Office of Culture and Arts (SeCArte)

The UFSC Digital Art Collection provides online access to images and information about the artists and artworks that make up the University’s art collection. Developed by the UFSC Art Gallery, administered by the Arts and Culture Department (DAC), the collection was first made available in July 2022, with the initial phase of the catalog.

The UFSC Digital Art Collection can be accessed on computers, tablets and mobile devices at galeriadearte.acervos.ufsc.br. The catalog is being developed in stages using Tainacan, a free Brazilian software platform for creating digital collections, developed by the Network Intelligence Laboratory of the Universidade de Brasília (UnB), with support from the Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG), the Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology (IBICT) and the Brazilian Institute of Museums (IBRAM).

Currently, users can search the collection using filters for artwork title, artist, artistic name, date of production, technique, medium and dimensions.

The UFSC art collection has been built over the University’s six decades through donations from artists, awards received at art exhibititions held at UFSC, and acquisitions made through specific projects.

The collection includes works by renowned artists from Santa Catarina and from across Brazil, including Antonio Mir, Burle Marx, Domingos Fossari, Eli Heil, Elias Andrade, Guido Heuer, Hassis, Lucila Horn, Martinho de Haro, Meyer Filho, Rodrigo de Haro, Rubens Oestroem, Vecchietti and Zumblick, in addition to works from foreign artists, such as Alejandro Pita (Argentina), Freddy Escobar Vega (Bolivia), Jorge Ferro (Venezuela) and Luchi Collaud (Argentina).

Through its art collection, UFSC values artistic creation in its diversity of origins, styles and techniques, encouraging the university community and the wider public to engage with and reflect on the role of art and artists in a pluralistic university environment.

Visit the UFSC Digital Art Collection here.