At the beginning of her lecture Hildegund Amanshauser, director of the Summer Academy, told the audience about her conversation with Daniel Richter the evening before - he didn't approve the idea of lecturing about art history in 6 hours, stating that th… more »

Even though Elfie Semotan is a well known, international working and very public photographer, seeing her artwork is not something common. That's what Margit Zuckriegl tried to convey the visitors when she described Semotan as "Phantom of the Photo-scene… more »

Today the walls of Hohensalzburg Fortress shook with the sounds of clapping, cheering, stomping and shouting. Maria Alexandrescu, wanting to break the seriousness of "everybody being so artistic and hard-working", had spontaneously decided to lead the st… more »

At the very hot an tropic exhibition opening of Katrin Plavcak, Marigt Zuckriegl gave the opening speach referring to Karel Capek and his invention of the expression robot. In the last room Plavcak has been showing ink drawings on traditional chinese m… more »

As artist Krystyna Piotrowska takes us along on a deeper journey into her work, it quickly becomes apparent that the human face is the core of her artistic interest. She herself puts it like this: "Every day we see hundereds of faces, but  our own we o… more »