ACCESS KAFKA

One hundred years after Franz Kafka’s death, an exhibition at the Jewish Museum in Berlin places key aspects of his oeuvre in dialog with works of contemporary art. The term “access” serves as the guiding principle: in his literary works, Kafka poses universal and timeless questions relating to access and belonging. How do Kafka’s ideas resonate in the present day? In six chapters entitled “Access Denied”, “Word”, “Body”, “Space”, “Law” and “Jewishness”, contemporary art is placed alongside documents, letters, and drawings by Kafka. The catalog to accompany the exhibition features contributions by the curator of the exhibition, Shelley Harten, as well as Kafka experts Carolin Duttlinger, Reiner Stach, and Vivian Liska, which provide another perspective on Kafka’s life and work. Artists: Cory Arcangel, Yuval Barel, Yael Bartana, Guy Ben-Ner, Marcel Broodthaers, Marcel Duchamp, Maria Eichhorn, Mary Flanagan, Ceal Floyer, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Tehching Hsieh, Anne Imhof, Fatos Irwen, Franz Kafka, Uri Katzenstein, Lina Kim, Martin Kippenberger, Maria Lassnig, Michal Na’aman, Trevor Paglen, Alona Rodeh, Roee Rosen, Gregor Schneider, Hito Steyerl