After the introductory day, the atmosphere at the Summer Academy is enthusiastic and industrious, yet somehow casually vigilant. Everybody is still settling in, getting to know each other, gathering materials and exchanging ideas. the… more »

No studio visit can parallel being next to a massive act of creation for weeks, where I hope to be able to absorb a shred of that energy and return to my own contemplative origins, where every step of the artistic action matters and where observing the making of a piece is the most exciting thing. more »

We are happy, that the anthropologist Virginia Whiles followed our invitation to hold a lecture within our Global Academy lecture series this year. It is entitled “Contemporary art in Pakistan: Contrasts between local and global perspectives”. Her talk… more »

Most people associate Bangladesh with poverty and ecological and industrial disasters. Diana Campbell Betancourt will open up a different sight on this country. While focusing primarily on contemporary art, her talk will trace the developement of… more »

  How has art in recent history changed into a transnational category and a cabinet of curiosities? The Beirut based art historian and author Ghalya Saadawi suggests to return to time, in order to confront the geographical and identitarian paradoxes at… more »