Ursuline Church Linz Memento Mori - Art during Lent

Sculptural installations and sound installations can be seen in the Ursuline Church during Lent 2026.

With their sculptural interventions, Maria Nalbantova and Magdalena Berger, Master's students in the field of Plastic Concepts / Ceramics at the Linz University of Art, take up familiar objects and transfer them into new symbols. In the interaction with the space and in the field of tension between standstill, constant movement, everyday actions and rituals, they create new associations with death and transience.
associations with death and transience. Heribert Friedl, lecturer at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, has developed a multifaceted body of work over several decades with his "non-visual objects".

The sound installation in the church interior interrupts the silence six times a day and opens up a new sensory experience in the baroque church interior with familiar motifs such as the ticking of a clock or the "breathing" of a bellows. Entitled "Memento Mori", the artistic works create a moment of interruption during Lent and invite reflection.

The sound installation in the church space lasts around 15 minutes and is performed
be heard daily at 9 am, 11 am, 1 pm, 3 pm, 5 pm and 7 pm.

Opening hours of the crypt and the church interior:
Thu and Fri: 4 pm to 6 pm, each at 5 pm Art information, as well as by telephone appointment: +43 732 244011-4571

The church is open daily from 8 am to 7 pm until the entrance balustrade.

Wednesday, February 18, opening of the exhibition after the mass at 7 pm, Ursuline Church Linz
Wednesday, March 25, art talk at 6 pm, Ursuline Church Linz
Good Friday, April 3, Concerto Spirituel, 3 pm, Ursuline Church Linz