Exhibition opening: ‘Fotografia Wulz’: Trieste, the family, and their atelier

From December 14, 2024 to April 27, 2025

Il Magazzino delle Idee, Trieste

Ph: Marion Wulz's newly restored photograph of Wanda Wulz, Trieste, c. 1930

Firenze, Archivi Alinari-Archivio Studio Wulz

Through almost three hundred pieces, including photographs, negatives, vintage prints, documents and objects from the Wulz’s photography studio archive, the exhibition ‘Fotografia Wulz: Trieste, la famiglia, l’atelier’ shines a light on the Wulz’s native city of Trieste. The show features photographs by three generations of Wulzes and documents a period crucial to the city’s evolution, from the mid-1800s to the second half of the twentieth century. Photographs authored in the studio’s late period by sisters Wanda and Marion Wulz provide an opportunity to view progressive changes affecting the female identity, as women of culture faced a new century coloured by the quest for emancipation and independence.

Opening at Trieste’s Magazzino delle Idee on December 14, the show curated by Antonio Giusa and Federica Muzzarelli runs until 27 April 2025. The Wulz studio opened its doors in 1868, and closed them for the last time in 1981; today, the Wulz collection is one of the most important archival holdings at the Alinari Archives in Florence. The collection was entrusted to the Fondazione Alinari per la Fotografia, following its acquisition by the Region of Tuscany.

This exhibition is organised by ERPAC FVG (Regional Authority for the Cultural Heritage of Friuli Venezia Giulia), in collaboration with Fondazione Alinari per la Fotografia. Calliope Arts Foundation is an exhibition donor, under the auspices of the project ‘5,000 Negatives’.