Philadelphia Connection
May 28–June 25, 2014
Opening: Tuesday, May 27, 6–10pm
FRANZ JOSEFSKAI 3
1010 Vienna, Austria
Hours: Monday–Saturday, 2–8pm
(closed on Whit Monday)
The Penn MFA program presents the 2014 thesis exhibition in Vienna. 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.
Artists: Marie Alarcon (b. 1978, Rhinebeck, New York), Laura Bernstein (b. 1987, New York City), Claire Bidwell (b. 1988, Los Angeles), Anthony Bowers (b. 1984, South Bend, Indiana), Sam Mapp (b. 1985, Chicago), Scotty Menesini (b. 1975, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), Mohammadreza Mirzaei (b. 1986, Tehran, Iran), Theo Mullen (b. 1979, Denver, Colorado), Evan Nabrit (b. 1982, Columbus, Ohio), Daniel O’Neill (b. 1979, Providence, Rhode Island), Paz Ortúzar (b. 1985, Santiago, Chile), Gordon Stillman (b. 1984, Poughkeepsie, New York), Joshua Zerangue (b. 1988, Lafayette, Louisiana)
Curator: Roland Schoeny holds a teaching position at Digital Arts Department of University of Applied Art Vienna, structured a public art programme as a permanent cultural initiative of the city of Vienna 2004–07, realized exhibitions in cooperation with ICA in SOKOL Moscow (2014), at OK Center for Contemporary Art Linz (2002–04) and Künstlerhaus Vienna (2000).
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 curators, writers and artists, the program provides an open intellectual framework to foster independent methods of artistic research. In addition to seminars within the Fine Arts Department, graduate students are encouraged to pursue topics of science and the humanities through an impressive selection of courses offered across the university.
Download the PennMFA program catalog.
For program inquires, contact [email protected] or T +1 215 898 8374.
