Exhibitions

Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab
This exhibition is part of Klima Biennale 2024

Since 2020, the global stock of man-made mass has exceeded the total sum of biomass on Earth – around 90 percent of which is building materials. In the project Reverse Imagining Vienna, two sculptors and nine writers took a Viennese Gründerzeit building and the Prater Bridge, which crosses over the Danube, as material and speculative anchors in which to gain perspectives on sustainable relationships with inanimate matter. Referring to so-called reverse engineering, the two structures were deconstructed and recomposed in a historical, material-analytical, poetic and visionary way using reverse imagining.

The exhibition “Ever Evolving Environments” features two of [A]FA’s long-term projects, located in Ghana. What these projects have in common is the aspiration to create inclusive environments to be lived and appropriated by (human) individuals and communities, with all other living things in coexistence. This implies a multi-scalar approach, from the tiny/hyperlocal to the territorial all is considered equally relevant.

Glitches, Ruptures, Overflow: in transreal+, the artists Hannah Wimmer and Maxmilian Prag enter into a digital symbiosis with the exhibition space of the University Gallery of Angewandte. Based on movements captured by a motion capture suit, the space is explored performatively and translated and trans-formed into virtual and offline worlds. Collaboratively and always in the face of digital (dis)continuities between overload and intuitive understanding of the body, doublings of worlds are renegotiated in transreal+. The two artists dedicate themselves to the inseparable relationship between bodies and digital space and venture a look under the skin, at the structures and meta-physical conditions of our time. During the duration of the show, the exhibition will be continuously adapted through three performative interventions and the relationships between the worlds will be further entangled.

The Speedshow Series is an exhibition format of the University of Applied Arts Vienna, curated at the Digitale Kunst department / UBERMORGEN. In cooperation with MuseumsQuartier. Episode 5 features works by Anzhelika Palyvoda and Marlene Lahmer

In cooperation with the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the University of Applied Arts Vienna

Curator Astrid Peterle

Assistant Curator: Hannah Marynissen

Artists: Željka Aleksić • Mila Balzhieva • Luisa Berghammer • Daniel Fonatti • Valentin Hämmerle • Jusun Lee • Michael Reindel • Anne Schmidt • Marielena Stark • Marc Truckenbrodt

Klima Biennale Wien 2024

What if the proverbial dogs went on strike by not waking up from their sleep? The labour power of non-human animals is exploited in many ways in contemporary biocapitalism, mostly without it being understood as work. This concerns not only their actual productive power, but also the reproductive abilities of (female) animals: Animals become meat, milk becomes food. Non-human animals also often contribute to shaping the environment without this being perceived as labour. The cultural and material logistics established by humans have been producing and utilising animal life as a form of capital for centuries.

150,000 motorized mirrors reflect sunlight at the concentrated solar plant, located in the Mojave Desert, Ivanpah in the U.S. The focused sunbeams of this area can reach temperatures of up to 1,000 degrees, attracting insects that perish in the intense heat. The manifestation of Kathrin Stumreich’s investigation of this occurrence is a central piece in her latest exhibition at discotec titeled; Mid-air collision.

The current MAK Permanent Collection Vienna 1900 with its diverse exhibits from design and arts and crafts is at the heart of the intervention TRANSMEDIA 1900. Students from the Transmedia Art class at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (head: Jakob Lena Knebl) intensively explored the exhibits from the complex cultural epoch between 1890 and 1938 and responded to objects from the Arts and Crafts movement, the Wiener Werkstätte, or interior designs by Adolf Loos and Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky. Their ideas and critical approaches, inspired by the Collection, are expressed in ceramics, drawings, textile works, music pieces, or installations. With 17 temporary interventions in the rooms of the Permanent Collection, they let new associations with Viennese Modernism arise while the MAK team prepares the reinstallation of the Collection rooms, which will open in 2025.

The Austrian Cultural Forum New York is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition in the United States dedicated to Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky (1897-2000). Widely acknowledged as one of Austria’s first female architects, she is credited as the inventor of the Frankfurt Kitchen, a women’s rights activist, and a hero in the resistance against the Nazi dictatorship. In recent years, Schütte-Lihotzky has become a symbol of socially engaged architecture and collaborative, self-help practices, inspiring a new generation of artists, architects, and political activists.

Herwig Turk, (Lecturer)
Art x Science School for Transformation

Industrial zone, local recreational area and sensitive ecosystem – the Danube is a reconfigured cultural landscape marked by stark contrasts. The Austrian artists Herwig Turk and Gebhard Sengmüller have chosen this as the starting point for their artistic research: as part of their project Danube: Sediment Shifts in Interstitial Space they have created a complex of works, originally conceived for Vienna, at the interface of art and the natural sciences. These are now being augmented for the exhibition by geographical, ecological and historical aspects of the city of Linz. Using the island as an artistic figure of thought, Turk and Sengmüller combine historical realities – such as the Strasserinsel, which existed in Linz until the 19th century – with current socio-political discourses on the utilisation of the Danube region by means of an artificial island.