Visual Arts
Dear friends of the Neuburg an der Donau Summer Academy,
As this year's representative of Goda Plaum for the artistic direction of fine arts, I am pleased to present to you an exciting range of courses with three new lecturers for 2025: Miriam Wahl will offer the course "Painting in Process" for beginners and advanced students; as a lecturer in painting, she has already gained extensive teaching experience at the University of Marburg, among others. With Katrin Schoess, we will explore Neuburg's urban and rural views in painting and drawing; her course is open to beginners and advanced students; young people aged 14 and over are welcome. Uli Zwerenz has already been a lecturer in painting in Neuburg for several years in the past and his course "from blob to picture" is aimed exclusively at advanced students. After a successful start in 2024, Lisa Brede will also be offering a comic drawing course for young people between the ages of 13 and 18 - we are delighted to be able to appeal to young people in particular with this offer and to rejuvenate us all in this wayJ) We want to continue to see the summer academy as a special place that enables intensive artistic engagement with one's own work in an open atmosphere, which offers freedom to take up existing projects, to conduct experimental research and to mature one's own artistic position in exchange with others. Our range of courses is deliberately so broad that both beginners and advanced students can find their place: Anna-Maria Kursawe offers her course "Painting - about the relationship between representationalism and abstraction" for advanced students. With Meike Dölp we enter into a dialogue with everyday things, developing aesthetic strategies that pose the questions we are stimulated by them in large or small spaces. Her course is aimed at beginners and advanced students. Andreas Kotulla focuses on the perception of space and things in space and their translation into various graphic media and installations. Stefanie Pojar supports the implementation of your ideas in the form of sketches or similar in printing processes. Beginners and advanced students are welcome, bookings for two weeks are preferred for technical reasons. Serena Ferrario also focuses her course "Artistic concepts and deepening your own artistic work" on young artists aged 16 and over. With "Sculpture and Object", Yke Prins offers three-dimensional thinking and working for beginners and advanced students. With this in mind, I greet you with Goda Plaum's words: we look forward to receiving applications from all different age groups and professional areas, because it is precisely in this unique mix that the strength of the Neuburg Summer Academy unfolds in the engagement, communication and enthusiasm with, of and for art.
With kind regards Ulrike v. der Osten
