Mexican-German artist Frieda Toranzo Jaeger lost a coveted exhibition and scholarship due to her support for Palestinian rights.
Artist Frieda Toranzo Jaeger’s work Rage is a Machine in Times of Senselessness, which appeared on this year’s Venice Biennale. The artist Frieda Toranzo Jaeger’s Jewish grandfather fled Nazi Germany to escape the Holocaust and settled in Mexico. That is where she was born in 1988 and grew up. Toranzo Jaeger went to the German School in Mexico City, and studied art in Germany, where she was based in Berlin for almost nine years.
She returned to Mexico during Covid and since then has divided her time between the two countries. Last month, Toranzo Jaeger, whose Palestine-related work featured prominently at the Venice Biennale this year, was approached to do an exhibition at the Leopold-Hoesch-Museum in the German city of Düren. In addition, she was awarded a $19 000 (R350 0) stipend by the private Günther Peill Foundation —enough to take care of the following two years. Toranzo Jaeger was also bestowed $10 500 to produce a catalogue for the exhibition, which was scheduled for 2026.Toranzo Jaeger says it was because of her “like” of a fellow Venice Biennale artist’s pro-Palestine Instagram post in July. There was also her signing a petition of the Strike Germany movement which urged artists not to associate with institutions that “police the politics of their artists”., said: “Since cooperation would imply that the museum and the foundation meet the conditions set out in Strike Germany and support the demands, they will not enter into this,” and therefore the three parties “mutually decided to refrain from the intended cooperation on the scholarship and exhibition”. But, in fact, it was an email to the foundation and museum from freelance journalist Kito Nedo that caused the wheels to come of
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