With a career that spanned over more than 60 years, artist Lenke Rothman (1929–2008) positioned herself as a pioneering voice in Sweden and abroad.

Lenke Rothman grew up in a Jewish Hasidic home in Kiskunfélegyháza, Hungary. In 1944, Lenke Rothman and her family were deported to Auschwitz by the Nazi regime. Before her liberation in Bergen-Belsen 1945, Rothman had survived three concentration camps and lost eight out of her ten family members in the Holocaust. After her liberation, at 16 years of age she arrived to Sweden severely ill with tuberculosis. During her time in sanatoriums, she began what was to become a long and important career within the arts in Sweden.

Lenke Rothman’s life and practice was characterised by an intense preservation of objects, memories and fragments. The exhibition focuses on remembrance and art as a healing process, but also presents the scope of Rothman as a visionary poet.