page_title: Karlsplatz
section_title: Arts and culture
hierarchical_section_title: Karlsplatz / Arts and culture
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Österreich, Wien, Karlskirche English: Austria, Vienna, St. Charles's Church Русский: Австрия, Вена, Карлскирхе Français&#160;: Autriche, Vienne, Église Saint-Charles-Borromée &#160; This media shows the protected monument with the number 21986 in Austria. (Commons, de, Wikidata) Ernst Molden &amp; Band Deutsch: Ernst Molden &amp; Band; Konzert vor der Wiener Karlskirche im Rahmen der Kunstzone Karlsplatz.
context_page_description: Karlsplatz is a town square on the border of the first and fourth districts of Vienna. It is one of the most frequented and best connected transportation hubs in Vienna. The Karlskirche is located here.
  The first district can be reached either by subway or via Operngasse. The pavilions of the former Karlsplatz Stadtbahn Station remain despite the construction of the U-Bahn system.
context_section_description: In 2004, representatives of the Municipality of Vienna, presented the project "Karlsplatz Art Space Presented". The goals were, among other things a redesign of the park in terms of gardening, light and space and routing concept, called an improvement of the traffic situation for pedestrians and cyclists and the promotion of art projects on the Karlsplatz.
  Following the redesign of the park and the opening of Rosa Mayreder, Girardi and Esperanto Park in 2006, Vienna Holding commissioned a 100% subsidiary of Vienna, with the continuation of the project. On 1 August 2006, the project group karlsplatz.org consisting of Gabriela Hegedüs and Christoph Möderndorfer that since 2004 the organization of literary festivals sound bites in the Museum Quarter are responsible, and Peter Melichar, also implementing. It is through networking of the various surround the square settled institutions in the fields of arts, culture and education (among other things, House of Artists, the project space of the Kunsthalle, Vienna Museum, University of Technology) of the space into an area of cultural exchange, and thus, despite the traffic-technically difficult able to be revived.
  On the Karlsplatz the exhibition of the United Buddy Bears was shown in 2006. The exhibition was opened by Christiane Hörbiger, Film actress and UNICEF Ambassador, together with Michael Häupl, Mayor of Vienna and Karin Schubert, Mayor of Berlin.
  In the summer of 2008, parallel to the 2008 European Football Championship in Austria and Switzerland was, of karlsplatz.org the Karlsplatz Art Zone aligned. On a "floating stage" in the pond in front of the Karlskirche took it daily for several concerts, especially Austrian musicians from the area of the singer-songwriter, the more experimental pop and contemporary Viennese song instead scene, on a "tree stage" performances by performance artists. Since 2010, takes place on the premises in Karlsplatz and some surrounding institutions at the beginning of the summer open-air season, the multi-day Popfest place.
caption: Kunstzone Karlsplatz 2008: Ernst Molden & Band
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