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As part of Master Project 1, students were able to decide on a free topic. Students formulated the title, topic, task, questions, parameters and objective at the beginning of the semester.

Dear diary, dear studio, dear society! Painting students reflect on questions of individuality and self-conceptions as well as their entanglement and embedding in social contexts in dialogue with selected films (Caro diario, Synecdoche NY, Der Sammler und die Sammlerin...).

In the ‘Ambulance for Things’ project, the workshop was transformed into a creative outpatient clinic for a semester, in which objects were not simply repaired, but redesigned and transformed. The repair served as a creative means of not only returning things to their original function, but also giving them a new aesthetic or even a completely new use.

Where art and design meet education: the Department of Fine Arts & Design at the Mozarteum University Salzburg offers students an inspiring environment in which artistic and design practice, theory and teaching are combined. On 18 and 19 March, the department opens its doors to all interested parties at the Open House.

Data whispers: Making the invisible visible. Salzburg AG endeavours to promote artistic exploration of the topic of ‘energy’. The Salzburg AG Art Prize for students of the Mozarteum University Salzburg is intended to honour outstanding projects in the field of visual arts and make a lasting contribution to artistic reflection.

The "work in progress" exhibition format PREMIUM-UNIFORM will constantly change and develop. By sewing the existing old textiles, new fancy creations, unique objects, practical workwear and experimental works are constantly being created. These will be placed in the exhibition space for you to pick up at your leisure.

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.

Great success for the Mozarteum University: The FWF (Austrian Science Fund) is funding the project ‘Aesthetic judgement in community’ by Iris Laner with 485,430 euros. The individual project is dedicated to the role of the community in art education theory, school practice and education policy and is being carried out in collaboration with partners from the universities in Cologne, Siegen, London and Pretoria.

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!

As part of the Moz-Art-Zone, we link special events for school classes to the broad spectrum of university programmes and thus want to give children and young people access to music, art and culture. The focus is on young people meeting (young) artists who offer an insight into the artistic work of the various departments at the Mozarteum University. The Moz-Art-Zone offers a colourful mix of activities, from a visit to the opera with an artist talk and theatre laboratory to special educational concerts and hands-on workshops in the graphics workshop.

Transforming climate-social futures: How do young people in Salzburg imagine the future? How do their knowledge about climate-social change, their interests and established ways of acting relate to their visions of the future? And how can art-based approaches help to create spaces for young people with different stories and concerns to come together, enabling them to design shared climate-social futures?

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.