„I like to paint my own films“

Bernhard Martin has a radical, masterly way of combining different styles of painting to create complete narratives. This way of working makes him one of the principal representatives of his generation. His works, enhanced with supposed fragments of reality, reveal a fathomless universe of constructs bizarre in both style and content. He is constantly ready to experiment in all directions and wants to show the enriching potential of what is out of the ordinary. 

Check out this video of his lunch talk in 2015 at the Summer Academy. 

Already in 2015 Bernhard Martin held a course at the Summer Academy in Salzburg. We are glad, that he will return this summer and are totally looking forward to his course, which is already fully booked.

If you are interested in his work, there is an Artist’s talk on 2 August at 6 p.m. at Galerie 5020. Bernhard Martin will discuss the question of what contemporary paintings could look like in our sensation-hungry age? Can painting today survive autonomously beside other media? 

Check out the event's programme on our website"

We are proud to present the 2017 event's programme of the Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts!

Produce Art! is the title of our programme, it is a call to action. Yes - let's produce some art. The primary aim of the programme of events (which includes lectures, art discussions, town walks, an exhibition and Open Days) is to offer a wide variety of insights into art production worldwide today. 
This year the "Global Academy" project continues with a series of lectures about different art scenes in Asia and the question of global curating.

So, take your time and have a look at all the event's we are offering this Summer. And we promise: It's gonna be wonderful!

Have a look at our website!
 

"Global Academy" Conference 2016, From left to right: Koyo Kouoh, Ahmet Ögüt, Inga Lace, © ISBK, photo: Mira Turba

„The life of a painter is a life filled with time spent alone. Painting is an act of focused solitude. I often feel it is an action that helps to divert one from concrete thinking. In this way it is an escape from what others might describe as “practical logic”. Painters create a visual interpretation of something; they do this not from nothing, but from their own experience. In a sense, they create their own world in the hope that others might gain a notable experience from it.“
Mark Van Yetter

Formal decision-making as a way to create meaning in an artwork, will be the focus of the painting course by Mark van Yetter in Salzburg. He himself uses figurative and abstract language in his own paintings, addressed to issues related to power and human interaction. His work often engages with macabre subject-matter while using a formal language that is both humorous and uplifting, creating an unsettling and complex dynamic.

Mark Van Yetter, annoyingly delicious, 2016, oil on paper, Courtesy the artist and Bridget Donahue Gallery
 

The American artist, based in Berlin, recently won the Fürstenberg Zeitgenössisch grant and has been presented in exhibitions internationally for over a decade. We are really glad, that he will hold a course at the Summer Academy this year.
 

A blog post about a blogging class? Sounds absurd, but why not? As the Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts is offering a course for artblogging for the first time (ever), it seems reasonable. A blog is quicker and definetely more independent to share your thoughts about your recent (art) experience, than an art critic in print media. Have you been to an interesting lecture, an inspiring course or a fascinating exhibition and you feel the deep need to write about it? Then it is time to start your own blog. If that sounds interesting to you, our two teachers can advise you with all the skills you need to start your own blog. But not only the blogging is going to be a subject, digital media is becoming more important from day to day and there are million ways to post, blog or just write in the digital world.

Our teachers are Sabine B. Vogel, who is a freelance art critic and curator. She has run independent webblogs since 1996 and is frequently posting news, reviews and interviews on her blog www.sabinebvogel.at. 
 

Sabrina Möller, who already established a successful artblog called art&signature when she was still an undergraduate student, and furthermore founded keen on in 2016, which is the first online interactive art magazine distinguished by innovative design and a new kind of application for the user. It includes contributions by known curators and critics. www.keenonmag.com

„How can we use photography for invention rather than for reproduction? The camera simply shows what is there; so how can we take a picture using intuition and heart, rather than the eye?“ These are the key questions in Valérie Jouve’s course.
Valérie Jouve observes urban landscapes and their inhabitants. Her images are constructed around the notion of encounters between bodies, whether they are individuals, architectures, or landscape components.
Exploring the town will as well be part of the course as black-and-white studio portraits.

Check out this video from her show at the Jeu de Paume "Bodies, Resisting" in 2015.

VALÉRIE JOUVE “Bodies, Resisting” (2015) from Jeu de Paume / magazine on Vimeo.