Since 2019, artist Philip Wiegard has been working with polymer clay, known under the brand name FIMO, a modelling clay that, once shaped, is baked in a standard oven.

Join the workshop with the architect, engineer and artist Hans-Walter Müller (*1935 in Worms, Germany) in the creation of inflatable structures that maintain their form solely through the power of air pressure.

We dive into the world of cinema and learn everything about working on a film set: writing a script, slipping into a film character, editing digitally - we deal with all the steps of filmmaking and produce a short film! We'll learn how to create killer effects with the "green screen" and also take a surprise trip to a South Tyrolean film company. ! Cool or cool?!!

The Kids’ Factory project by artist Philip Wiegard will take place in July in Gandegg´s castle park. Children aged 8 to 14 will learn a historical paper finishing technique called paste paper under the artist's guidance. The resulting wallpaper will be part of the exhibition Dreams That Money Can Buy, which opens at Gandegg Castle in autumn.

The story is an ancient technology, that has had a profound role in shaping consciousness, experience, meaning and art. On this three-day course with Studio for Propositional Cinema and Laura McLean-Ferris we will explore story forms and mythical structures, and analyze narrative storytelling in light of its role in a multitude of artforms – including exhibitions, artworks, texts, moving image works, cinema and theater.

The nomadic course of study Viaggio in italia seeks out various locations in Italy where students are supervised by guest professors. The course has already existed since 2016 and sees itself as a new type of educational model that explores travel as a path of growth and experimentation.

The japanese photographer Rika Noguchi will give a talk at Gandegg Castle in Eppan. In this talk, she will provide insights into her artistic work and the subjects she deals with in her photography. We invite you to attend this presentation and let yourself be carried away into Noguchi's world.

After a huge landslide from the Mendel about 1,000 years ago, enormous masses of stone still lie at the foot of the mountain. On this rubble - called Gand - stands Gandegg Castle. The late-medieval residential tower was first mentioned in a document in 1434.

In this workshop, writer and curator Lauren Fournier will lead participants in experimenting with different genres and forms of autotheoryfictions in their practices. Autotheoryfiction describes the commingling of autobiography or memoir, theory or philosophy, and fictionalization to varying degrees and effects.

Hast du dich schon mal gefragt, warum so viele Skulpturen auf einem Podest stehen? Oder wie ein Urinal aus der Männertoilette die Kunstwelt revolutionierte? Nein? Dann komm doch diesen Sommer zu uns in den Kunstworkshop und zusammen werden wir‘s herausfinden!

We dive into the world of cinema and learn everything about working on a film set: writing a script, slipping into a film character, editing digitally - we deal with all the steps of filmmaking and produce a short film! We'll learn how to create killer effects with the "green screen" and also take a surprise trip to a South Tyrolean film company. ! Cool or cool?!!

Join us for an intensive writing workshop with the artist and author Nadja Abt. Three days long, we will explore the current trend of first-person narration and the possibilities of autofictional in collective writings.

​The course Metabolic Art Criticism attests to and celebrates the empowering potential of a genre of art criticism that embraces the centrality of the self as receiver and synthesiser of the diverse external stimuli that infuse the context within which art is conceived of, produced, exhibited and critiqued.