Indian graphic novelist, artist and film-maker Sarnath Banerjee will explore with his students the various manifestations and implications of the hybrid language arising from the simultaneous use of image and text. This language can help to clarify the complexity of modern life. The course will take place at Hohensalzburg Fortress from 12 to 31 August. One of Banerjee’s most high profile works was a recent public art project for the Frieze Foundation in London during the Olympics that was presented on 48 billboards throughout the city that explored the idea of the “loser” in the Olympic Games. Currently, his work is on view in the group exhibition Fact | Fission at aicon gallery, New York, and tomorrow, HKW in Berlin will open their 12th edition of Labor Berlin, including his works.

Lucy Sarneel’s course emphasises the specific role that jewellery plays in our mass-oriented, efficient and high-tech world and the individual value it represents to us. Taking place at Alte Saline Hallein from 22 July to 10 August, the course aims to reveal and encourage each student's "treasures of imagination", as well as their drive and expressiveness in the field of jewellery. New pieces of jewellery by Lucy Sarneel are included in the forthcoming group exhibition at Galerie Marzee in Nijmegen (NL), opening this Sunday at 4 p.m.

Robert Kuśmirowski often is called “the genius of fake”. His students will work out new perspectives and possibilities in sculpture and experiment with the temporal limitation of a work. They will discover how something new can emerge from working with given material and situation. His course will take place at Alte Saline Hallein from 22 July to 10 August. Currently Kuśmirowski has a solo exhibition at Foksal Gallery Foundation in Warsaw. For the group exhibition One on one at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin he has developed the installation Lichtung that is on view until 20 January.

Rock the paint! This course of Swiss artist Hanspeter Hofmann deals with fundamental questions of artistic production and offers the opportunity of carrying out a detailed analysis of students' individual practice, reflecting on it and even possibly allowing a change of direction. Students will be able to examine the aesthetic effect of whatever technique is being used, and to consider conceptual questions. The course takes place at Hohensalzburg Fortress from 12 to 31 August.

Situations are created, absurd spaces constructed, Installations set up and then discarded. Possible fields of association: the construction of destruction (and vice versa), the hysterical object, political agitation, humour and subversion, asceticism and ecstasy. Expanding the collage into the third dimension, Christoph Draeger will give his course at Alte Saline Hallein from 12 to 31 August. Currently, his work is included in a group exhibition at aeroplastics in Brussels, and on 21 December there will be the opening of his solo show, together with Heidrun Holzfeind, at Corner College Zurich.