Exhibitions

Presented by The Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures

Thinking Through Weibel gathers key works out of the Peter Weibel Archive, held by the Collection and Archive at the University of Applied Arts and positions them in relation to contemporary practices by invited international artists, that unfold through distinct conceptual and material approaches. Their contributions do not follow or extend Peter Weibel’s logic, but move across and against it, forming intersections without fixing relationships.

Starting in fall 2025, the University of Applied Arts Vienna will celebrate the 45th anniversary of its art collection, which was founded in 1980 as part of the university archives, with events, guided tours, and an exhibition at the Angewandte University Gallery Heiligenkreuzerhof. With Fernheilung (Distant Healing), the Angewandte looks back at the artistic scene in Vienna during the decade in which its collection was founded in 1980 by Oswald Oberhuber, the rector at the time: Works from the university's environment at the time, documents and selected loans are used to create a parcours that highlights important events in the art world, exhibitions, artistic movements and discourses of the time in their context. 

The exhibition, curated by Elisa R. Linn, explores the impact of borders on the formation of counter-publics at the intersection of art, literature, and activism in the GDR during and after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Transcendence: Beyond Bodies, Between Realities is part of the WRONG Biennale 2025/26, and marks the opening of the Transmedia Arts Department’s new online exhibition platform, dedicated to experimental digital practices and showcasing works by selected students.

With works by: Cristian Anutoiu, Lea Gander, Jona Lingitz & Neptunia Monna Anarchus, Maximilian Prag, Lea-Maraike Sambale, freakygreenfish
Exhibition Design: Cristian Anutoiu 

Curated by Martina Menegon

An exhibition by Claudia Rohrauer (Head of the Analogue Photography Workshop) and Corinne Futterlieb in the context of Foto Wien

In Dunkelkammerdialoge stellen sich Claudia Rohrauer und Corinne Futterlieb der Frage nach dem Wesen der analogen Fotografie, indem sie die chemischen und physikalischen Grundlagen der analogen Prozesse und deren Materialität untersuchen. Sie thematisierten das Arbeiten in der Dunkelkammer und das Praxiswissen, welches auf der persönlichen Verstrickung in die Prozessabläufe und deren unmittelbarer Beobachtung aus der handwerklichen Tätigkeit heraus basiert. Jene flüchtigen Momente der Erkenntnis, die so entstehen, werden mittels Text und Bild erfahrbar gemacht.

Tamale’s Inner-Urban Ecologies is both exhibition and artistic research, exploring the dynamics of urban and ecological life in Tamale’s inner-urban open spaces, one of West Africa’s fastest-growing cities

Was heißt es, sich im Hier und Jetzt zu befinden? In einer Gesellschaft, die Mobilität und globale Vernetzung propagiert, zugleich aber den Zuzug von Menschen problematisiert?

Presented in the small vitrine of the Otto Wagner Postsparkasse, seven graduates of the University of Applied Arts Vienna open a window into the diverse artistic practices and languages of Angewandte alumni, offering a range of perspectives that explore parallels, contrasts, or extensions within the given thematic framework.

A project with the TransArts class, University of Applied Arts Vienna Curated by Julia Harrauer.

Supported by ARTist and Viennabase - Homes for Students. In the context of Foto Wien.

Two corresponding exhibition parts by artists Michael Bachhofer and Iulian Moise explore the theme of Disruption and Progress.

Arts-based Research-Installation by MUELLER-DIVJAK in the course of the artistic project SENSING LIVING SYSTEMS at AIL

We are all living systems: sensitive beings embedded in and connected to other living Systems. The art-based research project SENSING LIVING SYSTEMS (SLS) explores how sensory experiences – especially through smell, touch and sound – can foster a deeper awareness of our interconnected world and provide an understanding of ­living, complex ­systems – whether in nature, society or art.

On 31 May 2025, the third exhibition as part of the Broken Collection research project will open at Loosdorf Castle in Lower Austria.
Lectures by Prof Marija Wakounig, University of Vienna, and Konstanze Pfeffer, graduate of the Institute of Conservation, will accompany the opening.

With contributions by Paul Petritsch (Ortsbezogene Kunst)

Hinschaun! ist die Aufforderung, einen unverstellten Blick auf die NS-Herrschaft in Kärnten zu werfen und sich – 80 Jahre nach dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges – mit verdrängten Aspekten der eigenen Geschichte zu befassen. Von Kärnten aus geht es zu Schauplätzen von Krieg, Repression und Massenmord in Norwegen, Polen, Slowenien, Kroatien und Italien, werden Widerstände und vergessene Tatorte sichtbar gemacht, Nachkriegsbiografien neu kontextualisiert und die Rolle des Museums beleuchtet. Wir fragen: Was ist geschehen? Wie wurde erinnert? Und was bedeutet das für unsere Gegenwart?