Three generations of photographers telling the story of the city of Trieste, with its important socio-historical changes, through their lens: this is the fil rouge of the exhibition ‘Wulz Photography. Trieste, the family, the atelier‘, open to the public from 14 December 2024 to 27 April 2025 at the Magazzino delle Idee in Trieste.
The exhibition was organised by the Ente Regionale per il Patrimonio Culturale del Friuli-Venezia Giulia, in collaboration with the Fondazione Alinari of Florence and with the support of the Centro di Ricerca ‘Fotografia Arte Femminismi’ of the University of Bologna.
The exhibition, curated by Antonio Giusa and Federica Muzzarelli, is part of ‘GO!2025&Friends’, the programme of events linked to the official programme of ‘GO!2025 Nova Gorica – Gorizia European Capital of Culture’.
The Wulz archive, partly digitised by Centrica, represents one of the most significant archival complexes of the Alinari Foundation for Photography. Our team has also digitally developed the photographic negatives, allowing the most minute details to be observed and appreciated.
In addition to part of the Alinari holdings, the result of a critical selection by the two curators, there are other objects from public institutions (Wolfsoniana in Genoa, the Revoltella Museum and the Civic Museums of History and Art in Trieste) and private collections (Antiquarian Bookshop Drogheria 28 in Trieste and the Sergio Vatta Collection).
Centrica digitised around three hundred items from the archive of the Wulz Photographic Studio in the exhibition. These include photographic prints, negatives, vintage and documents dating between 1868 and 1981.
In its last period of operation, the studio was run by sisters Wanda and Marion Wulz. Wanda and Marion’s photographs are an important testimony to the history of women’s emancipation and independence in the 20th century.
The exhibition is supported by the Calliope Arts Foundation, an organisation committed to safeguarding and promoting the cultural heritage of women. Calliope edits publications such as The Curators’ Notebook, which will see a new issue dedicated to the Wulz sisters printed for the occasion.
Accompanied by a bilingual catalogue published by Silvana Editoriale, the exhibition will also have a series of in-depth events.
