Dr Yael Almog, Associate Professor of German at Durham University, has edited Memory Practice, a new book by Berlin-based artist Hadas Tapouchi. The volume brings together a collection of Tapouchi’s photographs with an essay by the artist and a contribution by Dr Almog, examining the relationship between urban space, memory and the afterlives of historical violence.
Published in April 2026 by Distanz Verlag, Memory Practice is a new collection of photographs by Berlin-based artist Hadas Tapouchi, accompanied by an essay by the artist and a contribution by Dr Yael Almog.
The volume explores how cities preserve, conceal and transform traces of difficult histories. Through photography, archival research and artistic reflection, Tapouchi examines former sites of Nazi persecution and forced labour across Berlin and Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe, many of which have since become part of everyday urban life.
The book reflects on photography as a form of historical inquiry and considers how memories of violence persist, disappear or are reshaped within contemporary landscapes.
Memory Practice will be presented at the event “Beneath the Surface: Memory, Architecture, and History’s Aftermaths” on 21 July 2026 at 6.30 pm at the Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung in Berlin.
The event will feature a presentation of the book followed by a conversation between Hadas Tapouchi and Dr Yael Almog, moderated by Dirk Naguschewski, with discussion involving the audience.
More information:[link to Memory Practice][link to ZfL Berlin book launch]
Hadas Tapouchi is a Berlin-based artist whose work combines photography, video and research methodologies to explore memory, displacement and the relationship between architecture and the past.
Dr Yael Almog is Associate Professor of German at Durham University. She is the author of Secularism and Hermeneutics (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019) and has published widely on German intellectual history, interpretation and memory studies.
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