Hertziana Insights

How can we present art historical research to a wider public and share it with a more general audience, which is increasingly alert to interdisciplinary and intermediary issues and which places great value in objects and their materiality? Through Hertziana Insights, we promote direct communication of research areas of the Institute in video format, structured as short online documentaries.

The video format allows a new and direct access to the research work of the Institute. It offers the opportunity to observe researchers at work and to benefit from their expertise in exploring significant locations. In this manner, the objects of interest can be specifically contextualized and, by taking into account their materiality, their physical presence and impact can be made apparent.

Interviews with contemporary witnesses and researchers, as well as historical footage from film and television archives, allow authentic and vivid communication and the opportunity to present research questions and methodology. In this way, viewers are privileged with insights into places, people, and objects that are otherwise difficult to access, such as archives, artists’ studios, historical film material, museum deposits, and private collections.

We have been developing the videos over a longer period of time in very different contexts and with different cooperation partners, thus expanding the range of target groups we reach. Through our collaboration with the Gerda Henkel Foundation’s academic portal L.I.S.A., we have been able to increase the reception of Hertziana Insights in German-speaking countries.

Two new episodes were completed during the reporting period: Palimpsest Naples. Natural Disasters in collaboration with the Department Michalsky and Now We Have Seen. Women and Art in Italy in the 1970s. Brief descriptions of the videos and the videos themselves can be found here.

In addition to the format of the series Hertziana Insights, the video Supporting Scholars at Risk was produced in collaboration with the Department Weddigen for the #ScienceForUkraine initiative. Supporting Scholars at Risk. See the description and the video here.

The videos are available for long-term outreach; they enrich exhibitions, roundtable discussions, and book launches and circulate within social media (with specially produced teasers):

  • Now We Have Seen. Women and Art in 1970s Italy -> Alone. Six Stories of Italian Female Artists, Spazio Ilisso, Nuoro (04.05.–01.09.2024)
  • Massimo Piersanti, Exhibition Photography in 1970s Rome -> Massimo Piersanti e gli Incontri Internazionali d’Arte, exhibition of works by Massimo Piersanti curated by M. Giovanna Virga, Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome (16.11.2022–09.02.2023)
  • Palimpsest Naples. Natural Disasters -> Alle Wege führen nach Rom! Tutte le strade portano a Roma!, German Week in Rome, organized by the German Embassy and the Goethe-Institut in cooperation with German cultural and scientific organizations abroad (08.10.–15.10.2022)

Kooperation mit dem Wissenschaftsportal der GERDA HENKEL STIFTUNG L.I.S.A.:

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