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Das diesjährige Dinner von Stubenring 3, dem Verein der Freund*innen der Angewandten, ermöglichte interessante Neuzugänge für die Sammlung der Angewandten und Austausch zu und über Kunstsammlung und Archiv.

In her exhibition discrepancies with W.W. (in company) at the University Gallery of the Angewandte in the Heiligenkreuzerhof, Vienna, Leonor Antunes combines her own artistic works with objects and textiles by designers of the Wiener Werkstätte and the former k.k. Kunstgewerbeschule (Imperial and Royal School of Arts and Crafts), drawn from the Collection and Archive of the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

With Lebt und arbeitet in Wien: Contemporary Art from Vienna, Kunsthalle Wien presents an extensive survey of the city's current art scene, including a significant number of contributors associated with the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

To mark the uniko campaign day #ALLESUNI, the University of Applied Arts Vienna invited people to an experimental game at Brunnenmarkt on 21 April: Together with Rector Ulrike Kuch, Margarete Jahrmann presented the multi-perspective game “The Tree Game” – a creative role-playing and strategy game that allows players to take turns assuming the roles of citizens and industrialists, as well as a lake and a forest.

A series of exhibitions by the Painting Department of the University of Applied Arts Vienna is currently on display at the MuseumsQuartier Vienna. The current series is curated by Henning Bohl and Florian Pfaffenberger and brings together works by students in the Angewandte Schauraum at the MQ, which explore questions of painting, its history and possible new developments from various perspectives. The starting point is classic pictorial genres such as still life and landscape.

 

 

This year, we have two reasons to be delighted at the University of Applied Arts Vienna on the occasion of the Diagonale Film Festival: namely, the successes of the artists, alumnae and lecturers Sophie Bösker and Anna Vasof. Both were featured in the festival programme with their films – receiving awards and special mentions.

In the works shown at Diagonale, both dealt with their own very personal experiences in their characteristic styles, creating two short films well worth watching.
 

This year, the BID — Biennale Internazionale Donna in Trieste is showcasing a contribution by Francesca Centonze, a student in the Department of Transmedia Art. In her installation A Must Sea, the artist, who was born in Puglia but raised in Trieste, explores her hometown – with the focus on the ever-changing Porto Vecchio harbour. It is home to several worlds. Today, it is both a cultural hub and part of a development project shaped by cruise tourism, hotels and infrastructure. Parallel to this, another, less visible world exists there: that of migrants from the Balkan route who have reached the port under precarious conditions and continue to live there – two worlds, spatially close yet symbolically far apart, coexisting side by side.

How can museums change society? What consequences can curatorial actions have? The /ecm study program for exhibition theory and practice at the University of Applied Arts Vienna is a two-year postgraduate course that provides comprehensive knowledge and skills in the expanded field of museums and exhibitions.

The next cycle of /ecm starts in October 2026.
Applications for the upcoming admission seminars are accepted on a rolling basis.

Helena Schenavsky, who graduated from Studio 1 Sam Chermayeff in the winter term of 2026, has been nominated for the Campus prize by BauNetz, Germany's largest online architecture magazine. You can vote for her master's project Das nicht vergessene Haus [The Unforgotten House] until April 12.

In October 2025, the conference What is Infrastructural Critique? took place in celebration of the life and work of Marina Vishmidt at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Marina Vishmidt was professor of Art Theory at the Angewandte.

What value will water, a seed or a forest have for people in a future where natural resources are scarcer and politically contested?

Simon Goritischnig asked himself these and other questions about how we might collectively deal with biological resources that are taken for granted today in the artistic process behind his series of paintings Bionic Dreams, for which he received this year's state scholarship for media art.

The artist explores how perception and society's approach to issues such as ecology, freedom and mortality could change in the face of the climate crisis. His works revolve around geopolitical dynamics and the associated handling of biological resources – questions that are becoming increasingly existential for future generations.

 

The University of Applied Arts Vienna will be showcasing its study programmes at the BeSt careers fair in Vienna from 12–15 March, a four-day event covering all aspects of careers, study, and professional development.