The principal aim of the Salzburg Summer Academy of Fine Arts is a wide variety of artistic production. We offer courses and workshops focusing on painting, drawing, graphic arts, sculpture, stone sculpture, video, photography, installation and performative art.
In an intensive and inspirational working atmosphere, prominent international artists, positioned within current discourses and concerned with contemporary questions, offer instruction in both new and traditional techniques. The programme is marked by high productivity and vigorous discussion; the classes offer both individual conversation and group discussion, aiming at individual artistic development and creativity, as well as introducing innovative and experimental approaches to art production.
"Political art" is a term often used in artistic practice, though with very different definitions and implementation. In 2013, the Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts offers three (out of altogether 21) co[...]
March 12, 2013
Some 90 grants, usually covering tuition costs only, are available for participation in one of the courses at the Summer Academy. Only grants by the American Austrian Foundation (AAF), ERSTE Foundation, Free State of Bav[...]
February 8, 2013
The primary aim of Katharina Sieverding’s course is, on a macrosocial level, intensive discussion of the cultural, social, and medial positioning of artistic image productions. On a microsocial level, the focus is on t[...]
May 3, 2012
"...to plunge into the abyss, only to resurface" is the motto of the 2012 Summer Academy course programme. It refers to the current social and political situation, in which many people have the feeling that they are hov[...]
April 26, 2012
The curatorial collective What, How & for Whom / WHW, among others, was responsible for the 2009 Biennial in Istanbul. Their course Art always has its consequences reflects on contemporary artistic practice as well as[...]
April 21, 2012
The Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts is awarding some 70 grants, which cover either the course fees together with travel and living costs, or the course fees only. Highlights of the 2012 course p[...]
February 2, 2012
Global Art Symposium held by the AICA (Austrian and Swiss sections) and the Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts Participants: Nancy Adajania, Hans Belting, Bassam El Baroni, Peter Friedl, Samuel Her[...]
June 29, 2011
Application Deadline May 15th For courses at Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts 2011 The Summer Academy 2011 offers 20 courses with renowned international artists in painting, drawing, figure model[...]
May 4, 2011
"What is art today?" – this is the theme to be elucidated from various points of view in the 2011 program of the Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts. This year, special attention is devoted to the questi[...]
February 8, 2011
Diversity, quality, internationality and multilingualism – literally and figuratively – mark the intensive working atmosphere of the Summer Academy in Salzburg/Austria, which combines art production, discourse and pr[...]
April 2, 2010
