This course embraces the “Each One Teach One” philosophy, fostering a collaborative space where everyone contributes and learns. Each morning begins with movement, connecting mind and body through music to set the tone for the day. Participants will exchange techniques, ideas, and experiences to enhance their painting practice and personal growth. Whether it’s stretching canvases, mastering brushstrokes, exploring color theory, or incorporating meditation, everyone’s unique skills enrich the group’s collective knowledge.
The course includes individual engagement with Curtis Santiago to support personal development and provide tailored guidance. We’ll also share meals together to build community, take trips to museums and galleries for inspiration, and conclude each day with group discussions to reflect and connect. Through this dynamic exchange, we cultivate openness, curiosity, and mutual support, transforming painting into a shared experience enriched by diverse perspectives, collective inspiration, and meaningful connections—a vibrant space for learning, creating, and growing together.
Information
- Venue
- Hohensalzburg Fortress
- Date
- 21. 7. – 2. 8. 25
- Teaching language
- English
- Participation fee
- 670 Euro (reduced 495 Euro)
- Requirements
- A willingness to share a technique you feel you have mastered. This can include everything from stretching canvas to painting to meditation. We all have something to share with each other that could enhance our practice and lives.
- What to bring
- Materials you are familiar with in your practice. All tools one needs to feel comfortable in the studio.
- Maximum number of participants
- 18
Curtis Talwst Santiago
(b. 1979, Edmonton, Alberta) lives and works in Munich. Early in his practice he studied as an apprentice of Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun. He has exhibited internationally at venues such as The Drawing Center and The New Museum, New York, NY; The Eli and Edythe Broad Museum at Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI; the Institute of Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA; The Pérez Art Museum Miami, FL; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada; Osage Gallery, Hong Kong, and various others. His works are in the permanent collections of Lenbachhaus, the National Gallery of Canada, the Kadist Foundation, Studio Museum, Harlem and the Nevada Museum of Art among others.
Santiago was included in the SITE Santa Fe SITELines.2018 Biennial, Casa Tomada, the inaugural 2019 Toronto Biennial of Art in Toronto, Canada, and featured in the 2018 and 2022 Biennale de Dakar in Senegal.
In 2022 he was a visiting professor and AIR at the University of Tennessee, in 2023 AIR at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity and Fountainhead in Miami and in August 2024 he was guest professor at Salzburg International Summer Academy. He is currently an active member of the Board of Directors for the Drawing Center in New York and is a guest term professor at Akademie der Bildenden Künste München.
Website
Exhibitions
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2026 (upcoming) Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA), Costa Mesa, CA (US). 2024 A man not in the mood for salsa, Martina Simeti, Milan (IT). 2023Artissima, Torino, Nir Altman Gallery, Munich. Moving through Burning Haze, Cooper Cole Gallery, Toronto, CA. Joyvasted, Nir Altman, Munich. Mas a Play, Capsule Gallery Shanghai, Art Brussels, Brussels.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Drawing Now Art Fair, Paris. Art Basel, Honk Kong. Frieze, Los Angeles, CA (US). Felix Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA. V1 Gallery, Copenhagen. 2023Mickalene Thomas – Portrait of an Unlikely Space, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT (US). Poetry of the Evident, Galerie Droste Düsseldorf (DE). Crafting Resitance, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ (US).
Publications
Daniel Milnes, "Curtis Talwst Santiago at Nir Altman", Art Viewer, March 16, 2023. https://artviewer.org/curtis-talwst-santiago-at-nir-altman/
