Paola von Wyss-Giacosa

Paola von Wyss-Giacosa (* 1970 ) is a Swiss ethnologist .

life and work

After studying ethnology and art history at the University of Zurich , Paola von Wyss-Giacosa was a research assistant at the Swiss Institute for Art Research from 1996 to 1999 . Since 1997 she has been involved in teaching, research and the realization of exhibition projects at the Ethnographic Museum of the University of Zurich . From 2005 to 2008 she was a curator at the Museum Briner und Kern in Winterthur .

In 2006 she received her doctorate from the University of Zurich. In 2015 she represented the junior professorship in the history of entanglement at the University of Erfurt .

Works

• as editor: Exotic currencies. Völkerkundemuseum, Zurich 1999.
• Vessels for the holy. Indian objects speak of religion. VMZ, Zurich 2004.
• Religious images of the early enlightenment. Bernard Picart's panels for the “Cérémonies et Coutumes religieuses de tous les Peuples du Monde”. Benteli, Wabern near Bern 2006.
• Accuracy: beautiful science. Benteli, Bern / Sulgen 2008 (with Wolfgang Marschall and Andreas Isler).
• Insightful Borneo. Objects, photographs and documents by the Swiss geologist Wolfgang Leupold in the Dutch East Indies 1921–1927. VMZ, Zurich 2011.
• Memori dari Kalimantan. Photo oleh ahli geologi Swis Wolfgang Leupold / Memories from Borneo . Photographs by the Swiss geologist Wolfgang Leupold. VMZ, Zurich 2013 (with Andreas Isler).
• Kalamkari. Storytelling from India. VMZ, Zurich 2016 (with Andreas Isler).

Web links

• Biographical information , Ethnographic Museum of the University of Zurich