Exhibitions in the SLA

Writing the silver screen: from literature to cinema and vice versa

There has always been a passionate relationship between literature and cinema. The exhibition (31 August 2023 – 12 January 2024) provides an overview of these turbulent interrelations based on documents from the Swiss Literary Archives.

Stoffe. Eine Projektion zu Friedrich Dürrenmatts Spätwerk

15. Juli – 6. August 2021
Eine Projektion zur Hybridedition von Friedrich Dürrenmatts Spätwerk

Leonid Pasternak: Skizze für Ölgemälde Rainer Maria Rilkes (aus dem Besitz der Familie Rilke-Beyer)

Jean Starobinski. Relations critiques

The Swiss Literary Archives and EPFL+ECAL Lab present their first virtual exhibition devoted to Jean Starobinski: “Critical Relations”

Expositions dans le cabinet

Le Cabinet d’exposition permet, avec trois ou quatre vitrines, des présentations éphémères de documents littéraires à l’occasion d’événements spéciaux, de colloques ou de soirées.

Leonid Pasternak: Sketch for an oil painting of Rainer Maria Rilke (property of the Rilke-Beyer family)

Rilke and Russia

14.9.–10.12.2017

Rainer Maria Rilke viewed Russia as both a homeland and a place he longed to be. The tri-national exhibition brings together for the first time materials that attest to this legendary fascination.

Fotomontaggio a partire da una foto di Franco Beltrametti del 1977 ©.

Opere di Franco Beltrametti

3.–28.2.2017
L’autore beat Franco Beltrametti in mostra a Venezia a Palazzo Trevisan degli Ulivi. L’esposizione è organizzata dalla Fondazione Franco Beltrametti con la collaborazione dell’Archivio svizzero di letteratura.

Hugo Ball dans un costume cubiste, Zurich 1916. Source : Bibliothèque nationale, Archives littéraires suisses, Berne. Fonds Hennings/Ball.

DADA original

7.3.–28.5.2016

L’exposition des Archives littéraires suisses présente des documents originaux en provenance des fonds d’Hugo Ball et Emmy Jennings ; elle offre un aperçu des origines de Dada.

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