Upcoming
The 50th Cold War Spaces lunchtime talk with Hilke Wagner, Director of the Albertinum, Dresden, Kathleen Reinhardt, Curator of Contemporary Art, Albertinum, Dresden, and Joes Segal, the Wende’s Chief Curator and Director of Programming.
The Center for European and Russian Studies at UCLA and the Wende Museum present the 2021 CERS-Wende lecture “Sex, Babies, and the State: Old and New Forms of Pronatalism and Gender Inequality in Illiberal Hungary” with Éva Fodor, Associate Professor of Gender Studies and Co-Director of the Democracy Institute at the Central European University, Vienna and Budapest.
The 51st Cold War Spaces lunchtime talk with Guillaume Serina, French-American historian and journalist, and Joes Segal, the Wende’s Chief Curator and Director of Programming.
What is history? What are historical facts? How do we experience our own past and the history of the world? In times of culture wars about monuments and history education, this exhibition asks questions about the character of historical knowledge and the stories we tell about the past. Facts do matter, while the ways we interpret them are often subjective and open to debate or the cause of social discord.
Museums are educational institutions that have pertinent stories to share, yet most visitors are not aware of the complex discussions behind an exhibition concept, or even a single object label. Questionable History focuses on illuminating these often invisible question marks.
Russia has had a long, tumultuous history with its Jewish citizens. Short periods of prosperity and acceptance were alternated with centuries of persecution and exclusion. During the Cold War, Soviet Jews experienced discrimination and often were disciplined when they applied for emigration to Israel, Europe, or the United States. Applications came at a great cost, resulting in the loss of employment, educational opportunities, and isolation from family and friends. The Soviet Jewish experience is at the core of the work in this exhibition by artists Bill Aron and Yevgeniy Fiks.