Events in Bozen und Umgebung

A cry of hope against the imprisonment and abuse of women “The Elevator Key,” loosely based on the text by Agota Kristoff. The story tells the vicissitudes of a young woman segregated in a room, accessible only by an elevator whose key has been taken away from her by her husband. In a delirium of “love,” the man justifies his ruthless actions with a desire to protect her from the outside world This is followed by the story of Franca Viola, who brought about the change in Italian laws.

Amphibians and reptiles represent the two vertebrate classes at greatest risk of extinction globally. The main threats to conservation include habitat loss, fragmentation and alteration, climate change, lack of adequate knowledge, direct killing during the migratory period and trade for collecting, as well as alien species and the spread of certain pathogens. In order to meet the challenges of the present, within the framework of the Natura 2000 Network of the Autonomous Province of Trento, in recent years MUSE - Museo delle Scienze has initiated study and monitoring projects on some particularly vulnerable target species such as the Aurora salamander (Salamandra atra aurorae) and the black salamander (Salamandra atra atra). The research made it possible to investigate new aspects of the ecology of the subspecies, defining monitoring protocols and preparing conservation plans. In addition, a look into the past by analysing and comparing historical and current data offers valuable and surprising information that can reveal unexpected trends, which could influence the perspective on the conservation status of a species, as in the case of the study carried out on the marasso (Vipera berus). Adopting a general view on conservation, based on the foundations of the past and the evidence of the present, aims to chart a more conscious course for the future.

"Books for Christmas" remains the cultural highlight of the Bolzano Christmas Market. High-calibre authors are guests in Bolzano this year to present their works and meet the public. The 9th edition will take place this year on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays from 29 November to 14 December in the Foyer of the Tourism Board and in the Festival Hall of the Municipality of Bolzano. The detailed programme can be downloaded from the attached PDF. Free admission. It is possible to purchase the book on site.

From the 25th of November to the 16th of December 2024, the third edition of the ‘Arte in ...Comune’ collective art exhibition will take place in the Foyer of the Municipality of Bozen/Bolzano in vicolo Gumer 7. It will be a tribute to all women who suffer violence, particularly as a result of war.

During the Bolzano Christmas Market music bands and singing groups will cheer the time with Christmas music.

During the Bolzano Christmas Market music bands and singing groups will cheer the time with Christmas music.

STAZIONE UNO GALLERY, an exhibition space located in the heart of Bolzano, is composed of spaces totaling over 300 square meters,divided over 2 floors and 3 rooms. The creator, Johann Kosjek, assisted by the Mediamacs Design team responsible for the exhibitiongraphics, aims to fill the gallery with special exhibitions for a period of two years. Stazione Uno now presents its latest creation, LIVINGBIOGRAPHIES, which, as the name suggests, tells the life stories of everyday people. At the center of the exhibition are the personalitiesof the individual exhibitors: their families, their histories, their life paths, their dreams, and finally their "diagnosis." With a commonthread: the participants in the exhibition are always connected to their destiny and not to the successes of an overly satisfying life. Stazione Uno comes to life through its participants. A team that could not be more diverse: people with and without disabilities, peoplewith and without "diagnoses," people even with 100% disability, gathered in what we have chosen to call the DOWN ART COLLECTION.People who have something to say and tell their unusual life stories, facing them positively, and constituting the so-called primary targetgroup of our exhibition work.

Solo arts exhibition of Pierina Rizzardi. Inauguration: December 2 at 18:00

Today’s wars are wars of images. Visuals of military tactics, war crimes, and destruction fill our daily lives, but they are more than just reports. They compete in the information battlefield. Violent imagery has always driven the media, but with 24/7 news and social media, global audiences are constantly exposed to conflict images. News are commercialized, footage is edited like action films cutting out normal life to keep viewers hooked. In a body of works created within the last decade, Mykola Ridnyi explores how to discuss violence without perpetuating it, by using metaphors of blindness to highlight society’s dehumanization amidst sensational news and challenges of war. Since 2014 the artist has dealt with Russian war against Ukraine, its transformations and its perception in the world on its way from a hybrid conflict to the full-scale invasion. curated by Sabine Gamper

Trương Công Tùng The Disoriented Garden… A Breath of Dream Exhibition Location: Museion -1 Opening 07.11.2024 at 7 pm The committee annually provides a Southeast Asian artist with 15,000 US dollars to fund the production of a new video work, which will be screened at all the participating institutions. In 2024 the winning video The Disoriented Garden… A Breath of Dream by Trương Công Tùng will be screened at Museion -1 and donated to the collection of the museum. As a result of a public-private partnership, this acquisition expands the video art section and enhances the international artistic dialogue with the southeastern territory of Asia, underlining the importance of video storytelling for the collection of Museion.

In cooperation with innkeepers, craftsmen & service providers the merchants of Ritten offer the promotion "Rittner GlücksZug": Locals and guests receive stickers with every purchase of € 10 in the participating businesses. Every 10 stickers complete a winning coupon. Each coupon handed in takes part in the final draw. The Coupon must be placed in the boxes by 1 p.m. on December 24,. The prize-giving ceremony for the winners of the Christmas lottery "Rittner GlücksZug" will take place on January.

Known for his spectacular aerial photographs of western Switzerland taken from a small aeroplane, Ackermann has also created a special photographic monument to the Dolomites. These works have already been shown in illustrated books, in an exhibition at the LUMEN - Museum for Mountain Photography on the Kronplatz in Bruneck, as well as in numerous magazines, portfolios and photo books. Now a ‘Best of’ exhibition by Ulrich Ackermann, member of the Royal Photographic Society in London, will be on show at the South Tyrol Museum of Nature.

The scent is that of cinnamon and spices, of mountain wood and home-made cakes, of mulled wine and festively decorated fir trees. The light is that of the wooden houses all tidy and decorated, the light coming from the Christmas tree and shining in the eyes of the children. The sweet notes of Christmas carols and cheerful harmony waft through the air. Tastes reminiscent of Zelten with candied fruit, apple strudel, homemade biscuits. The warmth in the hands of boiled wool, loden, decorated candles, a steaming cup in the company of friends. The Christmas Market is the most eagerly awaited event of the year: from November 24th to January 6th. Shopping in Bolzano is a reflection of multi-cultural exchange: from traditional South Tyrolean clothing to designer fashion, from traditional stores selling local products to Italian regional delis, from charming local market stalls to the market of piazza delle Erbe, a colourful triumph of fruits, vegetables, flowers and breads. Opening hours of the shops: Monday-Thursday 11-19 Friday-Saturday-Sunday 10-19 Overtime: 31.12.24 10-18 01.01.25 12-19 Opening hours for gastronomy: 29.12.24 11-21 30.12.24 10-21 31.12.24 10-18 01.01.25 12-21 06.01.25 10-21 Mobility survey South Tyrol's Christmas markets: https://de.surveymonkey.com/r/R23Q7SD?lang=en

Those who want to experience the thrill of wearing ice skates will find a large skating rink in Piazza del Municipio/Rathausplatz, where skates can also be hired PRICES Prices per ticket for 2 hours: Adults: 7.00 € Children: 5,00 € Skate rental: 6,00 € Child helpers: 5,00 €

For lovers of good wine, the Mercatino offers the Wine Lounge with a selection of typical Bolzano wines. In addition to native wines such as St. Magdalener and Lagrein, South Tyrolean sparkling wines and spirits can also be enjoyed. The wine stand follows the timetable of the gastronomy. Wine producers will be present in person at the wine stand to present their labels.

The shops in Laives/Leifers decorate their shop windows with the self-made and handmade nativity scenes of the association "Leiferer Krippenfreunde". The route of the Nativity Scene Trail and the list of participating shops can be found at www.facebook.com/presepelaives

From Friday 29.11 to Monday 6th January 2025, many activities will await the little ones at Cappuccini Park. These will include readings of popular and Christmas fairy tales, cooking and handicraft workshops, puppet theatre, shows, and shadow theatre.

This project, as per the title of the exhibition, began at the sea, in Camogli, in Liguria. At that time, Matteo Agreiter's idea was. to create a connection between sea and mountain, in fact: seeing a sailor is a bit like seeing a mountain man: both brush their actions in the sea and the mountain, their reason for living. The skier in his turns finds in the snow sensations similar to the surfer riding the waves. In short, for me sea and mountains have many similarities: after all, in the beginning, these mountains too were sea.

The fossil museum is designed as an outdoor museum and is accessible to interested visitors at any time and explains itself by means of texts and audio stations. A guided tour for a group of the museum with one of our local experts is highly recommended. Booking is possible by means of direct requests to the tourist office: info@moelten.net It is now a long time – 260 million years – since trees resembling today’s araucaria grew in Mölten/Meltina. The ginkgos produced feathery leaves, while tree-high horsetails stood between the village of Mölten/Meltina and the Möltner Kaser hut. It is astonishing that clearly identifiable forms of these South Tyrolean primeval forests remain: trees fell into the riverbank or were carried along by the current, embedded in sand and finally transformed into fossils. They can now be seen in the Fossil Museum, which was revitalised in 2023 and designed as an outdoor exhibition. It shows the best of the finds from the area around Mölten/Meltina. Particularly noteworthy are the fossil tree and plant remains, some 260 million years old, as well as the footprints of a small reptile. What is special about the fossils in Mölten/Meltina? There are only three places in South Tyrol where plant fossils from the Late Permian have been recovered: the Bletterbach Gorge; Seceda; and Mölten/Meltina. The finds from Mölten/Meltina are the only ones that reveal entire trees. Details of their growth, their branches, roots and size are all clearly visible, which makes it possible to reconstruct entire forests. The Fossil Museum has a fully equipped multifunctional room that can be hired for events for up to 30 people.

We will guide you to eight especially beautiful and powerful cultural places in our region, all of which are marked and numbered on the map. There is an appropriate clue for each place. You need to find a wooden template with a picture on it and then copy it into the correct space on your sheet. Once every location has been visited and all of the images found and correctly entered on the map, the map can be handed in to one of the tourist information offices in Hafling, Mölten or Jenesien. In addition to visit the best cultural spots on the Tschögglberg mountain ridge, you will be rewarded with a little surprise. Important: Don’t forget your pen!

Bolzano. The Centro Trevi-Trevilab offers a truly extraordinary opportunity to get closer to the fascinating, and in some ways still mysterious, Etruscan culture. It does so with the exhibition 'Etruscans. Artists and Craftsmen', promoted by the Autonomous Province of Bolzano, Italian Culture, thanks to the collaboration of the National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia, directed by Luana Toniolo, a museum that preserves the most important collection of Etruscan finds in the world. The exhibition, curated by Valentina Belfiore and Maria Paola Guidobaldi of the museum's curatorial team, is part of the second stage of the 'Stories of Art with Great Museums' event, a multi-year journey aimed at discovering the great ancient and modern civilisations, 'another fundamental step towards learning about our past with the aim of keeping interest in culture and the rich artistic heritage preserved in Italy's great museums alive,' emphasised Marco Galateo, Vice President of the Province and Councillor for Italian Culture. The title 'Etruscans. Artists and Craftsmen' already introduces the particular slant of the Bolzano exhibition: it is not a generic exhibition on the Etruscans, but focuses on a specific aspect of their great civilisation, that of artistic and craft production.

Ar/Ge Kunst presents À JOUR, the first institutional exhibition of the work of Clemen Parrocchetti (Milan 1923–2016). A rebellious and non-conformist artist, Clemen Parrocchetti experienced the events of 1968 as a watershed moment of radical creative and political transformation. It was in those years of feminist struggle that the artist adopted the tools and methods of housework to take a political stance on the issues most hotly debated on a theoretical level within the movement, such as the subordinate role of women, abortion and divorce as elements of emancipation, domestic violence and sexual liberation. The peculiarity of domestic chores in Parrocchetti’s works reflects the artist’s closeness to the International Feminist Collective founded in Padua by theorists such as Silvia Federici, Mariarosa Dalla Costa and Leopoldina Fortunati. Among its many political actions, the Collective instituted the International Wages for Housework Campaign. This latter theme was also central to the Varese-based Gruppo Immagine featuring women artists only (Cibaldi, Gandini, Parrocchetti, Secol and Sironi), which Parrocchetti joined in ’78 and with which she would take part in the Venice Biennale that same year. The exhibition focuses largely on Parrocchetti’s works form the 1970s. À jour, the work which provides the title for the show, exploits the various meanings of the term in French, referencing the embroidery technique performed by extracting threads from the weft of a fabric in such a way as to create a slight transparency, also known as openwork stitching in English. Yet mettre à jour also means to make something manifest; in this case, what is brought to light is the very condition of women in their struggle against patriarchal subordination. But à jour is also used in the sense of the repetitiveness of female household chores, highlighting the barriers that the female artist must overcome day after day. Clemen Parrocchetti (1923–2016) lived and worked in Milan. After gaining a diploma from the Brera Academy in 1957, she held more than fifty solo shows in Italy and abroad, developing original research with its own strong character, embracing the spirit of the protests of ’68 and founding a feminist language “expressed through objects”, in line with the political outlook of the revendication of the unpaid work of production and reproduction carried out by women, close to the Movement of Feminist Struggle based in Padua.

The title AMONG THE INVISIBLE JOINS is borrowed from the writing of Virginia Woolf, in which human life unfolds as a testament to its fluidity, brimming with potential and uncertainty. Her characters delicately hover between presence and impending absence, grappling with the memory of events and conflicts that prove elusive to full comprehension. The title therefore hints at the various thresholds between remembering and forgetting and the recurring acts of opening and closing doors on the continuous human journey of becoming. As such, the exhibition traces the intimate connections between life itself and the stories we tell, between what was and what remains physically perceptible. Above all, it highlights the collectors’ understanding of the transformative power of art by providing profound insights into life’s fluidity. The works selected for AMONG THE INVISIBLE JOINS encourage viewers to ponder the transitional spaces of contemporary existence, where socio-political tensions intertwine with artistic expression. Throughout their artistic and sometimes activist work, artists such as Lisetta Carmi, Nan Goldin, and Zoe Leonard have emphasized the fluid nature of identity by regarding bodies as open systems in a permanent exchange with the environment. The works of Giulia Cenci, Jef Geys, Roman Ondak, Tarik Kiswanson and Bronwyn Katz are just a few examples of how doors, and windows recur in the exhibition as potent motifs that frame the human body as well as marking transitions and thresholds. Objects from daily life, urban architecture, and public décor – like Alex Ayed’s sculptures or Michael E. Smith or Massimo Bartolini’s installations – are relocated and reframed by the artists to compose new narratives and weave unexpected connections between geographies and memories. Curated by Museion director Bart van der Heide, Frida Carazzato, Brita Köhler, and Leonie Radine, in collaboration with the collector Lorenzo Paini, the exhibition showcases a significant part of the Enea Righi Collection. Over the years, this collection has not only followed the artistic evolution of renowned conceptual positions, it has also embraced and supported a younger generation of artists. Another defining characteristic of the collection is its affinity for works of an institutional scale.

Under the title AMONG THE INVISIBLE JOINS, Museion is exhibiting over 150 works by more than 80 artists from one of the most visionary and significant private collections of international contemporary art in Italy: the Enea Righi Collection. Thanks to a longstanding, trustful relationship, this collection has shaped Museion’s research into transdisciplinary, poetic, and socio-politically engaged artistic practices for over a decade. It features a wide range of art works, architectural designs, and artists’ books by renowned international artists and collectives such as Massimo Bartolini, Alighiero Boetti, Anna Boghiguian, Trisha Donnelly, Theaster Gates, Nan Goldin, Marisa Merz, Sturtevant, Superstudio, Walid Raad, Franz Erhard Walther, Lawrence Weiner, Akram Zaatari, and many more. The exceptional nature of the exhibition is evident in the fact that it occupies the entire building and features the first showing of several recent acquisitions to the collection, including works by Sonia Boyce, Roni Horn, and Ser Serpas. At the heart of the works in the Enea Righi Collection is the human being with all its hidden truths and emotions, its intimacy and relationships with others, its self-perception and its perception from the outside.

The varied programme of performances at the historic Cristallo Theatre begins again

Painting on metal foils in Stabler's Staircase Gallery in Oberbozen, Alter Mühlweg 28. Open daily, except Sunday & Holiday. Info tel. +39 0471 345480. He is a brooder, a thinker, someone who critically questions blind faith in progress. When he rushes through the streets, restless but observant, he might already be envisioning his next project: a façade, a painting, a sundial to adorn a wall, or a family crest. Gottfried Stabler, however, became particularly well-known for the gold leaf technique that he developed himself. (Text: Kuratorium Kommende Lengmoos)

PURE RELAXATION - ENJOY THE NATURE OF REINSWALD WITH ALPACAS Do you know the feeling when the world seems to spin faster on some days? Then treat yourself to some time out! Experience an unforgettable hike with fluffy alpacas. Hiking together with them means moving around comfortably in the beautiful surroundings of Reinswald. During the hike you will learn interesting facts about alpacas and get closer to the loving animals. Treat yourself to this relaxing experience. We offer unforgettable hikes with fluffy alpacas. Hike schedule (approx. 1-2 hrs): At the beginning of each hike there is an introduction and getting to know the animals. Afterwards, the participants can choose their favourite alpaca and the tour can begin. While walking, the nature of Reinswald can be enjoyed and unique snapshots can be taken. Prices: 50 € single price (if you lead an alpaca alone) 90 € one alpaca for two 90 € family price ON REQUEST ALPAKATREKKING: info@hofmannanger.com In addition, we also offer special hikes (e.g. birthday hike...) or activities for school groups. These hikes can be booked at any time, just contact us by e-mail or phone.

Scenes of peaceful life of shepherds and grazing animals, of hard work in adverse weather and in mostly uncomfortable areas: the cultural history of pastoralism moves between these two poles. When people began to settle in the Alps, bringing their domestic animals with them, the post-glacial landscape began to change. The exhibition illustrates the steps of this development up to today's debate about grazing animals and their predators. Sculptures, models, games, interviews and videos on the work of shepherds together with their dogs provide insights into the cultural practice of pastoralism and the importance of shepherds, who not only protect the flock from wolves. Shepherding can in fact play a decisive role on the environment, biodiversity, animal welfare, climate and human nutrition.

With the board member of the Sommelier Association South Tyrol and member of the Wine Academy Thomas Fink. Meeting point: at 4.15 p.m. at Getränke Fink. Duration: 2,5 hours. Price: € 30, with RittenCard € 25, Minimum number of participants: 4. Language: German & Italian. Tasting of 5 local wines and introduction to the history of winegrowing in South Tyrol and the autochthonous types of grape. We accompany you through South Tyrol's wine world, with a look at history, terrior, types of grape and wine-growing zones. Several wines will be tasted and thus we make the connection between theory and practice. Note: for groups of 5 people or more, tasting is possible at any time. Tastings on specific topics are also offered. Information & registration: Getränke Fink Tel. +39 0471 356494

‘Songs from Silence’ is a new solo recital based on his own compositions. It is a cycle of pieces dedicated for the first time to solo violin. The title refers to the profound nature of the act of composing, to that empty, silent space from which the composer must extract his ideas. That silence from which song and dance gradually emerge, is perhaps the same silence we face every time we try to grasp the root of who we are. ‘In this concert for my solo violin, there will be sounds and words in an attempt to tell something that resembles me as much as possible. Between confession and seduction.’