kunstroas
About living well together 2025
kunstroas 2025 – About living well together
Opening: Saturday, 05.07.2025, 16:00
car parking Großarl
kunstroas 2025 focuses on life in rural areas. Artists explore the transformation of the village, work, crafts and community and enter into a dialogue with the everyday lives of local people. Themes such as globalisation, tourism, demographic change and the climate crisis are just as central as the role of women in village life. What future does the mountain village have in the area of conflict between tradition and change? And how can sustainable coexistence be organised in times of global upheaval? How can resilience, community and sustainable behaviour be strengthened in rural areas?
Opening:
Mayor Johann Ganitzer
President of the state parliament Brigitta Pallauf
The kunstroas starts at the lift car park and runs along the cycle path. The duration of the exhibition in the Berg-Schule Großarl: 06.07. – 31.08.2025, open daily from 9:00 to 22:00.
Between tradition and innovation
What specific effects does globalization have on the working methods and living conditions in the agriculture of a mountain village? How does small-scale regional production succeed in competing with industrial mass production? What changes have taken place in the population structure of the village in recent decades? And what social changes can be observed in the rise of the mountain village as a tourist community? Are there signs of emigration, vacancy and rural exodus or is there a trend towards a “back to the roots” lifestyle? What specific challenges do women in particular experience in rural areas, whose important role in village life is often under-appreciated?
What role does tourism play in this context and can it contribute to strengthening rural communities? How have people changed their living and working environment in the Capitalocene era? What impact have the various crises, such as the financial and economic crisis, climate crisis, food crisis, wars and the threat of (new) pandemics, had on village structures and personal lifestyles?
Art in dialog with history, place and community
Art can promote an in-depth exchange between the location and its users. Artists come into contact with local people, exchange ideas and create opportunities for participation. Questioning local stories and researching the history of the place and the people are the challenge facing the artists of kunstroas 2025.
As part of kunstroas 2025, some of the projects already realized at kunstroas 2023 will be presented again (including the work of HERI & SALLI as well as one of CLEMENS BAUDER’s hay barns, which will be rebuilt with the support of KARL ENTACHER and his students from the Holztechnikum Kuchl), on the one hand along the kunstroas hiking trail, and on the other hand the works of INGRID SCHREYER from 2023 will be shown in an exhibition together with works by ANGELA ANDORRER in cooperation with the Berg-Schule in Großarl. Three new art projects are being developed to complement the existing concept. The following artists have been selected for this: ANGELA ANDORRER, MARLENE HAUSEGGER and LORENZ PROMMEGGER
Join us – The long table in Grossarltal
Sunday, 13.7.2025, 16:00 Come Together 17:00 Dinner
For the first time, ‘The Long Table’ will take place as part of the kunstroas – a meeting place for residents, people who work here and guests. Shared food, good conversation and a place for exchange: for one evening, the cycle path is transformed into a social and cultural space that not only celebrates enjoyment, but also community.
Whether you live here, work here or are visiting: bring something to eat, take time to chat and experience an evening full of encounters and fellowship. Together, we will transform the cycle path into a festive table in the open air. Everyone brings something, everyone shares – and the table becomes a symbol of what makes our valley special: together instead of next to each other.
“Come along, meet new people and maybe a new tradition will start here – with you in the centre of it. It would be great if other villagers in the valley took up this idea and carried it forward,” says initiator Lorenz Prommegger.
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