Participant Info
- First Name
- Rebeca
- Last Name
- Gómez Morilla
- Country
- Switzerland
- State
- r.gomezmorilla@yahoo.de
- Affiliation
- University of Zurich
- Website URL
- https://uzh.academia.edu/RebecaGomezMorilla
- Keywords
- East Asian art history, Japanese art history, Korean art history, photography, colonial photography, ethnography, museum, museum studies, Swiss-Japanese relations, Japanese Studies, literature, ukiyo-e, Japanese popular culture, collections, colonialism, imperialism, Korea, Japan, East Asia
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- other credentials
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I am an art historian, with a special focus on East Asian art history. My dissertation analyses Swiss photograph collections on Colonial Korea. Research interests include: Japanese woodblock prints; Japanese and Korean photography; colonial photography; gender and race in photography; East Asian art collections in Switzerland; decolonisation of photography and museums.
Co-curator for the following exhibitions:
“La Geste suspendu”, Musée d’art et d’histoire Genève, 2014-2015
“Entdeckerlust: Burgdorfer in Ostasien”, Museum für Völkerkunde Burgdorf, 2015-2016
“Hiroshige & Kunisada: Faszinierende Farbholzschnitte”, Museum Franz Gertsch, 2014
“Nihon wo yobiyoseru: Japan sammeln”, JICC, 2014
- Recent Publications
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @RGMarthistorian
- Country Focus
- East Asia, Japan, Korea, Switzerland
- Expertise by Geography
- Asia, East Asia, Japan, Korea
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century, Early Modern, Modern, 20th century, 21st century
- Expertise by Topic
- Art & Architectural History, Colonialism, Gender, Material Culture, Museums, Race, Sexuality, Technology, Women, World War I, World War II
