33 years of art history digitally accessible
With «Kunst im Gespräch,» the Susanna Kulli Gallery is launching a digital archive that makes three decades of Swiss exhibition culture available online. The archive includes exhibitions, artist talks, and press reviews from 1983 to 2018.
An important piece of Swiss art history becomes digitally accessible: the Susanna Kulli Gallery presents its entire archive from 1983 to 2018 in an innovative online format. The project "Art in conversation - a digital testimony" combines exhibition documentation, sound recordings and press reviews on an interactive platform.
Three decades of exhibition culture can be experienced without limits through the digital archive. What began in St. Gallen and was later continued in Zurich is now finding its way into the digital space. "I always saw my gallery as a place for dialog," explains Susanna Kulli. "It's refreshing to hear voices that are awake again, not only because of the current heat, but also in the conservative world and art scene."
The archive opens up three gateways to art: "Gallery" documents the complete exhibition chronicle with images, press reviews and curatorial texts. "Artists" is dedicated to the artists of the gallery with series of works and unpublished photographs. The centerpiece "Conversations" makes restored artist talks with personalities such as Silvie Defraoui, John M Armleder, Thomas Hirschhorn and curators such as Rein Wolfs and Bice Curiger accessible.
The project, supported by Memoriav, the City of St. Gallen and Kulturplus Kanton St. Gallen, offers international art historians unrestricted access to primary sources of Swiss exhibition history for the first time. Researchers receive valuable comparative material on curatorial practice and oral history, while the public can explore a fascinating auditory-visual memory of the Swiss art scene.
