Arxiu Balears

The «Arxiu Balears» is a project by Es Baluard aimed at promoting the art of the Balearic Islands. It is a digital platform devoted to fostering knowledge about the creators and cultural agents connected to the museum’s collections, as well as to the local and international artistic contexts linked to them.

The project is based on video interviews with the key figures of the past and present history generated by the museum as a living entity in constant evolution. The «Arxiu Balears» is openly accessible online and runs parallel to the documentation and research work on the museum’s artistic holdings, which will be unified through an open-source content management system.

Conceived as an ongoing foundational project for research, conservation, cataloguing, and the dissemination of artistic production, the «Arxiu Balears» began in April 2013 and, to date, has recorded more than 60 art professionals on video, including artists, collectors, and designers, hosting over 50 hours of footage so far.

The aim is to integrate this open-source online archive with the documentation and cataloguing of the works that form part of the collection and the history of modern and contemporary art in the Islands, through the different agents who can interpret them, as well as their experiences, establishing processes of oral transmission through the physical presence and memory of those who originated the works or events.