Aircraft, culture, world-class food and drink: the world’s most modern hangar is an impressive, all-encompassing work of art.
Douglas DC-6B, B-25, Alpha Jets, Chance Vought F4U-4 "Corsair" … such artworks of aviation don’t belong in a hangar that looks like a corrugated metal box. This simple yet compelling idea was the catalyst. And it was joined by other ideas – the new home of the Flying Bulls at Salzburg Airport would simply have to be more. A place for lovers of aviation to come together. A space for art and a cultivated lifestyle, which one visits to enjoy a few stimulating hours, see interesting exhibits and – last but not least – delight in exceptionally fine food.
Aircraft
Hangar-7 is an overarching, unified concept. It’s unique architecture serves as a framework and a stage for the aircraft of the Flying Bulls, a matchless collection of vintage aircraft that regularly leave the hangar – to go flying.
Culinary Pleasures
The Flying Bulls’ collection is Hangar-7’s central theme, but by no means its only attraction. Every bit as unique as the aircraft is the food and drink Hangar-7 has to offer at Ikarus Restaurant,Mayday Bar and Carpe Diem Lounge.
Art
An important mission of Hangar-7 is to offer a space for art and culture, and to give artists the opportunity to present their works in a special environment.
A.R.T. Alpha..Romeo..Tango - what's the arts' position on "50 years of aerial defence"? A night exhibition presented by the Austrian Air Forces from January 14 to 30, 2006.
Past exhibition highlights that demonstrate the wide-ranging aims of Hangar-7’s cultural programme include the following exhibitions:
HangART-7 Edition 2 - from October 21 to December 21, 2005, Hangar-7 put on an exhibition of contemporary art. For the HangART-7 Edition 2 the artworks of young Chinese artists were on display.
Caricature and Flying - the exhibition in the Doppler Foyer showed drawings of the Tyrolean artist Dietmar Kainrath, inspired by Hangar-7.
Masters of Origami – the Japanese art of folding paper blossomed in Hangar-7 from July 8 to September 30, 2005. The exhibition “ gathered together not only outstanding works of art, but also the masters themselves.
Red Bull Can Art Worldwide – a collection of the best submissions of the worldwide Red Bull Creativity Contests;
HangART-7 – in spring 2005, the first display of this initiative presented paintings by seven young artists
The Photographic Collection of the Wright Brothers – 301 historic photographs taken by the American pioneers of flight;
Panamarenko Multiples – a comprehensive selection of the works by the "poetic engineer" Panamarenko Panamarenko which artistically interpret the encounter between art and aviation;
The Quiet Greatness of Form – sculptures and paintings by the East Tyrolian artist Jos Pirkner
Mayday Bar
Lounge Carpe Diem
Stefan Weber, Germany,
