“Especially when there is inflation, international crises and social polarization pressure on our society, art and culture is needed – as a places of experiencing joint experience and the open discourse. In order for these rooms to exist, the city of Vienna takes responsibility and relies on an active cultural policy: With long -term strategies and targeted funding, we create spaces in which diversity is being held and participated. And remain part of the general interest.according to Vienna City Councilor for Culture and Science Mag.A Veronica Kaup-Hasler in today’s special debate to sign out 2024.
Orientation through cultural strategy 2030
In order to secure this central function of art and culture, the cultural budget in 2024 was around 325 million euros – a new increase compared to the previous year, which in most cases served to cushion the inflation. “The city of Vienna is a reliable partner – for artists and cultural workers, institutions and the audience”, emphasized city councilor Kaup-Hasler.
The City of Vienna consistently obliges the guidelines formulated in the Culture Strategy 2030: the continuation of the Fair Pay Initiative, the targeted strengthening of institutions for a resistant basis and the focus on cultural participation, so that art and culture, regardless of their socio-economic background, can be experienced.
Cultural participation and decentralized offers
A new chapter of cultural participation was opened with the start of Junge Theater Vienna in autumn 2024: The project brings productions of the free theater scene and the established Viennese theater houses for young audiences – from dance performances to spoken theater to circus performances or operas – to the five area areas of Favoriten, Simmering, Floridsdorf, Donaustadt and Liesing. Children and adolescents experience art and culture directly in their own living environment. At the same time, the city extends the impact lever of existing subsidies by making existing productions accessible to a new audience, and offers the performing scene new performance options. By using existing resources, the project makes an important contribution to cultural participation – and to ecological and structural sustainability.
Culture builds sustainably: the new Pratermuseum
The opening of the new Pratermuseum in March 2024 also underlines Vienna’s commitment to sustainable cultural policy: As one of the first public timber buildings in Vienna – with heat pump and external air use for heating and cooling, photovoltaics and intelligent heat recovery – the museum is a model model for a climate -friendly and future -oriented architecture. It has also been possible to double the exhibition area for the history of the Vienna Prater. An open meeting point serves as an open meeting point in the middle of the sausage praire – for encounter, exchange and memory.
Memory as a democratic practice
The anniversary year “Schönberg 150” also shows how art and culture convert our historical legacy today: The city of Vienna promoted the program, which was jointly designed by Vienna Modern and the Arnold Schönberg Center Private Foundation, which opened surprising approaches to Vienna composers and universal artists Arnold Schönberg and new music in public space.
Vienna City Councilor for Culture and Science Veronica Kaup-Hasler: “Anniversaries are more than memorial moments, they give the reason to make art visible far beyond established rooms and at the same time strengthen local artists and further expand the international radiance of Vienna.”
Rooms for the free scene: wuk ecologically and socially renovated
With the end of the three-year general renovation, the Vienna Werkstätten- und Kulturhaus (WUK) shines in new splendor: 12,000 square meters were ecologically renovated, accessibility was created and the building services were brought up to date. This means that the historic building remains an architectural monument and at the same time as a creative laboratory an indispensable part of the free scene.
Science: The Complexity Science Hub Vienna
How sustainable research policy investments have an effect can be seen using the example of the Complexity Science Hub Vienna: The Center for Complexity Research, founded ten years ago, is now a leading research institute that employs more than 80 researchers, acquires third -party funds in the million sector and provides practical knowledge.
City councilor Veronica Kaup-Hasler: “Culture creates added value”
“Culture is not a luxury, but the social food of a diverse and livable city. From Viennese song to contemporary opera, from program cinema to art in public spaces – Vienna’s cultural offers strengthen democracy, quality of life and economic strength”closed the city councilor.