The Jewish Museum

This exhibition sheds new light on the role that Jewish women played as artists, designers, patrons, and tastemakers shaping modernist aesthetics in early 20th-century Vienna and beyond, featuring over 200 objects by some 30 Jewish women artists.

The exhibition explores the material expressions of devotion, memory, and sacred space in Jewish and Christian communities of medieval and early modern Central Europe. It highlights moments of artistic cross-fertilization, shared iconography, and theological divergence.

Ruth Patir’s multi-channel video work examines the intersection of gender, motherhood, and the fraught politics of fertility and reproductive rights, featuring digitally animated Iron Age female figurines.