Art Hiking Map is online

ART HIKING MAP for ART SAFIENTAL is available for digital download – and from next week on also as a print copy at all Safiental Tourism information points and in the village shops and restaurants in Safiental free of charge. Get the exact locations of all individual works of art and information complementary to the exhibition and participating artists.

Symposium online

Most of the talks of the Symposium “Horizontal – Vertical” are now online on our Youtube-Channel:

Chris Taylor
Bill Fox
Hanna Hölling
Emily Eliza Scott
Steve Rowell
Sibylle Omlin
Giovanni Carmine
Atelier für Sonderaufgaben
DIG Collective

Artist talks online

All artist talks from the 2. Alps Art Academy can be found on our Youtube channel: 
H.R. Fricker
Bob Gramsma
Marianne Halter & Mario Marchisella
Lita Albuquerque
Bildstein/Glatz

Alps Art Academy on RTR

Report by Donatella Bonifazi for RTR – Radiotelevisiun Svizra Rumantscha featuring 3 participants of the 2. Alps Art Academy: Paolo Uboldi (IT), Cathleen Ching Yee Lau (HK), Ryan Dewey (US)
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La «Land Art Safiental» ha suenter il 2016 puspè lieu – quai n’è dentant betg il sulet che ha carmalà artists da tut il mund en la regiun.

Final presentations

The final presentation of the works and research resulting from the 2. Alps Art Academy will be on show on July 7 (at the same time the opening of Art Safiental) during 11 – 17.o0 in and around Tenna. Please find the program HERE for download. At Berghotel Alpenblick in Tenna you will find additional maps. In August the works will be published on this website as an online documentation.

Symposium HORIZONTAL-VERTICAL

SAVE THE DATE: 30. Juni / 1. Juli 2018, Tenna GR

Die Tagung beschäftig sich mit alten und neuen Formen von Land und Environmental Art. Die kanonische Land Art der später 1960er und frühen 1970er Jahre, insbesondere jene des amerikanischen Südwestens, wurde von weiten Räumen dominiert, die auf die horizontale Ausrichtung der Landschaft ausgerichtet war. “Die Horizontale” wurde zum wichtigsten, wenn nicht gar ästhetisches Prinzip dieser Kunstform. Doch was passiert, wenn das Umfeld, in dem Kunst geschaffen wird, sich radikal ändert? Die jüngsten Tendenzen aus den alpinen Regionen zeigen Neuorientierungen und –Positionierung die sich unter anderem in einer Verschiebung von der gewohnten horizontalen Flachheit oder einem Eingriff darin zu einer neuen Vertikalität zeigt. Dies ändert nicht nur unsere Wahrnehmung, was Land Art ist oder sein könnte, sondern auch von der Landschaft, in der sie stattfindet.

Das Symposium findet als Teil der ALPS ART ACADEMY und der ART SAFIENTAL statt und bringt über 40 TheoretikerInnen, KünstlerInnen, KuratorInnen und Studierende aus 20 Nationen nach Tenna. Unter den SprecherInnen finden sich Experten der internationalen Land Art wie William Fox (Center for Land + Environment, Reno), Chris Taylor (Land Art of the American West), Steve Rowell (CLUI Los Angeles) und DIG Collective (London) im Dialog mit heimische Positionen wie Emily Eliza Scott (ETH Zürich), Giovanni Carmine (Kunsthalle St.Gallen), Sibylle Omlin (Kunsthistorikerin, Aven), Luciano Fasciati (Galerist, Chur) und Atelier für Sonderaufgaben (Null Stern Hotel) im Dialog. Weitere Beiträge werden beigesteuert von Dozierenden der Akademie (Johannes M. Hedinger, Hanna Hölling, Konstanze Schütze, Ella Tetrault).

Die Vorträge finden mehrheitlich in englischer Sprache statt.
Kosten: Samstag: inkl. Mittagessen, Nachtessen: 80.- CHF / Sonntag: inkl. Mittagessen: 60.- CHF
Ganzes Wochenende: 120.- CHF. Einwohner der Gemeinde Safiental bezahlten die Hälfte.

Weitere Informationen und Programm: www.alpsartacademy.ch/aaa2018/programm/symposium/
Anmeldung: bis 28. Juni 2018 unter info@safiental.ch

10 days to go

we are looking forward to welcome in 10 days 34 participants from 20 nations to the 2. Alps Art Academy. A more detailed program/overview is now available:

Deadline Theory + Art Education extended

We received 60 amazing applications from 22 countries all around the globe. Currently, we are in the process of their evaluation and will get back to you by mid-April.
The call for applications for the workshops THEORY and ART EDUCATION is still open – there are three places remaining. The deadline for these applications is April 4. So hurry up and joint the Alps Art Academy for an unforgettable summer with Land and Environmental Art in the Swiss Alps.

application deadline

 Get one of the last places in this year’s Alps Art Academy!

Bündner Tagblatt

Preview in Bündner Tagblatt of the upcoming Art Safiental and Alps Art Academy

Call for Application

Application for the ALPS ART ACADEMY 2018, summer school for „Land and Environmental Art“ in the Swiss Alps is now open. Deadline: March 25. 2018
Call E    / Call D

The second international Alps Art Academy will take place between June 28 and July 7, 2018 in the Safiental (Grisons, Switzerland). Located 1650 meters above sea level in Tenna, and taking place biannually, the summer academy focuses on Land and Environmental Art.
In a dialogue with the art-historical movement of the 60s and 70s, contemporary approaches to art are located, discussed and further developed in relationship to the Alpine landscape. The Alps Art Academy creates a platform for imagining a possible future Land Art, which integrates not only landscape and nature but also other media and the wider social context.
An invitation to submit proposals is aimed equally and without age limit at artists who are interested in working with landscape and the environment, as well as theoreticians, facilitators and curators engaged in research on the topic of Land Art. You are invited to apply with a project idea that can be realised during the period in which the summer school takes place in the area of Safienal. The theme for 2018 is HORIZONTAL – VERTICAL.

Program
The academy offers about 25 participants a 10 day program consisting of workshops, master classes, symposium, field trips, artist talks and presentations, in which they will have the opportunity to explore different aspects and core problems of art production in the landscape and apply what they have learned to their own projects. Participants are accompanied practically and theoretically by international mentors. The Academy is linked with the outdoor exhibition Art Safiental (July 7 to October 21, 2018) and offers participants the opportunity to present their projects.

Lecturers
Matthias Bildstein (A/CH), Mirja Busch (D), DIG Collective (William Bock, Alberto Duman, Mark Morgan, UK), William L. Fox, Gabriela Gerber / Lukas Bardill (CH), Johannes Hedinger (CH), Hanna Hölling (UK), Steve Rowell (USA), Analia Saban (ARG/USA), Konstanze Schütze (D), Chris Taylor (USA) and other guests.

Registration/Information
Conditions of participation, the application form and further information can be found at: www.alpsartacademy.com



Fees
CHF 1200.-, USD 1200.-, EUR 1000.- (10 days Academy, reader, Symposium, room and board), excluding travel expenses. For participants who need financial support there is the possibility of applying for a stipendium.

Organisation
Sponsorship: Naturpark Beverin
Artistic Director: Johannes M. Hedinger; Organisation: Jolanda Rechsteiner

Deadline
25.3.2018

Faculty & artists 2018

We are delighted to announce the faculty of Alps Art Academy 2018 as well as the invited artists for Art Safiental 2018:

Faculty 2018:
Matthias Bildstein (A), Mirja Busch (D), DIG Collective (UK), Bill Fox (USA), Gabriela Gerber/Lukas Bardill (CH), Johannes M. Hedinger (CH), Hanna Hölling (UK), Steve Rowell (USA), Analia Saban (USA), Konstanze Schütze (D), Chris Taylor (USA), u.a.

Künstlerliste 2018:
Lita Albuquerque (USA), Ueli Alder (CH), Aram Bartholl (D), Paul Barsch / Tilman Hornig (D), Bildstein/Glatz (CH/A), Mirja Busch (D), Com&Com (CH), DIG Collective (UK), HR Fricker (CH), Gabriela Gerber & Lukas Bardill (CH), Bob Gramsma (CH/NL), Ingeborg Lüscher (CH), Marianne Halter & Mario Marchisella (CH), Steve Rowell (USA), Analia Saban (ARG/USA), Roman Signer (CH) u.a.