With the "Newcomers" programme, the mahJ is committed to studying and highlighting the lives and work of women artists in the collection.
This first exhibition is devoted to Charlotte Henschel (1892-1985), Georgette Meyer (1916-2020) and Sonia Steinsapir (1912-1980), three women artists from the same generation, with singular life paths and different artistic sensibilities.
The exhibition retraces the little-known career of dancer Paula Padani (1913-2001) through over 250 photographs, posters, documents and costumes. With her vision of movement as a force for life, and her ability to bounce between different countries and cultures, she blazed new trails for her art and played a pioneering role in the emergence of Israeli contemporary dance.
Nearly twenty years after its first exhibition devoted to Alfred Dreyfus, the mahJ is returning to the "Affaire" to recall the major stages of this crucial moment in French history, one of the many consequences of which was the law separating Church and State. The exhibition reveals Dreyfus's relentless fight to bring the truth to light, correcting the image of a man who was a bystander to the conspiracy that led him to spend four years in prison and another seven fighting for his rehabilitation.
The Palais-musée des Archevêques de Narbonne houses one of the oldest Jewish inscriptions in France, dated 688-689, the funerary stele of Justus, Matrona and Dulciorella, a sibling whose cause of death is unknown. It will be on display for six months at the beginning of the mahJ's permanent collection.
Studio Roffé, opened in 1906 in Apt by Élie Roffé and his wife Blanche Lazare, specialised in portraits and coverage of local events. After Élie's death in 1938, Blanche and their son Marcel continued the business until they were arrested and murdered in Auschwitz in 1944. Their work, recently rediscovered, bears witness to their involvement in local life. The exhibition features around sixty of their images, taken from a collection of thousands of negative plates in the Apt municipal archives.
Pascal Monteil is a storyteller who expresses himself through embroidery. Using old hemp canvas and brightly coloured wool, he embroiders stories in which literary, poetic and historical figures coexist. His works bring together different temporalities, provoking unexpected encounters.
He is the winner of the Prix Maratier 2022, awarded by the Pro mahJ foundation.
