In his printmaking course Lukas Pusch will examine representations of the city of Salzburg and its everyday kitschy aspect that has evolved through mass tourism. Etymologically, the technique of etching is highly appropriate for "eating away" (as the original meaning of the word etching) at the city's kitschy facade.
Currently based in Shanghai, Lukas Pusch will present "57 speedy paintings, collages, photos and watercolors", produced during his three-months stay in Shanghai, in his studio this Friday.

Lukas Pusch
"Shanghai Boogie Woogie"
Friday 13th 5pm till 9pm

377 Chenhui Rd., (Corner Songtao Rd)
Building 166, Apartment 302
201203 Shanghai
上海市浦东新区晨晖路377弄166号302室。
Metro Linie 2 Zhiangjiang Hightechnology Park, Exit 5

"How does the world come into the picture?" this is what Amelie von Wulffen will research with the students of her class at the 2014 Summer Academy next summer. It's the first time she's going to teach here. In 1986, however, she attended the class of Friedrich Karl Waechter as a student herself. Tonight, Amelie von Wulffen opens here solo exhibition Am kühlen Tisch at Portikus in Frankfurt a.M., showing recent paintings, a slideshow of her latest comic, and a group of painted chairs.

During the next weeks we'll inform you about our international teaching artists, curators and writers, who give courses at the summeracademy next summer. The entire programme is going to be online on 21 December 2013.

Taiye Idahor was one of the grant holders participating in this year's Summer Academy. Thanks to the support from CCA Lagos and to private commitment of one of the academy's friends, she was able to make this journey from Lagos to Salzburg. You can read here in her blog about the experiences she made in Christoph Draeger's course.

Have you missed the Lunch Talk of Norbert Bisky in Hohensalzburg Fortress? Or would you like to see again Ralph Rugoff's lecture about the "Return of the amateurs"? Those talks and a few others, documented by Salzburg artist and filmmaker Sina Moser, are now online in our youtube-channel.

Alexej Bisunov's sudden death has greatly saddened all of us who knew him in Salzburg. He was such fun to be with, so vivacious, curious, kind and creative – and a wonderful singer. At the end of our course at the Summer Academy 2011 he presented me with a picture – "The painter" –  a figure with a two-legged eye in place of the heart. This must be himself, and with this eye he observed his surroundings very critically. Although I knew him only briefly, I will remember him with affection through this picture.

I would like to express my sincere condolences to his family and close friends.

Katrin Plavcak