Fernheilung: The 1980s and Early 1990s Through a Distorted Lens
An exhibition by Collection and Archive at the University of Applied Arts Vienna
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 University Gallery of the
Angewandte, located at 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.
Practices of numerous teachers and students are situated in the context of the
exhibition scene in Vienna as well as in the international trends of the time. The exhibition addresses developments such
as the canonisation of early Viennese Modernism and the late confrontation with the Nazi past, as well as the internationalisation
of the art field in the context of the University of Applied Arts. On display are works from the Angewandte's art collection
and archive, including pieces by Ernst Caramelle, VALIE EXPORT, Franz Graf, Birgit Jürgenssen, Gerda Lampalzer, Dorit Margreiter,
Brigitte Kowanz, Friedl Kubelka-Bondy, Maria Lassnig, Bruce Nauman, Albert Oehlen, Franz West, Gerwald Rockenschaub, Gabriele
Senn, Rini Tandon and Heimo Zobernig, as well as numerous loans.
Curated by Robert Müller in dialogue
with Helmut Draxler
Overall management: Cosima Rainer
Curatorial Assistance: Judith
Burger, Laura Egger-Karlegger, Manon Fougère
Exhibition design: Robert Müller
Team University
Gallery: Marei Buhmann, Anette Freudenberger (Leitung)
Text contributions: Laura Egger-Karlegger,
Manon Fougère, Robert Müller, Samira Plunger
Exhibition opening: October 15, 2025, 6 p.m.
Duration:
October 16, 2025–January 31, 2026
Curator's tour with Robert Müller in dialouge with Helmut Draxler
Thursday, 16 October 2025, 6 p.m.
Friday, 21 November 2025, 4 p.m.
Saturday, 13 December 2025, 2 p.m.
Opening
hours: Wednesday–Saturday, 2 p.m.–6 p.m. (closed on public holiday)
Location
Angewandte
University Gallery Heiligenkreuzerhof
Schönlaterngasse 5 / Grashofgasse 3, Staircase 8, 1st floor, 1010 Vienna
With works by: Fareed Armaly, Georg Baselitz, Martin Beck, Tina Bepperling, Linda Bilda, Ecke Bonk, Herbert
Brandl, Günter Brus, Ernst Caramelle, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Clegg & Guttmann, Douglas Crimp, Hermann Czech, DIE DAMEN,
Heinrich Dunst, Martin Ebner, Alfons Egger, Cerith Wyn Evans, VALIE EXPORT, Mariano Fortuny, Andrea Fraser, Peter Friedl,
Rainer Ganahl, Markus Geiger, Franz Graf, Helmuth Gsöllpointner, Richard Hoeck, Josef Hoffmann, Hans Hollein, IntAkt, Margarete
Jahrmann, Birgit Jürgenssen, Johanna Kandl, Martin Kippenberger, Klub Zwei, Jutta Koether, Peter Kogler, Willi Kopf, Elena
Koptschalijski, Josef Kostial, Brigitte Kowanz, Michael Krebber, Elke Silvia Krystufek, Friedl Kubelka-Bondy, Ruth Labak,
Gerda Lampalzer, Helmut Lang, Maria Lassnig, Bernhard Leitner, Sherrie Levine, Louise Lawler, Dorit Margreiter, Helmut Mark,
Paul McCarthy, Alois Mosbacher, Ariane Mueller, Christian Philipp Müller, Bruce Nauman, Arnold Nechansky, Oswald Oberhuber,
Albert Oehlen, Victor Josef Papanek, Pas Paravant, Heinrich Pichler, Mathias Poledna, Cora Pongracz, Eva Presenhuber, Ursula
Pürrer, REM, Eugenia Rochas, Gerwald Rockenschaub, Ulrike Rosenbach, Constanze Ruhm, Ashley Hans Scheirl, ManfreDu Schu,
Gabriele Senn, Peter Sickert, Gustav Siegel, Rini Tandon, Octavian Trauttmansdorff, Franz Vana, Arye Wachsmuth, Martin Walde,
Peter Weibel, Hans Weigand, Lois Weinberger, Franz West, Ingrid Wiener, Zelko Wiener, Eduard Josef Wimmer-Wisgrill, Erwin
Wurm, Robert Adrian X, Heimo Zobernig
Supplementary documentation material and photographs from the holdings
of the Art Collection and Archive, including: Das ästhetische Feld: Vorträge zu Praxisformen in der Kunst, Hochschule
für angewandte Kunst in Wien (1992), Symposium mit Beiträgen von Colin de Land, Peter Fend, Andrea Fraser, Renée Green, Jeff
Koons, John Miller, Christian Phillip Müller, Raymond Pettibon, Gerwald Rockenschaub, Jessica Stockholder, Peter Weibel
