“In my designs, I try to avoid the totality of an exclusive exhibition narrative in favour of a juxtaposition of various narrative fragments.”

The Viennese architect and exhibition designer Bernhard Denkinger has been involved in the past few years in numerous exhibitions in Austria with a Holocaust theme. He is less interested in the sweeping gesture frequently found in the design of national memorials than in creating individual access to history through a local commemoration. In his designs, he avoids both dramatising elements and an exclusive exhibition narrative. He explains why that is and why we are more than ever in need of exhibitions about difficult historical themes like the Second World War and the Holocaust.

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Interviewer: Anne Horny 

Translation: Nick Somers

Foto: Andreas Buchberger

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