Beverly Buchanan

Elena Bally is a curator at gta exhibitions, ETH Zurich. She studied art history in Zurich, Vienna, and Rome. She is currently finishing her studies with a thesis titled Beverly Buchanan’s Unity Stones (1983) im Spannungsfeld von Kunst, Arbeit und Schwarzsein. At gta exhibitions, she co-curated Beverly Buchanan: I Broke the House (2024) with Fredi Fischli and Niels Olsen, and worked on several exhibition projects, including Unschöne Museen (2023), curated by Fischli, Olsen, and Geraldine Tedder; and Life, Without Buildings (2022), curated by Adam Szymczyk. In 2023, she was awarded the Förderpreis Kunstwissenschaften by the Alfred Richterich Foundation and the Swiss Association of Art Historians.

Fredi Fischli and Niels Olsen are curators and codirectors of exhibitions at the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta), Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zurich. Together they work on projects at the intersection of architecture, art, research, and teaching, resulting in such exhibitions as Unschöne Museen (curated with Geraldine Tedder), Cloud '68: Collection of Radical Architecture, and Home: A User’s Manual or Book for Architects. In 2023, they taught as the John Portman Design Critics in Architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design.