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Resources, waste and the afterlife of art: in the 2022/23 academic year, students in the sculpture class of the Visual Arts Education programme explored the broad topic of the relationship between nature and art. External curator Yorick Josua Berta provided content support for the resulting projects, which resulted in the exhibition ‘Material flows. Resources, Waste and the Afterlife of Art’ for the state gallery “Kunst im Traklhaus”. He expanded the works of our sculpture students with positions from Linz art students and renowned artists.

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 artistic work of Elisabeth Schmirl, lecturer in the Department of Fine Arts and Design at the Innsbruck location, turns the spacious staircase of the Unicorn - opened in 2021 as a start-up and innovation hub of the University of Graz - into a multi-perspective space for encounters, remembrance and commemoration.

Over a period of five weeks, students from the [Bildnerische] Innsbruck and the Linz Art University wrote letters to each other. The regular exchange resulted in a collaborative collection of image/text combinations, which was presented as part of the exhibition COLLECTING! at Splace am Hauptplatz in Linz. The participating students Janine Zumtobel, Sonja Plattner, Angela Brugger, Özge Can and Mirjam Rizzi were invited to Linz on 19 April for a joint artist talk about the project and reflected on their project together with students from the Linz Art 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 Province of Salzburg/Department for Culture and Science will again award scholarships in 2023 (in the amount of the course fee) to attend the International Summer Academy for Visual Arts Salzburg from 17 July to 26 August 2023.

How can (body) boundaries be overcome and what has one's own body not yet learned? Ten students of the teacher training programme "Design: Technology.Textiles" are exploring these questions in an exhibition at the Bauhaus Museum Dessau.

Textiles, with their many inherent stories, are an expression of our identity. They are a reflection of social structures and community identities. They are mediators between the individual and the community. As clothing for the body, space and objects, they provide information about cultural and social everyday life.

Once a year, students of visual education are invited to perform in the Great Hall of the Salzburg Künstlerhaus. This close relationship between an art association and students in the experimental phase is unique in Austria - and a challenge for the students.

in 2022, the student body of the Mozarteum University awarded the Design Prize for the third time. The call for entries was addressed to all students of the Department of Fine Arts & Design, who could submit up to three works each from the last three years