Welcome to “A Virtual Vilnius 2013”

The end and yet a new beginning

image: (from the left to the right) Alise, Agricola de Cologne, Dzintars, Betija, Zanda & baby

The final day of this magnificent multi-facetted event project or project event or project interventions or interventions project is the day of pulling a summery.

Commemorative Interventions

Commemorative Intervention – 1 June 2012, guided tour through Riga Ghetto & Holocaust Museum by Rabbi Menachem Barkahan
image: US artist Shelley Jordon & Agricola de Cologne

The exhibitions

Image: Mortale – one of 10 000 handmade drawings the Italian Paolo Bonfiglio created for the animated film of the same name included in the Shoah Film Collection.

The Performance

Performance by Doron Polak (Israel) – in preparation for the performance in Riga, photograph by Eitan Vitkon (Israel)

The Conference of Holocaust Museums

Agricola de Cologne’s presentation of SFC – Shoah Film Collection @ International Conference of Holocaust Museums stands under the Patronage of the European Parliament
4 & 5 June 2012 @ Academy of Sciences – 4 June – 11:20h – 13.20 – Ambassadors session
image: from the right to the left – Agricola de Cologne, the Ambassador from Austria, the Ambassador of the Netherlands, the Ambassador of Czech Republik, the Ambassador of Belarus, Victoria Shaldova (SHAMIR) conference leader

More talks and discussions

image: 2nd day of artists talks and discussions – Cristiano Berti talks about the “making of” his film “Lety” – in the background- Shelley Jordon

Public opening – artists talks

image: A Virtual Memorial Riga 2012 – 1 June – artists talk – 1st round table

During the first round of artists talks at the Floating Art Gallery BETANOVUSS, all artists met for the first time together, since on 1 June, the opening day, the last two artists arrived: Doris Neidl (Austria) and Cristiano Berti (Italy) and together with Doron Polak and Eitan Vitkon (both Israel), Felice Hapetzeder (Sweden), the US artists Shelley Jordon, Ben Neufeld and Jay Needham and my person, Wilfried Agricola de Cologne, the invited and attending artists were complete. This first round of talks had the meaning, that all artists introduce themselves to each other and the audience.

AVM – The Private View

image: A Virtual Memorial Riga 2012- Private View – Friday 1 June, 12h
From the right to the left – Dzintars Zilgalvis (chairman of NOASS) , Doron Polak (performance artist from Israel), Agricola de Cologne (A-Team artists and director of artvideoKOELN), Hamit Ben Jaakov (Ambassador of Israel), Eitan Vitkon (photo artist from Israel)

A VIRTUAL MEMORIAL RIGA 2012