The exhibition on Charlotte Salomon at Milan Linate
On the occasion of Holocaust Remembrance Day 2026, SEA Milan Airports strengthens its cultural and civil commitment by presenting, in collaboration with the Children of the Shoah Association, the exhibition "Charlotte Salomon. An artistic and human journey through the time of the Shoah".
The exhibition is set up in the check-in area of Milan Linate airport (LIN) and is part of the program of initiatives promoted by the Municipality of Milan to commemorate the victims of Nazi persecution.
An airport that becomes a place of memory
The inauguration of the exhibition took place in the presence of Armando Brunini, CEO of SEA Milan Airports, Daniela Dana, Arianna Censi, Councillor for Mobility of the Municipality of Milan, and Wiltrud Kern, Deputy Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Milan. The ceremony had a strong symbolic value, underlining how places of international transit, such as airports, can become spaces for collective reflection, intercultural dialogue and transmission of historical memory to a wide and diversified audience.
The exhibition project and collaborations
The exhibition is the result of the collaboration between Castelvecchi Editore and the Sons of the Shoah Association, and is made possible thanks to the kind permission of the Charlotte Salomon Foundation.
The exhibition offers an intense look at the work and life of Charlotte Salomon, a Berlin artist of Jewish origin, victim of the Shoah, highlighting the deep intertwining of personal and collective history that marked her human and artistic life.
Charlotte Salomon, art as a testimony
Born in Berlin on April 16, 1917, Charlotte Salomon found in art an all-encompassing form of expression during the years of her flight and exile in the south of France, between 1938 and 1943. In this period he made Vita? O Teatro?, a monumental work composed of 781 gouache temperas, accompanied by handwritten sheets and musical references. Conceived as a real theatrical script, the work blends images, words and music in an autobiographical story of extraordinary expressive power. Through a selection of temperas taken from Vita? O Teatro?, the visitor is guided along the key moments in the life of the artist and his family, against the backdrop of the dramatic events that swept through Europe between the thirties and forties.
Culture and travel: the role of airports
With this initiative, SEA Milan Airports reaffirms its vision of airports as places open to culture, capable of hosting exhibition projects of high symbolic and historical value. The Milan Linate check-in area thus becomes a space accessible not only to departing passengers, but also to those who pass through the airport, offering a moment of awareness and memory in the context of the journey.
A choice that reinforces the role of Milanese airports as cultural gateways to the city, able to tell its values, history and civil commitment to an international audience, right in the heart of one of the most significant moments of the year.
