From 3 to 4 May 2024, the Mauthausen Memorial commemorates the victims of the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp system with an impressive art project entitled “‘#eachnamematters”‘, which contrasts mere numbers with individual names.
Project launch
Friday, May 3, 2024, at 8 PM
Infopoint, University of Arts Linz
Hauptplatz 6
4020 Linz
Projections on the art university building on Hauptplatz:
Friday, May 3, and Saturday, Max 4, 8:30 PM – 12 PM noon
Main Square
Click here for the livestream
In cooperation with the Mauthausen Memorial, the University of Arts Linz and Ars Electronica, the names of the victims are projected onto the facades of the University of Arts Linz on Linz’s main square.
“#eachnamematters” visualizes and reads out all known names of victims of the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp system. It gives these people back their names, which are not only visualized but also spoken aloud.
The projection begins on May 3 and 4 each day after dark (around 8:30 pm) and continues until midnight.
Livestream
The visualization will also be shown via livestream in cooperation with Ars Electronica from Friday, 3 May 2024, 20:30 to Saturday, 4 May 2024, 23:59 CEST.
Places of remembrance
“#eachnamematters” is taking place for the fourth time this year in collaboration with Ars Electronica: In 2021, the Mauthausen Concentration Camp Memorial presented the #eachnamematters art project developed in cooperation with Ars Electronica for the first time. In 2022, all known names of victims of the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp system were projected onto the outer wall of the Gusen Memorial in the municipality of Langenstein and read out, and in 2023, the projections and the naming of all known names of victims of the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp system took place on the outside of the ‘Bergkristall’ tunnel in St. Georgen/Gusen. In 2024, the two bridgehead buildings on Linz’s main square will become the central memorial to the victims of the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp system.
The liberation of the former Mauthausen concentration camp on May 5, 1945 by the US Army is a key date and the end of the years of Nazi terror that cost 90,000 people their lives in the Mauthausen concentration camp system.
More information at www.mauthausen-memorial.org