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Two years after the Hamas terrorist attack on the Nova Music Festival in the Israeli desert KOmmt the internationally noticed exhibition “October 7, 06:29 on – The Moment Music Stood Still” for the first time to Europe.
From October 7, 2025, she can be seen in the historic entrance hall of the former Tempelhof airport in Berlin. There is great interest on the previously taking place “media day”; also far beyond the German capital.
The immersive exhibition reconstructs the festival site via multimedia technology, shows forensic material, various installations and personal reports from survivors and relatives.
Tents, camping chairs, toilets, burned -out cars tell of the gray
The Tempelhof exhibition is divided into three parts, as initiator and curator Reut Feingold explains. After an introductory video about the Nova community in the entrance hall, visitors enter a faithful campsite-with tents, camping chairs, toilets, burned-out cars. All exhibits come from the festival site. The visitors are invited to touch the objects, smell it or to take the cell phones into their own hands.
Previously, the show was already in Tel Aviv, New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Buenos Aires, Toronto and Washington, DC – with over 500,000 visitors.
The Nova Music Festival was a “hippie rave” of the character, such as the German “Fusion Festival” or the “Burning Man” in the USA.
411 people were murdered, hundreds were injured, 44 deported
It was considered a symbol of cultural diversity and peaceful coexistence – and became the scene of the deadliest attack on a music event worldwide: 411 people were murdered, hundreds were injured, 44 deported – including 14 festival guests, which are still held in the Gaza strip today.
The exhibition is under the patronage of Berlin’s ruling mayor Kai Wegner, Federal Minister Karin Prien and Minister of Culture Wolfram Weimer.
Wegner gave the exhibition an invitation to “take a closer look” – a warning to humanity. Weimer spoke of an “attack on the idea of freedom himself”, while Prien emphasized: “‘WE Will Dance Again’ is more than a motto – it’s a promise.”
As the “Pro-Gaza movement” in the Berlin districts of Kreuzberg and Neukölln reacts to the exhibition very strongly, it is not yet clear. One still seems to be “forming”. It was only on the last weekend (September 28th) that there was a large demo in the city center under the motto “All Eyes on Gaza” with tens of thousands of participants.
A banner inscription was there: “Stop Genocide now”. It remains to be hoped that the Nova exhibition runs without disturbance or destructive actionism. Maybe she can even contribute to dialogue.