Exhibition / Past

PLAN

February 21, 2016 to May 22, 2016
El Segundo Museum of Art (ESMoA), El Segundo, California

Developed in close collaboration with the El Segundo Museum of Art and its chief curator, Bernhard Zünkeler, this exhibition presents objects from the Wende collection relating to central planning in Eastern Europe in conjunction with artworks from the collection of ESMoA. How does the creative process of visual artists relate to the structure of planning under state socialism? How is this process impacted by a system of punishment and rewards? How to deal with the gap between planning and result? The exhibition, which will be held at ESMoA, explores the dialectics between the fantasy world of planning and an obstinate reality that seldom coincides with the original dream.

Current
Ivana Dama: Breathing Alarms
Breathing Alarms by New York-based artist Ivana Dama, who was born and raised in Belgrade, former Yugoslavia, reimagines this East German guardhouse as an immersive environmen…
April 26, 2026 - October 11, 2026
See More
Current
Enrique Martínez Celaya: The Sextant
Between 1957 and 1963, the artist’s father built a modernist house in a small coastal village in Cuba. The time period spanned the Cuban Revolution, the Cuban Missile Crisis…
November 8, 2025 - October 11, 2026
See More
Current
Anton Roland Laub: Mobile Churches in Ceausescu’s Bucharest
Bucharest in the 1980s. Ceausescu’s “systematization” program is in full swing in the Romanian capital: one-third of the historic center is being wiped out to make room …
April 25, 2026 - October 11, 2026
See More

Stay Connected