From 4 August to 29 September 2024, Austrian light and media artist Victoria Coeln invites visitors to discover and playfully explore the medium of light as a phenomenon and tool of knowledge in the outdoor area of the Austrian Papermaking Museum on the River Traun and in its gallery spaces.

In 2031, Spain and Malta will name the European Capital of Culture. 

Since EcocNews has been online, just after the pandemic, we have been doing a series of interviews with cultural managers and European Capital of Culture experts.

Next year the European Union's European Capital of Culture programme will celebrate its first 40 years. An important date as we have already written here.

In the last few days, Culture Next organised in Bielsko Biala, one of the four cities on the short list to become the European capital for Poland in 2029 (the others are Lublin, Katowice, Kołobrzeg) an interesting international symposium on the topic of branding European capitals of culture and communication.

As part of the Capital of Culture 2024, the artist Grace Ellen Barkey is showing the installations "Solastalgia" at the Landungsplatz Ebensee railway station and "Windows and Mosaic of Leaves" at the Kalvarienbergkirche Gosau.

For the first time in the history of art, Surrealism will be born in three places at the same time. The Villa Pantschoulidzeff in Traunkirchen, the factory premises in the Karbach quarry on the eastern bank and the town square in Traunkirchen will become the joint venue for an exhibition of contemporary art full of discovery.

While in Italy the city of youth, Potenza, in Basilicata, the same region as Matera, European Capital of Culture in 2019, has just been named, in the rest of Europe work is underway to name the European capital of youth for 2027.