Draft:Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts

= Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts =

The Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, founded in 1953 by Oskar Kokoscha as the "School of Seeing" at the Hohensalzburg Fortress, is the oldest of its kind in Europe. Every year, around 300 participants from over 50 countries (as of 2019) attend around 20 courses at the two permanent course locations, Hohensalzburg Fortress and Kiefer Steinbruch in Fürstenbrunn, as well as at temporary locations. The Salzburg Summer Academy is open to all interested parties. A good two thirds of the participants are professionals (artists and art students). All participants go through an application process in which the teachers decide on their acceptance.

Teaching content
Renowned artists from all over the world give courses in painting, drawing, printmaking, (stone) sculpture, installation, mixed media, architecture, jewelry design, photography, video, performance, curatorial practice and writing about art. The organizational structure of the Summer Academy enables it to react quickly to current developments in the art world and to help shape the latest trends.

History of the Academy
The Academy was founded in 1953 by Oskar Kokoschka and Friedrich Welz as the School of Seeing at Hohensalzburg Fortress. Hermann Stuppäck succeeded him as director in 1964. Wieland Schmied was president of the Summer Academy from 1981 to 1999. Barbara Wally started with Schmied as Managing Director in 1981 and took over the overall management of the Summer Academy in 1999 as Director until 2009. She was replaced in March 2009 by Hildegund Amanshauser, who professionalized the Summer Academy until 2020, focusing on globalized contexts and developing it into a Global Academy. Sophie Goltz became the new director of the International Summer Academy on September 1, 2020. Her central concerns are artistic practices that are committed to experimental pedagogy and make use of digital technologies or novel, synthetically generated materials.

Professors
The lecturers are internationally recognized artists or university professors who have taught, among others e.g. Bani Abidi, Doug Ashford, Kenjirō Azuma, Norbert Bisky, Erwin Bohatsch, Arik Brauer, Tania Bruguera, Alice Creischer, Gunter Damisch, Valie Export, Rupprecht Geiger, Gotthard Graubner, Itsuko Hasegawa, Xenia Hausner, Coop Himmelb(l)au, Giselbert Hoke, Hans Hollein, Nan Hoover, Milan Horvat, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Jörg Immendorff, Alfredo Jaar, Anna Jermolaewa, Robert Jungk, Allan Kaprow, Kiki Kogelnik, Robert Kuśmirowski, Maria Lind, Markus Lüpertz, Friedrich Meckseper, Mario Merz, Kunito Nagaoka, Hermann Nitsch, Eduardo Paolozzi, Gustav Peichl, Dan Perjovschi, Manfred Pernice, Herbert Post, Gerhard Rühm, Nicolaus Schafhausen, Andreas Siekmann, Katharina Sieverding, Annegret Soltau, Daniel Spoerri, Yoshi Takahashi, Heinz Trökes, Günther Uecker, Wolf Vostell, Ai Weiwei, Ben Willikens, Josef Zenzmaier

Literatur
Hildegund Amanshauser (Hrsg.): Das schönste Atelier der Welt. 60 Jahre Internationale Sommerakademie für Bildende Kunst Salzburg. Jung und Jung, Salzburg/Wien 2013,. ISBN 978-3-99027-038-7

Weblinks
|   Online site of the Summer Academy

Literature by and about the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts Salzburg in the catalog of the German National Library