Dr. Veronika Tocha

Functions

• Deputy Head (Gipsformerei)
• Curator (Gipsformerei)

Institution

Gipsformerei

Contact

V.Tocha[at]smb.spk-berlin.de

Focus | Responsibilities | Projects

• Curatorial care and management of the Gipsformerei’s tangible and intangible collections
• Management of curatorial and artistic projects
• Research on the intrinsic logic and specific agency of the plaster cast, with a particular focus on its materiality, technicity, and historicity; the role of plaster and casting in sculptural practice; and anthropological life casts produced in colonial contexts

Related links

• Research and Restoration Project on the Historical Collection of Berlin’s Gipsformerei
• Museum and the City: Post about the Research project on the blog of the Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin (German only)
• Exhibition: “Near Life – The Gipsformerei. 200 Years of Casting Plaster”
• Near Life: A 3D Exhibition
• App on the exhibition “Near Life”
• Museum and the City: Interview about the 3D exhibition in the Blog of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (German only)