Founded in 2019 as Austria’s first general non-profit cultural funding foundation, the KKS has already successfully supported, promoted and accompanied many cultural projects. This provided important cultural impulses, even beyond the borders of Carinthia and Austria. Many projects are being planned for 2025, including a brilliant Carinthian contribution to the Capital of Culture Nova Gorica in collaboration with the state of Carinthia.
The board members Monika Kircher and Ina Lerchbaumer are also pleased about the addition of Gabriele Semmelrock-Werzer, who will now bring her expertise from the financial and economic sectors to the board of the cultural foundation. Co-founder and previous board member Adolf Rausch will move to the newly established foundation advisory board at the beginning of 2025 and will oversee the agenda of artistic bequests and legacies in the future.
One of the most important tasks of the Carinthian Cultural Foundation is the biennial, Austria-wide call for proposals worth 200,000 Ꞓ in search of outstanding cultural projects, which took place for the third time this year. This time, artists and cultural workers from Austria were called upon to develop innovative concept ideas on the topic of youth and culture.
Fortunately, a total of 44 submissions from all sectors, with a total application amount of 2.3 million, reached the cultural foundation’s committees. This response shows the great need for cultural support in addition to the public sector in Austria and illustrates how important initiatives like this Open Call are for making extraordinary cultural projects possible.
By the end of the year, the KKS board of trustees will review the concepts received and, based on a shortlist, invite selected project applicants to hearings. The final winning projects of the 3rd KKS Open Call will be published in January 2025 and then the implementation of the award-winning projects will begin, which will continue to help make art and culture more visible and tangible in the future.
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