April 7, 2021 | 12:00pm
Online

Open Space: Radical Women Artists Behind the Iron Curtain

Cold War Spaces: An Online Discussion Series

The 36th Cold War Spaces lunchtime talk with Susanne Altmann, art historian and curator, and Joes Segal, the Wende Museum’s Chief Curator and Director of Programming.

An online program reflecting on space as a gateway to cultural history, the Wende Museum presents this series of weekly interviews asking questions about Cold War spaces.

How does space impact the way we live and experience our environment? What did private space really mean under socialism? What was the function of public space between state planning and private appropriation? Who was sent to the secluded spaces of prisons, mental institutions, and gulags? Which global connections were established in spite or because of Cold War borders? What imaginary spaces were created by art, science fiction, and utopian dreaming? And how did all these spaces change after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of the Soviet Union?

 

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