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Nativity scene exhibition in Luttach in shop windows, on house walls and facades

Warm lights and colours illuminate the Christmas time in the heart of the Dolomites, a UNESCO World Heritage site. This year La Val organises a special Advent calendar, on the facades of the houses, revealing the magic of Christmas. One by one, from 1st to 24th December at 5 p.m. the windows will be symbolically opened, illuminating a new window every evening. All the illuminated windows can be admired until 6th January. Visit the village of La Val and enjoy the lights that connect our houses in an exciting Advent calendar. During the event photos or video footage may be taken for the purpose of documentation and promotion of the event and the region. The footage may be used and published on websites, on social networks and on media in compliance with the data protection regulations.

The Villandro Nativity Scene Friends are creating a Nativity Scene Route in the village from the village to the parish church for the entire Advent period until the Three Wise Men. Showcases have been made in which various nativity scenes are exhibited. On Saturday, 30.11.2024 is the opening of the crib street with inauguration and a small drink in front of the school building. Every Saturday evening and every Sunday all day, the bar in the Kultursaal is served by various clubs.

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

LUMAGICA Meran – The Radiant Gardens of Trauttmansdorff Castle Experience the enchantment of LUMAGICA Meran, the magical light park in the Gardens of Trauttmansdorff Castle! For the first time since their opening in 2001, the Gardens of Trauttmansdorff Castle will welcome visitors during the winter months for a spectacular new attraction: LUMAGICA, South Tyrol’s only light park of its kind, will open its gates on November 21, 2024, inviting visitors to embark on an unforgettable journey through the enchanting worlds of this renowned botanical garden. Each handcrafted light installation has been meticulously designed to reflect the unique themes and atmospheres of the gardens, promising an immersive experience for visitors of all ages. ✨ Sound-to-Light Show Be mesmerized by stunning shows where water, light, and sound effects harmonize to create breathtaking spectacles. ✨ Magnificent Light Sculptures Over 300 radiant light installations line the pathways, transforming the twilight into a magical playground of shimmering wonder. ✨ Interactive Stations Become part of the light! Engage with interactive installations and bring the magic to life with your own touch. Prepare to be dazzled at LUMAGICA Meran, where the Gardens of Trauttmansdorff Castle illuminate the winter with pure magic. Don’t miss this extraordinary event! 🌟

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.

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)

We invite you to the opening of the exhibition "A me, a voi" ("To Me, To You“) a photographic display of thoughts and emotions. My name is Gabriel Colombani, and I created this exhibition to express, through images, my relationship with people and the moments that have marked my life. Free entry. During the event photos or video footage may be taken for the purpose of documentation and promotion of the event and the region. The footage may be used and published on websites, on social networks and on media in compliance with the data protection regulations.

Pascale ALESSI • Elisabeth AMORT • Pepi AUGSCHÖLL • Alexa BALDESSARI • Alexia BELLUCCO • Markus DAMINI • Christian FALK • Christina GOLLER • Josè Ramon GORRET • Lisa HILPOLD Anna Maria MAYR • Alessandro MONTORO • Manfred MUREDA Claudio OLIVOTTO • Seela OLIVOTTO • Margit PITTSCHIELER Christa PLÖSSNIG • Elena POLETTO • Liz TABER • Martina THALER Alfred TSCHAGER • Peter WIECHENTHALER • Massimo ZACCARI

The Friends of the Nativity Scene invite you again this year to the exhibition of the newly built nativity scenes. Biscuits, tea and mulled wine invite you to linger and enjoy a cosy get-together. The proceeds will go to the "Wünschewagen" and the Peter Pan Children's Cancer Aid. The raffle for the nativity scene will take place on Sunday 08 December at 5 p.m.

"When I paint, there are no barriers in my mind; I can just let myself paint. In those moments, I feel simply free and happy." —Vera Überbacher, Lana Opening event on December 6, 2024, starting at 6:00 PM An initiative of the Lana Women's Association

The association "Leiferer Krippenfreunde" (Friends of Nativity Scenes) is once again organising the exhibition of handcrafted nativity scenes in the exhibition hall in via Pietralba 29. The exhibition is open from 10 am to 12 pm and from 2 pm to 6 pm. The opening and blessing of the exhibits will take place on Sunday, 8.12. at 10 am after the festive service.

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.

Experience the magic of art from the Schlern region! Visit the group exhibition of the artists of the "Kunst unterm Schlern" association and discover the creative diversity of our talented local artists.

Saints exhibition in the Cloister of the Franciscan Monastery voluntary donation

Dolomythos-Museum at Innichen presents: Women scientists Many women, hardly mentioned in earlier times, made important contributions. We honour these often forgotten personalities, as well as the reserches of ordinary people from the valleys.

Guest showcase by Lisa Settari. In this exhibition, Lisa Settari offers insights into her master's thesis on the coming-out narratives of women who love women in South Tyrol's recent history. The work is based on twenty oral history interviews that Lisa Settari was allowed to conduct with ten women-loving women. Thanks to these oral sources and a focus on women's, gender and queer history, the existing historiography of South Tyrol can be both enriched and critically scrutinised. Lisa Settari: born 1994 in Merano, Bachelor in Political Science, Master in European Women's and Gender History, currently lecturer at the ‘Alexandru Ioan Cuza’ University in Iași (Romania).

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.

Photographs by Paola Marcello curated by Luca Chistè. ‘Whenever a woman fights for herself, she fights for all women’, Maya Angelou. The project, proposed by the Passirio Merano association and the city of Merano in collaboration with the Merano Women's Museum, shows a selection of photographs, printed using fine art techniques, taken during a long journey by the author through seven Asian countries (Thailand, Nepal, India, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Iran) with the declared aim of documenting the situation of women.

10 years Christmas village Ortisei Ortisei, has been enchanting its visitors during the Christmas season since 2014. It has become a beautiful tradition: Ortisei's pedestrian area transforms into a true fairy-tale landscape adorned with Christmas decorations that captivate visitors of all ages. Along the pedestrian zone, typical wooden huts welcome visitors. In an impressive manner, the Christmas village Ortisei combines the deeply rooted traditions of the Val Gardena with the elegance and exclusivity of the offerings of the hut operators. The festive atmosphere is accompanied by the Christmas tunes of local musicians, spreading joy and serenity in the air. Visitors can stroll through the Christmas village, admire local craftsmanship, discover regional delicacies, and find original gift items among the Christmas huts. The Christmas village is an experience that engages all the senses and offers moments of joy and sharing in an enchanting environment. It is a unique opportunity to immerse oneself in the tradition and culture of the mountains and fully experience the spirit of Christmas in a magical atmosphere. Opening 30th November & 1st December 2024 Shops: 16.00h – 19.00h Gastronomy: 16.00h – 20.00h 02./03./04.12.2024 closed From 5th od december 2024 From Monday to Friday Shops: 16.00h – 19.00h Gastronomy: 16.00h – 20.00h* Saturday and Sunday Shops: 11.00h – 19.00h Gastronomy: 11.00h – 20.00h* *From 23.12.2024 to 05.01.2025, Gastronomy open daily from 11.00h - 20.00h Special opening hours: 24.12.2024: 11.00h - 17.00h 25.12.2024: Only Gastronomy, from 11.00h - 20.00h

In Brixen, Christmas comes to life with an enchanting multimedia show that transforms the city into a place of pure magic. This year, after the great success of previous years, a new visual and sound immersive wonder awaits us. From 28 November to 6 January, Brixen Tourism presents the new light and music show “Colors 2 – The journey continues”. For the first time, the light effects will not only be created by the acclaimed French Spectaculaires, but will also be joined by Ukrainian light artist Julia Shamsheieva, bringing an innovative and evocative touch. This year's performance dives into the theme of peace, treating it with a light freshness and touching depth. The story celebrates the beauty of differences, of the colours, creating a mosaic of harmony and hope. Our colourful little hummingbird, the messenger of love, light, hope and peace, takes the audience on a magical musical journey between dream and reality. In this new, exciting chapter, he meets a completely different creature, and what begins as a challenge soon turns into a heart-warming friendship. This unique light and music show demonstrates that true friendship means accepting and loving each other with all our differences Experience the splendour of a colourful world and be captivated by a one-of-a-kind show. Lights and sounds come together in a mesmerizing performance that lasts for 20 minutes, captivating audiences of all ages. Don't miss the chance for an unforgettable experience, where every light tells a story, and every musical note resonates like a hymn to the beauty of the world. Come to Brixen and let yourself be enveloped in the magic of Christmas, in a show that promises to warm the heart and soul of anyone who admires it. Tickets & Information: www.brixen.org/colors

This is the market where nobody will freeze! Your Christmas journey would not be complete without enjoying our traditional home-made dishes, drinks and sweets. There are multiple facilities around and in the cave where you can find our specialties and taste them while enjoying the Christmassy atmosphere. Don’t miss this truly magical experience offering a traditional, historical and fairytale-like atmosphere. The Unterground Christmas experience is freely accessible and without and entrance fee! San Candido is offering a unique Underground Christmas Market located in the Dolomythos Museum. During this time the Museum offers free entrances, which allows every visitor to enjoy and experience a complete new world of attractions. Visitors are engaging in the history of our world heritage area named ‘Dolomites’ while also experiencing the coziness and warmth only found in the mountains. Your journey will experience a complete and worth seeing harmony cooperated with the countless huts offering Christmas gifts, luxuries, local handicraft and culinary.

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.

Nature changes. Continuously. Globally and in detail. From one season to the next. Over the course of centuries. Lately observable with the naked eye. Even artist Nora Gutwenger, who recently returned from Vienna to live in the Pustertal valley, realized this. Instead of the wooded slopes she was used to, she is now surrounded by bare slopes. Who changed nature? The bark beetle? Or is man at the origin of this change? What characterizes an almost natural forest? In Angelika Wischermann's works, it is the artist herself who changes nature. Unlike most human interventions, however, the artist proceeds very carefully. She observes the branching network of paths of a forest ant colony for a long time before doing small works with her infrastructure project to make life easier for the insects. In the exhibition space, artistic research processes can be experienced through drawings, textile works and a video. You are also cordially invited to explore the theme in a reading corner. Curated by Linnea Streit

Between November 30st and December 10th, 2024, Martha Kainz's Christmas handcrafts will be shown in a small exhibition at the Women's Museum.

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.

Welcome: Katharina Johanna Zeller (Deputy Mayor of Merano), Arch. Carlotta Zambonato (Department of Building Construction and Technical Services, Autonomous Province of Bolzano - South Tyrol), introduction: Filippo Bricolo (curator), Annette Spiro (jury member), opening: Martina Oberprantacher (director). Kunst Meran is pleased to present the fourth edition of the exhibition and publication project New Architecture in South Tyrol together with the Architekturstiftung Südtirol and the Südtiroler Künstlerbund. After the first three editions (2006, 2012, 2018), the new edition presents another inventory of projects that document the architectural development process in South Tyrol and tell the recent architectural history of this region. The selection was made by an international jury. The exhibition New Architecture in South Tyrol 2018-2024 will be on display at Kunst Meran from 27 October 2024 to 16 February 2025. The publication of the same name with the selected 56 new South Tyrolean buildings and texts by Filippo Bricolo, Annette Spiro e Elisa Valero Ramos will be published by Park Books in Zurich. Curated by: Filippo Bricolo Projects by: alpina architects, Walter Angonese, Architekten Mahlknecht Comploi, Architekturgemeinschaft 15, Architekturkollektiv null17, Area Architetti Associati, Roland Baldi Architects, bergmeisterwolf, Busselli Scherer, Carlana Mezzalira Pentimalli, CeZ Calderan e Zanovello architetti, Comfort Architecten, Daniel Ellecosta, Martin Feiersinger, Flaim Prünster Architekten, Andreas Gruber Architekten, Alfred Gufler, Markus Hinteregger, Höller & Klotzner Architekten, kostnerarchitektur, KUP - ARCH, Messner Architects, MoDusArchitects, Andreas Moroder, NAEMAS Architekturkonzepte, NOA, Fabian Oberhofer, Pedevilla Architects, Peter Pichler Architecture, Markus Scherer, Senoner Tammerle Architekten, STIFTER + BACHMANN, Plasma Studio, tara, Julian Tratter, Martin Trebo, Lukas Wielander Duration: 27 October 2024 - 16 February 2025 Press conference: 25 October 2024, 10 am Location: Art Merano Merano Arte | Lauben 163, 39012 Merano Opening hours: Tue - Sat: 10 am - 6 pm, Sun & public holidays: 11 am - 6 pm Info: info@kunstmeranoarte.org | www.kunstmeranoarte.org Press contacts: Julia Lindner | press@lindnerconcepts.com | +39 349 0823968 (Press office DE and South Tyrol) Anna Zinelli | zinelli@kunstmeranoarte.org | 0473 212643 (Press Office IT, South Tyrol) Irene Guzman | press@kunstmeranoarte.org| +39 349 0823968 (Press Office IT) Carlana Mezzalira Pentimalli Bressanone City Library Bressanone 2021 Photo: Marco Cappelletti mountain master wolf ‘growing out’, pacherhof Novacella, Varna 2018 Photo: Gustav Willeit Roland Baldi Architects Ritten civil defence centre Klobenstein 2020 Photo: Oskar Da Riz Pedevilla Architects ciAsa Aqua Bad Cortina San Vigilio di Marebbe 2020 Photo: Gustav Willeit Julian Tratter, Markus Hinteregger Barth, Hall 3 2023 Bressanone Photo: Gustav Willeit Partners Sponsors KUNST MERAN in the house of the Sparkasse Lauben 163 39012 Merano Tel. 0039 0473 212643 info@kunstmeranoarte.org Member of AMACI www.kunstmeranoarte.org Tue - Sat 10 am - 6 pm Sundays and public holidays 11am - 6