Three weeks in the mountains of the Austrian Alps.
June 29 – July 20, 2026

A contemporary summer school for art, design, writing, and interdisciplinary practice.

Urban energy meets alpine quiet. You work surrounded by forests and mountains — with Vienna only 45 minutes away. Less distraction. More focus. Space to think and make. The Hirschwang is a temporary campus and shared workspace — 22 days of sessions, group projects, and excursions to Vienna, Mount Rax, and Reichenau.

Across the three weeks, we offer two session per day. You can join all of them, some of them, or focus entirely on your own project. This is up to you. Alongside the sessions, mentors are constantly present throughout the program, offering individual feedback, spontaneous workshops, and one-to-one conversations. The structure is open — you decide how to use your time.

We provide the tools, infrastructure, food, teachers, and the setting. You bring your ideas and your energy.

Who It’s For

The Hirschwang Summer School is open to anyone who wants to spend three focused weeks working on their practice. People come here from across Eastern and Western Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Africa — sharing three weeks of working, living, and thinking together.

Students and Aspiring Artists & Designers

Students and young people thinking about studying art or design who want to either get a first glimpse into studying art and design, or who want a new perspective on how art can be taught.

Artists & Designers

People working in painting, photography, sound, moving image, digital art, sculpture, games, ceramics, food art, comics, and hybrid formats — whether you’re just starting out or already established.

Writers & Narrative Practitioners

Those working with text, storytelling, theory, hybrid formats, or AI-supported writing — and interested in how analogue and digital processes meet.

Cross-Disciplinary Practitioners

Practitioners working between nature, performance, technology, and spatial practices — from land-based work to immersive environments.

Graduate & Doctoral Researchers

MA, MFA, and PhD candidates who want focused production time, feedback, and exchange while developing projects or writing.

We went to Hirschwang for a few days—that was the original plan. UBERMORGEN, teaching at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, moved the whole Digital Arts Department to the Hirschwangerhof to see what happens when you change the setting. By the third day, something shifted. In the quiet of the mountains, the urban demand for speed and self-optimization vanished. We found ourselves in longer conversations, realizing that what art education actually needs isn't more visibility or funding slides—it needs time, focus, and the courage to work differently.

We looked at this place and realized we couldn't just leave. Where the city trains hierarchy, Hirschwang offers a rhythm where work becomes slower and stronger simultaneously. We stopped treating this as a field trip and established it as a permanent base. UBERMORGEN brings decades of digital art practice and experience with institutional friction; the commons hub provides the land, the fablab, and the infrastructure for a collective life. It clicked. We didn’t need permission; we needed commitment.

The Hirschwang School is that commitment.

This is a structure built on anti-authoritarian ground, designed in full awareness of how modern education often prioritizes branding over substance. We choose solidarity over competition and shared knowledge over individual hoarding. You don’t come here to polish a persona; you come here to train, to build stamina, and to produce work that holds. This is not a decorative collaboration—it is a joint initiative between UBERMORGEN and the commons hub to create a high-stakes research ecosystem.

The Summer School is only the first chapter. Camps, labs, and a future forum are already in motion. We went there for a few days, we stayed because it made sense, and now we are building it properly.

UBERMORGEN

UBERMORGEN (“The day after tomorrow”, CH/AT/US, est. 1995) is a bold and uncompromising team known for their feral energy and relentless rise on the global art stage. Their practice spans Haute Couture Pixel Aesthetics, Dark AI, Media Hacking, and polarizing research. Artfacts describes their work as “contaminated peak hyper contemporary.”

CNN called them “Maverick Austrian Business People” for their Vote-Auction project, which reached half a billion people and attracted the attention of the FBI, CIA, and NSA. Their EKMRZ Trilogy disrupted major e-commerce platforms in the mid-2000s. In 2017, they presented one of the first AI-driven projects at the Liverpool Biennale. Subsequent works such as UNINVITED, The D1cks, PMC Wagner Arts (KW Berlin), and The Silver Singularity (Busan Biennale) continue to test the limits of technological aesthetics and institutional critique.

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Selected Exhibitions

Whitney Museum, MoMA PS1, Centre Pompidou, Gwangju Biennale, Louvre Paris, Biennale of Sydney, Liverpool Biennial, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, SFMOMA, MOCA Taipei, ICA Miami, National Museum of China, Serpentine Galleries, Kunsthal Aarhus, V&A London, Chronus Shanghai, Museo Reina Sofia, New Museum, Somerset House, Haifa Museum of Art, Hermitage Museum, HKW Berlin, ZKM, HMKV, National Art Gallery Sofia, Ars Electronica, ArtScience Singapore, 3331 & ICC Tokyo, WRO Media Art Biennale, Prague Biennale, Busan Biennale, Bogotá Museum of Modern Art.

commons hub

The commons hub is an experimental playground for regenerative systems design. It explores the liberatory potential of emerging technologies and social techniques that facilitate horizontal communities. Drawing on years of experience in managing creative chaos, it provides both stability and freedom for communities to grow.

Its facilities — versatile event spaces, fablab, atelier, and outdoor gym — are complemented by self-organizing practices that gently guide creative energy into productive flows.

The location sits at the eastern foot of the Alps, just south of Vienna. The dramatic landscape of Höllental combines high peaks, steep cliffs, and cold rushing streams framed by dense forests. It feels remote, yet remains highly accessible: nearly 10 million people live within a three-hour drive, and Vienna International Airport is under two hours away by rail.

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/ CONTACT

Location and platform of the Summer School is the Commons Hub , an experimental playground for regenerative systems design.

For inquiries regarding applications, logistics, or partnerships, please contact:

officeR@ubermorgen.com

Impressum

UBERMORGEN Verein zur Förderung Digitaler und bildender Kunst
Hammer-Purgstall-Gasse 3/17
A-1020 Vienna / Austria
ZVR Zahl: 380871308

commons hub GmbH
Richard von Schoeller-Straße 9
A-2651 Reichenau an der Rax / Austria
VAT: ATU79873834
Company Registration: FN 606736 i