Hildegund Amanshauser

During her residency, Hildegund Amanshauser will be connecting with local artists, curators and art institutions to introduce the Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts and its grants. Her research aims to explore the possibilities of networking in Southeast Asia in light of her ongoing project <i>Global Academy?</i>. During her public talk she will retrace the history of the Summer Academy, founded by Oskar Kokoschka in 1953, and discuss the potentialities and challenges of learning and teaching art in the globalised world.

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Hildegund Amanshauser, 1 – 5 November 2016, Courtesy the artist.
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Contributors
Hildegund Amanshauser
Hildegund Amanshauser
Curator-in-Residence
Austria

Dr Hildegund Amanshauser is an art historian, author and curator and since 2009, Director of the Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Austria. Previous appointments include professor of art history and theory in Muenster Westfalia, Germany and director of the Salzburg Kunstverein, Austria. She also worked as curator for the Secession Vienna and the Museum of Modern Art Vienna, Austria.
Amanshauser has published widely on modern and contemporary art and she is editor of The Word’s Finest Studio: 60 years of the Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, published by Jung und Jung Verlag, Salzburg and Vienna, 2013.