Study Center

The Generali Foundation's library currently comprises around 16,760 monographs, exhibition catalogs, relevant professional literature and international art journals. The focus is on the artists in the collection and the exhibitions realized by the Generali Foundation since 1989.

A broad overview of current art developments since the 1960s is offered, with a special focus on contemporary art, key thematic emphases, art theories, and discourses. The holdings are constantly being expanded. Current, important and rare historical publications are acquired selectively. For this purpose, we are in active exchange with internationally renowned art institutions and in contact with specialized bookstores and archives.

The media library consists of two visitor terminals where films and videos from the collection as well as recordings of events related to exhibitions of the Generali Foundation in Vienna can be viewed.

The current exhibition Come & See! The Generali Foundation's film and video collection, which can be seen until September 15, 2024 in the Generali Foundation's Study Center, Altstadt (Rupertinum), provides an in-depth and commented insight into the breadth of this film and video collection based on selected topics. Since its establishment, the Generali Foundation has built up one of the most important collections of media art from the 1960s onwards, comprising many important Austrian and international positions. The focus is on media-reflective film and video art, political film as well as feminist and performative video works.