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Milica Tomić
Aflenz Memorial
18.10.2026
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Date
18.10.2026
Time
11am
Presented by
Institute for Art in Public Space Styria
Meeting point
Retzneierstraße, 8435 Wagna-Aflenz
Costs
free
External registration
Bus registration at www.steirischerherbst.at/tickets (sold out!)
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Event
We are opening a walkable landscape memorial by the artist Milica Tomić. Connecting history, memory and the present, the memorial is located in Aflenz near Leibnitz, at the historical site of a former sub-camp of the Mauthausen concentration camp.
Going forward, the history of the area can be experienced via paths following the camp’s former borders, markings outlining the former barracks and parade ground, as well as special vegetation. The ground itself is made to act as a carrier of memory; an archive which preserves historical traces and uncovers the past.
PROGRAMME:
11:00 am: Opening and words of welcome by Marko Mele (Universalmuseum Joanneum), Gabriele Mackert (Institute for Art in Public Space Styria), Bernhard Schrettle (ASIST) and Milica Tomić (Artist)
as well as greetings by
LRⁱⁿ Claudia Holzer, Joachim Schnabel (LEADER Südsteiermark), Herwig Hösele (Austrian Future Fund), Barbara Glück (Mauthausen Memorial), Patrice und Chantal Lafaurie (Amicale de Mauthausen), Willi Mernyi (Mauthausen Committee), Johannes Zweytick (Mayor of Ehrenhausen), Peter Stradner (Mayor of Wagna)
and a speech by LR Karlheinz Kornhäusl
Collective laying of flowers on the roll-call square
12:30 pm: General welcome with drinks and accompanying programme:
- 12:30 pm & 13:00 pm | Tour with Mauthausen Guides (gathering place: entrance 1 & entrance 2)
- 13:00-14:00 pm | Historian Q&A: David Kurzweil (gathering place: roll-call square)
- 13:15 pm | Artist Q&A: Milica Tomić and Gabriele Mackert (gathering place: roll-call square)
- 13:30 pm | Guided tour with Bernhard Schrettle to the home of Franz Trampusch (gathering place: entrance 2)
- 14:00 pm | Tour with Mauthausen Guides in the quarry tunnels (gathering place: parking lot, tunnel entrance)
- 14:15 pm | Artist Q&A: Helmut & Johanna Kandl and Gabriele Mackert (gathering place: guardhouse)
- 14:30 pm | Tour with Mauthausen Guides in the quarry tunnels (gathering place: parking lot, tunnel entrance)
Free bus shuttle from Graz to Aflenz an der Sulm and back
In cooperation with steirischer herbst '26
SOLD OUT!
10:00 am: Departure from Graz Main Station (bus terminal)
15:00 pm: Return trip from Aflenz to Graz (gathering place: parking lot, tunnel entrance; as well as at the guardhouse)
This project is being realized in cooperation with the municipality of Wagna and ASIST.
Coordinates: 46°44'44.9"N 15°33'15.3"E