Bernhard Cella is interested in the general economic and sculptural conditions under which artist's books can serve as artistic material. To this end, in 2007 he devised in his studio the "Salon für Kunstbuch" – a 1:1 scale model of a bookshop which, since the reopening of the 21er Haus in Vienna, has developed as an independent, processually expanding sculpture. He has assembled in his studio a collection of 9,000 artist's books, which he constantly rearranges into unaccustomed combinations, so that they enter into material dialogue.

Bernhard Cella will direct a course from 27 July to 8 August 2015.

(video only in German)

Bernhard Cella from white tube on Vimeo.

Jennifer Allen, writer, lecturer and researcher, was awarded the ADKV-Art Cologne Prize for art criticism in 2009. Since moving from Montréal to Berlin with a DAAD grant in 1995, she has published hundreds of texts for a host of international publications, including "Artforum", "Mousse", "frieze" and "frieze d/e" (which she edited from 2011-2013).
Jennifer Allen will direct two eight-day courses from 10 to 18 and from 20 to 29 August 2015.

Subsequent to this talk she gave at Summer Academy last August, you see a discussion with Tobias Zielony about the change of definition what is public art today in the virtual realm of digitisation.

Nicolas Wild studied in the renowned illustration workshop at the École Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs à Strasbourg. While he was working in Kabul in the field of public information and social communication, he related the everyday life of his Afghan company in the graphic novel "Kabul Disco" (La boîte à bulles). The discovery of the Persian world then led him to Iran: in 2013, he completed the album "Ainsi se tut Zarathoustra" (La boîte à bulles), a tale set in Iran amongst the Zoroastrian community and Afghan refugees in Tehran. Wild’s latest projects took him to a refugee camp in Nepal and to the city of Dubai, where his next comic reportage will be set.

Nicolas Wild will direct a two-week course from 3 to 15 August 2015.

Read here (in French) his blog at Le Monde and here (in German) his comic reportage about his encounters in the Nepalese refugee camp in Beldangi.

Czernin's exploration of ornament as system and expression, of its legibility, mutability and wealth of variation, is an important element of her work. She uses a variety of genres, both abstract and representational, in her approach to these complex issues.
Adriana Czernin will direct a three-week course from 10 to 29 August 2015.

„Nach Ibn-Tulun“ Adriana Czernin zu ihrer Arbeit from MAK Wien on Vimeo.

Tobias Zielony's critical aproach to social documentarism makes him one of the most discussed artists in contemporary German photography. In his accurately observed portraits, he deals with the "casual forms of the social scene", and the way young people stage and present themselves in public space. TONIGHT, a show with a complete survey of his filmic work will open at KOW Gallery in Berlin. Recently, Tobias Zielony, together with Hito Steyerl, Olaf Nicolai, and the artist duo Jasmina Metwaly and Philip Rizk, was announced to exhibit in the German Pavilion at the 56th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia.

Tobias Zielony will direct a two-week course from 3 to 15 August 2015.

Read here two interviews with Tobias in German and English
.. on ovjectivity in photography in DIE ZEIT
.. on his two-month residency in Ramallah last winter on the Goethe-Institut website as well as in the sleek magazine