Institute for Open Arts

The recently established Institute for Open Arts is currently in an exciting development phase. The institute offers open structures for artistic research in theory and practice as an inter-, trans- and non-disciplinary workspace within the university. By forging connections between the arts (music, visual arts, text, theatre, dance, film, digital media), and doing so both within and outside the university, boundaries between different disciplines to be broken down; particularly exciting opportunities arise through engagement with the natural sciences and humanities and the networking of the analogue with the digital world.

Contact
+43 676 88122 461
E-Mail

Franz-Josef-Straße 18
5020 Salzburg

About

At the Institute for Open Arts, unusual methods and different ways of thinking can open up innovations and new dimensions in art and academic scholarship. The Institute is home to the PhD programme in Artistic Research, and further study programmes and offers are currently being developed.

Studies

Open arts

PhD Programme in the Arts

Interdisciplinary

Supplementary study Artistic Research

News

16.12.2024

Change of perspective

Paul Feigelfeld has been a university professor for digitality and cultural mediation at the Institute for Open Arts at the Mozarteum University since October. He researches transcultural approaches to the history of media and knowledge, critical perspectives on technologies and their interfaces with art and design.

Interview
6.11.2024

Gertrud Fischbacher & Marius Schebella receive scholarship for sculpture and object 2024

The grant for sculpture, plastic and object 2024 from the province of Salzburg goes to the two artists Gertrud Fischbacher from the Institute for Open Arts at the Mozarteum University and Marius Schebella from the Department of Creative Technologies at Salzburg University of Applied Sciences. Their interactive spatial installation ‘Walk On By’, which artistically explores the link between textiles and sound and will be on display in the entrance area of the Traklhaus from spring 2025, will be honoured. The scholarship (incl. production costs) is endowed with 8,000 euros.

Awards & Successes
11.10.2024

Expanded realities, expanded possibilities

With the approval of research funding totalling 2.5 million euros from the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG), the foundation has been laid for the development of a state-of-the-art X-Reality Lab - the digital centrepiece of the new Mozarteum University site at Kurgarten.

News
30.9.2024

Welcome, Welcome, Welcome!

In autumn 2024, bass-baritone Lisandro Abadie, actress Hanna Binder, conductor Christiane Büttig, visual artist Annette Fauvel, guitarists Giuseppe Feola and Bozhana Pavlova, cultural and media scientist Paul Feigelfeld, composer Laure M. Hiendl, pianist Lei Meng, soprano Allison Oakes and violist German Tcakulov will take up their positions as university professors at the Mozarteum University. We are looking forward to the collaboration!

Press release