Penn MFA – Vienna
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The Penn MFA program presents the 2014 thesis exhibition in Vienna, Austria. The exhibition is the culmination of a six-month exchange between the graduate students and curator Roland Schoeny. During their residency in Vienna, the students will install selected works, visit artists’ studios, and complete their engagement in this highly experimental exhibition project.
The thesis exhibition project acknowledges that emerging artists work from a globalized state of culture and respond to a new perception of site specificity. The exhibition presents work impacted by a collective discussion on the premise that travel, cultural exchange and the examination of cultural relativism are all markers of a profound evolution in our vision of the world.
Vienna PennMFA Exhibition Artists
Marie Alarcon, Laura Bernstein, Claire Bidwell, Anthony Bowers, Sam Mapp, Scotty Menesini, Mohammadreza Mirzaei, Theo Mullen, Evan Nabrit, Daniel O’Neil, Paz Ortúzar, Gordon Stillman, Joshua Zerangue
Vienna Exhibition Curator
Roland Schoeny, cultural scientist, contemporary art curator and author with a teaching position at Digital Arts Department of University of Applied Art Vienna, where he was Guest Professor at Institute for Art and Communicative Praxis 2010. As project manager he structured a public art programme as a permanent cultural initiative of the city of Vienna 2004–07, realized exhibitions at OK Center for Contemporary Art in Linz or conceptualized as part of collektive spk sounds&files. Visual Aspects of Electronic Music, for Künstlerhaus, Vienna (2000). As author and theorist cooperations with institutions like Centre Pompidou, Vancouver Art Gallery, Kunstmuseum Luzern or TBA21.
Penn MFA Program
The Master of Fine Arts program at Penn is focused on the professional development of visual artists. Through workshops, seminar courses, international residency opportunities and interactions with cura