Open Day Fortress Hohensalzburg 28.08

Yesterday a lot of excited and curiouse visitors streamed up to the fortress Hohensalzburg to finally enter the, normaly for public locked, halls of Summer Academy. Four classes, leaded by Marco Lulic, Liliana Moro, Martin Schmiedl and Christina Zurfluh, presented their sculptures, installations and paintings from three weeks working. The spectators got to see many different pieces from nearly 80 students from all over the world. The results were very impressive and also the feedback of the visitors showed that students and teachers did an amazing work together.

Thanks to the great technical support we had on the fortress everything worked out very well and the exhibition seemed to be very professional and well planed. It was so surprising what great works artists can create within three weeks and also the teachers were pretty impressed by the working motivation of their students. In the end people were working till late in the night to finish their projects and be ready for the big day when everybody comes to visit. What I really liked was that also students and professors from Hallein and the Kiefer quarry came to visit and see what happend on the fortress the last weeks. That really showed the huge interest in Summer Academy projects and that there is more about the chourses than just beeing around with your specific class. I think many people enjoyed to exchance and connect with other artist and also some exiciting colaboration projects will have their origin in Summer Academy 2010.

So sadly the Academy is over for this season but it really seemed that every participant and also the team is allready looking forward to next year when it's time for Summer Academy again.