Ok. oskar: 70 Years School of Seeing

OK. oskar: 70 Years School of Seeing 

The anniversary program OK. oskar will continue in May 2023 with the exhibition There’s No Flesh by Dutch artist Mette Sterre and the film Sisters by Ukrainian filmmakers Anna Scherbyna and Valentina Petrova.

OK. oskar: exhibitions

April – September 2023

Galerie Kunst im Traklhaus 

Mette Sterre: There’s No Flesh

20 May -10 June 2023

Friday, 19 May 

6 pm Artist talk

7 pm Opening

Bodies liquefy when their appearance combines with new technologies contrary to cultural notions. Mette Sterre’s (b. 1983, Delft/Netherlands) work constantly reappropriates and appreciates bodies in techno-social contexts. Drawing on ideas of post/transhumanism queer/feminism and science fiction the artist approaches bodies more than as just a substantial mass (flesh). Voluminous body suits 3D-printed figures and the fusion of different materials such as plastic and oil together with the human body show a world where bodies resemble their surroundings and thus point to a future beyond anthropocentrism.

OK. oskar: screenings

April – September 2023

Kunst im Traklhaus showroom

On Solidarity is a curated film programme that explores films by Ukrainian artists in times of war and violence.

Anna Scherbyna / Valentina Petrova, Sisters (2019), 12 Min.

20 May -10 June 2023

The film Sisters is dedicated to the anti-feminist conservative women’s movement Sisterhood of St. Olha, which rejects an open definition of gender and postulates a patriarchal society where women do not have the right to vote. The ambivalence of the movement’s leader is unmistakable in her quest for reverse emancipation and power. It attempts to analyse and ironically reflect the image of the anti-feminist activists: Members of the fictional Sisterhood of Saint Mary of Egypt fight for unequal rights and paint their nails. In a world full of temptations and perversions, they must resist. Can these beautiful and brave women, who don’t wear trousers, save the traditional family values of patriarchy?

Address

Kunst im Traklhaus, Waagplatz 1a, 5020 Salzburg Austria

Opening hours
Tuesday – Friday 2-6 pm; Saturday 10 am – 1 pm 
Free admission

RECOMMENDATION

Oskar Kokoschka: Stormy years in Berlin 

Kokoschka Museum Pöchlarn

6 May – 26 October 2023

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Oskar Kokoschka Documentation, the Kokoschka Museum Pöchlarn invites you to the exhibition Oskar Kokoschka. Stormy years in Berlin. Kokoschka’s explicit depictions of femicides and structural patriarchal violence are shockingly relevant today. His radical form language in painting and graphics has fascinated artists for many generations, as shown by the exhibition project “Kokoschka in Dialogue” with students from the Department of Painting and Animated Film at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. This cooperation will continue with Salzburg’s summer academy around the “School of Seeing” concept later in the fall.

Further information can be found at: www.oskarkokoschka.at

OK. oskar: Team

Adelaide D’Esposito, Till Gathmann, Sophie Goltz, Fotini Lazaridou-Hatzigoga, Maximilian Lehner, Benedikt Meixl, Gaia Tovaglia. 

The full Jubilee Programme will be published at the end of May 2023.

Press
For further press material and images please contact:
Adelaide D’Esposito at email: presse@summeracademy.at or phone: +43 (0)662 842113

Internationale Sommerakademie für bildende Kunst Salzburg

The International Summer Academy of Fine Arts at Hohensalzburg Fortress was founded in 1953 by the renowned Austrian artist Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980) as the “School of Seeing” and is the oldest of its kind in Europe. Around 20 courses are offered every summer and are attended by more than 300 participants* from over 50 countries, making the Academy a lively place for international artistic and creative exchange. The Academy offers: open application process for all interested parties, no degrees required; unique opportunity to study with outstanding international artists*, curators, collectives, art educators, scholars and writers; Space to devote oneself exclusively to the artistic process or the development of ideas while learning and reflecting on art and its discourses; courses based on both personal attention and group discussion; unique historical course setting in the midst of an alpine landscape; art education programme with cultural partners, in Salzburg et al; access to art literature and journals.

Funded by: Province of Salzburg, City of Salzburg, Federal Ministry of Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport (BMKOES).

Supported by: Cultural Fund of the Provincial Capital Salzburg, ERSTE Foundation, American Austrian Foundation (AAF/Seebacher Prize for Fine Arts), zt: Chamber of Civil Technicians, Architects and Engineers, Initiative Architektur, Province of Vorarlberg, Zurich University of the Arts, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Academy of Fine Arts Munich, Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg, Art Academy Münster, Kingston University London, Friends of the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig, Marmor Kiefer.