Photo Gallery of the Rectors of the Pontifical Institute for Christian Archaeology

Austrian multimedia artist and photographer Cornelia Mittendorfer has presented her installation of photo portraits of the 11 rectors of the Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology in the anticamera of the rector's office. The founding rector of the Institute is the Luxembourg priest Johann Peter Kirsch, who hangs in the geometric centre of the wall and is depicted solely in black and white. 

Johann Peter Kirsch not only founded the PIAC in 1925 (the centenary will be celebrated in 2025!), but also founded the Roman Institute of the Görres Society as early as 1888 (or rather, he was its first director). The other rectors of the PIAC are Lucien De Bruyne, Félix Darsy OP, Enrico Josi, Victor Saxer, Antonio Ferrua SJ, Umberto M. Fasola B., Patrick Saint-Roch, Philippe Pergola, Danilo Mazzoleni, Vincenzo Fiocchi Nicolai and Stefan Heid. The installation includes a leporello with the pictures, names and dates of the headmasters. So anyone who now has to wait in the rector's anticamera not only sits comfortably, but also has something to look at.

Cornelia Mittendorfer

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