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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

kotulla_3709-12x12
03 Aug
Andreas Kotulla - Drawing - Experiments and Explorations

Andreas Kotulla - Drawing - Experiments and Explorations

€610.00
No free place
Sun 8/3/25 - 8/16/25
Obere Altstadt
Fine Arts
For my artistic approach, it is essential to transfer aesthetic concepts and experiences from one medium to another. For drawing and for the course, this means, among other things, starting from the question: How does the space get into the surface ¬– and the drawing into the space?
I would like to encourage and support the participants to develop a personal approach to this issue and their own forms of expression, using as wide a range of techniques and materials as possible, from classic drawing techniques to more unconventional means.
Individual and group discussions about the experiences gained in drawing experiments should also be accompanied by occasional excursions into art history and visits to exhibitions on the subject.
miriam-wahl_2
03 Aug
Miriam Wahl - Painting

Miriam Wahl - Painting

€330.00
No free place
Sun 8/3/25 - 8/8/25
Obere Altstadt Neuburg
Fine Arts
Painting is as complex as life and the people who, for mysterious reasons, keep reaching for paint and brushes. What am I looking for with and in painting? This workshop offers space and time to continue on your own artistic path and to work on old and new motifs, methods, questions and insights with support. The focus is on individual painting projects, which are further developed and supported in individual and group discussions. There will be no recipes or set techniques, but instead numerous exercises and suggestions to immerse yourself in the diverse world of painting and to train your gaze, sensitivity, sense of color and space in a playful, exploratory way and to get ideas for your own work. For example, we will become aware of the possibilities of artistic principles such as series, individual works or groups of works or various approaches to image creation, experiment with painting surfaces, collections of materials and the inexhaustible fund of our own view of the world. Trust in what we do, mutual inspiration and the joy of the painting means themselves are at the heart of this workshop.

All those who want to embark on an intensive painting process and are open to playfulness and the unexpected along the way are welcome.
Bild: Peter Hinz-Rosin
03 Aug
Anna-Maria Kursawe - Painting - On the Relationship between Objectivity and Abstraction

Anna-Maria Kursawe - Painting - On the Relationship between Objectivity and Abstraction

€610.00
Not bookable
Sun 8/3/25 - 8/16/25
Fine Arts
The focus of the course is the clarification and further development of own pictorial concepts in the field of tension between representativeness and abstraction. The basis is perception, natural vision (in contrast to the camera's gaze), direct contact with things, precise observation, one's own fresh gaze rubbing against reality, because the training of the gaze is also necessary for abstract work. As a result of spatial-object representations, abstract compositions can be created that structure the image surface with their own pictorial rhythm. The course offers individual support on the way to the further development of one's own visual language. It is aimed at people with several years of painting practice.
katrinschoessbild
03 Aug

Katrin Schoess- Landscape and Architecture - Drawing and Painting in the Open Air

€610.00
1 free place
Sun 8/3/25 - 8/16/25
Obere Altstadt Neuburg
Fine Arts
Landscape and architecture - drawing and painting in the open air
Motifs in nature and/or in an urban context (urban sketching) are our starting point: we put our impressions on site on paper or on canvas. Each participant finds a personal approach to artistically dealing with the place and the time spent there. The focus should be on the process, the experiment and the experience, not the result.
Topics such as horizon, perspective, plot, composition, structures, light and shadow, Lo sfumato, La sprezzatura etc. are discussed and, if necessary, expanded upon.
Depending on the weather and location, different materials can be used and combined in unusual ways.
Bild: Craig Stennett
03 Aug
Stefanie Pojar - Printing - Experimental printing graphics

Stefanie Pojar - Printing - Experimental printing graphics

€330.00
No free place
Sun 8/3/25 - 8/8/25
Obere Altstadt Neuburg
Fine Arts
The main aim of the course is the experimental and playful handling of print graphics. Cold needle, material, stencil and plant printing, wood and linoleum cutting, as well as monotyping and frottage are possible. Experimenting with different materials and techniques, even combinations, is desirable. The use of various, “unusual” tools, such as cutters, drills, cutting tools or even chainsaws and Dremels is also conceivable. Unusual substrates, i. e. not only paper, but also textiles and plastics can be brought along and used. The tools and materials should be brought with you or certain errands should be agreed with the group.

Bild: FOTO: HOLGER KIST
03 Aug

Meike Dölp - Collage - Object and material

€610.00
2 free spaces
Sun 8/3/25 - 8/16/25
Obere Altstadt
Fine Arts
Everything can be art, BUT art cannot be everything. We need challenges of the real life in order to meet them artistically. Everything can be art: shopping lists, crosswords, old child’s drawings, city maps, fake eye lashes, construction plans… simply everything! It only depends on how we include the things into the artistical process and which issue we want to deal with. In this course, we use all things collected in our households and which are of no use any longer but are not to simply thrown away. This “stuff” can be reason, motive or material for pictorial working as it is analysed, changed, arranged or associated becoming meaningful. In this course, pictorial working is not limited to one technique or medium but crosses such borders so that every participant is accompanied to achieve his or her best possible realisation of his or her pictorial idea. We approach objects differently and create new connections at the same time. This course is suitable for beginners and advanced students.
miriam-wahl_2
03 Aug
Miriam Wahl - Painting

Miriam Wahl - Painting

€610.00
No free place
Sun 8/3/25 - 8/16/25
Obere Altstadt Neuburg
Fine Arts
Painting is as complex as life and the people who, for mysterious reasons, keep reaching for paint and brushes. What am I looking for with and in painting? This workshop offers space and time to continue on your own artistic path and to work on old and new motifs, methods, questions and insights with support. The focus is on individual painting projects, which are further developed and supported in individual and group discussions. There will be no recipes or set techniques, but instead numerous exercises and suggestions to immerse yourself in the diverse world of painting and to train your gaze, sensitivity, sense of color and space in a playful, exploratory way and to get ideas for your own work. For example, we will become aware of the possibilities of artistic principles such as series, individual works or groups of works or various approaches to image creation, experiment with painting surfaces, collections of materials and the inexhaustible fund of our own view of the world. Trust in what we do, mutual inspiration and the joy of the painting means themselves are at the heart of this workshop.

All those who want to embark on an intensive painting process and are open to playfulness and the unexpected along the way are welcome.
michael-lukas-portrait_3
03 Aug
Uli Zwerenz - Painting — from a splash of paint to a picture

Uli Zwerenz - Painting — from a splash of paint to a picture(Week-One)

€330.00
No free place
Sun 8/3/25 - 8/8/25
Fine Arts
Through open-ended work that starts with the process of applying paint, the possibilities for finding an individual image should be experienced.
The dialogue between imagination and perception should open up space for changing and expanding one's own painting.
The course begins with an introduction to the production of paints from pigments and binding agents. Various systems are shown: acrylic paints, egg tempera and oil paints.
During the course, you can work with ready-made paints or with ones you have prepared yourself. The basics of painting techniques and questions are explained.
The relationships between the image structure, composition and color should be questioned and developed during the painting process. By recognizing and avoiding arbitrariness, you should find your own way to finding and creating an autonomous painting.
Bild: Craig Stennett
03 Aug

Stefanie Pojar - Printing - Experimental printing graphics

€610.00
No free place
Sun 8/3/25 - 8/16/25
Obere Altstadt Neuburg
Fine Arts
The main aim of the course is the experimental and playful handling of print graphics. Cold needle, material, stencil and plant printing, wood and linoleum cutting, as well as monotyping and frottage are possible. Experimenting with different materials and techniques, even combinations, is desirable. The use of various, “unusual” tools, such as cutters, drills, cutting tools or even chainsaws and Dremels is also conceivable. Unusual substrates, i. e. not only paper, but also textiles and plastics can be brought along and used. The tools and materials should be brought with you or certain errands should be agreed with the group.

uli-zwerenz-docx_1
03 Aug

Uli Zwerenz - Painting — from a splash of paint to a picture

€610.00
No free place
Sun 8/3/25 - 8/16/25
Fine Arts
Through open-ended work that starts with the process of applying paint, the possibilities for finding an individual image should be experienced.
The dialogue between imagination and perception should open up space for changing and expanding one's own painting.
The course begins with an introduction to the production of paints from pigments and binding agents. Various systems are shown: acrylic paints, egg tempera and oil paints.
During the course, you can work with ready-made paints or with ones you have prepared yourself. The basics of painting techniques and questions are explained.
The relationships between the image structure, composition and color should be questioned and developed during the painting process. By recognizing and avoiding arbitrariness, you should find your own way to finding and creating an autonomous painting.
yke-prins-2
03 Aug
Yke Prins - sculpture and object

Yke Prins - sculpture and object

€330.00
Not bookable
Sun 8/3/25 - 8/8/25
Obere Altstadt Neuburg
Fine Arts
This course provides space for diverse, three-dimensional working with classic materials (i.e. metal, clay, paper, plaster, wood, no stone processing) and it broadens the view for other surprising materials and strategies. Every day there is an offer to take part in a little, playful practical exercise of three-dimensional thinking. Inspired by works of contemporary artists, there are little “morning exercises” which should challenge the participants to discover together new material and space. These exercises will help to develop discovering new possibilities for your own individual work and to learn from the ideas and strategies of others. The focus will lie on developing and realising individual ideas – figurative, abstract or installative. This course is suitable for persons who have already gained experience in three-dimensional designing as well as for beginners who want to gain basic knowledge.
yke-prins-2
03 Aug
Yke Prins - sculpture and object

Yke Prins - sculpture and object

€610.00
Not bookable
Sun 8/3/25 - 8/16/25
Obere Altstadt Neuburg
Fine Arts
This course provides space for diverse, three-dimensional working with classic materials (i.e. metal, clay, paper, plaster, wood, no stone processing) and it broadens the view for other surprising materials and strategies. Every day there is an offer to take part in a little, playful practical exercise of three-dimensional thinking. Inspired by works of contemporary artists, there are little “morning exercises” which should challenge the participants to discover together new material and space. These exercises will help to develop discovering new possibilities for your own individual work and to learn from the ideas and strategies of others. The focus will lie on developing and realising individual ideas – figurative, abstract or installative. This course is suitable for persons who have already gained experience in three-dimensional designing as well as for beginners who want to gain basic knowledge.
kotulla_3709-12x12
03 Aug
Andreas Kotulla - Drawing - Experiments and Explorations

Andreas Kotulla - Drawing - Experiments and Exploration (Woche 1)

€330.00
No free place
Sun 8/3/25 - 8/8/25
Obere Altstadt
Fine Arts
For my artistic approach, it is essential to transfer aesthetic concepts and experiences from one medium to another. For drawing and for the course, this means, among other things, starting from the question: How does the space get into the surface ¬– and the drawing into the space?
I would like to encourage and support the participants to develop a personal approach to this issue and their own forms of expression, using as wide a range of techniques and materials as possible, from classic drawing techniques to more unconventional means.
Individual and group discussions about the experiences gained in drawing experiments should also be accompanied by occasional excursions into art history and visits to exhibitions on the subject.
Bild: Peter Hinz-Rosin
03 Aug
Anna-Maria Kursawe - Painting - On the Relationship between Objectivity and Abstraction

Anna-Maria Kursawe - Painting - On the Relationship between Objectivity and Abstraction

€330.00
Not bookable
Sun 8/3/25 - 8/8/25
Fine Arts
The focus of the course is the clarification and further development of own pictorial concepts in the field of tension between representativeness and abstraction. The basis is perception, natural vision (in contrast to the camera's gaze), direct contact with things, precise observation, one's own fresh gaze rubbing against reality, because the training of the gaze is also necessary for abstract work. As a result of spatial-object representations, abstract compositions can be created that structure the image surface with their own pictorial rhythm. The course offers individual support on the way to the further development of one's own visual language. It is aimed at people with several years of painting practice.
katrinschoessbild
03 Aug
Katrin Schoess- Landscape and Architecture - Drawing and Painting in the Open Air

Katrin Schoess- Landscape and Architecture - Drawing and Painting in the Open Air

€330.00
1 free place
Sun 8/3/25 - 8/8/25
Obere Altstadt Neuburg
Fine Arts
Landscape and architecture - drawing and painting in the open air
Motifs in nature and/or in an urban context (urban sketching) are our starting point: we put our impressions on site on paper or on canvas. Each participant finds a personal approach to artistically dealing with the place and the time spent there. The focus should be on the process, the experiment and the experience, not the result.
Topics such as horizon, perspective, plot, composition, structures, light and shadow, Lo sfumato, La sprezzatura etc. are discussed and, if necessary, expanded upon.
Depending on the weather and location, different materials can be used and combined in unusual ways.
Bild: FOTO: HOLGER KIST
03 Aug
Meike Dölp - Collage - Object and material

Meike Dölp - Collage - Object and material

€330.00
2 free spaces
Sun 8/3/25 - 8/8/25
Obere Altstadt
Fine Arts
Everything can be art, BUT art cannot be everything. We need challenges of the real life in order to meet them artistically. Everything can be art: shopping lists, crosswords, old child’s drawings, city maps, fake eye lashes, construction plans… simply everything! It only depends on how we include the things into the artistical process and which issue we want to deal with. In this course, we use all things collected in our households and which are of no use any longer but are not to simply thrown away. This “stuff” can be reason, motive or material for pictorial working as it is analysed, changed, arranged or associated becoming meaningful. In this course, pictorial working is not limited to one technique or medium but crosses such borders so that every participant is accompanied to achieve his or her best possible realisation of his or her pictorial idea. We approach objects differently and create new connections at the same time. This course is suitable for beginners and advanced students.
Bild: FOTO: HOLGER KIST
11 Aug
Meike Dölp - Collage - Object and material

Meike Dölp - Collage - Object and material

€330.00
5 free spaces
Mon 8/11/25 - 8/16/25
Obere Altstadt
Fine Arts
Everything can be art, BUT art cannot be everything. We need challenges of the real life in order to meet them artistically. Everything can be art: shopping lists, crosswords, old child’s drawings, city maps, fake eye lashes, construction plans… simply everything! It only depends on how we include the things into the artistical process and which issue we want to deal with. In this course, we use all things collected in our households and which are of no use any longer but are not to simply thrown away. This “stuff” can be reason, motive or material for pictorial working as it is analysed, changed, arranged or associated becoming meaningful. In this course, pictorial working is not limited to one technique or medium but crosses such borders so that every participant is accompanied to achieve his or her best possible realisation of his or her pictorial idea. We approach objects differently and create new connections at the same time. This course is suitable for beginners and advanced students.
miriam-wahl_2
11 Aug
Miriam Wahl - Painting

Miriam Wahl - Painting

€330.00
1 free place
Mon 8/11/25 - 8/16/25
Obere Altstadt Neuburg
Fine Arts
Painting is as complex as life and the people who, for mysterious reasons, keep reaching for paint and brushes. What am I looking for with and in painting? This workshop offers space and time to continue on your own artistic path and to work on old and new motifs, methods, questions and insights with support. The focus is on individual painting projects, which are further developed and supported in individual and group discussions. There will be no recipes or set techniques, but instead numerous exercises and suggestions to immerse yourself in the diverse world of painting and to train your gaze, sensitivity, sense of color and space in a playful, exploratory way and to get ideas for your own work. For example, we will become aware of the possibilities of artistic principles such as series, individual works or groups of works or various approaches to image creation, experiment with painting surfaces, collections of materials and the inexhaustible fund of our own view of the world. Trust in what we do, mutual inspiration and the joy of the painting means themselves are at the heart of this workshop.

All those who want to embark on an intensive painting process and are open to playfulness and the unexpected along the way are welcome.
Bild: Craig Stennett
11 Aug
Stefanie Pojar - Printing - Experimental printing graphics

Stefanie Pojar - Printing - Experimental printing graphics

€330.00
Not bookable
Mon 8/11/25 - 8/16/25
Obere Altstadt Neuburg
Fine Arts
The main aim of the course is the experimental and playful handling of print graphics. Cold needle, material, stencil and plant printing, wood and linoleum cutting, as well as monotyping and frottage are possible. Experimenting with different materials and techniques, even combinations, is desirable. The use of various, “unusual” tools, such as cutters, drills, cutting tools or even chainsaws and Dremels is also conceivable. Unusual substrates, i. e. not only paper, but also textiles and plastics can be brought along and used. The tools and materials should be brought with you or certain errands should be agreed with the group.

michael-lukas-portrait_5
11 Aug
Uli Zwerenz - Painting — from a splash of paint to a picture

Uli Zwerenz - Painting — from a splash of paint to a picture (Week 2)

€330.00
No free place
Mon 8/11/25 - 8/16/25
Fine Arts
Through open-ended work that starts with the process of applying paint, the possibilities for finding an individual image should be experienced.
The dialogue between imagination and perception should open up space for changing and expanding one's own painting.
The course begins with an introduction to the production of paints from pigments and binding agents. Various systems are shown: acrylic paints, egg tempera and oil paints.
During the course, you can work with ready-made paints or with ones you have prepared yourself. The basics of painting techniques and questions are explained.
The relationships between the image structure, composition and color should be questioned and developed during the painting process. By recognizing and avoiding arbitrariness, you should find your own way to finding and creating an autonomous painting.
yke-prins-2
11 Aug
Yke Prins - sculpture and object

Yke Prins - sculpture and object

€330.00
Not bookable
Mon 8/11/25 - 8/16/25
Obere Altstadt Neuburg
Fine Arts
This course provides space for diverse, three-dimensional working with classic materials (i.e. metal, clay, paper, plaster, wood, no stone processing) and it broadens the view for other surprising materials and strategies. Every day there is an offer to take part in a little, playful practical exercise of three-dimensional thinking. Inspired by works of contemporary artists, there are little “morning exercises” which should challenge the participants to discover together new material and space. These exercises will help to develop discovering new possibilities for your own individual work and to learn from the ideas and strategies of others. The focus will lie on developing and realising individual ideas – figurative, abstract or installative. This course is suitable for persons who have already gained experience in three-dimensional designing as well as for beginners who want to gain basic knowledge.
kotulla_3709-12x12
11 Aug
Andreas Kotulla - Drawing - Experiments and Explorations

Andreas Kotulla - Drawing - Experiments and Exploration (Woche 2)

€330.00
No free place
Mon 8/11/25 - 8/16/25
Obere Altstadt
Fine Arts
For my artistic approach, it is essential to transfer aesthetic concepts and experiences from one medium to another. For drawing and for the course, this means, among other things, starting from the question: How does the space get into the surface ¬– and the drawing into the space?
I would like to encourage and support the participants to develop a personal approach to this issue and their own forms of expression, using as wide a range of techniques and materials as possible, from classic drawing techniques to more unconventional means.
Individual and group discussions about the experiences gained in drawing experiments should also be accompanied by occasional excursions into art history and visits to exhibitions on the subject.
Bild: Peter Hinz-Rosin
11 Aug
Anna-Maria Kursawe - Painting - On the Relationship between Objectivity and Abstraction

Anna-Maria Kursawe - Painting - On the Relationship between Objectivity and Abstraction

€330.00
Not bookable
Mon 8/11/25 - 8/16/25
Fine Arts
The focus of the course is the clarification and further development of own pictorial concepts in the field of tension between representativeness and abstraction. The basis is perception, natural vision (in contrast to the camera's gaze), direct contact with things, precise observation, one's own fresh gaze rubbing against reality, because the training of the gaze is also necessary for abstract work. As a result of spatial-object representations, abstract compositions can be created that structure the image surface with their own pictorial rhythm. The course offers individual support on the way to the further development of one's own visual language. It is aimed at people with several years of painting practice.
katrinschoessbild
11 Aug
Katrin Schoess- Landscape and Architecture - Drawing and Painting in the Open Air

Katrin Schoess- Landscape and Architecture - Drawing and Painting in the Open Air

€330.00
4 free spaces
Mon 8/11/25 - 8/16/25
Obere Altstadt Neuburg
Fine Arts
Landscape and architecture - drawing and painting in the open air
Motifs in nature and/or in an urban context (urban sketching) are our starting point: we put our impressions on site on paper or on canvas. Each participant finds a personal approach to artistically dealing with the place and the time spent there. The focus should be on the process, the experiment and the experience, not the result.
Topics such as horizon, perspective, plot, composition, structures, light and shadow, Lo sfumato, La sprezzatura etc. are discussed and, if necessary, expanded upon.
Depending on the weather and location, different materials can be used and combined in unusual ways.