Goethe Oak Bench, Oak tree, 300x250x750cm
A collaborative installation with the artist Dov Or-Ner. The famous Goethe Oak under which the poet sat and wrote parts of Faust and many poems (the Gingko Biloba is one of them), grew on the grounds of the Buchenwald Concentration camp. It was a symbol of humanism for the prisoners who new of Goethe, and they were proud it was growing in their living quarter. The tree was bombed during the liberation of the camp. In the film, Bad plants a Gingko Biloba seed within the stump. The visitors are welcome to sit on an Israeli Oak, shaped as a bench, taken from Kibbutz Allonym (Oak trees in Hebrew.)
Special Thanks to the artist and carpenter Raz Chugim.
Installation View, Kibbutz Buchenwald exhibition, Tel Aviv Museum of Art 2018.
Goethe Oak Bench, Oak tree, 300x250x750cm
Left - a photo taken by a French prisoner at Buchenwald concentration camp, 1940 Right - Goethe Oak Bench, a sketch by artist Dov Or-Ner, 2017
Installation View, Van Leer Institution campus, Jerusalem.