Application deadline for 2014 Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts ends soon. Send us quickly your application for your preferred course by May 15. Check the whole programme here and apply here. Later applications are welcome for any courses not fully booked.

What do we perceive in our surroundings? How does an image take shape in our mind’s eye, and what is its relation to the picture we create on canvas or paper? In Norbert Bisky's course you will consider the relationship between perception and visualisation.
Currently Bisky's work is included in the exhibition "Paperworlds" at me Collectors Room in Berlin, still on view until 29 June. On May 15, he will talk there about his childhood drawings and the exhibition. On June 7, a solo show with Bisky's works on paper will open at Galerie Daniel Templon in Paris.

"I am convinced that photography has its own language", says Paolo Woods, who devotes his time to long-term projects that blend photography with investigative journalism. In his course "What do you mean?", taking place from 21 July to 2 August, you will learn how to master this language and above all you will learn how to tell stories. Apply now and join this course to rethink your photographic language.
Today is the opening of Paolo Woods' exhibition LETA in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where he presents his work on Haiti. Together with Swiss journalist Arnaud Robert, he accomplished the project STATE (LETA in creole), which questions the notion of STATE in Haitian society.
The show opens on the Champ de Mars, on the outside walls of the University of Ethnology (Faculté d’Ethnologie), Port-au-Prince, on April 25, 2014, at 5 pm.

The Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts mourns the passing of Wieland Schmied, its long-time President (1981-1999), who died aged 85 in Vorchdorf, Austria, on Tuesday 22 April 2014. 

Under his directorship, many internationally distinguished artists taught at the Summer Academy and an extensive programme of lectures and exhibitions was instituted.
"Well equipped with outstanding contacts in the major art centres of the day [...], Schmied achieved belated but convincing links between the Salzburg Summer Academy and the post-war avant-garde in Cologne, Berlin, Paris, Milan and New York." Thus Martin Fritz, in his essay on the history of the Summer Academy, published in 2013 in "The World's Finest Studio. 60 years of the Salzburg International Academy of Fine Arts", to mark its 60th anniversary.
We will remember Wieland Schmied with gratitude and appreciation.
The staff of the Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts

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Die Internationale Sommerakademie für Bildenden Kunst Salzburg trauert um Wieland Schmied. Am Dienstag 22. April 2014 ist der langjährige Präsident der Sommerakademie (1981-1999) im Alter von 85 Jahren in Vorchdorf, Österreich verstorben.

Unter seiner Leitung lehrten zahlreiche international angesehene Künstler und Künstlerinnen an der Akademie, ein umfangreiches Vortrags- und Ausstellungsprogramm wurde ins Leben gerufen.

"Ausgestattet mit hervorragenden Kontakten in den Zentren des damaligen Kunstbetriebs [...], sorgte Schmied für den verspäteten, aber überzeugenden Anschluss der Salzburger Sommerakademie an die Nachkriegsavantgarden von Köln, Berlin, Paris, Mailand und New York", schreibt Martin Fritz in seinem Essay über die Geschichte der Sommerakademie, der anlässlich ihres 60-jährigen Bestehens 2013 in der Publikation "Das schönste Atelier der Welt. 60 Jahre Internationale Sommerakademie für Bildende Kunst Salzburg" erschienen ist.

Wir werden Wieland Schmied ein ehrendes Andenken bewahren.

Die Mitarbeiterinnen der Internationalen Sommerakademie für Bildende Kunst Salzburg.

Foto: Salzburger Nachrichten/Heinz Bayer

Drawing within contemporary art today means much more than to outline an idea or to quickly visualize one's thoughts. It's a whole reflexive process, finding its expression on a paper, on a wall, or in a room; in single works or whole series. If you like to find out more about the diversity of possibilities offered by this medium, apply here for Adriana Czernin's course "Drawing – idea, context, picture", taking place from 11 to 30 August.
Currently, Adriana Czernin's works are on view in the group exhibitions "The collection #4" at 21er Haus in Vienna until 21 April and in the touring group exhibition "Desiring the real. Austria contemporary" at the Art Gallery of Bosnia-Herzegovina until 30 April.