“The Gallery. Collection and Historical Archive ”of BPER Banca presents, from 6 May to 26 June 2022 , at the exhibition spaces in via Scudari 9 in Modena, “ Modena between 8 and '900. The Belle Époque of the economy ” , curated by Chiara Pulini , the first exhibition featuring documents from the BPER Banca Historical Archive as protagonists.

The exhibition is dedicated to the golden age of the economy, defined Belle Époque, for the general climate of well-being and for the important changes that affected society between the 19th and 20th centuries. The exhibition itinerary starts from the theme proposed this year by the Archivissima Festival, CHANGE - Historical memory as a tool to decode the present , to which BPER Banca adheres. For the occasion, a selection of documents is exhibited coming partly from the archives owned by the Bank, and partly from the archives of three economic activities in the Modena area which, also thanks to the support of the then Banca Popolare di Modena, can initiate major transformations in their productions. Salumificio Maletti, Carrozzeria Orlandi and Società Anonima “Il truciolo” are the three case studies chosen to explore the theme of change with a new perspective.

The curator Chiara Pulini states: “The BPER Banca Historical Archive, rich in testimonies on the social, economic and financial development of our territory, offers itself as a repository of memory and as a means to interpret a changing world. The bank's link with the territory is the red thread that has allowed us to re-establish a relationship that has never been interrupted over time. The bank documents on display in the exhibition interact with the documents of the three selected companies and tell us a "new" story, perhaps unexpected, which will be added as a piece in the historical reconstruction of the Belle Époque era. "