The Mozarteum University mourns the passing of Matthias Herbst, Professor Emeritus of Art Education, a dedicated pioneer in art education and a highly esteemed colleague.
The winners of the 2024/2025 Outstanding Master’s Thesis Awards are Leonie Caterina Trips, Linda Elisabeth Nicolussi and Leo Feichtinger – our warmest congratulations!
The Mozarteum University Salzburg warmly congratulates all graduates who celebrated their achievement at the ceremony on June 16th 2026 in the Solitär.
The Ö1 Talent Scholarship for Visual Arts, worth €10,000, is provided by Wiener Städtischer Versicherungsverein. The award is intended to support emerging 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.
The interdisciplinary teacher training programmes in art & design and technology & design have not only been given new names, but also a new focus in terms of content.
The Mozarteum University Salzburg warmly congratulates all graduates who celebrated their achievement at the ceremony on 9 December 2025 in the Solitär.
In the summer semester of 2024, students studying design: technology.textiles developed the ‘House of Nice’ – a conceptual pop-up store that uses handmade products to open up individual perspectives on the theme of time. The bachelor's students developed, designed and produced products and presented them in the form of a perspective shop.
The artist and art pedagogue Ao. Univ.-Prof. MMag. Bernhard Gwiggner has been awarded the 2025 Ars Docendi prize for teaching excellence by the Austrian state. The interdisciplinary cooperation "tradition2go: zwischen kultur und wahnsinn" ("between culture and madness") was a collaboration during the 2023/34 academic year between the Sculpture Class at the Mozarteum University and the Salzburg Museum. The project went hand in hand with the exhibition "Masks, Traditional Costumes, Cult Objects - 100 Years of Folk Culture" at the Salzburger Monatsschlössl Hellbrunn.
This individual project focuses on the role of community in art education theory, school practice and education policy, and is being carried out in collaboration with partners from the universities of Cologne, Siegen, London, Winneba and the Exploring Visual Cultures network (EVC).
The Salzburg AG Art Prize in the field of visual arts for students at the Mozarteum University Salzburg, worth EUR 10,000 and awarded for the first time, goes to Lukas Stangl (born 1992, Austria). With the Salzburg AG Art Prize, Salzburg AG promotes artistic engagement with the theme of ‘energy’. Theme of the first edition: Data Whispers: Making the Invisible Visible – congratulations!
While artistic education was radically rethought in the 20th century, nude drawing as a teaching format has not been fundamentally reformed since the 19th century. As an integral part of the teaching program at contemporary art academies, it is largely continued and valued in its historical form or in close reference to it.
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.
And the winner is... The university's internal Research Competition Mozarteum (RCM) took place for the 6th time in 2024 and has established itself as a fixed part of the university's annual schedule. On December 3, the best submissions were honored at the Award Ceremony with the involvement of the international RCM jury.
