Museums of Israel Coronation Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture from the Private Collection of Friends of the Ben Uri Art Society Paintings by Emmanuel Levy Blond: Drawings and Watercolours

1951

Johanan Simon Paintings & Drawings: Chenoch Lieberman Michael Kikoine, Zechariahu Erlichmann, Bruno Simon Exhibition of the Works of Josef Schwarzmann The Artist: Self-Portrait and Environment Festival of Britain, Anglo-Jewish Exhibition 1851-1951 Autumn Exhibition of Paintings, Sculptures and Drawings by Contemporary Jewish Artists

Ben Uri Exhibitions 1941 - 1950 1950

Arts and Crafts Exhibition Isaac Amitai, Israeli Painter Wood Carvings by Abraham Lozoff and Paintings and Sculpture from the Permanent Collection Landscapes of Israel by Archibald Ziegler Exhibition of Recent Acquisitions, Friends of the Tel-Aviv Museum of Art Contemporary Jewish Artists: Exhibition of Paintings, Sculpture, Drawings Buildings and Interiors: Rudolf Frankel Paintings, Drawings etc., by Julius Rosenbaum 1903-1949, Adele Reifenberg 1915-1949, Ruth Collet (Recent Work)

Private Exhibition of Paintings entitled “The Forgotten Ally” by Cyril J. Ross

Ben Uri Exhibitions 1931 - 1940

Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture by British and Palestinian Artists

1937

1947

The Ben Uri Collection of Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings and Recent Works by Archibald Ziegler Exhibition: Paintings by Walter Trier, Sculpture by Else Fraenkel and Erna Nonnenmacher Sophie Korner, Marthe Hekimi: Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings Spring Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture by Contemporary Jewish Artists Gallery Ben Uri Art Gallery

1946

Recent Additions to the Permanent Collection and Works by Pissarro, Liebermann, Epstein, Modigliani, Chagall

Cartoons and Caricatures

Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Joseph Oppenheimer

1949

Exhibition of Painting & Sculpture by Contemporary Jewish Artists

Paintings and Drawings: Martin Bloch Josef Herman Ludwig Meidner, Drawings 1920-1922 and 1935-49, and Else Meidner, Paintings and Drawings 1935-49 Famous Jewish Artists of the Past: Israels, Liebermann, Modigliani, the Pissarros, Soutine Contemporary Jewish Artists - Exhibition of Paintings, Sculpture, Drawings

1948

Exhibition of Children’s Art Ink and Wash Drawings Done in Terezin Concentration Camp by Bedrich Fritta Spring Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture by Contemporary Jewish Artists 70th Birthday Commemoration Exhibition of Oil Paintings and Pen & Ink Drawings of Famous People by Alfred A. Wolmark Exhibition of Jewish Art North Western Reform Synagogue

Subjects of Jewish Interest: Paintings, Sculpture & Drawings A Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Solomon J. Solomon RA and Lily Delissa Joseph (brother and sister) Selections from the Ben Uri Permanent Collection of Paintings, Sculpture & Drawings

1945

Annual Exhibition of Works by Jewish Artists

1936

Annual Exhibition of Works by Jewish Artists

1935

Exhibition of Water Colours, Drawings and Sketches of Old Synagogues in Poland and Eastern Europe by George Lukomski Israel Zangwill Memorial Exhibition Annual Exhibition of Works by Jewish Artists

1934

The Opening of the Ben Uri Jewish Art Gallery and an Exhibition of Works by Jewish Artists

1932

Exhibition of Paintings by S. Palme

1931

Exhibition of Paintings and Dry Points by Isaac Lichtenstein Exhibition of Paintings in Oil and Watercolours by Nathan Spiegel at Ben Uri Gallery

Autumn Exhibition of Paintings, Sculptures and Drawings by Contemporary Jewish Artists

Ben Uri Exhibitions 1921 - 1930

Exhibition of Portraits by Contemporary Jewish Artists

1930

Exhibition of Paintings by A. A Wolmark (Konstam Collection), Dobrinsky Paris, and a selection of work from the Ben Uri Collection

1944

Memorial Exhibition of Original Lithographs and Etchings by Hermann Struck Summer Exhibition of Paintings, Sculptures and Drawings by Contemporary Artists

Mansell Street Gallery Opening: Catalogue and Survey of Activities

1927

Exhibition arranged by Mrs. L. Pilichowski

1925

Official Opening at Great Russell Street

Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Mark Gertler (1892-1939) Opening Exhibition

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