Marking Memory

Exhibition is open from 20 March – 12 July 2026

For the first time, the Melbourne Holocaust Museum presents an exhibition of Kathy Temin’s Remembrance works, throughout the museum, bringing together over twenty years of artistic inquiry.

One of Australia’s most respected contemporary artists, Kathy Temin is well-known for her distinctive use of faux fur to create monumental sculptures that explore memory, history and loss. By using a material associated with comfort, domesticity and fashion, Temin deliberately challenges expectations of Holocaust memorialisation, creating works that explore tensions between oppositional ideas, forms and emotional responses.

As the daughter of a Holocaust survivor, Temin’s practice is deeply informed by personal history, art history and intergenerational dialogues. This exhibition explores both the private and collective nature of remembrance and includes sound and testimonies, by inviting audiences to pause, reflect and consider their own relationship to these shared memories and histories.