Until 31 January 2027 at the Swiss Jewish Museum
A series of collages, models and monumental reliefs assembled under the title ‘Polish Village’ (1970–1973) was created by American artist Frank Stella (1936–2024). These works refer to more than 70 villages and towns in Eastern Europe that once housed magnificent wooden synagogues. Most of them have been destroyed. Frank Stella was inspired for this series by a book published in 1959 by the architect couple Maria and Kazimierz Piechotka, which documents these lost synagogues: ‘Wooden Synagogues’.