{"id":2483,"date":"2017-05-02T14:08:17","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T14:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.creativeaustria.at\/2017\/05\/02\/freischwimmer-im-kunstbetrieb\/"},"modified":"2018-02-07T11:31:57","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T11:31:57","slug":"freischwimmer-im-kunstbetrieb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.creativeaustria.at\/en\/2017\/05\/02\/freischwimmer-im-kunstbetrieb\/","title":{"rendered":"“Artistic free floaters.” \/ Linz"},"content":{"rendered":"

Linz.
\nIn Linz, on the banks of the Danube, art and culture are going down the drain on purpose. Successfully so.<\/h1>\n

The Talk about sustainable eff ects of Linz\u2019 year as a cultural capital! The colourful rubber ducks, that change their colours according to the water\u2019s temperature, already became top sellers in 2009. And they are still very popular, so much so that the city\u2019s tourism information off ers them directly on their counters. But these are not the only positive consequences of 2009, Linz\u2019 year as a cultural capital.<\/p>\n

Linz\u2018 clever cultural managers also successfully used the contacts they made in 2009 for other projects, both on a federal and on a global level. They also learnt how one goes about organising major cultural projects together in a professional way, or in other words, how to work across the boundaries of selfconfident individual institutions without throwing a spanner in the works. This is something that some other cultural institutions, such as the Vienna-based Bundesmuseen can only dream of \u2013 in spite of the white paper they have just published.<\/p>\n

Walter Putsch\u00f6gl, former director of Linz09, who is now the Upper-Austrian Landesmuseum\u2019s business manager, and Martin Sturm, long-standing director of OK-Centrum and Linz-based Kulturquartier, always\u00a0 manage to arrange projects with a global reach and to also get the federal level to work for them a little bit. The most recent example of this is the project \u201cKulturplattform Donauraum \u2013 Kreative Orte des 21. Jahrhunderts.\u201c, which was presented a short time ago. Directed by the Federal Chancellor and supported quite generously by the EU and its means, a cultural platform was created out of fourteen countries that the Danube flows through. It does not come as a surprise that Linz successfully positioned itself at the centre of this project.<\/p>\n

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Gerda Riedler, Academic Director of the \u00d6ber\u00f6sterreichischen Landesmuseen: “Alone it is not easy to drag supra-regional audience to Linz. Initiatives to develop projects together are therefore very important for us.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Another important project of Linz\u2019 major cultural institutions also revolves around the Danube: We are preparing a joint project for 2018 on the topic \u201cDonau Art\u201d (\u201cDanube Art\u201d). It all goes down at OK-Centrum, Lentos and Landesgalerie. The project focuses on questions about dealing with borders, going with the tide or against it. The project as a whole will be curated by external expert Elisabeth Schweeger. This is one example of an event where we work together on a general topic, but also pay attention to the project\u2019s individual parts and think about which of these parts fi t which institution.\u201d, states Gerda Ridler, cultural director of Upper-Austrian Landesmuseum.<\/p>\n

While former Lentos\u2018 director Stella Rolig followed the Danube downstream, moving to Belvedere in Vienna, her successor Hemma Schmutz is just starting to get to know the circumstances of working in Linz and seems to be open for future projects with OK and Landesmuseum. \u201cIf there is a productive way of cooperating, I am open for it. I think that in Linz the circumstances for cooperations are good,\u201d says Hemma Schmutz.<\/p>\n

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Hemma Schmutz, new Artistic Director of the Lentos Kunstmuseum: “A museum should be able to fulfil its core tasks: Acquire, research, preserve, exhibit and make known.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Lentos\u2018 new director has a lot of work to do. The replacement of Stella Rollig happened on short-term notice, which is why Hemma Schmutz did not have a lot of time to prepare for the upcoming season, the first season in which she is responsible. That\u2019s exactly why she is closely scrutinising the strengths of other cultural institutions in Linz. \u201cOK-Centrum, for instance, has an interesting past as an open cultural institution, which was shaped by artists who produced their works on the spot. It offers interesting opportunities for the production of art. OK-Centrum has been creating an exciting programme of contemporary art for over a decade now. One of the reasons why this was possible was the fact that there was no immediate pressure from the audience.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hemma Schmutz knows that she wants to draw on Lentos\u2019 specifi c strengths in order to build up her programme. When she took up this job, she only got a vague, broad task from political authorities. \u201cFor them it is important that Lentos\u2019 projects reach a high artistic level. However, at the same time it is vital to remember that we should not only cater to a small elite audience only. We should also try to have a more widespread impact.\u201d Hemma Schmutz, however, does not regard this as a duty to focus on famous artistic names that feature in rankings: \u201cI think that there is a very large number of good and interesting artists in Austria. Rankings happen. They say something about artists\u2019 presence and the prices they have won. But I think it is wrong for a country to only show the rankings\u2019 three most expensive artists and have their works alternate everywhere. I oppose such a development.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Beyond one\u2019s own boarders: “Bauhaus \u2013 Beziehungen Ober\u00f6sterreich” in the Landesgalerie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
INFO<\/strong>\r\n\r\nLentos Kunstmuseum\r\n<\/strong>Programm\r\nwww.lentos.at<\/a>\r\n\r\nARNULF RAINER\r\n<\/strong>Neue Arbeiten auf Papier\r\nBis 30. 7. 2017\r\n\r\nPSYCHO DRAWING\r\n<\/strong>Art brut und die \u030160er und \u030170er in \u00d6sterreich\r\nBis 11. 6. 2017\r\n\r\nMARKO LULI\u0106\r\n<\/strong>Futurology\r\n30. 6. - 10. 9. 2017\r\n\r\nTIME \u0301S UP\r\n<\/strong>Bis 22. 10. 2017\r\n\r\nSTERNE\r\n<\/strong>Kosmische Kunst von 1900 bis heute\r\n29. 9. 2017 - 14. 1. 2018\r\n\r\nVALIE EXPORT Archiv\r\n<\/strong>10. 11. 2017 - 4. 2. 2018\r\n\r\nDIE SAMMLUNG\r\n<\/strong>Klassiker, Entdeckungen und neue Positionen\r\nSammlungspr\u00e4sentation \/ Dauerausstellung\r\n\r\nZu schade f\u00fcr die Lade\r\n<\/strong>Entdeckungen aus dem Grafikdepot\r\nDauerausstellung\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nLandesgalerie Linz\r\n<\/strong>Programm\r\nwww.landesmuseum.at<\/a>\r\n\r\nBauhaus \u2013 Beziehungen Ober\u00f6ster<\/strong>reich\r\n<\/strong>18.5. \u2013 27.8. 2017\r\n\r\nHerbert Bayer \u2013 Sepp Maltan: Ital<\/strong>ienische Reise\r\n<\/strong>18.5. \u2013 27.8. 2017\r\n\r\nLinzer Kunstsalon und Designsalon\r\n<\/strong>16.9. \u2013 17.9. 2017\r\n\r\nSpielraum. Kunst die sich ver\u00e4ndern <\/strong>l\u00e4sst\r\n<\/strong>5.10. 2017 \u2013 14.1. 2018\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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