Finding aid for the Getty Research Institute Interviews Regarding Harald Szeemann, 2016-2017
Helen Kim
Descriptive Summary
Title: Getty Research Institute interviews regarding Harald Szeemann
Date (inclusive): 2016-2017
Number: IA60008
Creator/Collector:
Getty Research Institute
Physical Description:
0 Linear Feet
Physical Description:
1413.12 GB
Repository:
The Getty Research Institute
Institutional Records and Archives
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles 90049-1688
reference@getty.edu
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10020/askref
(310) 440-7390
Abstract: The records comprise oral histories conducted with artists and curators about the Swiss curator Harald Szeemann, whose archive
is in the Special Collections of the Getty Research Institute. Records date from 2016 to 2017 and include digital video interviews
as well as transcripts and translations for select interviews.
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Language: Collection material is in
English
Administrative History and Project Background
The Getty Research Institute (GRI) is an operating program of the J. Paul Getty Trust, a not-for-profit educational, cultural
and philanthropic organization dedicated to the visual arts. Originally established in 1983 as the Getty Center for the History
of Art and the Humanities (GCHAH), the objective of the GCHAH was to foster advanced research in art, its history, diversity,
and meaning in culture by engaging scholars from various disciplines in the humanities. In 1996, in order to avoid confusion
with the soon-to-open Getty Center, the GCHAH was renamed the Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities
and in 2000, the program's name was shortened to the Getty Research Institute (GRI).
The GRI's mission is to further knowledge and advance understanding of the visual arts and their various histories through
advanced research and scholarship, and through its activities and resources, provide a unique environment for research, critical
inquiry, and scholarly exchange. The GRI's Research Library, consisting of over one million books, periodicals, study photographs,
auction catalogs and special collections of rare and unique materials, as well as its online resources and databases, serve
an international community of scholars and the interested public. The GRI also provides intellectual leadership through its
research projects, exhibitions, and publication programs and provides service to a wide range of scholars worldwide through
residencies, fellowships, hosted lectures and symposia, and its innovative digital reference tools. Through all of its programs
and activities, the GRI endeavors to provide resources, expertise, and a collaborative environment for art-historical research
and publication.
Through the GRI's multidisciplinary programming, the GRI works to advance art history scholarship of contemporary art. In
2016, the GRI launched plans for the Szeemann Digital Seminar focused on Swiss curator Harald Szeemann (1933-2005) following
the GRI's acquisition of his archive in 2011. The seminar is a collaboration between GRI's Information Systems and Curatorial
departments along with the GRI's Digital Art History team, which seeks to study computational approaches to art history. The
oral history project, led by Szeemann co-curators Glenn Phillips and Philipp Kaiser, is one component of the Szeemann Digital
Seminar. Video interviews were conducted with artists, curators, and collaborators who worked with Szeemann and document unpublished
accounts that add narrative context to the archive, as well as interpretive materials for the 2018
Harald Szeemann: Museum of Obsessions exhibition at the GRI.
Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
The records described in accession 2017.IA.34 are available for on-site use by qualified researchers. The following types
of records are permanently closed: records containing personal information, records that compromise security or operations,
legal communications, legal work product, and records related to donors. The J. Paul Getty Trust reserves the right to restrict
access to any records held by the Institutional Archives.
Publication Rights
Preferred Citation
Getty Research Institute Interviews Regarding Harald Szeemann, 2016-2017, Institutional Records and Archives, The Getty Research
Institute, Los Angeles, IA60008. http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifaia60008
Acquisition Information
Accession 2017.IA.34 was transferred by staff members at the Getty Research Institute.
Processing History
Finding aid was created by Helen Kim in 2017. Accession 2017.IA.34 was processed in 2017.
Technical Requirements
The electronic files in accession 2017.IA.34 can only be viewed on-site on computers connected to the Getty network.
Related Materials
Harald Szeemann papers, 1800-2011, bulk 1949-2005, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Accession no. 2011.M.30.
Scope and Content of Collection
These records comprise oral history interviews conducted in 2016 and 2017 by Getty Research Institute (GRI) curator Glenn
Phillips. The interviews were conducted in association with the Harald Szeemann Digital Seminar organized by the GRI and feature
discussions with curators and artists about curator Harald Szeemann, whose archive is housed in GRI Special Collections. Materials
include video interviews and select transcripts and translations which may be found at The digital content of the oral histories
and transcripts may be found at http://hdl.handle.net/10020/2017ia34 .
Arrangement
Materials are arranged alphabetically by surname of interviewee.
Indexing Terms
Subjects - Names
Szeemann, Harald
Subjects - Topics
Art historians -- United States -- Interviews
Art museum curators
Art -- Historiography -- Study and teaching
Genres and Forms of Material
Oral histories (document genres)
Video recordings
Transcripts
Sound recordings
Contributors
Getty Research Institute
Celant, Germano
Christo, 1935-
Sonnier, Keith, 1941-
Bezzola, Tobia
Bruguera, Tania, 1968-
Cai, G. Q. (Guo-Qiang)
Curiger, Bice, 1948-
Heiss, Alanna
Kohlmeyer, Agnes
Kraft, Josy
Laib, Wolfgang, 1950-
Longhauser, Elsa Weiner
Penone, Giuseppe
Rottenberg, Anda
Sala, Anri, 1974-
Solakov, Nedko
Toderi, Grazia, 1963-
Weiner, Lawrence
Ai, Weiwei
Zorio, Gilberto, 1944-
Aufdermauer, Aufdi
Oral history interviews regarding Harald Szeemann,
2016-2017
(2017.IA.34) Getty Research Institute interviews regarding Harald Szeemann, 2016-2017
Physical Description:
1413.12 GB
Georges Adéagbo:
May 13, 2017
Aufdi Aufdermauer:
February 14, 2017
Tobia Bezzola:
May 12, 2017
Tania Bruguera:
March 1, 2017
Cai Guo-Qiang:
March 3, 2017
Christo:
November 17, 2016
Germano Celant:
November 10, 2016
Bice Curiger:
October 21, 2016
Alanna Heiss:
November 17, 2016
Klaus Honnef:
August 10, 2017
Richard Jackson:
March 10, 2017
Agnes Kohlmeyer:
November 10, 2016
Josy Kraft:
June 16, 2017
Wolfgang Laib:
October 18, 2016
Elsa Longhauser:
March 9, 2017
Ingeborg Lüscher:
August 8, 2017
Giuseppe Penone:
November 9, 2016
Markus and Monika Raetz:
TBD
Anda Rottenberg:
May 12, 2017
Katharina Sieverding:
August 11, 2017
Nedko Solakov:
May 13, 2017
Keith Sonnier:
March 4, 2017
Jerôme Szeemann:
June 16, 2017
Una Szeemann:
June 14, 2017
Grazia Toderi:
November 9, 2016
Lawrence Weiner:
May 2, 2017
Gilberto Zorio:
November 9, 2016
Christoph Zuercher:
February 13, 2017
