Booxhibition – Was ist ein Buch und was kann es sein?

The Booxhibition exhibition as part of the Vienna Design Week 2026 brings together twelve artistic reflections from the Klasse für Ideen at Communication Design at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. It demonstrates why the book remains indispensable in the age of digitalisation and artificial intelligence: as a medium of coherence and comprehensibility, as a public space for reason and dissent, and as a physical object that cultivates attention, time and discernment.



Through a course and twelve workshops, the book was examined, deconstructed and reassembled as both an idea and a medium – thereby updating its formal, intellectual and social function. The contributions invite readers to examine and expand their own conception of the book.



With contributions by Dominic Duhs, Rubina Hellmich, Anne Hymer, Laura Jordan, Peter Kikl, Anna Mayer, Marisa Neubert, Felix Powondra, Elias Rudigier, Lil Steiner, Dóra Szijártó, Moritz Wizany, and Paulus M. Dreibholz

The exhibition is accompanied and documented by the publication Meine Idee vom Buch – Zwölf künstlerische Reflexionen zur Bedeutung des Buches in der Gegenwart, which will be presented to the public on Saturday, October 3, 2026, at 4 p.m. at the Vienna Design Week, Festivalzentrale.