The University of Applied Arts Vienna starts the new academic year with four new professors
and is very pleased to have won these refreshing and at the same time renowned artists, designers and theoreticians for the
Angewandte. From October Grace Wales Bonner will head the Fashion Design Department and Monika Rinck will teach as professor
at the Institute of Language Arts (Sprachkunst). Nanna Heidenreich will take over the newly established professorship "Transcultural
Studies" and Bouchra Khalili the likewise new professorship "Artistic Strategies". "Grace Wales Bonner, Nanna Heidenreich,
Bouchra Khalili and Monika Rinck are extremely exciting and recognized experts in their field, linking different disciplines
and each crossing the boundaries of thought and action. Our new professors will accompany and support the University on its
way to meeting the most important challenges of the present and the future with scientific and artistic strategies and in
an open discourse," says Rector Gerald Bast, pleased with the new personnel reinforcement at the University.”
