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Contemporary Art Archive - Tbilisi

Archive of Academic Writings

2021 Edition of the Project is supported by the Ministry of Culture, Sport and Youth of Georgia

Spiral of Life

Painting

Natia Benashvili

mixed-media on canvas
2024
89x89 cm.

Spiral of life - Homosexuelle Männer im Lagerkomplex Ravensbrück

2023 - 2024, Mixed media print, reduction technique on wood.

Locations:

  1. Mahn- und Gedenkstätte Ravensbrück, Fürstenberg/Havel, Ehemalige Textilfabrik; 2023
  2. Museum Sztutowo, Sztutowo, Polen. 2024
  3. Museum ZeiTTor/Cap Arcona Haakengraben, Neustadt in Holstein; 2024

A group project conducted by Professor Piotr Nathan. The aim of the project is to rethink the biographies of the homosexual prisoners of the Ravensbrück concentration camp which is mainly known to the public as a women’s concentration camp.

Her work as a part of this project is a reflection of Gustav Herzberg as a personality and as a friend based on archived material, such as his photos and poems written by him before he got imprisoned. Gustav was a homosexual prisoner and a victim of the concentration camp

Ravensbruck.