Upcoming
Robert Thalheim's film Westwind (90 minutes, video, 2011) co-presented by the Goethe-Institut.
Cristina-Cuevas Wolf, resident historian at the Wende Museum, and Isotta Poggi, assistant curator at the Getty Research Institute, will lead a tour of the collaborative exhibition Promote, Tolerate, Ban: Art and Culture in Cold War Hungary.
Produced during "Prague Spring," Czechoslovakia: Portrait of a Tragedy (1968) features rare interviews with historical figures including Ota Šik, drafter of the New Economic Model, and Václav Havel, who more than twenty years later became a leader in the Velvet Revolution and the first president of the Czech Republic.
We screen the documentary in honor of Rudolf Perina, who served on the Wende Museum's Council of Advisors, playing a pivotal and inspiring role in the development and growth of the museum. His daughter Kaja Perina will introduce the screening.
The screening of this film is co-presented with LA FilmForum.
Please join us on Friday, August 24, for drinks and a curator's talk about art and alcohol.
Please join curator Dr. Juliane Fürst for a tour of the exhibition "Socialist Flower Power: Soviet Hippie Culture."
Sunday, September 16, 2018
1 p.m.
Please join us to celebrate the opening of our two new exhibitions War of Nerves and Red Shoes with refreshments, live music and tours of the exhibition!
Please join us for another iteration of The Wende Museum's popular discussion series Art - Past - Present.
Please join us for live music at the Wende Museum!
The Cold War divided the world, leaving people on each side wondering what life was really like on the other side of the Iron Curtain. To shed light on the ways Cold War history impacted human lives, the Fiona Chalom and Joel Aronowitz Historical Human Witness Project has been gathering oral histories from those who lived in the Eastern Bloc during the period from 1945 to 1991. This event will be a live interview conducted at the Wende Museum.
Screening of Anat Zalmanson-Kuznetsov's "Operation Wedding" followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker.
Chief Curator Joes Segal will speak on "Culture and Power."
A lecture by Historian Karen Petrone on “Remembering and Forgetting the Soviet Union’s ‘Great Patriotic War’: Politics of Memory in Putin’s Russia."
Happy Hour drinks at the Wende Museum in Culver City!
This exhibition will address the various layers of mutual suspicion, fear and mistrust between the Soviet Bloc and the Western world, and its impact on the lives of everyday people.