Miya Yoshida

  • Universität für Angewandte Kunst Wien
  • Künstlerisches PhD

Skills and Expertise

Art TheoryAestheticsCuratorMedia TheoryArtistic Direction

Address

  • Rustenschacherallee 2-4 - EG
  • 1010 Wien

Curriculum Vitae

Miya Yoshida is an art theorist, curator, and cultural practitioner. She works as Professor of Artistic Research and Head of the Zentrum Fokus Forschung (ZFF) at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria. Yoshida received her MA in Media and Governance at Keio University, SFC, Japan and in Art History at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK, and PhD in Philosophy in Arts at Malmö Art Academy, Lund University, Sweden, and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany. Her recent curatorial projects include: Listening to the Stones– the exhibition dedicated to the 30 years anniversary of Kunsthaus Dresden (Kunsthaus Dresden, 2022-23), Each Line Is A Crime (Archive Kabinett, Berlin, 2018) and annual exhibition project, Sharing as Caring no.1-7 (Heidelberger Kunstverein, 2012–16, 2018-19, after the butcher, Berlin 2022-23), AMATEURISM (Heidelberg Kunstverein, 2012), Labor of Love, Revisited : Amateurism in the Age of Digital Net (Arko Art Museum, Korean Art Council, Seoul, South Korea, 2011), and many others. Her recent writings and publications on contemporary art and aesthetics can be found in Listening to the Stones (Kunsthaus Dresden, 2023), Towards (Im)Measurability of Art and Life (Archive Books, Berlin 2018), Sharing as Caring No. 1-5 (Heidelberger Kunstverein, 2017), among others.

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