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Kind Regards – AIL Postcard Editions

Installation at Café Exchange

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As a space and a platform for projects at the intersection of art, science and artistic research, AIL presents many formats to achieve its goals: Founded in 2014 by the University of Applied Arts Vienna it was launched to enable exchange among different disciplines and to open up art and artistic research. AIL is dedicated to facilitating dialogue between all visitors and participants.

Therefore since 2024 the AIL has been releasing postcard editions twice a year in collaboration with different departments from the University of Applied Arts. Displayed as an installation at the Café Exchange, the postcards can be taken home and sent to others.

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Postcard Edition Nr. 4 – Reflex

A cooperation with the department of ­Drawing and Printmaking

A series of postcards extracted from the course ‘Drawing: Here & Now’ by Simon Goritschnig, installed in the former cashier hall, Jul 2026–Jan 2027

One pen, four hands.

Countless possibilities.

In collaborative drawing, two people share a single pen—the line becomes a space of negotiation. A play between control and letting go. Who leads—and when? Impulse meets resistance, conviction meets empathy. Not always a conversation, but always an understanding—a dance on paper. These and other experiments are part of the course “Drawing: Here & Now” by Simon Goritschnig, in which students at the University of Applied Arts explore various qualities of drawing beyond observational study. In the project “Reflection,” these experimental setups are set against observational drawing.

Students draw in the cashier hall of the former Postsparkasse, intuitively picking up details from architecture and space, as well as situations of coming together: conversations, movements, gazes. In this process, it becomes visible how public and social space is visually probed and explored. The focus lies on reflection — with, through, and within drawing.

With contributions by:

Andrea Vairelles, Anna Marino, Beth Sorby, Emilia Schönwiese, Flora Schmid, Hannah Horn, Henriette Sonntag, Leo Hasslinger, Maria Lutkova, Max Offergeld, Nikolaus Kohout, Sophie Schweizer, Stefania Dartizio, Timo Pfeifer, Vera Kügel

AIL in cooperation with the department Drawing and Printmaking and Simon Goritschnig

Design: Atelier Dreibholz
Concept Postcard Editions and Production: Eva Weber

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AIL Postcard Edition Nr. 3 – Algorithmic Vertigo

A cooperation with Digitale Kunst / UBERMORGEN (Digital Arts)

Students of the course ‘Techniques of Presentation’ at the department of ­Digital Arts developed a series of postcards installed in the former cashier hall, Apr 2026 – Jul 2026

Speculative storytelling becomes a tool for remoulding the present by imagining possible futures. We address tensions between control and freedom in a world of pervasive digital mediation.

We see the fatigue.

We acknowledge that the relationship between reality and the imagined future is shifting.

We prompt ourselves towards new ways of experiencing (digital) existence, exploring reconfigurations of self and body.

Navigating vertigo.

AIL is presenting the third postcard edition, installed in the former cashier hall of Otto Wagner-Postsparkasse, in the center of Café Exchange.

colourful illustration of plants and mushrooms | Image by ©Bojan Markovic, After Haeckel. Visual Studies on Morphodynamics, 2025

This postcard series emerges from the exhibition Algorithmic Vertigo (2025), which was developed from the seminar Techniques of Presentation at the department of ­Digital Arts. The student exhibition was created for FOTO WIEN 2025 in cooperation with the AIL and the theme of the exhibition was based on the idea of ­Expanded Photography and FOTO WIEN’s yearly topic Dynamic Futures. The exhibited works explored new configurations of reality, the body, and its position within the topographies of the post-digital.

Artists:

Daki Rolex, Element Lee, Flynn by Malpractice, Ulrike Fritzsche, Hartwin Haselbauer & Tina Grüll, Anahi Juárez, Zita Kayser, Klára Klimas, Koschka & Ivy Keye, Rita Kulyk, Bojan Markovic, Rage, Ivan Sai, Matthias Sanoll & Lea Gander

Layout and Production Edition #3: Bernhard Faiß
Concept Postcard Editions: Eva Weber

Preview image: Rage, Paramygdala, 2025

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AIL Postcard Edition Nr. 2 – (dis)honest images

In cooperation with the department Applied Photography & Time-Based Media

Students of the course ‘Photographic Narration in Publication Formats’ led by Claudia Holzinger develop a series of postcards installed in the former cashier hall, Jun 2025 – Feb 2026

(dis)honest images

beauty in ugliness,

uncanny reality of human life.

against the supposed order of the body

something closer to truth, rawness and complexity.

silent performance of transformation.

nature seems synthetic

and art is instinctively honest.

reconstruct the inherited identity.

it makes you uncomfortable

thinking everything is a lie for a moment.

it’s also about humans,

everything we have done and can do and we have to live with.

Iconic drama – rage mode is on.

In collaboration with the Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab, Claudia Holzinger’s Photographic Narration in Publication Formats course created a series of DIN A6-format postcards. Following the principle of silent mail, participants develop ideas and subjects through dialogue to create a ­coherent series together. Presented as an installation in the former cashier’s hall of the Postsparkasse, postcards can be taken and sent. In this place of exchange, we ­encourage you to stay ­connected.

With photographies from:

Pavle Banović
Amina Ben Hassen
Francis Grill
Yevheniia Kriuk
Yaroslava Melnychenko
Mihaly Mundruczo
Darryl Oswald
Almut Rist
Dunja Savić
Yuliia Sudarchykova
Zinaida Tsyhliuk
Daniel Wendt

The postcard edition will launch with Angewandte Festival.

This is the second postcard edition by AIL. Find more info abou the first edition here.

(dis)honest images, AIL Postcard Edition Nr. 2

AIL in cooperation with the department Applied Photography & Time-Based Media
Design: Atelier Dreibholz
Concept Postcard Editions and Production: Eva Weber

Preview image: Daniel Wendt

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10 Years of AIL – Postcard Edition

Greetings from the University of Applied Arts Vienna

A collaboration with the department of Creative Writing [Sprachkunst], with student and alumni Valerie Prinz

Image by ©

Together we ask: Where are we and where are we ­going?

For its ten year anniversary, AIL presents a special edition of postcards. Installed in the former cashier hall of Otto Wagner Postsparkasse, visitors are invited to select one and send it out into the world. ­Valerie Prinz, student and alumni of the department of ­Creative Writing [Sprachkunst] has developed a ­series of statements which emerge from AIL’s cosmos of questions, research and program.

Image by ©

In this place of exchange, we ­encourage you to stay ­connected.

Every day visitors and tourist come into the building, looking for a post office. Still not selling stamps, for a moment, we keep the expectations coming with the building of Postsparkasse.

Image by ©

As a temporary installation, you can find now a postcard holder in the setting of Café Exchange. Pick your favorite cards and send them out into the world.

The famous building of the ‘Post­sparkasse’, designed by Otto Wagner for Georg Coch, built between 1904 and 1906, and used as a bank until 2017. Since 2021, the University of ­Applied Arts Vienna has presented the Angewandte ­Interdisciplinary Lab (AIL) and Café Exchange in the ‘Kassenhalle’ and two exhibition spaces. The AIL is the university’s platform for art, science and artistic research. At AIL, the relationship between art and science and the potential of ­interdisciplinarity is explored, while making ­artistic research at the University of Applied Arts Vienna ­accessible to a broad public.

AIL Postcards, 10 Year Anniversary Edition, 2024

Text and Concept: Valerie Prinz

Design: Atelier Dreibholz

Concept Postcard Editions and Production: Eva Weber

Support: Nora Mayr

About the initial poster project