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Archive Talk #2

with Yvonne Schweizer (art historian, Institute of Art History, University of Bern)

The Ballet of Radiators. Photographic Icons

Wednesday, 2 May 2018, 06.30 pm

In times of the instagramability of artworks in museums, it is important to take a look back: to the photo archive of the Kunsthalle Bern and the history of the ‘installation shot’ as a genre. How do the format and the circulation of photographic views reinforce a specific image of an exhibition? In a conversation with Yvonne Schweizer, photo albums, exhibitions catalogs, files, and websites are opened up.