Congratulation to Katrina Daschner, she has won the Otto Mauer Prize a prominent Austrian Art Prize for "young" artists, in commemoration of Otto Mauer, who was the founder of the Galerie Naechst St. Stephan in Vienna, the important Avantgarde Gallery since the 1950ies.

I'm very happy to announce, that Jitish Kallat is going to come for a one week's course and a symposion next summer http://jitishkallat.in/, we are still figuring out the exact dates. More about the symposion later.

The painter Milena Dragicevic http://www.martinjanda.at/kuenstler_4_dragicevic.html will give a course from July 18 to August 6 2011. Senam Okudzeto will come at the same time as well http://www.okudzeto.org/, she had under others a solo show at PS1 New York in 2007. The painter, sculptor and musician Katrin Plavcak http://www.plavcak.com/ will be here again from August 8 to 27 2011.

Jo Ractliffe, a photographer from South Africa, will give a photography class in August next year. "For Okwui Enwezor, who has described Ractliffe as 'one of the most accomplished and under-rated photographers of her generation', the work ranks alongside J.M. Coetzee's novel Disgrace (1999) for its studied engagement with 'landscape as archive'". Citation: http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/jo_ractliffe/

Hubert Scheibl http://www.hubertscheibl.com/ Sabine Bitter/Helmut Weber http://www.lot.at/ Denes Miklosi http://www.uad.ro/Denes_Miklosi Mladen Stilinovic http://www.kontakt-collection.net/artists/Stilinovic+Mladen/ Judy Fox http://www.judyfox.net/