Art/Visual Culture
Megumi Tsuchiya starts PhD program in Creative Curating
Megumi Tsuchiya has started her PhD program in Creative Curating at Goldsmiths, University of London. In 2005 Megumi was the second bachelor student to graduate from the then newly formed Webster Vienna Department in Art with an emphasis in Visual Culture. Megumi obtained her MA degree in London and has worked for a gallery in London and done projects with British and Japanese artists. In addition she has curated shows in Vienna, Graz, Freiburg, Ingolstadt and London.
International Trienniel Student Exhibition
Photographs produced by Alexandra Ungern Prufer and by Tatiana Michaelis with drawings by George Lucian will be exhibited at the 5th International Trienniel Student Exhibition sponsored by Mamara University, Istanbul, Turkey. The exhibition opens on June 6, 2010.
Eva Petrić, Vordemberge-Gildewart award
Eva Petrić (Alumna from Webster University, Vienna) is among 25 Slovenian artists that have been nominated for the prestigious award of the Vordemberge-Gildewart Foundation from Switzerland, which will be given to a Slovenian artist this year. The Vordemberge-Gildewart Foundation, based in Lachen, Switzerland, is named after Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart (1899-1962), a German concrete and constructivist artist. In accordance with his will, the Foundation awards grants to visual artists under 35 throughout Europe. Photographs - "Berries" and "Pepper"
Webster Vienna, Major Alexandra Ungern Sterberg Prufer's photographs - "Berries" and "Pepper" - were selected for inclusion in the annual Juried Show of student photography sponsored by the May Gallery on the main campus in Saint Louis. The exhibition will run from April 9 to April 30, 2010
Webster Professor creates art work for Vienna Subway
Michael Schneider, Research Professor Webster University, Vienna has created a permanent installation for the Vienna Subway. The art work is called "übertragung - transfer" and it is placed at the station Johnstrasse at the line U3.
"transfer" is a work of enamel created by printmaking that was designed for a wall space of more than 330 square meters, that discusses the transfer function of the subway and those of our communication.
