Ronen.Dvarim — Deuteronomy – projects, pictures and words

Medinat Weimar is opening a two temporary bureaus in Stockholm, Sweden and Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
If you are in the area you are very welcome to visit (I will be in Stockholm until Sunday, October 25^th). Please, notify and forward announcement friends and people that you think will find interest and that live in the area.

Medinat Weimar
The Movement for a Jewish State in Thuringia

Stockholm, Sweden: Medinat Weimar is opening a bureau at the Tegen2 gallery in Stockholm, and will establish a temporary Swedish headquarters. The purpose of the office is to educate the Swedish public about the movement and to encourage them to support the idea. We believe that the Kingdom of Sweden – The current president of the European Union, with its highly developed economy and great tradition of democracy can play a role in forwarding the vision of the movement and can help persuade the European community as well as their German neighbors in the vitality of the idea. In edition in Sweden and in the city of Stockholm live large Palestine and Lebanon communities that we believe can connect and find hope in the ideas of Medinat Weimar.

Tegen 2. Bjurholmsg. 9b, T-bana Skanstull, 070-7161923, 070-2855777, info@tegen2.se, www.tegen2.se
23.10.09-8.11.09              opening: 23 October   17 – 20, 19.00 press conference and dicussion.

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Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina; Medinat Weimar is opening a bureau at the ‘Can You Speak Of  This? Yes, I Can.’ Exhibition that opens in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and will establish a temporary headquarters. The purpose of the office is to educate the local public about the movement and to encourage them to support the idea. We believe that the Bosnia and Herzegovina – with its history of nationalism and ethnic violence, and its complicated relationship to the European Union, with its complex multi religious traditions can play a role in forwarding the vision of the movement and can help persuade the European people in the vitality of the idea. We believe that the people of the region can connect to our vision and find hope in the ideas of Medinat Weimar.

Where Everything Is Yet to Happen. 1st chapter: “Can you speak of this? -Yes, I can”. SPAPORT BIENNIAL 2009/2010Banja Luka, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Locations: Terzic Gallery | Salon of the Museum of Contemporary art | Banja Luka Fortress | Public space http://www.delve.hr, http://www.protok.org
October 20 – November 15, 2009.      Opening: Banja Luka Fortress, October 20, 2009, 8 pm

www.medinatweimar.org

OneState Embassy invited me to Vienna for two events as secretary Medinat Weimar!

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Post Conceptual Art Practices [Class], Prof. Dr. Marina Gržinić, Semperdepot, 1st floor, M1, Lehárgasse 8, 1060 Vienna

Thursday, 15. 10. 2009 – M1, Semperdepot lecture in English – open to general public
18:30 Ronen Eidelman (Tel Aviv-Jaffa): Medinat Weimar

Medinat Weimar is an art project that created a movement to promote the idea of the Jewish state in Thuringia, Germany, with the city of Weimar as its capital. The movements goal is to convince the German people to call the Jews (and anyone else who wants to be one) to gather in Thuringia, a post-industrial area emptying more every year, and found there another Jewish state. One that would not only satisfy the need for  a secure Jewish home, appease the Palestinian  Israeli conflict, help the German with coming to terms with the past, but would also save Thuringia from its own bleak future. In the lecture Eidelman, the Movements’ secretary, will present the Movement, explain the political and artistic context it was born in, as well as show other art projects he has created in the past that are related to the movement.

Ronen Eidelman is an artist, writer and activist engaged with linking art, culture and grassroots politics. Participated in many exhibitions and festivals, as well as creating independent projects in the public sphere. Born in New York City, grew up in Jerusalem and based in Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel, Co-founder and editor of “Ma’arav” (www.maarav.org.il) leading online art and culture magazine from Israel. Graduate of the MFA program for “Public Art and New Artistic Strategies’ at Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany, and for more than ten years active in anti-occupation and anti-capitalist activists groups. Ronen likes hats and enjoys wearing many kinds. http://medinatweimar.org/,http://ronen.dvarim.com/

The lecture is organized by Eduard Freudmann and OneState Embassy in Vienna (Ambassadors Tal Adler & Osama Zatar will be present at the lecture – www.onestate-embassy.net).

The lecture is part of the seminar “Platform History Politics” (http://tinyurl.com/ydptw3p)

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Come and have denKarium-breakfast with the Israeli artist Ronen Eidelman in the “OneState Embassy” in Vienna:

“How to use art as a safe place for utopian ideas”? Saturday, 17. Oct. 10.30, at the “OneState Embassy”, Sieveringerstr. 167, 1190 Vienna.

We will offer a nice oriental brunch, children are also wellcome, the embassy has a wide garden and toys! Ronen will present his project “Medinat Weimar” and discuss the possibilities of political art actions.

A rites-event in cooperation with OneState embassy (Tal Adler & Osama Zatar)