Angewandte Festival 2025

The Angewandte Festival takes place from Wednesday, 25 June to Saturday, 28 June, showcasing what has been lived, thought, designed, and tried out in their studios, workshops, and seminar rooms throughout the year. The exhibitions can be visited daily from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. and are accompanied by a varied programme.

Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz will be closed to traffic and become a central gathering point during the festival. The Infopoint will also be located there—your go-to spot for general inquiries, awareness issues, and the starting point for guided tours (unless otherwise stated). During exhibition hours, the Infopoint is staffed by students, and printed festival guides will be  available for free.

Inauguration of Monuments of the Future at Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz on June 25 2025 at 5 p.m. with Anab Jain and the students of the Department of Design Investigations (the opening of the square  will be simultaneously interpreted in Austrian Sign Language – ÖGS) Monuments of the Future is a series of installations—partly provocative, partly serious, partly  humorous—inviting us not only to ask ’What if?’ but also ’Which future do we choose?’ and ’What can we contribute?’

Press materials and photo downloads for the festival and Monuments of the Future can be found here: Press Material Angewandte Festival 2025

The exhibitions are the heart of the festival – in the department’s rooms, students present their works—what they have lived, thought, created, and tried out over the course of the year. Most exhibitions can be visited daily from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. at the university’s main buildings around Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz:

• Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna (OKP-Ferstel Wing + OKP-Schwanzer Wing)

• Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7, 1030 Vienna (VZA)

• Georg-Coch-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna (GCP, formerly PSK)

Further exhibitions can be seen at the annexes of the university, including Paulusplatz (Site-Specific Art and Sculpture and Space) and the University Gallery at Heiligenkreuzerhof, as well as other off-site venues (see “Exhibitions in the City”).

A large number of graduation projects from the summer semester will be exhibited during the festival and are marked with 'AAA. After the festival, the graduation works can also be viewed online at aaa.dieangewandte.at.

A multidisciplinary programme ties in with the exhibitions and reflects the trans- and interdisciplinary nature of the Angewandte. The formats include a wide range of offerings, including book presentations, discussions, film screenings, guided tours, interventions, readings, performances, sound projects, games, and workshops. Many of the university’s workshops—where numerous projects originated—will also open their doors.

A broad range of guided tours and educational programmes aims to encourage exchange with visitors and introduce them to various exhibitions. With the series of tours under the umbrella of Beyond the Tour, students have developed concepts specifically for the Angewandte Festival that expand the format of traditional guided tours by introducing new forms of engagement with art.

For certain programme items, in particular guided tours and workshops, prior registration is requested at angewandtefestival.at/anmeldung Spontaneous participation is also possible, provided that capacity is available.

Download Festivalguide (PDF)

Download Timetable (PDF)

Printed festival guides and timetables are available at the Infopoint at Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz and will help you navigate the festival onsite.

This year, the invitation to the festival takes the form of analogue imprints of various objects, intending to spark curiosity about what will be on display at the Angewandte Festival . The visual concept was developed by students from the Department of Communication Design (Emma Jacobsen, Uma Vogl-Fernheim, and Moritz Wizany with Benjamin Knopper and Peter Kikl). The conscious choice to use analogue images reflects a critical engagement with the digital, which is not only evident in AI projects, but also promotes an interplay between the digital and the analogue.

The festival is free of charge and open to the public without prior registration. For individual  guided tours and workshops, participation is limited and prior registration is encouraged at
angewandtefestival.at/anmeldung
Find details about the accessibility of the university buildings under Accessibility.

We recommend starting your visit at the Infopoint at Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz, where students will be available to assist visitors if needed.

Program highlights with Austrian Sign Language (ÖGS) interpretation:

• Inauguration of the Square: Wednesday, 25 June, 5 p.m., Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz

• Exhibition Tour: Wednesday, 25 June, 6 p.m., meeting point: OKP-Infopoint

• Reading of Language Arts Graduates: Thursday, 26 June, 7 p.m. – 9 p.m., Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7, 2nd floor, terrace

Further inclusive educational programmes: 

• Ice Cream Tour – a guided tour focusing on the sense of taste:
  Wednesday, 25 June and Friday, 27 June, 2 p.m. – 3.30 p.m., meeting point: OKP-Infopoint (guided tour in English)

• Ghost Tour – a quiet tour with minimal sensory input and distractions, in a relaxed atmosphere, outside of regular opening hours:
  Thursday, 26 June and Friday, 27 June, 10 p.m. – 11 p.m., meeting point: OKP entrance

POV Tour (Point-of-View) – a tour for participants with vision and vision impairment or low vision, focusing on diverse perspectives:
Thursday, 26 June and Friday, 27 June, 4 p.m. – 5.30 p.m., meeting point: OKP Infopoint

During the days of the festival, the Angewandte opens its doors and invites visitors to get an overview of an intensive academic year. On display – and equally to be experienced – are final projects and works from the diverse artistic and theory departments. The activities take place within the building of the university and extend outward, reclaiming the square in front of the Angewandte. The street is closed to traffic, once again highlighting the importance of public spaces in the city – as zones of freedom, moments of calm and consumption-free places that resist constant movement.

The festival resonates inward, bringing together members of an important university for the arts, and demonstrates how deeply the Angewandte radiates into the city – why it holds international relevance and is perceived as a significant institution for education in art, design, architecture as well as interdisciplinary theory and practice. The posters announcing the exciting program hint at the intense efforts happening "behind the scenes" – right up to the very last minute before the opening. Those who visit the festival gather at Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz, where Monuments of the Future are being erected – monuments that point to the urgencies of our present and evoke a future that we are both speculatively and inevitably approaching. These monuments – critical and humorous at the same time – appeal to our shared sense of responsibility and address us as a society that produces future every single day. As a university, the Angewandte is always (co-)responsible for shaping futures – futures that we understand as productive alternatives, possibilities, and spaces for thought.

Without the outstanding support of all members of the university, this festival would not be possible. The graphic design by Emma Jacobsen, Uma Vogl-Fernheim, and Moritz Wizany – students of the Department of Communication Design – developed in collaboration with Peter Kikl and Benjamin Knopper, also points to the invisible work required to make it all happen.

The Department of Design Investigations conceived and implemented the Monuments of the Future, and we warmly invite everyone to follow the themes that have materialised here: not to renounce the future, but to shape it. A university of the arts provides all the essential conditions to do so.

Enjoy!

Anab Jain, Brigitte Felderer, Lena Kohlmayr *

* On behalf of the Rectorate, the Department of Design Investigations and the entire Angewandte Festival Team

We would like to thank Hornbach for their support in the realisation of Monuments of the Future!

For specific questions regarding your visit or general inquiries about the Angewandte Festival, the festival team is available at angewandte.festival@uni-ak.ac.at

We are happy to help with planning your visit – especially for school classes or larger groups, we kindly ask you to contact us in advance so we can help organize your visit in the best possible way.

We also welcome feedback, suggestions, and ideas related to the festival!

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