Vakuum – 6 Tage im April

In the organizer's words:

Art exhibition of the IGS Lüneburg
to mark 80 years since the end of the war

To coincide with the current special exhibition "Surrender 45", Museum Lüneburg is exhibiting an impressive art project by IGS Lüneburg. The exhibition was previously on display for one day in Wandrahmpark and is now being presented in the museum for a short time in response to popular demand. The exhibition can then be seen on June 2 on the occasion of a panel discussion in the central building of Leuphana.

"6 Days in April" is a project at the IGS Lüneburg, which was initiated as part of the social studies lessons of the 9th grade in connection with the topics of National Socialism and the Second World War in cooperation with the Lüneburg History Workshop and the VVNBdA Lüneburg (Association of Anti-Fascists Lüneburg) and has been taking place since the 2023/24 school year. This year 2025 marks the eightieth anniversary of the events that took place in Lüneburg.

The idea that students at the IGS could make a contribution to this came up during the
project in the previous school year together with the speakers from the History Workshop, VVN and the accompanying teachers. As part of their 11th grade art course with Mr. Jorge Ponce, students at IGS Lüneburg found a way to take up the events of that time and express them in an artistic form.

The significance of this work is that even 80 years after the events in their city, young people can still deal with them intensively in one day and gain access to the events that were far in the past for them through a conscious and concrete examination of self-designed
This enables them to actively oppose the forgetting of the dark history of their town and to open up a very personal approach and be able to express it.

Special exhibitions

Surrender 45 - Lüneburg in the focus of world publicity

In cooperation with:

Art installations of the art course 11 - Jorge Ponce

The word "vacuum" comes from the Latinvacuum and means "empty space", "emptiness" or "negative pressure". Even 80 years after the end of the war, there are still many suppressed issues and a lot of emptiness in our society. To fill this void, we need to look, ask, listen and remember. In this installation, the 11th art course at IGS Lüneburg looked at the history of Lüneburg and created 20 portraits of refugees. These are not historical, but found freely. They are based on the students' own ideas, personal experiences and individual views on the subject; the selected objects act like a mirror, creating a fictitious person and at the same time showing the students' thoughts and ideas.