June 9–23, 2023
Pfingstweidstrasse 96
8005 Zürich
Switzerland
Control, the Zurich University of the Arts MA Fine Arts 2023 degree show, presented the work of thirty-four artists at the beginning of their careers working in a wide range of media such as painting, video, installation, and sculpture. The exhibition was not organized under a common theme but rather presented a great variety of conceptual and formal approaches and themes that young artists are engaging with today. However, a review of the works suggested that different aspects of the notion of control were recurring themes for many of the international graduates: “As I viewed and discussed with the artists their manifold practices and individual works, I was struck by one theme in particular that seemed to preoccupy many of them, albeit in divergent ways and to various ends: control,” said Anna Goetz, the curator of the exhibition. “The quest for control, the desire to gain control over (one’s own) narrative and conception of others, the critique of an authority exercising control and the implications of its position—all of these reiterate and modulate the recurring theme of control, placing many of the graduate works in conversation with one another.”
Parallel to the exhibition, a poster publication organized by the students was released.
Leandra Agazzi
Ruba Badwan
Gabriyel Bat-Erdene
Richard Blaško
GolfClayderman
Line Chevalley
Mathieu Dafflon
Alisha Dutt Islam
Tereza Glazova
Giorgio Graf
Irem Güngez
Nadia Hauri
Ana Hofmann
Jorim Huber
Eugène Kaïmanovitch
Alina Kopytsia
Peter Majercik
Angelos Merges
Alexeï Monney
Julia Nusser
Daeun Park
Duarte Perry
Aline Petrò
Valentin Rilliet
Lark Ring
Cordula Schieri
Nils Schulz
Katerina Sedy
Steen Sperling
Denisa Svachova
Ronja Svaneborg
Leevi Toija
Aline Witschi
Cristian Zabalaga
Teaching and research at the Department of Fine Arts (DFA) at Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) has an international profile and focuses on experimental ways of initiating, developing, and consolidating diverse, individual, and collaborative approaches to artistic and theoretical (trans)media practice and their diverse strategies and processes. Firmly established and networked in Zurich (a university city rich in culture, art, and media and home to the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), the DFA is one of Europe’s leading international training and research institutes for artists, art critics, curators and researchers working in art and aesthetic theory.
