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At the intersection of art, climate and society, students and lecturers from the Social Design Studio are working to activate the outdoor space around the Burgtheater. The city itself is the main protagonist in this project. Through the redesign, it aims to demonstrate how it is changing in the face of the climate crisis and, at the same time, how it could defend itself against this threatening situation. Thus, Josef-Meinrad-Platz is being furnished with chairs and armchairs, whilst fried eggs are being cooked in the car park next to the theatre. 

These and other interventions are part of a joint project between the Social Design Studio and the Burgtheater to remodel its outdoor space and create a stronger connection to the urban environment. The project will be presented for the first time under the name Stadt führt sich auf! as part of the Klimabiennale. Students and lecturers from the department are exploring how this is being developed and implemented.

Lennart Kos, a graduate of the master’s programme at the Institute of Language Arts, received the 2026 Authors’ Prize at the 43rd Heidelberger Stückemarkt.

Janka Dósa, a graduate of the Department of Painting and Animated Film, was presented with the Angewandte Animation Award on 29 April as part of the ‘Under the Radar 2026’ festival.
 

On 24 April 2026, the ÆSR – Applied/Experimental Sound Research Lab at the Rustenschacherallee site of the University of Applied Arts Vienna opened its doors for the Long Night of Research (Lange Nacht der Forschung).

On 27 and 28 January 2026, the Angewandte explored the materiality of data and its intersections with art as part of the symposium. Through a keynote lecture by Hito Steyerl, as well as panels and workshops, the role of artistic practices in engaging with algorithmic bias, data representation, and the ethics of machine learning was discussed and situated in relation to artistic, research, and teaching practices at the Angewandte.

This year’s dinner hosted by Stubenring 3, the Association of Friends of the Angewandte, resulted in some interesting new additions to the Angewandte’s collection and provided an opportunity for dialogue with the Art Collection and Archive.

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.