“A virtual bike ride through Manhattan”: Montag Stiftungen

Presentation & Publication:
Saturday June 23 2007
Elfenbeintürme oder Leuchttürme? // Pia Zierhut, Künstlerin, New York und Oliver Boberg, Künstler, Nürnberg

Arts Academic

Pia Zierhut completed her education and training in fine arts at the renowned Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Nürnberg, Germany in 2003.  She returned as visiting lecturer in 2007 when she presented her paper, “Life After the Arts Academy: A Virtual Bike Ride through Manhattan” (published in” Getting out of the Ivory Tower!” in “New Paths of [...]

Singer/Songwriter

P*I*A, with the support of her talented team of musicians, creative consultants and sound engineers, is hard at work producing her upcoming Debut Album and accompanying DVD, in order to make more widely available to fans the P*I*A experience, a mellifluous and kaleidoscopic embrace of song and musical and visual landscapes.  P*I*A has performed in her native Germany as well as in New York City, where she teamed up [...]

Multi-media Performance Artist

Pia Zierhut’s brand of conceptual art draws on influences from early 20th Century pioneers of the Avant-garde, Dada, Marcel Duchamp, as well as brings to the table elements of contemporary Pop Art, Warhol, and contemporary performance innovation of Laurie Anderson.

Visual Artist

Pia Zierhut’s art has been distinguished by the honor of being exhibited at some of the top art fairs and galleries in the world since 2003.  Her Lenticular Art series has been widely exhibited at international art fairs, including the Toronto International Art Fair, Art Cologne, and ViennAfair, and enjoyed positive critical review.  

Filmmaker and Actor

Among some of Pia Zierhut’s achievements are her selection as Finalist at the Cannes Film Festival’s “A La Flip” Competition in 2008, in which she co-produced and co-starred in a short film portraying the first two humans in the Garden of Eden (with a twist).  Her independently produced short film, “L’Amour Sans Retour” was awarded first prize in a [...]

Calendar

UPCOMING SHOWS: 06/30/2011: Multimedia Concert & Song Release Party: This will be a unique concert! Seats are limited and by invitation only! Bring your own cyan-red 3D glasses or get them at the door. To listen to samples of P*I*A’s upcoming release, please go to:www.Myspace.com/songsbypia   Past concerts: 02.02.2011: Schweinfurt, Germany http://www.disharmonie.de/ Pia Zierhut kommt mit [...]

About

About P*I*A: Born in Bavaria. Timeline: 1996 – She studies at The Academy of Fine Arts in Nürnberg; 2001 – P*I*A aka Pia Zierhut lands shortly before September 11th in New York City. The people react strongly to her art and music, and to the young woman in the strange outfit – pants, veste, self-felted [...]