Project chronological
Here, you’ll find all Capital of Culture year projects listed in chronological order. Click on the "more" link for a detailed description and further informations.
Projects that ran for several months are listed only under the month in which they premiered.
[Jan09] [Feb09] [Mar09] [Apr09] [May09] [June09] [July09] [Aug09] [Sept09] [Oct09] [Nov09] [Dec09] [All]
Wegzeit / Journey Time
Cultures of commuting:
Four guided tour routes focused on the culture, character, history and stories of Mühlviertel. more
Kinderpunkt09
A Place Especially for Kids and Families in the Altes Rathaus. more
Kunst Flow
“Where people are working, art feels right at home.” Under this motto, enterprises and institutions networked with artists in the Linz metro area. more
Heimspiel & Tanztagelabor
The aim was to give a real boost to real productions—support for the local indie scene to guarantee the continuity of its creative diversity. more
Zauberkünste / Doing Magic
A Nordico Museum exhibition was devoted to the sensation-craving, irrational, superstitious and eccentric side of Linz and told an enchanting story of city life. more
I LIKE TO MOVE IT MOVE IT
Making the Capital of Culture Year a School Year too! And getting the whole of Upper Austria moving in the process! more
Maria Stuart
Aida Karic reworked Friedrich Schiller’s material and Laura Ruohonen’s text more
Mesopotamian Dramaturgies
The Lentos hosted a major solo exhibition by Turkish artist Kutlug Ataman. more
Begley Meets Bernhard
Two continents, two writers, two contemporaries. One has been dead for 20 years; the other traveled to Linz from the US to give a reading in his honor. more
Civil wars
February 2009 was the 75th anniversary of the Austrian Civil War that broke out in Linz. An appropriate occasion to examine historical traces—not only in Linz, but all over Europe as well. more
Linz liest Vilnius / Linz Reads Vilnius
Readings, music and food & beverage specialties gave Linzers a taste of the pleasures of life and culture in Lithuania. more
Seltsame Jubiläen / Odd Jubilees
Linz09 celebrated a few odd anniversaries, recalled bizarre occurrences and marked them with performances, installations and sculptures. more
Picnic on the Battlefield
An antiwar play by Fernando Arrabal is the basis for an opera by Constantinos Stylianou. more
Haus der Geschichten / House of Stories
An old apartment house in downtown Linz became a setting for storytelling: what emerged was wonderment, invention and drama. more
Biennale Cuvée
World-Class Contemporary Art
The OK Center for Contemporary Art exhibited a selection of works from the most interesting biennials of 2008 with a particular focus on Asia. more
Zeit Geschichte vermitteln
It’s not mandatory, it’s not permitted … to say anything, write anything, react to anything. Cultural programs are mostly consumed passively; those partaking of them just sit around, stand around, walk around. This project reacted to this inactive state by launching new discourses and instigating response. more
Landschaftsoper / Landscape Opera
A seven-part work by Peter Ablinger was set in Ulrichsberg. The theme was the town itself and the landscape in which it’s embedded. more
Unter Uns / In Our Midst
The IN OUR MIDST installation dealt with the Bridgehead Buildings and the history of Linz in the Nazi era. more
Toulouse -Lautrec : An Intimate Look
Exactly 100 years after some of his works were first shown in Austria, an exhibit at the Landesgalerie focused on a key facet of the artist’s oeuvre. more
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