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1/11/2011

Home: A Century of Change

Center for Urban History, Lviv

In November 2011 the Center for Urban History of East Central Europe opens a major new exhibition “Home: A Century of Change.” This exhibition explores the history of the dwelling in its cultural and social dimensions, as well as in its political and ideological contexts throughout the twentieth century. The exhibition examines the home as a multi-faceted place, which contains complex political, ideological, national, cultural, and gender histories, within the context of East Central Europe. While the global and regional contexts will be incorporated, our exhibition focuses on the case of Lviv, which offers an excellent opportunity to study the re-making and transformation of "home" in the 20th century.

Why would the culture of the dwelling be an important theme for an exhibition? Usually, we consider a person’s home to be his/her personal space, which belongs only to him/her and is of concern only to him/her. Yet we can also look at the home as, first and foremost, a private model of society, which can tell us a great deal about the outside world and, in particular, the ceaseless interaction of the private and the public, the personal and the social, the self and the other. With this exhibition we would like to ask a very general question: “What is Home?” Home is a place in which we live and a space in which we play out our personal, intimate, and emotional life, our memory, and our identity. We will search for answers by looking at the specific case of the city of Lviv in the context of East Central Europe.

The format of the exhibition is conceived to combine a story-telling narrative with different multimedia applications. The exhibition space is subdivided into two main areas with specific content and visual focuses. In these areas, relevant texts and images will help the visitor understand the most meaningful socio-cultural, political, ideological, economic, and technological factors which affected and changed our way of living in the twentieth century:

In Area 1 the main task is to show the general development of historical perceptions and practices of the home in the twentieth century. We show how ideologies, modernization projects, the state, war, technology, and social inequality affected people’s way of living and how the idea of “home” was embodied in the social and political projects of the twentieth century.

Area 2 is divided into four conventional/functional zones associated with “home”: living room, kitchen, bathroom, bedroom. In these four zones we introduce a main (but not exclusive) issue exploring each through the 20th century using documented cases from Lviv

An exhibition should not only tell a unique story, but should also serve as a hub for activity and communication. Therefore there is an educational program with Round tables and presentations, a series of film-seminars, lectures and a children program.

Photo credits: Universität für Angewandte Kunst (University of Applied Arts)
Central State Cinema, Photo, and Phono Archive of Ukraine
Center for Urban History of East Central Europe

Press contact: Maribel Königer maribel.koeniger@erstestiftung.org +43 (0)50 100-15453

Exhibition Hall, Center for Urban History
Bohomoltsia Street, 6, Lviv, Ukraine
Open: Wed–Sun 11 am - 5:30 pm
Admission is free.

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