Swiss Institute for Art Research (SIK-ISEA), Zurich / Lausanne

The Swiss Institute for Art Research (SIK-ISEA), founded in 1951 and based in Zurich with satellites in French- and Italian-speaking Switzerland, is a competence centre for art scholarship and art technology with both a national and an international focus. Incorporated as a not-for-profit foundation, SIK-ISEA enjoys the status of an independent research establishment, financed in part by public funding and in part by competitive research grants, donations from other foundations and benefactors, and the provision of services. Its primary activities are research, documentation, knowledge dissemination and services in the field of fine art. It specialises above all in the production of art in Switzerland from the Middle Ages to the present day.

Through its research, SIK-ISEA engages actively with universities, universities of applied sciences, museums and eminent specialists. It belongs to the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences (SAHS) and the Swiss National Committee of the International Council of Museums (ICOM Switzerland) and is a founding member of the International Association of Research Institutes in the History of Art (RIHA).

SIK-ISEA seeks to make academic publications and valuable research data swiftly available to an international user community through open access.

Further publications by The Swiss Institute for Art Research (SIK-ISEA) on arthistoricum.net:
Jahresbericht SIK-ISEA / Schweizerisches Institut für Kunstwissenschaft