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Artist Organisation International, 2015, curated by Florian Malzacher, Jonas Staal and Joanna Warsza, photo: Lidia Rossner

Our 2015 programme of events is online! Within the lectures and dicussions series titled "The production of meaning", the topics ranges from the question of how "useful art" can intervene actively into society (Florian Malzacher) to the general questioning of the "work of art" within the field between market and museum (Luis Camnitzer). David Riff will address the topicality of Marxist aesthetic today, and Ekaterina Degot will ask, how curatorial montage is part of the production of meaning of exhibitions. Finally, Tony Chakar reports from his actual lifeworld in the Near East and analyses the relation between ISIS and Christian minorities in the Levant.

There are still some places available in the following two courses by Nora Schultz and Marc Monzó, taking (hi)stories as their starting-point. Apply here. Nora Schultz takes the story of a man who lived for twenty years in Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris because he had lost his identity documents as background for a course devoted to sculptural production. You probably remember the film "Terminal" by Steven Spielberg which is based loosely on this true story. See further details on her course here. Marc Monzó takes the Big Bang as the starting-point for jewellery objects. He says, "the current level of knowledge is that everything that exists – including ourselves – is a fragment of the unity which exploded, and which had somehow always been there". See further details on his course here.

Currently, Nora Schultz’s work is on view in a solo presentation at Galerie Meyer Kainer in Vienna until 31 May and in a group exhibition at Galerie der Stadt Schwaz until 6 June.

Nora Schultz, Display with silver triangle, 2015, exhibition view, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Foto: Marcel Koehler

From 28 May to 5 July, Marc Monzo’s work is included in the group exhibition "Silence please!" at the Galerie Noel Guyomarc’h in Montréal. And from 10 June, he will present new works in a solo exhibition at Klimt02 Gallery in Barcelona. Have a glimpse at the new ones here:

Marc Monzó, Blank, 2015, gold plates

Ensure a place at the Summer Academy. Applications can still be made for one of the – mostly two-week – courses at the Salzburg International Summer Academy until 15 May. For any courses not fully booked, later applications are possible. The full course programme can be viewed here. Details for application here.

How important was your participation in a course at the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts? Has it had long term effects? Are networks formed here still operating? We put these questions to more than 1,000 former students and teachers from the summers of 2010 - 2013.

The result has proved very satisfying for us. In answer to the question of what was most important for students, seen from the present, further artistic training was in first place (very important: 65.3%; fairly important: 22.7%). In second place was getting to know other participants (very important: 47.4%; fairly important: 31.3%). 76.6 % still keep in contact with other students, 43.8 % to teachers.

Many thanks to all those who answered the questionnaire; their names were entered in a draw. First prize, a place free of charge in a 2015 course, goes to Rosemarie Stuffer. Second prize, the publication The World's Finest Studio – 60 Years of the Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, went to Sabine Dichatschek. Congratulations to the winners, whose names were drawn by our good fairy, Franziska!

90.5% of those who replied intend to take part in a further Summer Academy course. You may still apply for 2015 – there are still some places free.