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AIL Ping-Pong

Intervention at Counter 13

A window into the diverse artistic practices of Angewandte graduates

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With the aim of implementing playful interdisciplinary interventions in the unique space of the Kassenhalle, AIL Ping-Pong is a new format, developed in 2025.

It repurposes the building’s architecture – specifically a former display cabinet [in German: Vitrine] of the Otto Wagner Museum in the Kassenhalle to showcase artistic projects by alumni of the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

In line with AIL’s mission to embrace interdisciplinary approaches, AIL Ping-Pong fosters dialogue between 2-8 artistic positions for each period. Centered around rotating themes, we envision AIL Ping-Pong to be a series of small scale presentations that function as a window into the diverse artistic practices of Angewandte graduates, offering a range of perspectives and invite visitors to explore parallels, contrasts, or extensions within a thematic framework.

A project by AIL, supported by ARTist (graduate association)

exhibition

Opening: 19 Mar 2026, 13:00

Running: 20 Mar 2026 – 31 Jul 2026

AIL Ping-Pong #3: Collapse

Intervention at Counter 13 with Francesca Aldegani, Rosa Andraschek, Sebastian Grande, Anne Glassner, Theresa Hattinger, Matthias Kendler, Merve Sahin, Tsai-Ju Wu

Showcase of artistic projects by alumni of the University of Applied Arts Vienna

In its third edition, AIL Ping-Pong circles around the term and meaning of “collapse.”
Presented in the small vitrine of the Otto Wagner Postsparkasse, eight graduates of the University of Applied Arts Vienna open a window into their diverse artistic practices, offering a range of perspectives that explore parallels, contrasts, or extensions within the given thematic framework.

How do we navigate the tension between resistance and surrender? What forms of care, adaptation, or creativity can arise from breakdown?

Collapse can be both an ending and a beginning – a sudden breakdown or a quiet unraveling. It might describe the fall of systems: ecological, economic, or political structures that no longer sustain themselves. It can also speak to personal or emotional states, the moments when bodies, relationships, or identities falter under pressure. Collapse is not only destruction; it is also transformation – the point at which something gives way so that something else might emerge.

About the artists:

Francesca Aldegani graduated in 2019 from the Department of Site-Specific Art. In her artistic practice Aldegani dives into archetypal forms and geometries, interested in opening up dialogues between ancestral collective perception and today’s digital language. Her artistic work often focuses on the production of textile sculptures, experimental prints and ephemeral installations. Within her work she investigates the ways history’s layers, accumulated energy, and unseen possibilities exist within everything around us.

Rosa Andraschek is an artist living in Vienna whose work engages with the hidden layers of Austria’s past. Through photography, video, sound and public space interventions, she investigates how history permeates everyday environments. Rooted in political science and contemporary history, her practice makes visible the quiet traces and unresolved echoes of historical narratives in public space. At the University of Applied Arts Vienna, she studied in the Department of Site-Specific Art and graduated in 2025.

Anne Glassneris a visual artist and performer based in Vienna. Her performances, videos, installations and drawings deal with intensive observations of recurring, everyday acts. In her works she blurs the boundaries between art and life as well as fiction and reality, and she raises questions concerning self perception and external perception as well as the intersections of the private and the public. The theme of sleep has been a central point of her artistic work for some time now. Glassner graduated from the University of Applied Arts Vienna in 2016 from the Painting Department (Henning Bohl).

Sebastian Grande graduated in 2019 from the Department of Drawing and Printmaking. A central theme of his work is the transformation of everyday objects into independent protagonists. Objects of daily use shape our environment – they fulfill practical purposes, are consumed, and discarded. He approaches his projects as environments that reflect a society‘s collective ideas, longings, and personal histories.

Theresa Hattinger graduated in 2017 from the Department of Graphic Design (now: Design und narrative Medien). She is a multidisciplinary designer and artist based in Vienna and works with language, typography, textiles, drawing and the public space. Hattinger explores the tension between strict graphic order and poetic openness, leaving room for interpretation. Her works invite viewers to reflect on the perception of signs and symbols in everyday environments and to explore shifts in their meanings.

Matthias Kendler graduated in 2013 from the Institute of Studies in Art and Art Education. He works at the Albertina in Collection Management and as a visual artist in Vienna. His artistic practice focuses on minimalist kinetic works made of metal, wood, acrylic glass, PLA, and electronics. He uses manufacturing techniques such as CNC milling, laser cutting, engraving, 3D printing, as well as anodizing and powder coating. However, closer inspection reveals a deliberate visibility of the handmade and a precise painterly design.

Merve Sahingraduated in 2021 from the Department of Architecture. She is an architect and researcher addressing ecological, technological and political challenges of contemporary architecture through speculative storytelling and works with immersive media environments and parametric architecture. Within her practice she focuses on post-digital public spaces through world building, media ecologies and material experiments in the form of transmedia installations. Her recent projects reclaim agency through architecture in ecologically, socially and politically compromised environments.

Tsai-Ju Wu graduated from the Department of Site-Specific Art in 2022. She is a visual artist, curator, and graphic designer. Her work is rooted in close observation of everyday objects and phenomena, where playfulness meets a quiet, grounded presence. In contrast, her drawing practice is monochromatic and abstract, moving away from recognizable forms and fixed definitions.

With the aim of implementing playful interdisciplinary interventions in the unique space of the Kassenhalle, AIL Ping-Pong is a newly developed format that repurposes the building’s architecture – specifically a former display cabinet (in German: Vitrine) of the Otto Wagner Museum in the Kassenhalle – to showcase artistic projects by alumni of the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

A project by AIL, supported by ARTist.

Concept and production:
Nora Mayr, Eva Weber

Jury:
Katrin Hornek (Site-Specific Art), Nora Mayr (AIL), Eva Weber (AIL)

Preview image: Merve Sahin, Close-up the 3D-printed terrain panel

Weblinks to artists:

www.thespacearound.me

www.anneglassner.at

www.sebastiangrande.com

www.thehatdesign.com

www.matthiaskendler.com

www.mervesahin.me

www.tsaijuw.com

exhibition

Opening: 15 Oct 2025, 13:00

Running: 16 Oct 2025 – 30 Jan 2026

AIL Ping-Pong #2: Sample

Intervention at Counter 13 with Hubert Blanz, Margareta Klose, Marlene Lahmer, Rafael Lippuner, Mona Rith, Laura Stoll and Martin Veigl

Showcase of artistic projects by alumni of the University of Applied Arts Vienna

In its second edition, AIL Ping-Pong circles around the term and meaning of “sample.”
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.

While in the natural sciences, samples are collected to enable analysis and investigation, in music, the term “sample” refers to an excerpt from an existing recording that is integrated into a new composition. Similarly, in the visual arts, samples may emerge throughout the creative process – whether through experimental methods, the appropriation of external content, or the incorporation of elements from other disciplines, methodologies, or conceptual frameworks. Ideas, materials, methods, or visuals can be sampled. A sample can thus represent transdisciplinary collaboration or reflect a dynamic, exploratory process marked by iteration, testing, and discovery.

Hubert Blanz

graduated in 1999 from the Department of Sculpture (Bildhauerei). His artistic work deals primarily with urban infrastructures, spatial grids, and geographical and virtual networks. Within this context, megacities have emerged as a central theme: the rapid and constant development, the challenges and visions that accompany them, and the influence of these changes on our coexistence. In addition to elements of the big city, networks from nature also serve as templates for large-format collages and animations.

Margareta Klose

explores topics of coexistence within a queer-feminist, poetic practice. Her artistic work and research are situated at the intersection of fine arts, literature, education, knowledge production, and memory – centered around painting, writing, computational photography, and objets trouvés. In her work, she develops site-specific installations and performances that resemble cabinets of curiosities, scientific experimental settings, and artists’ studios – or rather: alchemists’ kitchens. At the University of Applied Arts Vienna, she studied in the Department of TransArts and graduated in 2020.

Marlene Lahmer’s

work is material-based and takes the form of sculptures, multimedia installations, and text performances. Literary and theory-informed approaches overlap translucently, incongruently, and at times complementarily. One of her main focuses lies in the aesthetic and physical qualities of glass, in the visual and auditory spaces found for texts, and in exploring concepts from cultural theory and linguistics. Lahmer graduated in 2022 from the TransArts department.

Rafael Lippuner

is an artist and exhibition designer who employs the processes of assembling materials, installing, and managing as artistic practices. The means of presentation are linked to the role of objects in terms of interaction and storytelling – especially in a time when images and symbols displace language. His multimedia works sample and intervene in everyday situations, structures, and codes to retain a certain wilderness in how we perceive our surroundings. In 2019, Lippuner graduated from the Department of Art & Science.

Mona Rith

is a textile artist, who weaves abstract objects and explores the possibilities between fixed structures and the limits of their dissolution. She plays with tension, shrinkage, and other material behaviors through weaving techniques combined with the inherent properties of the materials used. With great curiosity, Rith observes and investigates dependencies, interactions, and connections. She is an alumna of the Institute of Studies in Art and Art Education and graduated in 2021.

Laura Stoll

works in the fields of sculpture, installation, and performance. After earning a degree in medicine in Berlin, she graduated from the University of Applied Arts Vienna in the Department of Art & Science in 2021. In her projects, she operates at the intersection of medicine, psychology, and philosophy, applying individual methodologies from these fields to her artistic practice. Using a variety of formats, she investigates questions of personal identity and what constitutes our sense of being.

Martin Veigl

is a painter, interested in the smallest gestures and daily situations that convey social and historical codes and messages. Each found configuration can be seen as an unconscious, natural, and authentic fragment of reality. His paintings often do not fill the entire canvas, are fragmentary in nature, and suggest moments of memory. Veigl graduated from the Department of Painting in 2016.

A project by AIL, supported by ARTist.

Concept and production:
Nora Mayr, Eva Weber

Jury:
Karl Salzmann (ÆSR Lab), Nora Mayr (AIL), Eva Weber (AIL)

Preview Image: Rafael Lippuner, o.T. (Feuerlöscher XI), 2025, Studioansicht 1

exhibition

Opening: 20 Mar 2025, 13:00

Running: 20 Mar 2025 – 31 Jul 2025

AIL Ping-Pong #1: Liquidity

Intervention at Counter 13 with Manuel Cyrill Bachinger, Bartosz Dolhun, Annika Eschmann, Karina Fernandez, Miloš Vučićević

Showcase of artistic projects by alumni of the University of Applied Arts Vienna

While primarily an economic term, ‘liquidity’ can be interpreted in various ways and across many contexts – from reflections on fluidity and adaptability to explorations of the shifting nature of social structures, relationships, or identities, as well as interpretations of transactions and value.

Drawing on the history of the ‘Postsparkasse’ as a former bank, AIL invited five artists to engage with a concept known for its economic context. Presented in the small vitrine of the Otto Wagner Postsparkasse five 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.

Manuel Cyrill Bachinger deals in his work with auditory and visual forms of expression and often with transformative processes that manifest themselves in experimental and installation-based ways. In doing so, our perception and understanding of phenomena and technologies are challenged and encouraged to reflect on our interaction with them. Manuel Cyrill Bachinger is alumni of the department of Digital Art and graduated in 2024.

Bartosz Dolhun graduated 2016 in Drawing and Printmaking, and now focuses on object-oriented work. His sculptures combine materials, especially wood, starting with found objects and developing intuitively. His work emphasizes processes, using diverse techniques. The use of 'low-cost' materials contrasts their value with craftsmanship. This focus on process extends to his installative works, where the production journey becomes integral.

Annika Eschmann studied Transdisciplinary Arts and Drawing & Printmaking at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and graduated in 2020_;and also studied Contemporary Art Practices at the Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology in Bangalore. Annika’s artistic practice is rooted in drawing and printmaking, exploring processes of translation and abstraction in images. It investigates their influence, limitations, and potential as well as the meanings generated and transformed through these reproductive processes.

Karina Fernandez holds a Master’s degrees in Fine Arts and Visual Arts (UNA, Buenos Aires), and graduated at the department of Digital Art in 2023. Born in Buenos Aires, she lives and works in Vienna today. Her transdisciplinary practice addresses global issues such as environmental degradation and consumerism, operating at the verge of bio and multimedia art through site-specific, kinetic, and interactive works. Her installations feature plants, fibers, light, water, sound, bioplastics, motors, and microcomputers.

Miloš Vučićević is an artist and researcher whose work explores the intricate intersections of ecology and migration. With a passion for understanding the delicate balance between human movement and environmental change, and its impact on people, he delves into the stories and experiences that shape his own perspective and the world he documents. Most of his interests are associated with the political and social paradigms that exist in society, where he endeavours to express his ideas through performative, object-oriented, and video-based works. Miloš Vučićević graduated at the department of Art&Science in 2023.

A project by AIL, supported by ARTist.

Concept and production:
Nora Mayr, Eva Weber (AIL)

Jury:
Elisabeth Falkensteiner, Nora Mayr, Eva Weber (AIL)