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Open art competition as a contribution to the countrys culture of remembrance.The state of Tyrol is holding a competition for an artistic intervention at the new country house in Innsbruck. The intervention is intended to deal critically with the historical use of the house as the seat of the National Socialist apparatus of power and oppression and thus stimulate reflection on the past and present of the building inform Beate Palfrader Minister for Culture and the States Real Estate and Building Construction Officer Tyrol responsible provincial councilor Johannes Tratter . An amount of 100000 euros will be made available for the artistic design and implementation.An area of the staircase on the west side is available as a location for an artistic design on Landhausplatz. The contribution is intended to provide an impetus for a contemporary culture of remembrance contribute to raising awareness of the buildings past and convince through artistic quality and expressiveness emphasizes LR in Palfrader. In addition to the question of how to deal with the past and how the building was used during the Nazi era the present also plays a decisive role. The monument protection and the current use of the country house as an official building must be taken into account when designing the project explains LR Tratter.The winning project will be selected from ten submissionsThe competition is carried out as an open art competition with an upstream application phase. The group of participants for the second stage of the competition consists of five invited artists and five artists or interdisciplinary teams selected from the application process of stage one. The invited competition participants include Eduard Freudmann Ramesch Daha Columbosnext Struber Gruber as well as Sophie Lillie and Arye Wachsmuth . These were nominated by the jury on the basis of their previous artistic work in public space or in the field of remembrance culture.The selection of the winning project is also the responsibility of the jury chaired by Angela Koch university professor at the University of Art and Design Linz. The jury also includes Barbara Staudinger designated director of the Jewish Museum Vienna Nina Tabassomi director of the Taxispalais Kunsthalle Tirol GmbH curator Gnther Dankl and artist Christopher Grner as specialist judges as well as representatives of the state departments involved and the expert commission as subject judges.Report of the expert commission documents the Nazi history of the Neues LandhausIn 2019 the Tyrolean state government decided to have the history of the new country house reviewed by a commission of experts. The report prepared by the commission documents that the administrative headquarters for the Reichsgau Tirol-Vorarlberg in Innsbruck built in 193839 were used by the state of Tyrol after the end of the World War in 1945 without addressing the importance of the building during the National Socialist dictatorship. This way of dealing with the building after 1945 reflects the Tyrolean culture of remembrance regarding the Nazi era by concealing the past and reinterpreting the history of the building.
