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. Forging connections between the arts (music, visual arts, text, theatre, dance, film, digital media), and doing so both within and outside the university, allows for 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.

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.

Courses

Open arts, Interdisciplinary

Open Arts

Open arts, Music, Interdisciplinary, Acting

PhD in the Arts

Interdisciplinary

Supplementary Certificate in Artistic Research

Events

10.3.2026

07:00 pm

W&K-Atelier

Artistic Research Lecture Series: Masimba Hwati

Knowing with practice

Lecture
· Free

News

8.9.2026

X-Reality-Lab Opens with the Three-Day “Staging Realities” Festival at the Mozarteum University

From September 24 to 26, as part of the “Staging Realities” festival, the Mozarteum University will open the doors of its new X-Reality Lab for the first time—a high-end research facility that systematically breaks down the boundaries between the arts and digital media technology.

Press release
4.9.2026

Keynote by Artemi-Maria Gioti at ICCCM 2026

Artemi-Maria Gioti, Professor of Artistic Research, will deliver the keynote address on “Music Composition as Critical Data Practice” on September 22, 2026, at the 4. International Conference on Computational and Cognitive Musicology (ICCCM 2026) at Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg.

News
31.7.2026

Spotlight on Female Authors & Composers: Festival Academy 2026

From August 15 to 16, 2026, the 2026 Festival Academy, under the title FRAUEN.FESTSPIEL.PRÄSENZ*, will focus on the visibility, history, and future of female playwrights and composers at the Salzburg Festival. The two-day symposium will place pressing questions about representation, power structures, and the formation of the canon at the center of the debate.

News
30.6.2026

“Stadt Raum Hörbar” Honored as Part of “Out of the Box” 2026

The City of Salzburg recently recognized four projects featuring interdisciplinary ideas for Salzburg. One of the projects, titled “Stadt Raum Hörbar” (City Space Audible), submitted by Florian Brand, Ulrike Hatzer, Carla Stenitzer, and Karen Werner, invites the people of Salzburg to explore the sounds of their city.

Awards & Successes