The space and sound installation Dark Matter deals with a historically special as well as particularly delicate performance practice of Bruckner's works: Around the dark concerts during the Nazi era, for which the Vienna Konzerthaus was completely darkened. Hearing Bruckner in this way was advertised as a pseudo-religious and transcendent experience in the spirit of National Socialism.
85 years after the first of these lightless concerts, Dark Matter transforms the Minoritenkirche in Wels into a darkened space and sound setting. The staging of the location and the aesthetic in which Bruckner's 7th Symphony is heard, however, deliberately refers not to fascism but to the drone music happenings of the 1960s. As a result, Bruckner's music once again undergoes a reinterpretation that frees it from its Nazi reference against its will.

The Minorite Church is open longer especially on this day!

Admission is free!

A project of the Upper Austrian KulturEXPO Anton Bruckner 2024 in cooperation with the City of Wels and with the kind support of the City of Linz / Linz Kultur

Minoritengasse 1 4600 Wels