AFVS congratulates Katarina Burin on being named a recipient of the 2025 Guggenheim Award

AFVS congratulates Katarina Burin on being named a recipient of the 2025 Guggenheim Award for her groundbreaking work in Fine Arts.

Katarina will produce a new body of sculptural work for her project “Planned to be Unplanned: East Brutalism and Personal Monuments.” Drawing on her experiences as an immigrant from the former Eastern Bloc and her long-standing engagement with architectural form, she will create site-responsive sculptures that examine the visual and ideological overlaps between American Brutalism and communist-era modernism. Developed through material research and time spent in both Boston and Slovakia, these works will serve as what she calls “anti-monuments”— or poetic interventions that explore memory, urbanism, and the shifting meanings of civic space.

The Guggenheim Foundation’s full announcement is available at this link; Harvard University’s announcement can be found here; and The Boston Globe's coverage is here.

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Katarina Burin received her BFA from University of Georgia and MFA from Yale University. Recent solo exhibitions include objects lying around, in Somerville, MA, and Significant Other in Vienna, Austria. Recent awards include the Collective Futures Fund; prior fellowships include the Radcliffe Fellowship.

Photo: Katarina Burin's Petra Andrejova-Molnàr with Hannah Kucerova Zavweska, Zijeme Storefront, Gallery ViPer, Prague 2018