BARRIERA UNINSTITUTE (2007-2024) is an aftershow, a critical inventory of materials documenting the last seventeen years of activity at BARRIERA, a contemporary art space founded in 2007 in Turin. This publication, edited by Sergey Kantsedal and produced by viaindustriae publishing / Colli publishing, seeks to engage with the broader debate surrounding the creation of “institutional” archives within the fluid practices of contemporary art. How can we envision the future by reflecting on the past? And what role do the archive and the act of archiving play for an institution in this process? Rather than emphasizing the artwork, the exhibition as a product, or the collection as heritage, the book focuses on so-called “printed matter”— ephemeral, carefully crafted materials that have promoted and supported both exhibition and workshop projects. These include exhibition catalogs, invitations, gallery texts, postcards, brochures, and booklets. Following this predominantly visual, asynchronous, and “eccentric” documentary section, the book organizes the events, exhibitions, catalogs, and artists who have passed through BARRIERA’s walls into thematic and chronological appendices.

Speakers:  Sergey Kantsedal (curator), Emanuele De Donno (publisher), Elena Mazzi (artist), Riccardo Montanaro (collector and member of Barriera),  Olga Gambari (independent curator, art critic and journalist)

Language: Italian