“Magic Carpets” is a “Creative Europe” platform uniting 15 European cultural organisations that create opportunities for emerging artists to embark on international journeys and to create, together with local artists and local communities, new works that highlight local specificities and compensate for the shortage of story-telling existing in modern society by enhancing cultural accessibility, cultural activism and participation…

“Magic Carpets” is a “Creative Europe” platform uniting 15 European cultural organisations that create opportunities for emerging artists to embark on international journeys and to create, together with local artists and local communities, new works that highlight local specificities and compensate for the shortage of story-telling existing in modern society by enhancing cultural accessibility, cultural activism and participation.

JUST AROUND THE CORNER / UM DIE ECKE

Over the summer and autumn of 2025, an artistic carpet will unfold across Wilten – a weave of voices, gestures, and stories that connects cultures and adorns the neighborhood as its foundation. Just...

Nicole Weniger – Artist-in-Residence in Portugal: Exploring Textile as Shelter, Identity, and Waste

Nicole Weniger (*1987, Innsbruck) develops an artistic practice at the intersection of photography, installation, and performative gesture. Her work addresses questions of identity, belonging, and...

Gruppenausstellung als Abschlusspräsentation der Artist-in-Residence Programmes

Abschlusspräsentation der Artist-in-Residence Programmes Magic Carpets Innsbruck 2024 Mit einer Gruppenausstellung unter dem Titel: Ain't No Mountain High Enough, die Zeichnungen, Objekte, Foto und...

YEAR 3 OF THE MAGIC CARPETS IN INNSBRUCK – Ain’t No MOUNTAIN High Enough

An Exploration of Resilience and Connection When we think of a mountain, whether literally or figuratively, our feelings are stirred: strength, fragility, respect, fear, eternity, silence, power,...

IN!BETWEEN

And still – IN! IN-volved right here! In the past years, we focused on what’s „in-between” in the scope of the Magic Carpets project. We developed programs in between Innsbruck (openspace) and other...

JUST AROUND THE CORNER / UM DIE ECKE

Over the summer and autumn of 2025, an artistic carpet will unfold across Wilten – a weave of...

Nicole Weniger – Artist-in-Residence in Portugal: Exploring Textile as Shelter, Identity, and Waste

Nicole Weniger (*1987, Innsbruck) develops an artistic practice at the intersection of...

Gruppenausstellung als Abschlusspräsentation der Artist-in-Residence Programmes

Abschlusspräsentation der Artist-in-Residence Programmes Magic Carpets Innsbruck 2024 Mit einer...
Ira's hand by D.O.T.

YEAR 3 OF THE MAGIC CARPETS IN INNSBRUCK – Ain’t No MOUNTAIN High Enough

An Exploration of Resilience and Connection When we think of a mountain, whether literally or...
News

EXHIBITION: CONFLICT OF INTEREST ‘INTERESSENKOFLIKT’ BY EMA MARKOVIĆ IMBRIJA AND BORIS BARE FROM CROATIA

"Interessenkonflikt" (“Conflict of Interest”) is a joint exhibition by Croatian artists Boris Bare and Ema Marković Imbrija, realized within the...

Connections, Knots, and Stories – Michelle Schmolgruber within Magic Carpets

As part of her Magic Carpets Residency Programme 2025, Michelle Schmollgruber created a textile work for the Documentation Archive of Migration...

JUST AROUND THE CORNER / UM DIE ECKE

Over the summer and autumn of 2025, an artistic carpet will unfold across Wilten – a weave of voices, gestures, and stories that connects cultures...

Dance Workshop Series and Joint Exploration with Katha Löffler

As part of her Magic Carpets residency in Innsbruck, Katharina Löffler invites women and FLINTA individuals from diverse generations to co-create a...
News

EXHIBITION: CONFLICT OF INTEREST ‘INTERESSENKOFLIKT’ BY EMA MARKOVIĆ IMBRIJA AND BORIS BARE FROM CROATIA

"Interessenkonflikt" (“Conflict of Interest”) is a joint exhibition by Croatian artists Boris Bare...

Connections, Knots, and Stories – Michelle Schmolgruber within Magic Carpets

As part of her Magic Carpets Residency Programme 2025, Michelle Schmollgruber created a textile...

JUST AROUND THE CORNER / UM DIE ECKE

Over the summer and autumn of 2025, an artistic carpet will unfold across Wilten – a weave of...

Dance Workshop Series and Joint Exploration with Katha Löffler

As part of her Magic Carpets residency in Innsbruck, Katharina Löffler invites women and FLINTA...

artists

Nicola di Croce

Nicola di Croce is an architect, musician, sound artist, and scholar. He holds a Ph.D. in Regional...

Peter Lorenz

Peter Lorenz already has been working as assistant director in theatre and opera (including...

Anna Lerchbaumer

Anna Lerchbaumer is an artist born in 1989 in Innsbruck. Her inspirations are ordinary life and...

Richard Schwarz

Richard Schwarz, born in 1984 in Wörgl, is an artist from Tyrol active in the genres of media art...

Andreas Zissler

Andreas Zißler, born in 1989 is an artist from Innsbruck. He graduated from the Fakultät für...

Artists

Nicola di Croce

Nicola di Croce is an architect, musician, sound artist, and scholar. He holds a Ph.D. in Regional...

Peter Lorenz

Peter Lorenz already has been working as assistant director in theatre and opera (including...

Anna Lerchbaumer

Anna Lerchbaumer is an artist born in 1989 in Innsbruck. Her inspirations are ordinary life and...

Richard Schwarz

Richard Schwarz, born in 1984 in Wörgl, is an artist from Tyrol active in the genres of media art...

Andreas Zissler

Andreas Zißler, born in 1989 is an artist from Innsbruck. He graduated from the Fakultät für...
Local partners

Heart of Noise Festival

The Heart of Noise Festival brings together live performances by extraordinary artists, visual art & audience participation to create a one-of-a-kind atmosphere in Innsbruck. The first address in West-Austria when it comes to abstract, electronics, digital arts, media-arts, industrial, noise, drone, techno & avant-garde for already 10 years.

Grassmayr Glockengießerei Innsbruck

Ever since 1599, bells and art works of bronze have been made at GRASSMAYR Bell Foundry and spread all around the world. The mystical effects of the music of bells and secrets of the artistic craftsmanship in making them have left a deep imprint on GRASSMAYR, Austria’s oldest family company, for more than 400 years.

The Doing Group

The Doing Group is an international performance collective founded in Glasgow by six theatre practitioners who now live and work across the UK, Finland, USA, Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Their shared fascination with constant questioning through performative creation brings them together from a variety of backgrounds.