Church Lecture Series: Burin

Through support from the College of Architecture and Design and the UTK Printmaking Program, Katarina Burin will come to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville for a public lecture and collaborative print project.

Her lecture “Contribution and Collaboration: The Work of Petra Andrejova-Molnár and her Contemporaries” will be presented on Monday, Feb. 15, at 5:30 p.m., in McCarty Auditorium, Rm. 109, in the Art and Architecture Building.  The lecture is free and open to the public.

Katarina Burin is a lecturer at Harvard University in The Department of Visual and Environmental Studies (VES). Born in Bratislava, Slovakia, Burin received her MFA in from Yale University (2002) and her BFA from the University of Georgia (1999). Her work investigates the representation and display of architectural histories, including the invention of an early-20th century architect named Petra Andrejova-Molnár. In 2013, she was awarded the prestigious James and Audrey Foster Prize at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. Her recent solo projects include exhibitions at Kunstverein Langenhagen, Akademie Schloss Solitude (Stuttgart) and P! (New York), along with gallery exhibitions at Ratio 3 (San Francisco), M29 Richter & Brückner (Cologne) and Lucile Corty (Paris).

In conjunction with her visit, selections from her project “Hotel Nord-Sud” will be presented Gallery 103 in the Art and Architecture Building from February 8-27. During her week-long visit, Burin will also work in the UTK Print Workshop on a limited edition print.

Part of the Robert Church Lecture Series, the lecture offers continuing education units and will be streamed live.

For more information on Burin’s visit, contact Beauvais Lyons (blyons@utk.edu)

Web Resources on Katarina Burin:
• http://grahamfoundation.org/grantees/5135-petra-andrejova-molnar-room-for-a-modern-engineer-czechoslovakian-pavilion-paris-1925
• http://www.andreasgrimmgallery.com/exhibitions/past/210
• http://www.ves.fas.harvard.edu/burin.html