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

 





April 15, 2025

 

 

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](https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.gf.org_stories_announcing-2Dthe-2D2025-2Dguggenheim-2Dfellows&d=DwMF-g&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=xv3nclGFtwPTtndlqPfvVJN4ygtNZ8tM36YRdHtoF5c&m=C8sG9Q3HOgz3x81QhLRmSzD7aZCgb_vQd5muk87d7UiME-uU-Uv5C5iC-2TzFAR6&s=6L-Xnb976qEJLcDwczBNMPLrwznMBq1_gRp72GvFW34&e=); Harvard University’s announcement can be found [here](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/newsplus/three-affiliates-named-2025-guggenheim-fellows/); and The Boston Globe's coverage is [here](https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bostonglobe.com_2025_04_15_arts_guggenheim-2Dfellowship-2Dboston_&d=DwMF-g&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=xv3nclGFtwPTtndlqPfvVJN4ygtNZ8tM36YRdHtoF5c&m=C8sG9Q3HOgz3x81QhLRmSzD7aZCgb_vQd5muk87d7UiME-uU-Uv5C5iC-2TzFAR6&s=W9KiO-CsIRpd-2w0BzqtTrzOwovDko9_TnkoRJN0_oc&e=).

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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

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