FREE ENTRY / KUVA Art Symposium "ANTON BETWEEN WORLDS"

SHORT DESCRIPTION

The KUVA art symposium is a format in which the curators, through a public call for proposals, are looking for six to seven visual artists who are willing to set up their studio for several days in the museum's premises and publicly on site on a given topic relating to Anton Bruckner to work.

During working days, museum visitors have the opportunity to observe creative processes and exchange ideas directly with the artists.

The works created at the symposium will be presented in the special exhibition “Anton between the Worlds”.

As part of the symposium and in cooperation with “Anton Bruckner 2024”, a musical museum garden festival, known as “Tingel Tangel” for short, will also take place.

ANTON BETWEEN THE WORLDS

In keeping with Anton Bruckner and his 200th birthday, which is marked "Anton Bruckner 2024"  will be celebrated nationwide in Upper Austria, we want to take up the theme “Anton between the worlds” for the KUVA art symposium. Bruckner himself was someone who moved between worlds - socially, professionally, musically and geographically: He, who came from the provinces, had poor social skills and was poorly read, counted people from the educated middle class and nobility among his colleagues: inside, admirers, clients and friends. However, these connections were not without problems. The way he dressed and expressed himself linguistically did not correspond to the norms of bourgeois society and was therefore not “socially acceptable”.

Bruckner also changed worlds in his musical repertoire: he composed secular vocal works as well as sacred symphonies. Concert tours took him through European countries.

In this context, we examine the question of which worlds artists move in and between today, what interests them in different worlds, what moves them and what challenges this entails. Bruckner's story should serve as a starting point and inspiration for the submitting artists.

If you take a closer look at Bruckner's biography, the connection "Bruckner and art symposium" is not that far-fetched: at the age of 45, Bruckner became an honorary member of the Linz Diocesan Art Association. It would be an exaggeration to say that Bruckner had a close relationship with Leonding, but at least the protagonist was often a guest in a tourist inn near Leonding and celebrated his readiness to study here.