Photo: Ruth Ehrmann
Hildegund Amanshauser
Director
E-Mail: hildegund.amanshauser@summeracademy.at
Hildegund Amanshauser is an art historian, curator, and writer.
Since 2009 Director of the Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts
2004 – 2009 Professor of Fine Arts/Art and the Public at the Münster Academy of Fine Arts
1992 – 2004 Director of the Salzburg Kunstverein
1992 - Austrian commissioner for São Paulo Biennale
1987 – 1992 General secretary of the Vienna Secession
1985 – 1987 Curator for Photography and Works on Paper, Museum of Modern Art, Vienna
Numerous publications on modern and contemporary art
Statement: I see the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts as a laboratory where art production, presentation and reflection take place in an intensive and inspiring atmosphere which also has room for "productive" failure. It is one of my main concerns to promote, besides individual production, the professional artistic and theoretical exchange of ideas amongst all participants, teachers and students alike. For me, the Summer Academy is a place of interdisciplinary artistic production and of discourse. Participants from all over the world communicate in a variety of media, contributing with their diverse experience, skills and questions to the intensive artistic process that characterises the Summer Academy. Teamwork within the classes is possible and welcome. For instance, the students in Ines Doujak's 2009 class produced a joint work which was shown at the "No Sound of Music" exhibition in the Salzburg Kunstverein in autumn 2009. A further working model consists in the collaboration of several classes, such as that between the painting classes directed by Monika Baer and Dierk Schmidt in summer 2009.