MILK & HONEY, 2025

Name Artist: Thorsten Goldberg
* 1960 in Dinslaken
lives in Berlin
Title: MILK & HONEY, 2025
Location: Location: Kulturraum Synagoge Lippstadt , Stiftstr.7, 59555 Lippstadt

Lippstadt is already familiar with Berlin artist Thorsten Goldberg's “Cumulus,” the illuminated cloud at the municipal theater. Thorsten Goldberg has now donated another light installation entitled “Milch & Honig” (Milk & Honey) to the Lippstadt Synagogue Cultural Center. The approximately 6-meter-high, bright red neon sign was installed on the east facade of the former synagogue, directly above the bulge of the former Torah niche.

The work not only references God's promise in the Old Testament to give the Israelites a land flowing with milk and honey. In Christianity and Islam, too, milk and honey are metaphors for happiness, prosperity, abundance, and the prospect of a better, still utopian future, of pairi daēza (ancient Iranian), a paradise garden without pain and sorrow. A promise that, due to the mirror-inverted letters, is inherently irritating, disturbing, and doubtful.

Thorsten Goldberg's work can be experienced in the synagogue garden during events and guided tours. For more information, visit www.synagoge-lippstadt.de.

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