The TV as Gallery The Gerry Schum and Ursula Wevers Archive

We cordially invite you to the opening of the exhibition The Television as a Gallery. The Archive of Gerry Schum and Ursula Wevers on May 29 at 7 pm.

In April 1969, works of the international avant-garde appeared in an unexpected place: on the television screens of German living rooms. The filmmaker Gerry Schum and the art historian Ursula Wevers had transformed television into a space of exhibition for art. With the Fernsehgalerie Gerry Schum and the later videogalerie schum, they were among the first to seek to establish television and video as artistic media in their own right.

The exhibition tells the story of this now legendary project. Drawing on the extensive archive that Ursula Wevers preserved for more than fifty years, it presents not only film and video works, but also original 16mm films and videotapes, historical video equipment, as well as correspondence, production documents, photographs, printed matter, and certificates.

For the full exhibition announcement, please click here: The Television as a Gallery. The Archive of Gerry Schum and Ursula Wevers.