Opening Recap
“I hope that the European Capital of Culture Bad Ischl Salzkammergut 2024 will find many imitators as the regional Capital of Culture. Because we want much closer cultural, economic and political cooperation in Europe. Only if regions and municipalities succeed in this will we also succeed on a large scale. I also hope that Bad Ischl and the Salzkammergut region will be the salt in the European soup with their innovative approach – and thus whet the appetite for more!”
Martin Selmayr, Head of the Representation of the European Commission in Vienna
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LIVE
The broadcast of the opening on ORF III is available until 20 July 2024
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The contribution to the programme Kulturmontag on ORF 2 can be seen until 21 January 2025.
→ ORF ON
→ Further European Capitals of Culture 2024
On 26 January, Tartu2024 and Southern Estonia began their year as the European Capital of Culture. Following Bad Ischl Salzkammergut in Austria and preceding Bodø in Norway, the second largest city in Estonia ushered in the year full of 1000 events with a grand opening show “All Is One!”. An audience of thousands gathered in the heart of the university town on the banks of the river Emajõgi. The show, with a cast of over 100 actors, dancers and musicians centered on the importance of being with loved ones and building connections.
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The opening ceremony of Bodø2024 in Norway on 3 February culminated in fireworks followed by applause from up to 20,000 people in Molobukta. In an almost windless Bodø Harbor, the audience was embraced by a magnificent mix of performing arts, sound and light. From the stage out at sea, a half-hour journey into the new year in the north began. The opening of the first European Capital of Culture in a city north of the Arctic Circle was a success.
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Opening 20-21/1/2024
We are kicking off the European Capital of Culture! There will already be a great deal to see in the European Capital of Culture region before the official opening on January 20. Together with the inhabitants, regional and international artists and the associations from the Salzkammergut region, we will all get ourselves into the mood for the European Capital of Culture year. This means that the first half of January will feature exhibitions, music, cuisine and much, much more.
Arrival
Leave your car at home! On the main day of the opening weekend, there will therefore be a comprehensive range of special services and more frequent services on the Salzkammergut Railway as well as late services until well after midnight.
→ TIMETABLES, SHUTTLE SERVICE & CAR PARKS
Opening round →
20/01/24
Saturday, from 11:00
→ Bad Ischl
Free entry
Open City – Welcome to the European Capital of Culture!
Artistic interventions in public space
→ more about the programme
Opening Ceremony →
20/01/24
Saturday, 17-18:30
→ Main Stage Kurpark Bad Ischl
Free entry
Concert of Hubert von Goisern and the Chorus of 1,000
Performance of Tom Neuwirth aka Conchita
„Powder Dance” by Doris Uhlich
Performance “light people” by Isa Stein
→ more about the programme
The Salzkammergut celebrates into the night →
20/01/24
Saturday, from 19:00
→ Bad Ischl
Free entry
from 11 am
Open City – Welcome to the Capital of Culture
Artistic interventions in public space
from 12 noon
Bad Ischl tavern lab
“Genusslabor” by class 4HLa of the Bad Ischl tourism school and Christoph “Krauli” Held (Siriuskogl)
→ former railway station restaurant Bad Ischl
12:30 pm
Presentation of the installation “SOLANGE #29” by Katharina Cibulka
1:30 pm
“Luv Birds in toten Winkeln”
At the interface of private and public space, Maruša Sagadin combines elements of architecture, sculpture and painting and explores the underlying social aspects of a building or place.
→ Post office building
2:30 pm
Opening of the exhibition sudhaus – art with salt & water
→ old Sudhaus
2:30 pm
Installation “Ballet Mécanique” and “Music Machine“
→ Lehártheater / Extension
4:30 pm
Performative harbinger of the interventa Hallstatt 2024 building culture symposium: dancers from the MUK dance programme perform under the choreography of Esther Balfe
→ public space
4:30 pm
“FLOOD” light installation by Ruth Schnell / Martin Kusch (kondition pluriel)
→ Johann Nestroy School
Saturday 20/01/24
opening round
5 – 6:30 pm
Opening
Concert with Hubert von Goisern and the Choir of 1000
Performance by Tom Neuwirth aka Conchita Wurst
Powder dance by Doris Uhlich
Performance “Lichtmenschen” by Isa Stein
→ Kurpark Bad Ischl
7:30 pm
“A woman who knows what she wants“
Operetta by Oscar Straus, directed by Barrie Kosky
→ Congress and Theatre House (tickets available)
9:15 pm
Camo & Krooked “The capital of culture dances”
→ Kurpark Bad Ischl
Saturday 20/01/24
Opening Ceremony
from 7 pm
Ö1 stage
Daniele Scurati & Stefano Valla, Merve, Mieze Medusa, Yasmo & die Klangkantine, among others.
→ Trinkhalle
Stage hosted by Anton Bruckner 2024
→ Parish hall
NEW SALT Festival Club Night
→ Parish Hall
Organ Contemporary
Raminta Skurulsjkaite and Emma Frauenholz play “Detto 1” by Sofia Gubaidulina and others.
→ Parish church of St Nicholas
→ Protestant parish church
Open Air
Mai Cocopelli, Mamadou Diabaté & Congarilla, among others
→ Square of the Johann Nestroy School
Saturday 20/01/24
The Salzkammergut celebrates into the night
Saturday 20/01/24
opening round
from 11 am
Open City – Welcome to the Capital of Culture
Artistic interventions in public space
from 12 noon
Bad Ischl tavern lab
“Genusslabor” by class 4HLa of the Bad Ischl tourism school and Christoph “Krauli” Held (Siriuskogl)
→ former railway station restaurant Bad Ischl
12:30 pm
Presentation of the installation “SOLANGE #29” by Katharina Cibulka
1:30 pm
“Luv Birds in toten Winkeln”
At the interface of private and public space, Maruša Sagadin combines elements of architecture, sculpture and painting and explores the underlying social aspects of a building or place.
→ Post office building
2:30 pm
Opening of the exhibition sudhaus – art with salt & water
→ old Sudhaus
2:30 pm
Installation “Ballet Mécanique” and “Music Machine“
→ Lehártheater / Extension
4:30 pm
Performative harbinger of the interventa Hallstatt 2024 building culture symposium: dancers from the MUK dance programme perform under the choreography of Esther Balfe
→ public space
4:30 pm
“FLOOD” light installation by Ruth Schnell / Martin Kusch (kondition pluriel)
→ Johann Nestroy School
Saturday 20/01/24
Opening Ceremony
5 – 6:30 pm
Opening
Concert with Hubert von Goisern and the Choir of 1000
Performance by Tom Neuwirth aka Conchita Wurst
Powder dance by Doris Uhlich
Performance “Lichtmenschen” by Isa Stein
→ Kurpark Bad Ischl
7:30 pm
“A woman who knows what she wants“
Operetta by Oscar Straus, directed by Barrie Kosky
→ Congress and Theatre House (tickets available)
9:15 pm
Camo & Krooked “The capital of culture dances”
→ Kurpark Bad Ischl
Saturday 20/01/24
The Salzkammergut celebrates into the night
from 7 pm
Ö1 stage
Daniele Scurati & Stefano Valla, Merve, Mieze Medusa, Yasmo & die Klangkantine, among others.
→ Trinkhalle
Stage hosted by Anton Bruckner 2024
→ Parish hall
NEW SALT Festival Club Night
→ Parish Hall
Organ Contemporary
Raminta Skurulsjkaite and Emma Frauenholz play “Detto 1” by Sofia Gubaidulina and others.
→ Parish church of St Nicholas
→ Protestant parish church
Open Air
Mai Cocopelli, Mamadou Diabaté & Congarilla, among others
→ Square of the Johann Nestroy School
Sunday 21/01/24
“hangover breakfast”
from 10 am
Salzkammergut – Frühschoppen Trachtenverein D’Ischler
→ Parish hall
10 am – 6 pm
Exhibition sudhaus – art with salt & water
→ old Sudhaus
10 am – 6 pm
Installation “Ballet Mécanique” and “Music Machine“
→ Lehártheater / Extension
11 am
1st World Salon “Europe in upheaval”
Opening speech and moderation: Herfried Münkler in conversation with Aleida Assmann, Nava Ebrahimi, Fiston Mwanza Mujila
→ Stables of the imperial villa
1 pm
“Concert_Performance” with Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Patrick Dunst, Grilli Pollheimer
→ Stables of the Kaiservilla
2 pm
“Great space walk“
→ Stables of the Kaiservilla
→ Bad Ischl parish church
→ Rettenbachalm
from 5 pm
Bad Ischl Tavern Lab
“Genusslabor” by class 4HLa of the Bad Ischl tourism school and Christoph “Krauli” Held (Siriuskogl)
→ former railway station restaurant Bad Ischl
6 pm
“A woman who knows what she wants“
Operetta by Oscar Straus, directed by Barrie Kosky
→ Congress and Theatre House (online tickets)
from 10 am
Salzkammergut – Frühschoppen Trachtenverein D’Ischler
→ Parish hall
10 am – 6 pm
Exhibition sudhaus – art with salt & water
→ old Sudhaus
10 am – 6 pm
Installation “Ballet Mécanique” and “Music Machine“
→ Lehártheater / Extension
11 am
1st World Salon “Europe in upheaval”
Opening speech and moderation: Herfried Münkler in conversation with Aleida Assmann, Nava Ebrahimi, Fiston Mwanza Mujila
→ Stables of the imperial villa
1 pm
“Concert_Performance” with Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Patrick Dunst, Grilli Pollheimer
→ Stables of the Kaiservilla
2 pm
“Great space walk“
→ Stables of the Kaiservilla
→ Bad Ischl parish church
→ Rettenbachalm
from 5 pm
Bad Ischl Tavern Lab
“Genusslabor” by class 4HLa of the Bad Ischl tourism school and Christoph “Krauli” Held (Siriuskogl)
→ former railway station restaurant Bad Ischl
6 pm
“A woman who knows what she wants“
Operetta by Oscar Straus, directed by Barrie Kosky
→ Congress and Theatre House (online tickets)
Sunday 21/01/24
“hangover breakfast”
LIVE
ORF III broadcasts the opening of the European Capital of Culture:
Live on 20/01/24 at 17:30
→ to the Stream
Green Event
We are organising the opening in accordance with the criteria of the Austrian Ecolabel for Green Events. We offer various options for travelling to the event by public transport and ask you to separate waste at the designated areas.
Your perspective is important to us! After the event, you will have the opportunity to take part in our survey. Your suggestions will help us to further promote sustainable cultural events. Take part and support us on our journey!
→ to the survey
A cultural bargain
The Kulturcard 2024 offers discounts of up to -50% all year round at museums, concerts and exhibitions in the Salzkammergut region, as well as on programmes of the Capital of Culture Salzkammergut 2024.
Now available here!
A cultural bargain
The Kulturcard 2024 offers discounts of up to -50% all year round at museums, concerts and exhibitions in the Salzkammergut region, as well as on programmes of the Capital of Culture Salzkammergut 2024.
Waste
The event organizer asks the visitors to please separate their waste at the designated locations. Together, we will make sure that we have a clean event in the sense of the Austrian ecolabel for green events.
We will make every effort to realize this event in accordance with the criteria of the Austrian ecolabel for green events.
We are looking for helping hands
In 2024, 23 municipalities and their inhabitants in the Salzkammergut region will become European Capital of Culture. You have time and want to contribute to this special project?
We are looking for helping hands
In 2024, 23 municipalities and their inhabitants in the Salzkammergut region will become European Capital of Culture. You have time and want to contribute to this special project?
