Exhibition Tours: The Sextant & Mobile Churches
About this Event
Join us for free guided tours of the Wende Museum's exhibitions Enrique Martínez Celaya: The Sextant, as well as Intersections: The Architecture of Victor Adegbite and Charles Polónyi in Ghana (closing April 12) and Anton Roland Laub: Mobile Churches in Ceaușescu’s Bucharest (opening April 25).
In The Sextant, Enrique Martínez Celaya reconstructs a modernist Cuban home built by his father between 1957 and 1963, a period marked by revolution, exile, and transformation. The installation becomes a meditation on the elusiveness of history and the self.
Intersections traces the collaboration between Ghanaian architect Victor Adegbite and Hungarian architect Charles Polónyi in 1960s Accra, then a hub of anticolonial imagination and socialist modernization. Their housing designs embodied the architectural and political ideals of a newly independent nation navigating between East and West.
Anton Roland Laub: Mobile Churches in Ceaușescu’s Bucharest documents how Nicolae Ceaușescu’s urban overhaul erased much of the historic city while physically relocating and concealing churches behind housing blocks, revealing a little-known chapter of cultural destruction and survival in the late Eastern Bloc.
Discover exhibitions exploring art and architecture during the Cold War era with a guided tour!
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