The 2013 International Summer Academy Programme of events is online.
When Oskar Kokoschka founded the Summer Academy in Hohensalzburg Fortress in 1953, directing it until 1963, he staunchly rejected any kind of acceptance requirement, insisting that anyone, without exception, should be able to study with him. The question of the relation between professional artists and amateurs has remained anchored in the history of the Summer Academy.
This question is considered in a four-part series of lectures and discussions with Stephan Dillemuth, Anne Szefer Karlsen, Sebastian Cichocki and Ralph Rugoff, and in the Lunch Talks by the teaching artists. The speakers attempt to define amateurism, presenting and discussing amateurish methods, processes and aesthetic principles in art since the advent of Modernism.
Click here for the full programme.

Our brand-new publication has been published today! You can order via our website, or via bookstores. The purpose of this publication is to mark the 60th anniversary – and the steadily increasing attractiveness – of the Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts.

THE WORLD'S FINEST STUDIO –
60 years of the Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts

Edited by Hildegund Amanshauser for the Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, published by Jung und Jung Verlag, Salzburg and Vienna.
With an essay by Martin Fritz, a fictive interview with Oskar Kokoschka (compiled from quotations) by Hildegund Amanshauser and contributions by Norbert Bisky, Markus Brüderlin, Ingeborg G. Pluhar, Hans Hollein, Ursula Hübner, Susi Krautgartner, Hinrich Sachs, Martina Steckholzer, Dietmar Steiner and Amelie von Wulffen. Graphic design by Dorothea Brunialti.
160 pp, approx. 180 illustrations, stitched paperback, 19 x 26 cm
German/English
ISBN 978-3-99027-038-7
price €15.-

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Salzburg International Summer Academy busca un artista llamado Jesús (indicado en su pasaporte) que participe en el curso de Christoph Draeger para el verano 2013. La matricula sera cubierta con una beca (los costes de viaje y alojamiento correran a cargo del participante).
Información sobre el curso: http://www.summeracademy.at/Courses-2013_230_kurs285.html
El artista suizo Christoph Büchel ha sido invitado por Christoph Draeger para participar en su exposición con el titulo The Christoph Project en el kunstraum pro arte en Hallein en agosto 2013. Christoph Draeger ha invitado exclusivamente artistas que compartan su nombre o derivantes del original “Christophorus”. En concordancia con la traducción literal de Christophorus (“el que lleva Christo”), los artistas tendrán que traer personalmente sus obras a Hallein si es posible. La contribución de Christoph Büchel sería tener una persona llamada Jesús que estudie en el curso de Christoph Draeger en la Summer Academy este verano.
Por favor, circulen la noticia para ayudar a encontrar un artista llamado Jesús que pueda estar interesado en participar en este curso.
Para más información, contácten con: office@summeracademy.at

You could still apply for one of our 21 different courses – most of them last two or three weeks – between 22 July and 31 August 2013. Deadline is 15 May 2013, later applications are welcome for any courses not fully booked. Click here for the full programme of courses, click here for application details.

TODAY, graphic novelist Sarnath Banerjee is in Salzburg and gives a talk about his work, his interests and thoughts. The lecture will be about how one can use image and text in imaginative and effective ways to communicate, express, discuss, debate, unforld and narrate complex events and phenomenons of life. If you liked his talk, you can still apply to participate in his course Narratives through text and image, he will direct from 12 - 31 August 2013 at Hohensalzburg Fortress.

Thursday, 23 May 2013, 5 p.m., Universität Mozarteum, KunstWerk, Alpenstr. 75 (Hofseite), Seminarraum EG
organised by Schwerpunkt Wissenschaft und Kunst/Contemporary Arts und Cultural Production, moderation Beate Terfloth
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