Liftvan Triest
2025
Trieste Contemporanea, Trieste, Italy
02 Oct 2025 – 12 Nov 2025
Installation view, Liftvan Triest, Trieste Contemporanea, Trieste, Italy, 2025 ©Agnese Divo
Liftvan Triest, is the continuation of an exhibition that began with
Aenne Biermann (Amnesia Gera) and extends into the port of Trieste,
where it both continues and is lost.
Aenne Biermann (1898–1933) was a photographer who, within a very short period of time, established herself as one of the leading representatives of German avant-garde photography.
In 1940, parts of her estate—including original prints and negatives—disappeared in two liftvans belonging to her family, on their way to Palestine from the port of Trieste.
Triest, Heidi Specker, 2025, 5 poster, each 50 x 70 cm
Installation view, Liftvan Triest, Trieste Contemporanea, Trieste, Italy, 2025 ©Agnese Divo
Installation view, Liftvan Triest, Trieste Contemporanea, Trieste, Italy, 2025 ©Agnese Divo
Wien Vienna, Heidi Specker, Video, 2025, 11 min. (excerpt)
Liftvan Triest, “Interview on the port of Trieste, Jewish emigration, and confiscated goods during WWII,”
Heidi Specker in conversation with Daria Brasca, Anneliese Schallmeiner and Albena Zlatanova, Vienna, August 2025
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