Georg Nussbaumer

Georg Nussbaumer is known as a virtuosi thought artist. His works are somewhere between compositions, installations, performances and theatre. The large scale scenic works create multifaceted auditory and visual spaces, connecting thematic stylistic devices and motifs to a whole. These works are contrasted by his reduced sound installations and silent performances. They deal with topics such as music and history, as well as their effect and creation.

Nussbaumer works with specialized performers and musicians as well as his audience, sometimes drunk or chewing gum, archers, apnoea divers, synchronized swimmers, bikers, singers of local amateur choirs. Our notions on humans, the world and art are questioned, highlighted, deconstructed and recreated.

Marino Formenti is an Italian pianist and conductor, an extraordinary interpreter of contemporary music.

Again and again he lends his virtuosity to risky experiments, in which opposites meet and music is heard in spaces foreign to it. His preference for radically new ways can be seen in his drastically different projects in terms of music, audience and interpreter. For example, he performs concerts for a single person, lets the audience sing along, or even take over the piano. He even spent several weeks in a public space, sleeping and eating there, in his project Nowhere in order to “disappear into the music”. Formenti works with renown composers and performs in important festivals in international institutions, teaming up with leading orchestras and conductors.

Saturday, October 14th 2023

6 pm: Introduction by mayor Christian Haider

Then: artist talk with Georg Nussbaumer, Barbara Hofer, Andreas Wolf and Elisabeth Fiedler (Institute of Art in Public Space Styria)

6:30 pm: MUu (part 1), Marino Formenti on the piano: Die Vollendete, 2ter Satz

7 pm: Schweigen (part 2) with performers and Jana Rothleitner & Michael Gröschl (trombone) | Stefan Stangl (Tuba), the high school choir of the Stiftsgymnasiums Admont and the mens’s choir Admont (Ltg.: Bernhard Ehrenfellner)

Accompanied by warm fire, drinks and local delicacies

Location: Wolfbauerhof, Johnsbach 78, 8912 Admont

Haus 1683 | Johnsbach | cottage in the National Park Gesäuse

Built originally as a granary in 1683 the cottage was renovated resource-efficient. Today it provides an unique experience of nature. The Wolfbauern waterfall with a hight of 70 meters is only 450 meters away.