The artists combined painting, photography and a sound installation in the exhibition “#000000 (black) – #FFD700 (gold) – #228B22 (forest green)” in the Bad Ischl post office building.
The show is dedicated to the Obertraun writer and visual artist Hansjörg Zauner (*1959; † 2017), who was the model for Judith Zillich’s painting for ten years.
(Original title: Ein Dichter aus Obertraun/Zauner/Zillich)
On March 22, the Capital of Culture organized a reading with Bodo Hell. The FriesacherFrauenZimmer are also taking part. A home evening of a special kind.
(Original title: Ein Leben für den Dachstein – Ein Abend mit dem Dichter und Almhirten Bodo Hell)
In a breathless tour de force, the consummate performers Dagmar Manzel and Max Hopp act and sing their way through 20 characters using power and slapstick. The glamour queen and operetta diva Manon Cavallini can turn the head of any man.
(Original title: Eine Frau, die weiß, was sie will!)
Gmundner Keramik and OÖ Landes-Kultur GmbH have created a new format with the Academy of Ceramics. The center of the focus is placed on the shared firing and the exchange between one of the oldest locations for the production of ceramics in Europe and internationally renowned contemporary artists.
Portraits will be made of “mature supermodels” in extraordinary outfits – from the modern, hip and wild all the way to the traditional, old-timey, classical, from “grand dames et messieurs” all the way to simple Sunday fashion. The aged Salzkammergut region in all of its facets. The portraits will be displayed in exhibitions in the elderly care facilities in order to open them up as well as to experience them as places of art and encounters.
(Original title: Åhnlroas – Alt:Neu:modisch)
What separates and what connects our culture and history with those of the earliest Chinese dynasties?
View the exhibition and then discuss art over a meal in the restaurant. In this way, the Tanglberg/Schloss Hochhaus gallery meets the taste of art lovers.
The artistic and exploratory gaze from the outside is directed at local communities, traditions and rituals, history and stories, cultural activities, and perhaps also at conflicts and points of contention.
The creative foundation of the Salzkammergut holds great potential for the Capital of Culture and is to to be made visible in 2024.
The cult band Attwenger has its origins as much in folk music as in the alternative band scenes of the 1990s.
AVANTGARD/EN is an extended artist-in-residence programme at the Carmelite Convent in Gmunden and contributes to making the garden a place of public dialogue, encounter, reflection and cultural exchange that brings together people from different backgrounds and perspectives to negotiate the present.
The Salzkammergut was a melting pot of the avant-garde in the 19th and 20th centuries. The performance and exhibition of the “Ballet Mécanique” tie in with this tradition and at the same time offer a Salzkammergut version of the visionary masterpiece of classical modernism.
The Bartlhaus Writing Museum celebrates the Capital of Culture Year with a series of exciting presentations and, as a project partner, opens the house to new perspectives and current positions from May to October 2024.
(Original title: Schriftmuseum Bartlhaus)
A film about the personal story of the Palestinian director and artist Bashir Qonqar, who had to leave Bethlehem and started a new life in Bad Goisern.
In the Villa Toscana of Margarete Stonborough-Wittgenstein, the sister of philosopher Ludwig Wittgensteinsich, people met every summer for creative meetings, exchange or musical and dance performances. In 2024, Villa Toscana will once again become a place of exhibition and salons.
A saltworks is a place for extracting salt, isn’t it? It is also a very special place to get a taste for the crystalline basic structures of Bruckner’s music.
Inclusive Dance Project with Young People and Children as well as Professional Artists from the Region, from Greece and from France.
Ceija Stojka is currently one of the most sought-after Austrian artists. Her paintings relate to her history as a child before, during and after the National Socialist era.
In her installations, Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota deals with themes and contexts of human existence. In the tunnels of the former concentration camp, the artist has created an installation consisting of red ropes and 25 larger-than-life clothes.
Under the direction of Martin Haselböck, the KIRCH’KLANG Festival (Church Sounds Festival) fills the venerable spaces of the Salzkammergut region with innovative content, familiar and brand-new sounds as well as unusual formats.
(Original title: Kirch.Klang.Raum)
With its wide range of offerings, Gmunden will become a center for already established and future ceramics experts as well as for ceramics enthusiasts and observers from Austria and abroad.
The ground floor of the Art Nouveau villa at Bahnhofstrasse 13 in Vorchdorf was made available to the people of Vorchdorf for the year 2024 with a unanimous decision by the municipal council regarding the activities in the Capital of Culture year.
The Narcissus Post, a magazine on advertising columns, deals with nature and traditions and examines the changes to which they are subject.
It is one of the most successful international musicals in recent years.
Death By Landscape, EXCERPT: a pre-premiere, a second night, Janet, a cadence out of time, une balade dans le bois, a melody sung in darkness, a sting removed by fiction,a waste of time, an act of archeography, a thank-you-dance, a dance to under-grow.
Co-creation instead of colonial reservation: The Creative Europe project Deconfining Arts, Culture, and Policies in Europe and Africa (in short: Deconfining) builds bridges for sustainable, fair intercontinental cultural exchange and thus contributes to the implementation of the EU strategy for international cultural relations.
Digitalisation is everywhere and is influencing all areas of life and work. It is up to all of us to familiarise ourselves with new technologies and take advantage of the resulting benefits.
The former weaving and spinning mill Ebensee is the hub of the project, which addresses the history of the working world of women, role attributions, social achievements and controversies.
(Original title: Einen Faden Ziehen)
Interdisciplinary Impulses for a Cultural Center in Rural Alpine Space.
The Woferlstall Bad Mitterndorf has been programmed by the assocition E.I.K.E Forum since 2013. The impulse program East End Salzkammergut – Where the Sun Rises uses interdisciplinary formats to incorporate regional and European partners and participants and approaches local as well as regional challenges in their European dimensions.
(Original title: East End Salzkammergut – Wo die Sonne aufgeht)
23 portraits of mayors photographed by Elfie Semotan as part of the exhibition gmunden.photo 2023.
The Peace Ride is not a competition, but instead an encounter and exchange on an international level.
At the European Theatre Festival the focus is on the search for new strategies of memory culture.
Opening of the Salon Gulda
Gustav Mahler journey on the “Floating Artist Salon”
Concert with Mahler’s impressive Second Symphony.
Proceeding from the First World War, “Everything That Happened and Would Happen” takes place in a location filled with props from the past. 16 musicians and performers deal with the challenges of the present and various ideas for the future.
The 2024 European Capital of Culture Bad Ischl Salzkammergut is organizing the festive opening event together with the organizing committee and the community.
Two greats of the Austrian art and culture scene, Gerhard Haderer and Hans Peter Falkner, are on stage together!
Flood is a dynamic projection mapping on the Johann Nestroy School building in Bad Ischl that the media artists Ruth Schnell and Martin Kusch have adapted for the 2024 European Capital of Culture Bad Ischl Salzkammergut. The facade of the building will become part of the spectacular animation whose visual basis is the text of International Bill of Rights, first adopted in 1948, which now comprises 30 articles and 17 additional articles.
During the Cultural Capital Year, the Landungsplatz Train Station in Ebensee will derail, transforming into a realm of tangible, self-determined imagination.
(Original title: vogelfrei)
Future is Now! is a participatory art project that aims to make young people’s visions of the future visible in public spaces with the help of graffiti and street art.
A composition with an audience is created along the paths and across the meadows around the lake railway station and landing stage.
A sculpture becomes a small-scale ecosystem that functions according to the plans and laws of nature.
(Original title: Global Home – Kulturpfad St. Konrad)
“Terrible Beauty” is above all one thing: a call to action. The debate about ecology and climate change is omnipresent, not just in photography, but in all contemporary art production. This is not a trend, not a wave to be surfed. It is much more: a movement, a concern that must interest us all and shake us up.
Within the scope of the newly conceived Goisern Music Days, the state music school, which successfully conducted master classes and workshops for three decades, is placing a focus on contemporary music for the first time.
(Original title: Goiserer Musiktage für zeitgenössische Musik)
From your bathroom through a church, alpine meadows and stony deserts back into your daily life.
Numerous conversations with hikers, experts in futurology, church visitors and alpine pasture operators have resulted in a precisely composed audio piece whose tracks are assigned to specific stations along the way.
(Original title: Großer Welt-Raum-Weg)
As part of the multi-part format, young people in dialogue with the region face the housing and living issues of the future and develop new impulses, perspectives and approaches with the residents.
(Original title: Hallstatt Denkwerkstatt 2024)
The project invites young people to try their hand at arts and crafts. In this way, they develop their own interest and an understanding of traditional crafts.
The New Year’s concerts will ring in the 2024 year of culture and the music will inspire those who hear it to stand up and shake a leg.
Stories in pictures pictures have offered a unique and touching access to our history since the beginning of time. The German comic artist Simon Schwartz is a master of the form and shows how up close and personal the experience of contemporary history can be.
(Original title: Verborgen im Fels. Der Berg, das Salz & die Kunst)
As an interdisciplinary event in a sacred space, Holy Hydra puts the discourse between club culture, religions and society on a broader level.
A unique drama project for the Salzkammergut and the world in collaboration with the German State Theatre in Timisoara/Romania.
(Original title: Heimat-Welt)
Unannounced and with changing line-ups. Hubert von Goisern will perform as a street musician in all 23 municipalities during the Capital of Culture Year.
The project invites people to reread letters from their own environment and make them available to us: Because these personal documents reflect the life of the region, contemporary events and their impact on the lives of the authors.
(Original title: Briefgeheimnisse interaktiv)
In cooperation with the Stefan Zweig Center in Salzburg and the Austrian Society for Literature, the European Capital of Culture Region is offering high-quality readings of his critical writings and speeches on the topic.
(Original title: Reise aus der Welt von Gestern in die Welt von Morgen)
The Traunseetram, both an inner-city means of transport and a regional train, connects people with cultural capital locations, history, tradition and modernity. Passengers experience sustainable art (installations) at stops and thus also visions of energy and mobility.
Culture always means daring to begin. Therefore, the European Capital of Culture Bad Ischl Salzkammergut 2024 and all 23 municipalities want to venture out together with the OÖ KulturEXPO Anton Bruckner 2024 towards the end of this year. This departure should be a jump into a new consciousness, to dare to start again and again.
The Kulturverein Kino Ebensee and Crossing Europe Filmfestival Linz present a joint, two-part project that uses the medium of film to enable a low-threshold exploration of the topic of community and different forms of social and cultural coexistence.
World premiere at Musical Frühling Gmunden 2023. Since 2015, theater makers Elisabeth Sikora and Markus Olzinger have been establishing Gmunden as a venue for Austrian and German-language premiere performances in what is probably the most modern genre in theater history, the musical.
(Original title: Briefe an Ruth)
A regional interpretation of the Libertalia story as a performance. This was the result of the SALT LAB.
Voices From and About Europe – Reading Festival with Music
(Original title: Literaturpreis „nah und fern“)
At the “Marketplace of Ideas”, artists, creatives, entrepreneurs & politicians exchanged ideas about the submissions and the projects to be realized in the Capital of Culture year.
(Original title: Marktplatz der Ideen)
The artist Maruša Sagadin is redesigning the foyer of the Alte Post with her playful, subversive sculptures.
Since they first met at Starmania in 2006, Martin Zerza and Tom Neuwirth have travelled from the countryside to the city.
(Original title: Frau Thomas und Herr Martin)
A house becomes a place of exchange of living history of its surroundings. The history of the Lederermayerhaus dates back to the beginning of the 18th century. Among other things, it was the location of a fishmonger and the house of a Lederer trade. It was farm and a loving cat house, cared for by its last owner.
(Original title: Museum der Erinnerung)
This project combines traditional instruments such as the zither, dulcimer and fife with contemporary electronic music. The sound characteristics of traditional and nearly vanished instruments from the region will be paired with new and unusual styles of playing.
(Original title: Musikmaschine)
An attack on nostalgia and repression full of laughter and melancholy.
(Original title: Mein Lieblingstier heißt Winter)
The special exhibition is dedicated to the biographies of 25 women between the ages of 63 and 103 along various living environments.
(Original title: Mein Kleiderkasten – weibliche Lebensfreude bis ins hohe Alter)
How do young people want to live? How do they see the present and the future? What are their concerns and needs? The European Capital of Culture offers young people a platform where they can independently implement their own ideas.
The train as a place of everyday anonymity and fleeting encounters becomes the setting for the complex travel and life routes of some of the passengers.
(Original title: Unterwegs – ein (lebendiges) Hörtheater in der Traunseetram)
An exhibition with 28 positions / manifestos by internationally renowned artists on the theme of peace.
Prosperity (Afterparty) is a project with many controversies. By illuminating the themes from a wide range of disciplines, a continuous discourse results. Among other things, opposites such as the standstill of tradition and the further development of technology are negotiated. Gaps are filled between history and the future. Urban-elitist understanding of art meets rural romanticisation of art.
(Original title: Wohlstand Afterparty)
A networking project of Austria’s independent media. This project is an exchange and networking event with workshops, small conference and discourse events between international partners and representatives of the independent media in Austria within the scope of the 2024 Capital of Culture.
A piece of furniture as a place where culture and reading come together. A place that encourages residents to linger and enables both encounters and retreats.
(Original title: LESEBANK.2024)
With the European Capitals of Culture, impulses are set, models of the future are worked on and cultural developments are conceived with art and sent out into the world: it is a matter of the unifying visionary power that Europe, just like the Salzkammergut region, has and needs through cultural diversity. We are living in times in which Europe has to find its position in the world anew and, in doing so, it is not only a matter of shared rules, guidelines and bureaucracy, but instead much more about the question of the role of culture as a source of power that provides identity.
Paschen (a rhythmic clapping tradition in the Salzkammergut region), a former salt mine and a novel by Peter Handke: the mobile chamber opera by Gerhard Stäbler is the mythic journey of a woman into the land of her childhood.
A four-part Sound-Land-Art project with choirs, music bands, “Prangerschütz*innen” and bells from the Salzkammergut region.
(Original title: Salzkammer(sc)hall)
In order to facilitate the exchange of experiences among like-minded people and seekers also in rural areas, the women’s* drop-in centres contribute to the establishment of a queer community in the Salzkammergut with this project. The aim is to provide a home base and infrastructure for an active community that will exist beyond the project period. The second goal is an experimental short film series and artistic photo positions that convey queer life in the Salzkammergut via social media.
The Walking Art Performance developed by Hamish Fulton leads from Salzweg in Gmunden to Steeg, in 7 consecutive days.
A new space for encounters in the Hand.Werk.Haus Salzkammergut is intended to serve as a “central point of departure, base camp and space for action”. SCALA invites the world to blaze new trails between art and crafts!
Selma Selman – romni artist and activist from Bosnia and Herzegovina, who currently lives between Bihać, Ružica, Amsterdam and New York, takes a stand in Salzkammergut
Three 20-minute short operettas will be performed in the Lehárheater. The pieces refer to the basic idea and program lines of the Capital of Culture.
Students of the HLW Bad Ischl search for clues on the almost forgotten topic of “Siebenbürgen in the region”.
The US artist Bill Fontana is developing a sound sculpture as an artistic statement on the consequences of climate change.
As part of the European Capital of Culture 2024, a Culture Wednesday will be introduced into the schools, daycare facilities and educational institutions.
(original title: SKUL (Schule Kultur Lernen))
The “Schlachthoffestival” festival connects international and local artists from the fields of visual arts, music, literature, theater and performance.
SOLANGE (German for AS LONG AS) is a participatory and dialogue-oriented art project in public space that aims to raise awareness and draw attention to inequalities.
As part of the Capital of Culture 2024, artist Grace Ellen Barkey is showing the installations “Solastalgia” in Bahnhof Landungsplatz Ebensee and “Windows and Mosaic of Leaves” in Kalvarienbergkirche Gosau.
© Kulturhauptstadt Bad Ischl – Salzkammergut 2024 GmbH
© Kulturhauptstadt Bad Ischl – Salzkammergut 2024 GmbH
