Inna Rogatchi Art
The Rogatchi Foundation has produced and published Inna Rogatchi HOMAGES exclusive museum art card set for charitable purposes of the Foundation in a new 2024-2025 season.
The set presents ten museum double art-cards with images of Inna Rogatchi’s artworks which are homages to the outstanding culture figures, such as brothers Vincent and Theo van Goghs, Paul Seurat, Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, sister of the famous composer Felix, Fanny Mendelssohn, Rafael Chwoles, and Leonard Cohen.
In September 2024, a new bi-lingual art catalogue Shtetl Stories & Memories in Lithuanian and English was produced and published in cooperation between The Rogatchi Foundation and The Grigory Kanovich Public Library of Jonava Municipality, Lithuania.
The catalogue has been published on the occasion of the opening of the inaugural exhibition of a 25-piece special Shtetl Stories and Memories collection of artworks by Michael and Inna Rogatchi which The Rogatchi Foundation has donated to the Library in commemoration of the 95th anniversary of the outstanding writer and friend of the Rogatchi family Grigory Kanovich.
The leading essay of the catalogue is written by Dr Michael de Saint-Cheron ( Paris, France), a close disciple of the famed French philosopher of the Litvak origin Emmanuelis Levinas, a close friend and colleague of Elie Wiesel, founder and president of the Andre Malraux Association, and the author of recent monographies on Pierre Soulages and Anselm Kiefer. Among other contributors are Dr Hannu Takkula, a long-term MEP and Member of the EU Audit Court, and well-known Lithuanian artist and art curator Alexandra Jakovsyte.
The catalogue provides an art experts contextualised study of Michael and Inna Rogatchi art series included into Shtetl Stories and Memories collection.
Both artists have contributed their personal introductions to the special project.
The catalogue includes 26 full-page art plates with all works from the collection.
After the inaugural exhibition at the Grigory Kanovich Public Library of Jonava Municipality ( until November 25th, 2024), the exhibition is planned to travel throughout Lithuania to be shown at different cultural institutions from the beginning of 2025 onward, with the catalogue to accompany the forthcoming exhibitions and events.
The donated by the Rogatchi Foundation to the Grigory Kanovich Public Jonava Library collection includes:
Full Inna Rogatchi Shtetl Memories collection.
September 2024
In commemoration of the 95th anniversary of an outstanding writer and friend of the Rogatchi family late Grigory Kanovich ( 1929, Lithuania – 2023, Israel ) and marking the European Days of Jewish Culture 2024, with its designated theme Family, the Rogatchi Foundation has donated a 25-piece special art collection Shtetl Songs to the Grigory Kanovich Public Library of the Jonava Municipality District, Lithuania.
The collection consists of Michael Rogatchi’s 15-piece Shtetl Stories collection and Inna Rogatchi’s 11-piece Shtetl Memories series and includes both original works by both artists and exclusive museum prints of their works produced for the project specifically.
The Rogatchi Foundation has also donated to the Grigory Kanovich Public Jonava Library licensing rights for the images of the artworks in the donated collection in support of the Library cultural and educational projects.
All works by both Michael and Inna Rogatchi visit the theme of Jewish heritage, focusing on reminiscences to shtetl. The theme is well-known to both artists due to their respective families’ stories and origins. Inna and Michael Rogatchi both tell about it in their introductions to the collection in the Shtetl Songs art catalogue which has been published for the occasion of the donation of the collection and its inaugural exhibition at the Grigory Kanovich Public Library in Jonava, Lithuania.
15 artworks by Michael Rogatchi represents the artist’s well-known series on various themes of Jewish history and heritage, including his Shtetl Stories, Jewish Melody, Psalms Country, Daily Miracle and In the Mirror of the Shoah. 11 works by Inna Rogatchi are from the artist’s Songs of Our Souls and Shtetl Memories series.
The entire collection has been donated by the artists and their The Rogatchi Foundation to the Grigory Kanovich Public Library of the Jonava Municipality in Lithuania at the special ceremony on September 12th, 2024. The ceremony was part of the extensive program of the annual European Days of Jewish Culture, which has FAMILY as the theme in 2024.
The Rogatchi Foundation also licensed all images of the donated collection to the Library with the purpose of the ongoing support of their wide and versatile educational and cultural activities.
The 25-piece Shtetl Stories and Memories collection will be exhibited in the Library in Joanav until the end of November 2024, after which the exhibition will travel throughout Lithuania from 2025 onward. After its tour, the Rogatchi Collection will return to the Jonava Library as part of the Library Permanent Art Collection.
Full Inna Rogatchi Shtetl Memories collection.
On September 12th, 2024, artist Michael Rogatchi and his wife writer and artist Inna Rogatchi participated in the Inaugural Opening of their dual Shtetl Stories and Memories exhibition at the Grigory Kanovich Public Library in Jonava, Lithuania, the native place of the outstanding modern writer ( 1929 – 2023) of an international appeal.
The 25-piece collection has been donated by the artists and The Rogatchi Foundation to the Library in commemoration of the 95th anniversary of the great writer and friend of the Rogatchi family Grigory Kanovich ( 1929 – 2023).
The opening of the inaugural Shtetl Stories and Memories exhibition was part of the rich program of the events celebrating the annual European Days of Jewish Culture, with their Family theme for year 2024.
The events were attended by the Israeli Ambassador to Lithuania H.E. Hadas Wittenberg Silberstein, member of the Seimas MP Eugenius Zabutis, leaders of the Jonava municipality, writers, publishers, patrons of the Library, artists, honorary guests, public and students.
After the inaugural exhibition at the library ( September 12 – November 25, 2024) the Shtetl Stories and Memories exhibition will start to travel throughout Lithuania being exhibited at different cultural and educational locations in the country.
A special professional bilingual Lithuanian-English catalogue featuring the Shetl Stories and Memories special collection by Michael and Inna Rogatchi has been published by the Library and The Rogatchi Foundation.
Full Inna Rogatchi Shtetl Memories collection.
Inna Rogatchi’s specially created Shavuot Windows II ( 2024) original artwork has become the artistic prize for the laureate of the Grigory Kanovich Republican Literary Award 2024. The artist was invited to create the Award by the Literary Prize Committee earlier in 2024.
The laureate of the Award this year has become well-known Lithuanian writer Danute Kalinuskaite.
The Award ceremony took place at the Grigory Kanovich Public Library of Jonava Municipality on September 12th, 2024, in the presence of the member of the Lithuanian parliament, Seimas, representatives of the Jonava municipality, patrons of the Grigory Kanovich Public Library, publishers, artists, musicians, guests and public. The ceremony was part of the annual European Days of Jewish Culture, with the theme of Family for 2024.
The Days were celebrated in Jonava in many multi-disciplinary events, including the inaugural exhibition of Michael and Inna Rogatchi Shtetl Stories and Memories collection, very good concert by Duetissimo duet, special memorial installation at the Jonava Museum, Shtetl History new exhibition at the museum, and the others.
