Katarina Burin: Artist Talk

In this lecture, Katarina Burin will talk about the end of her most recent and long term project involving the life and work of Petra Andrejova-Molnár (1898–1987), merging the past project with her upcoming and current investigation into the work of Fran Hosken (1920–2006), a furniture designer, educator, and activist who was among the first women to graduate from the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Katarina Burin was born in Bratislava, Slovakia. She moved to Toronto, Canada, at the age of six. Burin received her MFA in from Yale University (2002) and her BFA from the University of Georgia (1999). Her work is formally very diverse (drawings, models, collages, installations), but she has long been interested in the history of architecture, especially modernism, the position of women in architecture and the possibilities and limits of historical documentation. Recently, she has published the first monograph Contribution and Collaboration: The Work of Petra Andrejova-Molnár and Her Contemporaries (Koenig Books, 2016) of the work of Petra Andrejova-Molnár, a fictional Brno modernist architect who Burin conceptualizes as deeply involved in the development of architectural movements during the early 20th century. Recent solo exhibitions include the Neubauer Collegium at the University of Chicago, Kunstverein Langenhagen, Ratio 3 (San Francisco) and P! (New York). Group exhibitions include the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, and the Aspen Art Museum. A recipient of a Schloss Solitude Fellowship, a Graham Foundation publication grant as well as the 2013 James and Audrey Foster Prize, Burin is currently Lecturer on visual and environmental studies at Harvard University and fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.