Open Call: AIL Ping-Pong #2

Submit your artwork for the new exhibition format AIL Ping-Pong at the showcases [Vitrinen] in the Kassenhalle of Otto Wagner Postsparkasse

#2 October 2025 – February 2026

WHAT?

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 Angewandte alumni*. In line with AIL’s mission to embrace interdisciplinary approaches, AIL Ping-Pong fosters dialogue between 2-5 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 and languages of Angewandte alumni, offering a range of perspectives that explore parallels, contrasts, or extensions within a thematic framework.

*Please note: The Open Call is addressed only to Alumni, who are currently NOT affiliated with the Angewandte via a Phd, teaching position or employment.

In its second edition, AIL Ping-Pong will focus on the theme of SAMPLE

In the natural sciences, samples are collected to enable analysis and investigation. By examining a small portion or quantity of a material, researchers can gain insights into the nature of the whole. 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. These components feed into the artistic practice, shaping and informing the final work.

A sample can thus represent transdisciplinary collaboration or reflect a dynamic, exploratory process marked by iteration, testing, and discovery. The term encompasses both the object – the sample – and the act of sampling itself.

WHERE?

Originally a display space for the Otto Wagner Museum, the AIL Ping-Pong presentations consist of a 330cm x 205cm glass vitrine divided into eight vitrine sections (up H:114cm x L:80cm x W:40cm; down H:62cm x L:80cm x W:40cm). The decision on how the vitrine will be devided by the chosen AIL Ping-Pong participants will be made in conversation between AIL and the invited artists.

You can view vitireit during the regular opening hours of the Postsparkasse (Mon - Fri, 10:00 – 18:00 ). It is located near the back entrance on the left-hand side. Or download measurements and image here

HOW & WHO?

AIL provides the space as well as communication around the project. Additionally to the visibility AIL can offer each artist an compensation fee of 250 EUR. Artworks are insured for the time of the display.

The open call is adressed to alumni from all departments of the Angewandte. The participants for AIL Ping-Pong will be selected by AIL based on the interesting pairs, potential contrasts, or similarities of projects and artistic positions.

Shortcut – We are looking for:

• Artistic projects / artworks that relate to the given topic SAMPLE

• The artworks / projects should be able to be presented within the limited space of the glass vitrines

• The proposed artworks should be self sufficient in the way of presentation. That means they should not need f.e. an external electricity source, or daily activation. In case a project involves daily or weekly maintenance the artists are responsible for it.

• All media accepted: print, textile, objects, text, publications, video...

Submission mode:

Please send all details and desired documents by e-mail to: nora.mayr@uni-ak.ac.at

(Submissions can be in English or German!)

1 PDF (max. 10 MB)

• Concept: short description of the artwork or project you would like to submit including an explanation of its relevance towards the topic SAMPLE. (1-3 pages incl. images)

• max. 1000 characters

• including link to artist portfolio or similar relevant links of the artistic works

• please name year of graduation and department

Please apply only if the schedule below is feasible for you.

Deadline Open Call: extended till 21 July 2025

Timeline:

• Beginning of Aug 2025: Announcement of selection

• Aug 2025: Decission on specific art works

• Beginning of Oct: install period as agreed on with AIL

• Mid October: AIL Ping-Pong#2 Launch, running till mid Feb 2026

Opening hours AIL Ping-Pong: Mon – Fri: 10:00-18:00