Press

October 08, 2024

The Wende Museum Presents Counter/Surveillance: Control, Privacy, Agency

Culver City, CA (September 20, 2024) – The Wende is thrilled to unveil Counter/Surveillance: Control, Privacy, Agency, a groundbreaking exhibition featuring historical objects in conversation with contemporary artworks from across the globe. This dynamic exhibition explores historical and currently evolving aspects of surveillance and countersurveillance, drawing from a diverse range of geographical and sociological contexts […] Read More April 25, 2024

The Wende Museum Presents Undercurrents I: Stories, Symbols, and Sounds

Culver City, CA (Apr. 25, 2024) – On Saturday, April 27, the Wende Museum celebrates the opening of their latest exhibition, Undercurrents I: Stories, Symbols, and Sounds, highlighting the vibrant and often hidden art of Cold War countercultures. Undercurrents focuses on artwork that doesn’t follow the beaten track of art production and political messaging. Through appropriation and subversion of official […] Read More February 28, 2024

Press Alert: Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova to Present Pop-Up Exhibition and Talk at the Wende Museum this Weekend

What: FEAR NOT, a pop-up exhibition of new work by Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova Why: The death of imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny When: Exhibition runs 10 a.m.—5 p.m. on Friday, March 1 through Sunday, March 3, 2024 Where: The Wende Museum, 10808 Culver Blvd, Culver City, CA 90230 Artist Talk: Nadya Tolokonnikova will […] Read More November 09, 2023

The Wende Museum Presents Visions of Transcendence: Creating Space in East and West Ceija Stojka and Scenes of Roma Life

Culver City, CA (Nov. 9, 2023) – The Wende Museum, an institution dedicated to bringing Cold War era history and culture to life, is thrilled to announce the opening of two timely new exhibitions Saturday, November 11: Visions of Transcendence: Creating Space in East and West and Ceija Stojka and Scenes of Roma Life. Bound […] Read More August 08, 2023

Topping Out Ceremony Marks Milestone for the Wende Museum’s Glorya Kaufman Creative Community Center

    Culver City, CA., Aug. 8, 2023 – AUX Architecture, Shawmut Design and Construction, and The Wende Museum are thrilled to announce that the ceremonial topping out of the Glorya Kaufman Creative Community Center, marking the placement of the final beam and the completion of the structure’s frame, took place on August 5, 2023. […] Read More March 30, 2023

The Wende Museum Presents Vietnam in Transition, 1976–Present

Culver City, CA (March 30, 2023) – The Wende Museum is proud to present the contemporary art exhibition Vietnam in Transition, 1976–Present, which explores the multilayered intersections of art, history, and memory in Vietnam since the end of the Vietnam War and national reunification. With its history of French colonialism, American imperialism and war, Soviet-style socialism, and […] Read More March 16, 2023

The Wende Museum Presents David Bowie in the Soviet Union

Culver City, CA (March 16, 2023) – The Wende Museum presents the new exhibition David Bowie in the Soviet Union, open to the public from April 1, 2023 until October 22, 2023. Geoff MacCormack, also known by the stagename Warren Peace, was one of David Bowie’s oldest and closest friends: they used to listen to American rock ‘n’ […] Read More November 10, 2022

The Wende Museum Presents For Ruth, The Sky in Los Angeles: Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt and David Horvitz and New Installations by Bari Ziperstein and Julian Irlinger

Culver City, CA (November 10, 2022) – The Wende Museum presents For Ruth, The Sky in Los Angeles: Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt and David Horvitz, open to the public from November 13, 2022 until March 12, 2023. In addition, the open storage installation Gift by Julian Irlinger and the new guardhouse project Domestic Choices by Bari Ziperstein will be on view. The exhibition For […] Read More November 03, 2022

“Flag For Our Times” Design Contest Winners

The Wende Museum is pleased to share the winning submissions in our artistic flag design competition, “Flag For Our Times”. We challenged entrants to create an original design for a flag with a message of dreams for a brighter future or one’s vision of a dreamworld or “utopia.” These designs will be hung in our […] Read More November 03, 2022

The Wende Museum Presents (De)constructing Ideology: The Cultural Revolution and Beyond

Culver City, CA (November 3, 2022) – The Wende Museum presents the new exhibition (De)constructing Ideology: The Cultural Revolution and Beyond, open to the public from November 13, 2022 until March 12, 2023. China’s “Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution” (1966-1976) was a period of tremendous social and economic upheaval. Recognizing the critical role of the arts in forwarding […] Read More