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Angewandte Festival 2026

1–4 July 2026

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At the end of the summer semester the University of Applied Arts Vienna presents curated exhibitions, final-year projects and a diverse range of artistic and academic projects. The festival program ties in with the shown exhibitions and demonstrates how the University of Applied Arts Vienna brings interdisciplinary ideas to society.

Under the theme Unfinished Business, students from the Institute for Language Arts are dedicating this year’s installation at Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz to a linguistic exploration and create a space that emerges through dialogue.

Come visit AIL at Georg-Coch-Platz 2 and explore Angewandte’s newest location.

Opening hours festival:

daily from 11:00 to 21:00

Neither a museum nor a gallery – AIL is a stage for ideas, a flexible organism. Find all details about what is happening at AIL during Angewandte Festival below.

workshop

02 Jul 2026, 15:00

Lumen Prints: Photographing with the Sun

by Agustina Belén Agüero

Part of the exhibition [REVERBERATED]. Following the Movement of Memory

Art & Science

Please note: Registration required due to spacial limitations.

For participation, please write to:

artscience.exhibition@uni-ak.ac.at

In this workshop, visitors will get the opportunity to experiment with lumen printing, a technique that emerged in the 19th century as a way of photographing without a camera. Lumen Prints are images created by pressing objects on top of photographic paper and exposing them to the sun. We will discover how light and time can hold the traces and reminiscences of something, creating the image of an object but in an unstable and changing way.

What can this technique tell us about memory?

Does photography preserve memories or does it produce them? Can it be a safeguard for our lived experiences or can it only alter them?

People are invited to bring different materials to experiment with their shape, density, transparency and shadows. These can be natural elements, such as leaves or flowers, but also any type of – preferably – flat item, like clothes, jewelry, or papers. The compositions will be done in a darkroom and then taken to the sun outside of the Postsparkasse building.

About the exhibition:

Memory is not a stable record of the past. Rather than functioning as a static archive, it unfolds as a dynamic process in which traces are continuously reshaped by perception, narration, and material conditions.

[REVERBERATED] explores notions of memory as the annual exhibition of the master’s program Art & Science. The exhibition approaches this process through the metaphor of reverberation. Reverberation describes the reflection of sound from multiple surfaces, producing many overlapping echoes at once. Just as sound continues to resonate within a space, memories reverberate through bodies, media, and environments long after the events that created them.

Taking this physical phenomenon as its conceptual point of departure, the exhibition explores how memories move across temporal, spatial, and technological contexts. Memory is never something fixed, but rather a living trace that unfolds over time. It continuously changes depending on context, interpretation, perception, and the ever-shifting present moment. Within this framework, the participating artworks investigate different modes of remembering: some address the role of images, storytelling, and artificial intelligence in shaping narratives of the past, while others engage with ecological and material traces: from disappearing species and botanical archives to residues embedded in landscapes and infrastructures.

Yet for this fluidity of memory to persist, structures are necessary – a mind, a community, or an archive. These structures are required similarly to sound waves, requiring surfaces in order to reverberate. At AIL, the exhibition unfolds across two interconnected spaces that function as the surrounding structures. Each space gathers works that resonate with one another while simultaneously echoing across the architectural interior of the historic Kassenhalle. Through this spatial arrangement, the exhibition itself becomes part of the inquiry, staging memory as a process of resonance, interference, and transformation.

Across these artistic approaches, [REVERBERATED] invites visitors to consider memory not as something simply preserved, but as something continuously produced through interactions between bodies, technologies, and environments. The exhibition thus explores how the past continues to reverberate within the systems of the present.

With contributions by:

Agustina Belén Agüero, Lobna Awidat, Phin Anibal, Rimon Alyagon Darr, Ronnie Danaher, Tatiana Del Valle, Hasti Ghasedi, Leah Barbara Mukui Giertz, Hanna Hofmann, Tal Horesh, Mauritius Itzinger, Laura Isselhorst, Dina Karaman, Moritz Klarer, Anna Buchner, Leonard Otterbein, David Ristić, Rajarshi Sarkar, Agnes Schyberg, Aryan Shahabian, Majedeh Shahvelayati, Mehrta Shirzadian, Pauline Simon, Laura Chalabi, People of Soil

An exhibition by the University of Applied Arts Vienna, initiated by the Department Art & Science in collaboration with the AIL.

About the department Art & Science:

The objective of the "Art & Science" master's degree program is to investigate the relationships between different artistic and scientific representational cultures and their respective cognitive and research methods. An inter- and transdisciplinary approach and project-oriented education should stimulate interaction between model and theory construction, and the application of methods, in particular, in the arts and sciences.

Preview image: Agustina Agüero, Lumen II (c) Agustina Belén Agüero, 2025

performance

03 Jul 2026, 15:00

Hypervigilant

by Leah Giertz

Presented by the master’s degree program ‘Art & Science’ of the University of Applied Arts Vienna

Art & Science

Constant vigilance can develop as a response to racial discrimination and transgenerational trauma, allowing potential threats to be recognized in advance. This fi ght-or-fl ight state activates the nervous system and can lead to chronic muscle tension and bruxism.

Teeth grinding occurs as a way of coping with stress during sleep, often driven by societal expectations to suppress fear or anger.

Hypervigilant addresses this suppressed anger. Aluminum teeth suspended from the ceiling form a space similar to a cage that oscillates between protection and exposure. Shaped as gong-like instruments, the oversized representation of the artist’s bite is set into vibration during a sound performance to release embodied pressure and reduce tension in the nervous system.

About the exhibition:

Memory is not a stable record of the past. Rather than functioning as a static archive, it unfolds as a dynamic process in which traces are continuously reshaped by perception, narration, and material conditions.

[REVERBERATED] explores notions of memory as the annual exhibition of the master’s program Art & Science. The exhibition approaches this process through the metaphor of reverberation. Reverberation describes the reflection of sound from multiple surfaces, producing many overlapping echoes at once. Just as sound continues to resonate within a space, memories reverberate through bodies, media, and environments long after the events that created them.

Taking this physical phenomenon as its conceptual point of departure, the exhibition explores how memories move across temporal, spatial, and technological contexts. Memory is never something fixed, but rather a living trace that unfolds over time. It continuously changes depending on context, interpretation, perception, and the ever-shifting present moment. Within this framework, the participating artworks investigate different modes of remembering: some address the role of images, storytelling, and artificial intelligence in shaping narratives of the past, while others engage with ecological and material traces: from disappearing species and botanical archives to residues embedded in landscapes and infrastructures.

Yet for this fluidity of memory to persist, structures are necessary – a mind, a community, or an archive. These structures are required similarly to sound waves, requiring surfaces in order to reverberate. At AIL, the exhibition unfolds across two interconnected spaces that function as the surrounding structures. Each space gathers works that resonate with one another while simultaneously echoing across the architectural interior of the historic Kassenhalle. Through this spatial arrangement, the exhibition itself becomes part of the inquiry, staging memory as a process of resonance, interference, and transformation.

Across these artistic approaches, [REVERBERATED] invites visitors to consider memory not as something simply preserved, but as something continuously produced through interactions between bodies, technologies, and environments. The exhibition thus explores how the past continues to reverberate within the systems of the present.

With contributions by:

Agustina Belén Agüero, Lobna Awidat, Phin Anibal, Rimon Alyagon Darr, Ronnie Danaher, Tatiana Del Valle, Hasti Ghasedi, Leah Barbara Mukui Giertz, Hanna Hofmann, Tal Horesh, Mauritius Itzinger, Laura Isselhorst, Dina Karaman, Moritz Klarer, Anna Buchner, Leonard Otterbein, David Ristić, Rajarshi Sarkar, Agnes Schyberg, Aryan Shahabian, Majedeh Shahvelayati, Mehrta Shirzadian, Pauline Simon, Laura Chalabi, People of Soil

An exhibition by the University of Applied Arts Vienna, initiated by the Department Art & Science in collaboration with the AIL.

About the department Art & Science:

The objective of the "Art & Science" master's degree program is to investigate the relationships between different artistic and scientific representational cultures and their respective cognitive and research methods. An inter- and transdisciplinary approach and project-oriented education should stimulate interaction between model and theory construction, and the application of methods, in particular, in the arts and sciences.

Preview image: Leah Giertz, Hypervigilant (c) Leah Barbara Mukui Giertz, 2026

sound performance

03 Jul 2026, 15:30

Darf ich noch einen Satz? (Palimpsest for 8 speakers)

by Leonard Otterbein

Part of the exhibition [REVERBERATED]. Following the Movement of Memory

Art & Science

The audio performance Darf ich noch einen Satz? (Palimpsest for 8 speakers) explores how sound can model processes of memory formation and transformation.

Layered oscillations and brief sound textures repeat with phase shifts, gradually overlapping and partially canceling each other out, much like the traces in an overwritten manuscript. The work is inspired by memory research on reconsolidation – in which recalling an event alters its stored form – and its cultural studies counterpart, reconstructivity. The piece is composed of multiple layers of sound that continuously overlap anew, attempting to cancel each other out in the process. In this process, however, the layers are never completely erased, so that fragments of the preceding states always remain

About the exhibition:

Memory is not a stable record of the past. Rather than functioning as a static archive, it unfolds as a dynamic process in which traces are continuously reshaped by perception, narration, and material conditions.

[REVERBERATED] explores notions of memory as the annual exhibition of the master’s program Art & Science. The exhibition approaches this process through the metaphor of reverberation. Reverberation describes the reflection of sound from multiple surfaces, producing many overlapping echoes at once. Just as sound continues to resonate within a space, memories reverberate through bodies, media, and environments long after the events that created them.

Taking this physical phenomenon as its conceptual point of departure, the exhibition explores how memories move across temporal, spatial, and technological contexts. Memory is never something fixed, but rather a living trace that unfolds over time. It continuously changes depending on context, interpretation, perception, and the ever-shifting present moment. Within this framework, the participating artworks investigate different modes of remembering: some address the role of images, storytelling, and artificial intelligence in shaping narratives of the past, while others engage with ecological and material traces: from disappearing species and botanical archives to residues embedded in landscapes and infrastructures.

Yet for this fluidity of memory to persist, structures are necessary – a mind, a community, or an archive. These structures are required similarly to sound waves, requiring surfaces in order to reverberate. At AIL, the exhibition unfolds across two interconnected spaces that function as the surrounding structures. Each space gathers works that resonate with one another while simultaneously echoing across the architectural interior of the historic Kassenhalle. Through this spatial arrangement, the exhibition itself becomes part of the inquiry, staging memory as a process of resonance, interference, and transformation.

Across these artistic approaches, [REVERBERATED] invites visitors to consider memory not as something simply preserved, but as something continuously produced through interactions between bodies, technologies, and environments. The exhibition thus explores how the past continues to reverberate within the systems of the present.

With contributions by:

Agustina Belén Agüero, Lobna Awidat, Phin Anibal, Rimon Alyagon Darr, Ronnie Danaher, Tatiana Del Valle, Hasti Ghasedi, Leah Barbara Mukui Giertz, Hanna Hofmann, Tal Horesh, Mauritius Itzinger, Laura Isselhorst, Dina Karaman, Moritz Klarer, Anna Buchner, Leonard Otterbein, David Ristić, Rajarshi Sarkar, Agnes Schyberg, Aryan Shahabian, Majedeh Shahvelayati, Mehrta Shirzadian, Pauline Simon, Laura Chalabi, People of Soil

An exhibition by the University of Applied Arts Vienna, initiated by the Department Art & Science in collaboration with the AIL.

About the department Art & Science:

The objective of the "Art & Science" master's degree program is to investigate the relationships between different artistic and scientific representational cultures and their respective cognitive and research methods. An inter- and transdisciplinary approach and project-oriented education should stimulate interaction between model and theory construction, and the application of methods, in particular, in the arts and sciences.

Preview image: Leonard Otterbein, Darf ich noch einen Satz? (Palimpsest for 8 speakers) (c) Leonard Otterbein, 2026

performance

04 Jul 2026, 15:00

The Geography of Yellow Walls

by Mehrta Shirzadian

Part of the exhibition [REVERBERATED]. Following the Movement of Memory

Art & Science

A performance unfolding through turmeric as healing material and the body as living territory.

Bright yellow becomes a quiet declaration of care, resistance, and return. Here, the body is reclaimed as homeland, shaped by experience rather than imposed borders.

The work is rooted in a deep commitment to women’s health and critical scientific perspectives, engaging forms of embodied knowledge that have long been ignored or erased. The body becomes both evidence and memory, offering its own geography as a space of protection, defiance, and belonging. The performance is adapted to each site, responding to the spatial and contextual conditions of different venues.

About the exhibition:

Memory is not a stable record of the past. Rather than functioning as a static archive, it unfolds as a dynamic process in which traces are continuously reshaped by perception, narration, and material conditions.

[REVERBERATED] explores notions of memory as the annual exhibition of the master’s program Art & Science. The exhibition approaches this process through the metaphor of reverberation. Reverberation describes the reflection of sound from multiple surfaces, producing many overlapping echoes at once. Just as sound continues to resonate within a space, memories reverberate through bodies, media, and environments long after the events that created them.

Taking this physical phenomenon as its conceptual point of departure, the exhibition explores how memories move across temporal, spatial, and technological contexts. Memory is never something fixed, but rather a living trace that unfolds over time. It continuously changes depending on context, interpretation, perception, and the ever-shifting present moment. Within this framework, the participating artworks investigate different modes of remembering: some address the role of images, storytelling, and artificial intelligence in shaping narratives of the past, while others engage with ecological and material traces: from disappearing species and botanical archives to residues embedded in landscapes and infrastructures.

Yet for this fluidity of memory to persist, structures are necessary – a mind, a community, or an archive. These structures are required similarly to sound waves, requiring surfaces in order to reverberate. At AIL, the exhibition unfolds across two interconnected spaces that function as the surrounding structures. Each space gathers works that resonate with one another while simultaneously echoing across the architectural interior of the historic Kassenhalle. Through this spatial arrangement, the exhibition itself becomes part of the inquiry, staging memory as a process of resonance, interference, and transformation.

Across these artistic approaches, [REVERBERATED] invites visitors to consider memory not as something simply preserved, but as something continuously produced through interactions between bodies, technologies, and environments. The exhibition thus explores how the past continues to reverberate within the systems of the present.

With contributions by:

Agustina Belén Agüero, Lobna Awidat, Phin Anibal, Rimon Alyagon Darr, Ronnie Danaher, Tatiana Del Valle, Hasti Ghasedi, Leah Barbara Mukui Giertz, Hanna Hofmann, Tal Horesh, Mauritius Itzinger, Laura Isselhorst, Dina Karaman, Moritz Klarer, Anna Buchner, Leonard Otterbein, David Ristić, Rajarshi Sarkar, Agnes Schyberg, Aryan Shahabian, Majedeh Shahvelayati, Mehrta Shirzadian, Pauline Simon, Laura Chalabi, People of Soil

An exhibition by the University of Applied Arts Vienna, initiated by the Department Art & Science in collaboration with the AIL.

About the department Art & Science:

The objective of the "Art & Science" master's degree program is to investigate the relationships between different artistic and scientific representational cultures and their respective cognitive and research methods. An inter- and transdisciplinary approach and project-oriented education should stimulate interaction between model and theory construction, and the application of methods, in particular, in the arts and sciences.

Preview image: Mehrta Shirzadian, The Geography of Yellow Walls Photo by Hanna Hofmann, 2026

performance

04 Jul 2026, 15:30

Pickle

by Laura Chalabi

Part of the exhibition [REVERBERATED]. Following the Movement of Memory

Art & Science

In the participatory performance, the pickled vegetables from the installation Pickle will be taken out of a few jars, while the prose text on the jars will be recited. Afterwards, the pickled vegetables will be eaten together.

Visitors are invited to bring foods with which they would like to eat the pickled vegetables.

About the exhibition:

Memory is not a stable record of the past. Rather than functioning as a static archive, it unfolds as a dynamic process in which traces are continuously reshaped by perception, narration, and material conditions.

[REVERBERATED] explores notions of memory as the annual exhibition of the master’s program Art & Science. The exhibition approaches this process through the metaphor of reverberation. Reverberation describes the reflection of sound from multiple surfaces, producing many overlapping echoes at once. Just as sound continues to resonate within a space, memories reverberate through bodies, media, and environments long after the events that created them.

Taking this physical phenomenon as its conceptual point of departure, the exhibition explores how memories move across temporal, spatial, and technological contexts. Memory is never something fixed, but rather a living trace that unfolds over time. It continuously changes depending on context, interpretation, perception, and the ever-shifting present moment. Within this framework, the participating artworks investigate different modes of remembering: some address the role of images, storytelling, and artificial intelligence in shaping narratives of the past, while others engage with ecological and material traces: from disappearing species and botanical archives to residues embedded in landscapes and infrastructures.

Yet for this fluidity of memory to persist, structures are necessary – a mind, a community, or an archive. These structures are required similarly to sound waves, requiring surfaces in order to reverberate. At AIL, the exhibition unfolds across two interconnected spaces that function as the surrounding structures. Each space gathers works that resonate with one another while simultaneously echoing across the architectural interior of the historic Kassenhalle. Through this spatial arrangement, the exhibition itself becomes part of the inquiry, staging memory as a process of resonance, interference, and transformation.

Across these artistic approaches, [REVERBERATED] invites visitors to consider memory not as something simply preserved, but as something continuously produced through interactions between bodies, technologies, and environments. The exhibition thus explores how the past continues to reverberate within the systems of the present.

With contributions by:

Agustina Belén Agüero, Lobna Awidat, Phin Anibal, Rimon Alyagon Darr, Ronnie Danaher, Tatiana Del Valle, Hasti Ghasedi, Leah Barbara Mukui Giertz, Hanna Hofmann, Tal Horesh, Mauritius Itzinger, Laura Isselhorst, Dina Karaman, Moritz Klarer, Anna Buchner, Leonard Otterbein, David Ristić, Rajarshi Sarkar, Agnes Schyberg, Aryan Shahabian, Majedeh Shahvelayati, Mehrta Shirzadian, Pauline Simon, Laura Chalabi, People of Soil

An exhibition by the University of Applied Arts Vienna, initiated by the Department Art & Science in collaboration with the AIL.

About the department Art & Science:

The objective of the "Art & Science" master's degree program is to investigate the relationships between different artistic and scientific representational cultures and their respective cognitive and research methods. An inter- and transdisciplinary approach and project-oriented education should stimulate interaction between model and theory construction, and the application of methods, in particular, in the arts and sciences.

Preview image: Laura Chalabi, Pickles Image generated by AI, 2026

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TAKING HOME VIENNA

Researching (with) Museum Shops

Installation and Research Presentation by Expanded Museum Studies at Counter 14 / On view between May 8 and July 4, 2026

TAKING HOME VIENNA looks at museum shops as a space where narratives continue, shift, and can be questioned. What might appear as an afterthought to an exhibition reveals itself as a compendium of various fields of research and meaning often overlooked by visitors and academia.

The installation at the museum shop counter at Postsparkasse (PSK) / Counter 14 comprises results of several research projects developed in the seminar "Mit Museumsshops forschen" (Doing Research with Museum Shops). Multiple methods, ranging from ethnographic observation and sketching to quantitative surveys and questionnaires, enabled each research group to develop its own approach to the specific shop(s) under investigation. The research conducted explores a range of problem areas and discourses surrounding contemporary museum shops. The exhibited findings highlight the multifaceted character of museum shops.

Projects:

“Klasse (und) Shop” – Carlotta Niewels

“Imperial Shop”– Aliza Peisker, Bastian Rieker, Katharina Wurzinger, Naomi Lüderitz

“Souvenirshop” – Franziska Richardsen, Lea Struck, Lisa Martha Janka, Lisa Pairits, Nora O‘Grady-Sommer

“Between Silk and Socks” – Anna Werner, Christina Müller

“Remember me(?) On the commodified iconography of Sigmund Freud“ – Stephanie Bauer, Sara Poropat Vesić, Melanie Brandstetter

The projects were developed in a seminar by Johanna Schindler, department Expanded Museum Studies (University of Applied Arts Vienna)

Preview Photo: Carlotta Niewels

research presentation

Opening: 03 Mar 2026, 18:00

Running: 03 Mar 2026 – 31 May 2026

THE WORLD IN MY ROOM

Arts-based Research-Installation by MUELLER-DIVJAK in the course of the artistic project SENSING LIVING SYSTEMS

Series of Scenographic Studies / Part VIII, March–May 2026

Can you sit still?

What do you hear?

Living systems – such as trees and ant colonies, oceans and rivers, ­humans and other animals, bacteria and fungi, as well as societies, cities, organizations, and entire ecosystems – generate and shape diverse soundscapes.

Living systems exist in constant exchange and ongoing interaction with their environments, continuously transforming themselves in the process.

By listening also to the sounds of more-than-human nature, we may begin to perceive these dynamic relationships more consciously – and perhaps sense new forms of resonance, and connectedness.

grey voting box standing in wooden cabin in cashier cabin | Image by ©Installation view, main cabin, cashier hall, Otto Wagner-Postsparkasse

THE WORLD IN MY ROOM provides a scenographic listening laboratory, a space for pausing and perceiving reciprocal influences through sound.

The sounds originate from various contexts of the artistic research project SENSING LIVING SYSTEMS. They do not form a narrative, but an open, non-linear field of experience – a multi-layered acoustic space between inside and outside, near and far, the personal and the shared. THE WORLD IN MY ROOM explores listening as an embodied and relational practice. By directing attention to sound, it becomes possible to experience how inner states and external environments continuously co-produce perception.

A set of questions invites visitors to reflect on their own hearing in relation to emotional and situational states and living systems that exist in and around us.

Chair standin in wooden cabin | Image by ©Installation view, main cabin, cashier hall, Otto Wagner-Postsparkasse

Artists / Researchers (core team): Jeanette Müller, Paul Divjak, Alexandra Graupner, Anna-Maria Irgang

Since fall 2023 AIL is part of the research project SENSING LIVING SYSTEMS together with the artist duo MUELLER-DIVJAK. The main cabin in the former cashier hall of Otto Wagner Postsparkasse offers a special opportunity to give insights to processes and activities of SENSING LIVING SYSTEMS. For the first time, the historical cabin in the hall is used for ongoing artistic installations to make methods more visible, relatable and comprehensible for a public broad audience. The cabin offers a chance to gather feedback and reactions to the project and the specific stages of studies that will be incorporated into the project outcome.

FWF PEEK-Project DOI: 10.55776/AR 776 

Photo: MUELLER-DIVJAK

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.mervesahin.me 

www.tsaijuw.com 

exhibition

Opening: 09 Jun 2026, 18:00

Running: 10 Jun 2026 – 10 Jul 2026

[Reverberated]

Following the Movement of Memory

Presented by the master’s degree program ‘Art & Science’ of the University of Applied Arts Vienna

Art & Science

Opening hours: Mon–Fri: 11:00–18:00

(closed on public holidays, extended opening hours during Angewandte Festival 1–4 July)

OPENING PROGRAM, 18:00

Welcome by Rector Ulrike Kuch,
Martin Reinhart (Art & Science),
and participating artists

Performance Leah Giertz
Performance Laura Chalabi
Audio performance by Leonard Otterbein

About the exhibition:

Memory is not a stable record of the past. Rather than functioning as a static archive, it unfolds as a dynamic process in which traces are continuously reshaped by perception, narration, and material conditions.

[REVERBERATED] explores notions of memory as the annual exhibition of the master’s program Art & Science. The exhibition approaches this process through the metaphor of reverberation. Reverberation describes the reflection of sound from multiple surfaces, producing many overlapping echoes at once. Just as sound continues to resonate within a space, memories reverberate through bodies, media, and environments long after the events that created them.

Taking this physical phenomenon as its conceptual point of departure, the exhibition explores how memories move across temporal, spatial, and technological contexts. Memory is never something fixed, but rather a living trace that unfolds over time. It continuously changes depending on context, interpretation, perception, and the ever-shifting present moment. Within this framework, the participating artworks investigate different modes of remembering: some address the role of images, storytelling, and artificial intelligence in shaping narratives of the past, while others engage with ecological and material traces: from disappearing species and botanical archives to residues embedded in landscapes and infrastructures.

Yet for this fluidity of memory to persist, structures are necessary – a mind, a community, or an archive. These structures are required similarly to sound waves, requiring surfaces in order to reverberate. At AIL, the exhibition unfolds across two interconnected spaces that function as the surrounding structures. Each space gathers works that resonate with one another while simultaneously echoing across the architectural interior of the historic Kassenhalle. Through this spatial arrangement, the exhibition itself becomes part of the inquiry, staging memory as a process of resonance, interference, and transformation.

Across these artistic approaches, [REVERBERATED] invites visitors to consider memory not as something simply preserved, but as something continuously produced through interactions between bodies, technologies, and environments. The exhibition thus explores how the past continues to reverberate within the systems of the present.

With contributions by:

Agustina Belén Agüero, Lobna Awidat, Phin Anibal, Rimon Alyagon Darr, Ronnie Danaher, Tatiana Del Valle, Hasti Ghasedi, Leah Barbara Mukui Giertz, Hanna Hofmann, Tal Horesh, Mauritius Itzinger, Laura Isselhorst, Dina Karaman, Moritz Klarer, Anna Buchner, Leonard Otterbein, David Ristić, Rajarshi Sarkar, Agnes Schyberg, Aryan Shahabian, Majedeh Shahvelayati, Mehrta Shirzadian, Pauline Simon, Laura Chalabi, People of Soil

Exhibition Program:

11 June
17:00 Guided Tour

16 June
18:00 Performing Memory – Archives, Media, and Living Systems, Part I

18 June
15.00 Workshop „Dream Screen“ by Dina Karaman
17:00 Guided Tour

24 June
18:00 Performing Memory – Archives, Media, and Living Systems, Part II

25 June
15:00 Guided Tour
17:00 Reading Group „Practices of Memory / Praktiken der Erinnerung” organized by Tal Horesh

2 July (extended opening hours 11:00–21:00)
15:00 Workshop „Lumen Prints: Photographing with the Sun" by Agustina Agüero
17:00 Guided Tour

3 July (extended opening hours 11:00–21:00)
15:00 Performance Leah Giertz
15:30 Audioperformance Leonard Otterbein
17:00 Guided Tour

4 July (Open Saturday)
15:00 Performance Mehrta Shirzadian
15:30 Performance Laura Chalabi
17:00 Guided Tour

9 July
17:00 Guided Tour

The exhibition [REVERBERATED] emerges from the Art & Science master’s program at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and is developed within the framework of the program’s yearly research theme Memory. Memory is not a stable archive of the past but a dynamic and reconstructive process in which traces are continuously reshaped by perception, narration, and material conditions.

The project is supported by interdisciplinary collaborations that extend the artistic inquiry into adjacent research fields. One important reference point is the SONIME research project, which investigates historical audio media as both cultural artifacts and material carriers of memory. Through this connection, questions of sonic preservation, migration histories, and the materiality of recorded voices become part of the exhibition’s broader investigation into how memories are stored, transmitted, and reconstructed. A second collaboration with the Vienna Cognitive Science Hub introduces perspectives from empirical aesthetics and philosophy, contributing to the exhibition’s research program on how perception, attention, and narrative interpretation shape processes of remembering.

Accompanying public discussions with invited researchers from relevant fields will further extend these perspectives and situate the exhibition within a broader interdisciplinary dialogue on memory, archives, and distributed forms of remembering.

In this sense, [REVERBERATED] positions the exhibition itself as a methodological tool. By bringing artistic practice into dialogue with perspectives from media archaeology, cognitive science, and environmental thinking, the project explores how artistic research can contribute to a broader understanding of memory as a relational and continuously evolving phenomenon.

(Research Framework Statement by Senior Lecturer at Art & Science Dr. Martin Reinhart)

About the department Art & Science:

The objective of the "Art & Science" master's degree program is to investigate the relationships between different artistic and scientific representational cultures and their respective cognitive and research methods. An inter- and transdisciplinary approach and project-oriented education should stimulate interaction between model and theory construction, and the application of methods, in particular, in the arts and sciences.

Preview image: Agustina Agüero and Moritz Klarer

exhibition

02 Jul 2026, 17:00

Guided Tour

[REVERBERATED]. Following the Movement of Memory

Presented by the master’s degree program ‘Art & Science’ of the University of Applied Arts Vienna

The tours will be given in English / Duration: around 1 hour (no registration needed)

The guided tours of [REVERBERATED] are led by participating artists and offer an in-depth entry into the exhibition’s exploration of memory as a dynamic and reverberating process. Moving through the two exhibition spaces, conceived as interconnected “choruses,” visitors are invited to experience how individual works resonate with one another across spatial, material, and conceptual dimensions. Artists provide insights into their research processes and discuss how their works engage with memory, questions of perception, science, and temporality.

About the exhibition:

Memory is not a stable record of the past. Rather than functioning as a static archive, it unfolds as a dynamic process in which traces are continuously reshaped by perception, narration, and material conditions.

[REVERBERATED] explores notions of memory as the annual exhibition of the master’s program Art & Science. The exhibition approaches this process through the metaphor of reverberation. Reverberation describes the reflection of sound from multiple surfaces, producing many overlapping echoes at once. Just as sound continues to resonate within a space, memories reverberate through bodies, media, and environments long after the events that created them.

Taking this physical phenomenon as its conceptual point of departure, the exhibition explores how memories move across temporal, spatial, and technological contexts. Memory is never something fixed, but rather a living trace that unfolds over time. It continuously changes depending on context, interpretation, perception, and the ever-shifting present moment. Within this framework, the participating artworks investigate different modes of remembering: some address the role of images, storytelling, and artificial intelligence in shaping narratives of the past, while others engage with ecological and material traces: from disappearing species and botanical archives to residues embedded in landscapes and infrastructures.

Yet for this fluidity of memory to persist, structures are necessary – a mind, a community, or an archive. These structures are required similarly to sound waves, requiring surfaces in order to reverberate. At AIL, the exhibition unfolds across two interconnected spaces that function as the surrounding structures. Each space gathers works that resonate with one another while simultaneously echoing across the architectural interior of the historic Kassenhalle. Through this spatial arrangement, the exhibition itself becomes part of the inquiry, staging memory as a process of resonance, interference, and transformation.

Across these artistic approaches, [REVERBERATED] invites visitors to consider memory not as something simply preserved, but as something continuously produced through interactions between bodies, technologies, and environments. The exhibition thus explores how the past continues to reverberate within the systems of the present.

With contributions by:

Agustina Belén Agüero, Lobna Awidat, Phin Anibal, Rimon Alyagon Darr, Ronnie Danaher, Tatiana Del Valle, Hasti Ghasedi, Leah Barbara Mukui Giertz, Hanna Hofmann, Tal Horesh, Mauritius Itzinger, Laura Isselhorst, Dina Karaman, Moritz Klarer, Anna Buchner, Leonard Otterbein, David Ristić, Rajarshi Sarkar, Agnes Schyberg, Aryan Shahabian, Majedeh Shahvelayati, Mehrta Shirzadian, Pauline Simon, Laura Chalabi, People of Soil

exhibition

03 Jul 2026, 17:00

Guided Tour

[REVERBERATED]. Following the Movement of Memory

Presented by the master’s degree program ‘Art & Science’ of the University of Applied Arts Vienna

The tours will be given in English / Duration: around 1 hour (no registration needed)

The guided tours of [REVERBERATED] are led by participating artists and offer an in-depth entry into the exhibition’s exploration of memory as a dynamic and reverberating process. Moving through the two exhibition spaces, conceived as interconnected “choruses,” visitors are invited to experience how individual works resonate with one another across spatial, material, and conceptual dimensions. Artists provide insights into their research processes and discuss how their works engage with memory, questions of perception, science, and temporality.

About the exhibition:

Memory is not a stable record of the past. Rather than functioning as a static archive, it unfolds as a dynamic process in which traces are continuously reshaped by perception, narration, and material conditions.

[REVERBERATED] explores notions of memory as the annual exhibition of the master’s program Art & Science. The exhibition approaches this process through the metaphor of reverberation. Reverberation describes the reflection of sound from multiple surfaces, producing many overlapping echoes at once. Just as sound continues to resonate within a space, memories reverberate through bodies, media, and environments long after the events that created them.

Taking this physical phenomenon as its conceptual point of departure, the exhibition explores how memories move across temporal, spatial, and technological contexts. Memory is never something fixed, but rather a living trace that unfolds over time. It continuously changes depending on context, interpretation, perception, and the ever-shifting present moment. Within this framework, the participating artworks investigate different modes of remembering: some address the role of images, storytelling, and artificial intelligence in shaping narratives of the past, while others engage with ecological and material traces: from disappearing species and botanical archives to residues embedded in landscapes and infrastructures.

Yet for this fluidity of memory to persist, structures are necessary – a mind, a community, or an archive. These structures are required similarly to sound waves, requiring surfaces in order to reverberate. At AIL, the exhibition unfolds across two interconnected spaces that function as the surrounding structures. Each space gathers works that resonate with one another while simultaneously echoing across the architectural interior of the historic Kassenhalle. Through this spatial arrangement, the exhibition itself becomes part of the inquiry, staging memory as a process of resonance, interference, and transformation.

Across these artistic approaches, [REVERBERATED] invites visitors to consider memory not as something simply preserved, but as something continuously produced through interactions between bodies, technologies, and environments. The exhibition thus explores how the past continues to reverberate within the systems of the present.

With contributions by:

Agustina Belén Agüero, Lobna Awidat, Phin Anibal, Rimon Alyagon Darr, Ronnie Danaher, Tatiana Del Valle, Hasti Ghasedi, Leah Barbara Mukui Giertz, Hanna Hofmann, Tal Horesh, Mauritius Itzinger, Laura Isselhorst, Dina Karaman, Moritz Klarer, Anna Buchner, Leonard Otterbein, David Ristić, Rajarshi Sarkar, Agnes Schyberg, Aryan Shahabian, Majedeh Shahvelayati, Mehrta Shirzadian, Pauline Simon, Laura Chalabi, People of Soil

exhibition

04 Jul 2026, 17:00

Guided Tour

[REVERBERATED]. Following the Movement of Memory

Presented by the master’s degree program ‘Art & Science’ of the University of Applied Arts Vienna

The tours will be given in English / Duration: around 1 hour (no registration needed)

The guided tours of [REVERBERATED] are led by participating artists and offer an in-depth entry into the exhibition’s exploration of memory as a dynamic and reverberating process. Moving through the two exhibition spaces, conceived as interconnected “choruses,” visitors are invited to experience how individual works resonate with one another across spatial, material, and conceptual dimensions. Artists provide insights into their research processes and discuss how their works engage with memory, questions of perception, science, and temporality.

About the exhibition:

Memory is not a stable record of the past. Rather than functioning as a static archive, it unfolds as a dynamic process in which traces are continuously reshaped by perception, narration, and material conditions.

[REVERBERATED] explores notions of memory as the annual exhibition of the master’s program Art & Science. The exhibition approaches this process through the metaphor of reverberation. Reverberation describes the reflection of sound from multiple surfaces, producing many overlapping echoes at once. Just as sound continues to resonate within a space, memories reverberate through bodies, media, and environments long after the events that created them.

Taking this physical phenomenon as its conceptual point of departure, the exhibition explores how memories move across temporal, spatial, and technological contexts. Memory is never something fixed, but rather a living trace that unfolds over time. It continuously changes depending on context, interpretation, perception, and the ever-shifting present moment. Within this framework, the participating artworks investigate different modes of remembering: some address the role of images, storytelling, and artificial intelligence in shaping narratives of the past, while others engage with ecological and material traces: from disappearing species and botanical archives to residues embedded in landscapes and infrastructures.

Yet for this fluidity of memory to persist, structures are necessary – a mind, a community, or an archive. These structures are required similarly to sound waves, requiring surfaces in order to reverberate. At AIL, the exhibition unfolds across two interconnected spaces that function as the surrounding structures. Each space gathers works that resonate with one another while simultaneously echoing across the architectural interior of the historic Kassenhalle. Through this spatial arrangement, the exhibition itself becomes part of the inquiry, staging memory as a process of resonance, interference, and transformation.

Across these artistic approaches, [REVERBERATED] invites visitors to consider memory not as something simply preserved, but as something continuously produced through interactions between bodies, technologies, and environments. The exhibition thus explores how the past continues to reverberate within the systems of the present.

With contributions by:

Agustina Belén Agüero, Lobna Awidat, Phin Anibal, Rimon Alyagon Darr, Ronnie Danaher, Tatiana Del Valle, Hasti Ghasedi, Leah Barbara Mukui Giertz, Hanna Hofmann, Tal Horesh, Mauritius Itzinger, Laura Isselhorst, Dina Karaman, Moritz Klarer, Anna Buchner, Leonard Otterbein, David Ristić, Rajarshi Sarkar, Agnes Schyberg, Aryan Shahabian, Majedeh Shahvelayati, Mehrta Shirzadian, Pauline Simon, Laura Chalabi, People of Soil