Artists Doris Schälling and Jörg Enderle see sculpture as an explorative process. Their individual works and their joint projects since 1989 focus on stone as material and the stone quarry as a place of enquiry. For the first time, Schälling | Enderle are directing the Stone Sculpture Symposium, taking place at the Kiefer quarry in Fürstenbrunn from 4 to 31 August. In this course, traditional stone sculpture is one possibility, but other methods and media, as well as theoretical study, are also encouraged and supported.

Indian artists Shaina Anand and Ashok Sukumaran will explore fundamental questions raised by media art in their course, taking place at Alte Saline Hallein from 22 July to 10 August. In 2007, they co-founded CAMP, a space and work studio in Bombay, originated in a will to work collectively on a number of areas around technology, art, archives, the public sphere and contemporary life. CAMP has participated in documenta 13 and currently is presented in the just opened Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India’s first Biennale.

Paolo Woods is well-known as press photographer, artist and co-author of many documentary books. His course, taking place at Alte Saline Hallein from 22 July to 10 August, will deal with the language of photography. The aim is to learn how to recognise and narrate stories and how to translate them into that language. In 2010, Woods completed the project Walk on my Eyes, an intimate portrait of Iranian society. The accompanying show premièred at the Festival of Arles (FR) and is currently touring worldwide. His work is also included in the forthcoming exhibition The eye is a lonely hunter – images of humankind at Fotogalleriet in Oslo, that shows a new selection of works from the 4th Fotofestival Mannheim Ludwigshafen Heidelberg.

For the second time, Brasilian artist Leya Mira Brander will hold the printmaking course at Hohensalzburg Fortress (22 July to 10 August). The aim of this course is to gain a thorough knowledge of various techniques of printing on paper, and then to process these prints into pop-up books and other three-dimensional objects. The students will learn how to think about the infinite possibilities of relation between the images and the different ways of cutting prints to construct a solid work of art.

The course of Austrian film director and artist Mara Mattuschka will concentrate on portraiture - the ultimate skill in painting. It demands knowledge of human nature, psychology, communication and empathy. Individual facial features relate to the current state of mind – of both artist and subject – and mingle to form a new whole. Thus every portrait to a certain extent documents a little (love) relationship. This course will take place at Alte Saline Hallein from 12 to 31 August.