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.

Contact
+43 676 88122 461
joletta.de_smedt@moz.ac.at

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.

Courses

Open arts, Interdisciplinary

Supplementary Certificate in Artistic Research

News

20.11.2025

Awards of the Research Competition Mozarteum 2025

This year's RCM Award Ceremony took place on 11 November 2025 in the Faistauer Hall. Senate Chair Christoph Lepschy opened the event and emphasised the guiding principle of the Research Competition Mozarteum: openness to all disciplines, fields of study, career levels and alumni. Since 2019, this internal research funding instrument has contributed to establishing a diverse research culture at the university.

Awards & Successes
3.10.2025

Ringvorlesung Dis-Positionen

News
23.5.2025

Open Call: Artist-in-Residence Program

Under the title "Staging Realities" Mozarteum University invites media artists and artist collectives to apply for a funded residency to create an interactive, multi-user XR performance in the newly built X-Reality-Lab. Fully operational in winter 2025, the Lab features cutting-edge projection-based XR technology and is supported by the open-source software framework mozXR developed in cooperation with the Ars Electronica Futurelab.

Open Call
27.2.2025

Salzburg AG Art Prize 2025

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.

Open Call