Students traveled a short distance from Dusseldorf to visit Duisburg where a large art collection is exhibited in the MKM. On the outside the museum takes the appearance of the old mill factory where it resides, however on the inside its stunning modern architecture mirrors the prolific 20th century artists on display.
Our grads had the chance to visit Professor Stefan Kürten’s studio to view some of his recent work and hear more about his artistic process.
Grads had the opportunity to travel to Berlin and Leipzig for gallery and museum tours.
In early September, students attended Professor Stefan Kürten’s exhibition HousesHomes at the Beck & Eggeling gallery
The first weekend in Düsseldorf our grads had the pleasure to attend an exhibition by their professor Kevin Wixted.
The first week our grads were in Düsseldorf they participated in the Kunstpunkte, a city wide open student event. Grads exhibited recent artwork with their two professors, Kevin Wixted and Stephanie McMahon. At the opening students met artists from Düsseldorf’s vibrant local art community.
Work exhibited by Grads:
Nina Yushan Lai
Isabel Monti
Siennie Lee
Madeleine Speicher Willis
Emma Barnes
One of the first exhibitions our grads visited in Düsseldorf was at the Kunsthalle.
The show was curated to welcome and celebrate Düsseldorf’s Japanese community, which is the largest in Germany.
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Artists: Takeoka Yūji, Nara Yoshitomo, Murase Kyōko, Andō Yukako, Kinoshita Ryō, Karin Sander, Nakahara Masao, Anca Muresan, Magdalena Jetelová and Arakawa Sōya
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curated by Gregor Jansen and Alicia Holthausen.
Jiha Moon (b. 1973) is from DaeGu, Korea and lives and works in Atlanta, GA. She received her MFA from the University of Iowa, Iowa City. Her works have been acquired by Asia Society, New York, NY, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, The Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC, Smithsonian Institute, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, Weatherspoon Museum of Art, Greensboro, NC and The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA. She has had solo exhibitions at Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, GA, Taubman Museum, Roanoke, VA, the Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC, The Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN and Rhodes College, Clough-Hanson Gallery, Memphis, TN and James Gallery of CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY. She has been included in group shows at Kemper Museum, Kansas City, MI, the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA, the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA, Asia Society, New York, NY, The Drawing Center, New York, NY, White Columns, New York, NY, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA, and the Weatherspoon Museum of Art, Greensboro, NC. She is recipient of prestigious Joan Mitchell foundation’s painter and sculptor’s award for 2011. Her mid-career survey exhibition, “Double Welcome: Most everyone’s mad here” organized by Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art and Taubman Museum has toured more than 10 museum venues around the country until 2018.
Moon’s gestural paintings, mixed media, ceramic sculpture and installation explore fluid identities and the global movement of people and their cultures. She says “I am a cartographer of cultures and an icon maker in my lucid worlds.” She is taking cues from wide ranges of history of Eastern and Western art, colors and designs from popular culture, Korean temple paintings and folk art, internet emoticons and icons, fruit stickers and labels of products from all over the place. She often teases and changes these lexicons so that they are hard to identify, yet stay in a familiar zone.
Excited for our next visiting artist Vera Iliatova who will lecture on her work and have virtual studio visits with our grads!
PAINTING MFA Alfred/Düsseldorf 