© Libertalia SaltLab - Edwin Husic / Salzkammergut 2024
Ein Kunstprojekt im Wasser eines Sees. Statisten halten eine große Figur.
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European Capital of Culture Bad Ischl Salzkammergut 2024

Culture is the new salt.

 

With its evolved compactness, shielded by mountains, lakes and rivers, the Salzkammergut region stands exemplarily for many other regions in the world.

The European Capital of Culture Bad Ischl Salzkammergut 2024 brings the diversity of historically rooted and contemporary art and culture before the curtain and raises it to an international level.

THE PROGRAMLINES

 

The programming for the 2024 European Capital of Culture Bad Ischl Salzkammergut uses four points of focus to create a balance between these important areas and uses a multitude of projects to point out possibilities for actively shaping our future.

 

In its four lines of programming

POWER AND TRADITION
CULTURE IN MOTION
SHARING SALZKAMMERGUT - The Art of Traveling and
GLOBALOKAL - Building The New

 

the European Capital of Culture is dealing with important topics within our region,
Europe and the entire world, setting new impulses for the future, putting on display the diversity in historically rooted and contemporary art and culture and networking the region internationally.

© Macht und Tradition - Kulturhauptstadt 2024

Power & Tradition

Power & Tradition

An open and active memorial culture without blind spots is a necessity for using the past to learn lessons for a careful and proactive approach to our present and future. The maintaining of tradition is a vibrant and strong practice in the Salzkammergut region. It covers a wide range of activities, extending from music, crafts, customs, theater and literature to restaurant culture. In order to understand traditions, however, a differentiated view of how they developed is also necessary. What power relationships have shaped this region and new modes of behavior and new customs? Remembering means shaping the future responsibly. This is exactly what POWER AND TRADITION recognizes and understands that their reciprocal effects are a prerequisite for understanding and respecting local and global identities as they change and evolve. Searching for the origins in our region reveals both the stories of their creation as well as global connections.

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© Sharing Salzkammergut - Die Kunst des Reisens - Salzkammergut 2024

Sharing Salzkammergut

Sharing Salzkammergut

Tourism, grown out of the summer holidaymaking tradition in this extraordinary Alpine region, which began in the 19th century, is one of the most important lifelines in the Salzkammergut region, the place yearned for by many travelers.

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© Kultur im Fluss - Kulturhauptstadt 2024

Culture in motion

Culture in motion

The need for a clear cultural identity seems to be comprehensible in a world where everything is globally dependent upon each other. But is this so clearly demonstrable? The French philosopher François Jullien states that the nature of culture is change. Customs, traditions or a shared language are seen as resources that are generally available to all and which can be used in a wide variety of ways.

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© Globalokal - Building the New - Kulturhauptstadt 2024

Globalocal

Globalocal

Shaping the rural Alpine region in such a manner that the usual north-south divide is compensated for and supplemented, that the labor market is enriched with creative potential, that works against the emigration of young, well-educated people in order to make a life in the countryside possiblewhile still being networked and able to work globally. This means expanding mobility and digitalization, developing strategies to once again make agriculture possible as a livelihood, combine land use planning and the development of a reasonable construction culture, creating spaces for education and art, striving for sustainability in all areas within the Salzkammergut region as well as beyond. In GLOBALOCAL – BUILDING THE NEW, the focus has been placed on thinking about the world of tomorrow and developing strategies for action as well as dealing with the points of tension between the generations. After all, it is especially the young people who are affected by the careless use of resources; this is why young people are the central group being addressed when it comes to recognizing interim spaces for promoting the cultural and creative diversity in the rural Alpine area of the Salzkammergut region and creating the prospect of a life that is attractive for young and old alike.

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© Evening glow at Gosausee Photo: RudiKainPhotography
In this picture you can see the Gosausee, the Dachstein and the Gosaukamm in a beautiful sunset.
23 for 24

Locations

23 for 24

Locations

For the first time in the 37-year history of the European Capital of Culture, 23 municipalities in the inner-alpine, rural area are joining forces to form a Capital of Culture.

Participating places
© Photo Oberösterreich Tourismus GmbH/Stefan Mayerhofer: Rowing on Lake Hallstatt
A woman and a man row in a two-man boat in bright sunshine on Lake Hallstatt. In the background the mountains of the Dachstein-Salzkammergut region.
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