At the press conference on June 29, 2023 with Governor Mag. Thomas Stelzer, Cultural Director Mag.a Margot Nazzal, Mag. Norbert Trawöger, Artistic Director "Anton Bruckner 2024", Mayor Christian Partoll (Ansfelden) and Mayor Bernd Schützeneder (St. Florian), the Bruckner Year was presented as the first Upper Austrian CulturalEXPO.
The OÖ KulturEXPO was initiated to bring cultural topics of supra-regional relevance and central cultural-political significance before the curtain. The 200th birthday of Anton Bruckner is the occasion for launching the OÖ KulturEXPO. For this purpose, Anton Bruckner 2024 will be the premiere: all of Upper Austria will become the stage, with national and international points of contact.
The Upper Austrian KulturEXPO Anton Bruckner 2024 is developing through countless people and institutions on a wide variety of levels. The Department of Culture acts as a coordinating body and also develops its own projects. The major cultural institutions of the province and the city of Linz are important pillars of the Bruckner-Year. The first highlights - primarily from the institutions - were presented in March 2023.
Now we go into the space and show how the OÖ KulturEXPO will turn the entire state into a stage. The "central space" of this OÖ KulturEXPO are the Upper Austrian Bruckner-places - those places with a biographical reference to Anton Bruckner.