7. Summer Academy @ Häselburg

The summer academy is taking place for the seventh time in the Kulturhaus Häselburg Gera.
Nationally known artists give art courses for interested participants aged 14 and over.
This year three exciting courses are planned with: Thomas Prochnow, Florian Schmidt, Salman Vakili and Sahar Darvish Zade
The summer academy of the Art School Gera e.V. and the Häselburg is funded by the Thuringian State Chancellery.

Workshops take place from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. or by arrangement with the lecturers.
Workshop registration below or: kontakt@kunstschule-gera.de
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Period: August 14 - 18, 2023

screen printing

Sculpture, object, installation

Film course for children and young people

screen printing

print workshop
With Thomas Prochnow, freier Künstler

There will also be a screen printing workshop with the experienced Gera artist and art school lecturer Thomas Prochnow.

Before Thomas Prochnow studied free art and sculpture (Dipl.) at the Dresden University of Fine Arts, he was active as a graffiti artist in Gera. This experience still shapes his artistic work today and is also reflected in his courses.

Workshop is in German.

Sculpture, object, installation

Object workshop
With Florian Schmidt, Magister Artium

There will be an exciting course at the interface between painting and sculpture, taught by the renowned Austrian artist Florian Schmidt, who has been teaching at the Bauhaus University in Weimar for five years.


Florian Schmidt (born 1980 in Raabs/Thaya) creates pictorial bodies in which he explores the relationship between space, material and colour. The results of this research are wall works and free-standing sculptures. Schmidt's way of working reveals itself as a process of cyclic deepening of thought; as a cycle in which existing works reconnect with the dynamic of the work process, for which the factor of repetition appears to be crucial. Schmidt exhibits his work internationally in solo and group exhibitions, for example at the Kunsthalle Krems, the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York, the Princeton University Art Museum, the Musée du Pays de Sarrebourg, the MUMOK, Vienna, at the Overbeck Society, Lübeck and at the 5th Beijing International Art Biennale at the National Art Museum of China.
➝ website: www.philippvonrosen.com/artists/florian-schmidt/works/
                    www.johannesvogt.nyc/florian-schmidt/  

Workshop in German and English possible.

Film course for children and young people

film workshop
With Salman Vakili und Sahar Darvish Zade

The experienced producers Salman Vakili and Sahar Darvish Zade have organized a children's and youth film festival in Iran for several years. Both ran art workshops in Iran teaching children directing, camerawork and filmmaking.

Salman Vakili and Sahar Darvish Zade are filmmakers and producers. They ran art workshops in Iran teaching children directing, cinematography and filmmaking. The films dealt with the concerns of Iranian society.
Eight films have already been shown at several international film festivals (Italy, Russia, Canada, Ukraine, Germany, etc.) and have received awards.
Sahar and Salman organized a children's and youth film festival in Iran together for several years.
To escape political persecution, you emigrated to Germany-Weimar.

Workshop is in Arabic/Farsi and German.