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.
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
"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
