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.”
