Beseder Gallery

Date: 7.1.-3.2.2025

Paths to Miracles
Ivan Bukovský and Hana Alisa Omer - Joint Exhibition

Two inspiring artistic approaches to healing the psychological and spiritual wounds of the post-holocaust generation.

How did this exhibition come about?

Ivan Bukovsky says:

A collector (the one who flips through catalogues to see what he thinks is good or bad) told me that I missed the train. I told him not at all. I looked where the train was going and decided I'd rather walk...

Then I met Alisa... I saw her work on Facebook and invited her to "walk the countryside together" - not by train, but on foot - because you can see more that way than from a train. That's how this exhibition came about.

Hana Alisa Omer says:

Ivan Bukovsky, a painter with a remarkable body of work, with a power of spiritual drama that resonates deep in my DNA, approached me asking if we would like to do a joint exhibition...

Amazing.

But which of my works would be appropriate to show with his paintings?
So, after much deliberation, I chose from my artistic creativity works from 50 years ago that arose from my mental suffering, then still unconsciously correlated to the so-called 2nd Generation Syndrome after the Holocaust.
The term "miracle" is traditionally interpreted as a supernatural event, caused by God's intervention in human destiny. In the Bible, as we know, the first such was the crossing of the Sea of Reeds by the people of Israel under the leadership of Moses. While science already has a dry metrological explanation for this, as well as the claim that it never happened historically, it does not change the fact that this, shall we say, "myth" still inspires new interpretations of the idea of "stepping out of slavery into freedom". And perhaps it is no miracle, but we are still very much looking forward to the opening of the exhibition by JUDr. Tomáš Kraus, Director of the Terezín Initiative Institute, who has also served for a long time as Secretary of the Federation of Jewish Communities in the Czech Republic.

The exhibition will open on 7.1. at 18:00 with an opening and you can visit it until 3.2.2025.