Art of Rememberance – Gail Ritchie

Following her residency at La Coupole Museum in France, QSS artist Gail Ritchie is part of the touring Art of Remembrance exhibition, opening to the public at the House of Nijmegen History on March 10. The exhibition presents contemporary artworks created through artist residencies at World War II remembrance sites across Europe. The exhibition will be on view until March 31st, 2026. Four artists — Rebekka Bauer, Raphaël Dallaporta, Juhana Moisander, and Gail Ritchie — created new works during residencies at European remembrance sites, including @borgata_paraloup (Italy), @Fondazione Nuto Revelli, @bastognewarmuseum (Belgium), @sybirmemorialmuseum (Poland)
and @coupole_france (France).

This exhibition brings contemporary art into dialogue with World War II memory, inviting visitors to engage with history in personal, creative, and moving ways.

The exhibition invites visitors to experience memory in all its fragility and complexity through glass installations, sculptural and natural objects, photography, and immersive video and sound works. It illuminates often overlooked perspectives — from women’s crucial roles in resistance and family-centered acts of remembrance, to the silent witnesses of nature and the traces of trauma carried by bodies and places. Each work offers a chance to reflect, feel, and connect with history in deeply personal ways.

Following its presentation in Nijmegen, the exhibition will travel on to the partner remembrance sites across Europe, continuing its dialogue within the very landscapes and institutions that inspired the works.