A short interview with... Ekaterina Shapiro-Obermair!

Summeracademy: What is the Summer Academy for you?
 

Ekaterina Shapiro-Obermair: For me the Summer Academy is a unique place, where people with very different backgrounds and experiences meet to think about art, to work and to interact.
 

S: Is printing a contemporary medium for you?
 

E: Each medium could be used to express our present times, if you re-interpret it with a contemporary approach. I think it´s an interesting challenge to work with techniques today, which seem to be traditional or played through and to find new solutions to adapt the media.
 

S: What are the students in your class going to learn?
 

E: In my class we will work on individual artistic questions with means of graphic arts and reflect the abilities of the media. I hope to help everyone attending the class to become better in what he or she is doing and to give a lot of input and inspiration for the future.

 

[Ekaterina Shapiro-Obermair on Postwar Soviet Architecture at a conference in 2013]