Angewandte Festival 2026: Exhibitions, final projects and a space for Language Arts

Across four festival days, the Angewandte’s departments and institutes will open their doors at all university locations and can be visited individually or as part of guided tours. All Angewandte Festival events are open to the public and free of charge.

 

Under the title unfinished business, students from the Institute of Language Arts will devote this year’s festival focus to the linguistic exploration of what is missing, on Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz in front of the university building—conceived as a space for visitors, passers-by and the public. Who speaks to whom? Who doesn’t? Which worlds sustain this square? Where is there still urgent work to be done?
Students’ texts can be heard in the square, are on display and can even be taken away. Twice a day, a radio show fills the square with sound; writers produce ad hoc commissioned texts for visitors, who can also have books prescribed for any life situation. Texts are spoken in chorus, condensed, and linger in the air. In this way, a place shaped by language and speaking emerges.