Thessaloniki exhibition turns spotlight on dark chapter of 1940-50s

The Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art (MMST) presents a new exhibition that turns the spotlight on one of the most savage chapters in modern human history with "Fractured Memories 1940-1950," organized by the Goethe Institute in cooperation with the Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki and the Deutsches Historisches Museum in Berlin. It was inaugurated on Sunday by Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias and his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier.

An undiminished interest in this historical period, new evidence and testimonies that keep coming to light, as well as the fact that artists continue to pose questions about barbarity, life and death, constantly demand fresh interpretations of events that have still not been fully analyzed.

At the MMST, paintings, drawing, photographs, sculptures, posters, satirical cartoons, videos and diaries present different narrative...