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The State of Salzburg/Department for Art and Culture is again awarding scholarships (in the amount of the course fee) for attending the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts from 22 July to 31 August 2024.

In the "GOODGOODS - from experiment to mass production" project, students developed a product together with detailed instructions that show the production process broken down into individual steps and can therefore be mass produced - even by someone else.

The Ö1 Talent Scholarship for Fine Arts in the amount of 10,000 euros, provided by Wiener Städtische Versicherungsverein, is being offered by Ö1 for the 17th time this year. The prize serves to promote young talent among students at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, the University of Applied Arts Vienna, the University of Art and Design Linz, the Mozarteum University Salzburg and the University of Art and Design Graz. A special prize on the theme of "Solidarity" is also awarded.

Masks can be grotesque, sacred, mysterious, beautiful, terrifying, frightening and much more. They show and conceal at the same time. Masks have two sides. They oscillate between the inside and the outside - connecting and separating at the same time. They allow us to change roles, to role-play and are also a metaphor for our social role behaviour. Masks are an offer to change.

Some things stay with us for many years. Often stowed away in drawers, they are never thrown away. They have a personal history. We value them. They are mementos. Some things we wouldn't want to be without. They accompany us, they are a home for us, a connection. They are favourite things. How can favourite things provide inspiration for new things?

How can (physical) boundaries be overcome? What has the body not yet learnt? An experimental research & co-operation project on the modification of bodies & their limits from Gestaltung: Technik.Textil with the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation.

Parklets to linger, for people and bees: On June 28, two parklets were opened in the city of Salzburg, one of which is TO BEE, a project by students at the Department of Fine Arts & Design (Design: Technik.Textil).

Call for papers: For the upcoming conference, we invite scholars and researchers from the fields of art, political economy, architecture, urbanism, history, philosophy, etc. to submit proposals that address historical and contemporary forms of productivity and their social and aesthetic manifestations.

With the call "Out of the box", the city of Salzburg launched a competition of innovative ideas for the districts of Riedenburg and Maxglan. With "We swarm for the beehive" by Agnes Scherer and "burgglan" by Erik Hable, two of six awards went to members of the Mozarteum University.

The publication "Lieblingskleidungsstücke" with textile stories from the Department of Fine Arts and Design of the Mozarteum University (collected and compiled by Frauke von Jaruntowski, designed by Gerhard Andraschko-Sorgo) is nominated for the European Design Award 2023!

The collaborative greenhouse of the sculpture class combines botany and synthetics; in doing so, it aims to fuse natural processes such as growth with long-term toxic materials such as (micro/macro) plastic. In this work, the students address the theme of "nature:art" from a wide variety of perspectives. Thus, working groups have each focused on space, growth and object and united them in the common greenhouse.

Open House! The Department of Fine Arts and Design at the Mozarteum University presents itself from March 28 - 31, 2023 as an educational institution that fosters in its students a self-understanding - both for artistic practice and for the artistic teaching profession.