More and more people are travelling more often, further and for shorter periods of time. What impact do our holiday wishes have on the built environment, the social fabric and climate change? And how can we imagine a form of tourism that does not destroy what it lives on?
(Original title: Über Tourismus)
The researching artistic gaze from the outside is placed on local communities, on traditions and rituals, history and stories, on cultural activities, perhaps also on conflicts and points of dispute.
The creative foundation of the Salzkammergut holds great potential for the Capital of Culture and is to to be made visible in 2024.
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.
“Behind every fence gallery that goes out into the world from the Salzkammergut, there is also the labour of people who have come in from different parts of the world.”
Based on this aptly succinct statement, Alenka Maly’s film project looks at the history of migrants who contribute to the success of the celebrated Salzkammergut tourist region from the backstage.
(Original title: Hinter den Kulissen)
Culturebuddies are volunteers who open the doors to cultural life for others.
(Original title: Kulturbuddy)
Japanese people those aspects of daily life that they themselves often do not perceive. This is the aim of the project “European Eyes on Japan/Japan Today”, which invites photographers working in Europe to Japan.
The Peace Ride is not a competition, but instead an encounter and exchange on an international level.
At various locations in the Salzkammergut, the animated sculptures by Eva Schlegel in collaboration with 2MVD, one of Austria’s most internationally renowned artists, will be visible outside and inside using a QR code.
Opening of the Salon Gulda, a Gustav Mahler journey on the “Floating Artist Salon” and concert with Mahler’s impressive Second Symphony.
The Fête de la Musique, also known as World Music Day, celebrates the universal language of music every year on 21 June, the beginning of summer: in over 540 cities worldwide, this year also throughout the Salzkammergut, Upper Austria and Styria.
The 2024 European Capital of Culture Bad Ischl Salzkammergut is organizing the festive opening event together with the organizing committee and the community.
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)
The Dachstein Alpentrophy event will take place for the 31st time in Gosau and is one of most attended balloon events for leading balloonists in all of Europe.
As part of the project, artists from the Danube region meet for workshops lasting several days. With the help of local young people and students, they work on exciting, forgotten or not easily accessible places in an artistic performance.
(Original title: Geheimnisvoll)
More than 280 monuments in Bad Ischl can be discovered – even by non-German-speaking visitors – with pictures, text and location information via smartphone.
(Original title: Unterwegs auf den Ischler Kulturpfaden)
The rugged mountain areas, dense forests and extensive alpine pastures of the Salzkammergut served not only as hiding places for resistance fighters and deserters during National Socialism, but also for some high-ranking National Socialists. Within the framework of the project, hikes will take place that are not so much aimed at spectacular mountain peaks, but rather lead to original locations that played an essential role in this context, but have largely disappeared from the collective memory or have never taken root there.
(Original title: Wege des Widerstands)
“Probably the best hotel in the world” is an imaginary hotel; mobile, demountable and regional. It was never built! It consists of air, sound, imagination – and a meadow near Bad Mitterndorf.
(Original title: Das vermutlich beste Hotel der Welt)
Regional_Express is a project by Petra Ardai, Ella Raidel, and Marlene Rutzendorfer.
The train in motion as a narrator, time travelers, and the landscape as cinema.
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.
Who do we follow when we are guided by a computer program? You can find out during a group walk through Bad Ischl.
Stay overnight with sense & sensuality in the new slow hotel concept that stretches across the Salzkammergut. “Room With a View” functions like a decentralised hotel that networks local hoteliers and room providers and creates delightful special rooms with a sustainable design.
(Original title: Zimmer mit Aussicht)
Regional empty spaces as places of experience and meeting points for art: the Capital of Culture 2024 invites young artists from Germany and abroad to research, live and work in them and to activate them with artistic contributions.
Analog projects from the Capital of Culture program are transferred to the digital realm and become special experiences for users.
(Original title: Kulturvermittlungs-App hublz Salzkammergut 2024)
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.
The US artist Bill Fontana is developing a sound sculpture as an artistic statement on the consequences of climate change.
Welcome to the International Sole Spaceport (ISR)!
Prepare yourself for a journey that will redefine your previous experience of space and Earth.
A trio of artists deals with the sinking of books in Ebensee in 1934.
(Original title: Brandungen – die Entstehung der Sprache aus dem Wasser)
Tavern Culture Reloaded: The lab offers renowned chefs, ambitious apprentices and artists a playing field to reimagine traditional regional gastronomy with new culinary skills and innovative concepts.
(Original title: Wirtshauslabor Salzkammergut 2024)
“An der Alm”, “Industrie”, “Ortsleben – Kultur”, “Ankommen” and “Am Marktplatz”: 5 doors will open up new points of view for guests, tourists and locals in and around Vorchdorf.
An interactive audio walk uses an app to connect the lives and workplaces of some significant – but in public perception underrepresented – female figures from Bad Ischl.
(Original title: Ungeahnte Kräfte)
Where the real and the bizarre meet, “scurrealism” enters the world. This neologism comes from the Ebensee writer Walter Pilar, the instigator of the Villa Karbach art project. He and many other artists show works of unconventional power and intensity.
The Salzkammergut region in particular has marked by clichéd presentations as a backdrop for the tourism and recreation industry from the 19th century until today.
(Original title: Zeitreise – zwischen gelebter Tradition und Klischee)
© Kulturhauptstadt Bad Ischl – Salzkammergut 2024 GmbH
© Kulturhauptstadt Bad Ischl – Salzkammergut 2024 GmbH
