Fernheilung: The 1980s and Early 1990s Through a Distorted Lens
An
exhibition by Collection and Archive at the University of Applied Arts Vienna
Starting in fall
2025, the University of Applied Arts Vienna will celebrate the 45th anniversary of its art collection, which was founded in
1980 as part of the university archives, with events, guided tours, and an exhibition at the University Gallery of the Angewandte,
located at Heiligenkreuzerhof. With Fernheilung (Distant Healing), the Angewandte looks back at the artistic
scene in Vienna during the decade in which its collection was founded in 1980 by Oswald Oberhuber, the rector at the time:
Works from the university's environment at the time, documents and selected loans are used to create a parcours that highlights
important events in the art world, exhibitions, artistic movements and discourses of the time in their context.
Practices of numerous teachers and students are situated in the context of the exhibition
scene in Vienna as well as in the international trends of the time. The exhibition addresses developments such as the canonisation
of early Viennese Modernism and the late confrontation with the Nazi past, as well as the internationalisation of the art
field in the context of the University of Applied Arts. On display are works from the Angewandte's art collection and archive,
including pieces by Ernst Caramelle, VALIE EXPORT, Franz Graf, Birgit Jürgenssen, Gerda Lampalzer, Dorit Margreiter, Brigitte
Kowanz, Friedl Kubelka-Bondy, Maria Lassnig, Bruce Nauman, Albert Oehlen, Franz West, Gerwald Rockenschaub, Gabriele Senn,
Rini Tandon and Heimo Zobernig, as well as numerous loans.
Curated by Robert Müller in dialogue
with Helmut Draxler
Overall management: Cosima Rainer
Curatorial Assistance: Judith
Burger, Laura Egger-Karlegger, Manon Fougère
Exhibition design: Robert Müller
Team University
Gallery: Marei Buhmann, Anette Freudenberger (Leitung)
Text contributions: Laura Egger-Karlegger,
Manon Fougère, Robert Müller, Samira Plunger
Exhibition opening: October 15, 2025, 6 p.m.
Duration:
October 16, 2025–January 31, 2026
Curator's tour with Robert Müller in dialouge with Helmut Draxler
Thursday, 16 October 2025, 6 p.m.
Friday, 21 November 2025, 4 p.m.
Saturday, 13 December 2025, 2 p.m.
Opening
hours: Wednesday–Saturday, 2 p.m.–6 p.m. (closed on public holiday)
Location
Angewandte
University Gallery Heiligenkreuzerhof
Schönlaterngasse 5 / Grashofgasse 3, Staircase 8, 1st floor, 1010 Vienna
With works by: Fareed Armaly, Georg Baselitz, Martin Beck, Tina Bepperling, Linda Bilda, Ecke Bonk, Herbert
Brandl, Günter Brus, Ernst Caramelle, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Clegg & Guttmann, Douglas Crimp, Hermann Czech, DIE DAMEN,
Heinrich Dunst, Martin Ebner, Alfons Egger, Cerith Wyn Evans, VALIE EXPORT, Mariano Fortuny, Andrea Fraser, Peter Friedl,
Rainer Ganahl, Markus Geiger, Franz Graf, Helmuth Gsöllpointner, Richard Hoeck, Josef Hoffmann, Hans Hollein, IntAkt, Margarete
Jahrmann, Birgit Jürgenssen, Johanna Kandl, Martin Kippenberger, Klub Zwei, Jutta Koether, Peter Kogler, Willi Kopf, Elena
Koptschalijski, Josef Kostial, Brigitte Kowanz, Michael Krebber, Elke Silvia Krystufek, Friedl Kubelka-Bondy, Ruth Labak,
Gerda Lampalzer, Helmut Lang, Maria Lassnig, Bernhard Leitner, Sherrie Levine, Louise Lawler, Dorit Margreiter, Helmut Mark,
Paul McCarthy, Alois Mosbacher, Ariane Mueller, Christian Philipp Müller, Bruce Nauman, Arnold Nechansky, Oswald Oberhuber,
Albert Oehlen, Victor Josef Papanek, Pas Paravant, Heinrich Pichler, Mathias Poledna, Cora Pongracz, Eva Presenhuber, Ursula
Pürrer, REM, Eugenia Rochas, Gerwald Rockenschaub, Ulrike Rosenbach, Constanze Ruhm, Ashley Hans Scheirl, ManfreDu Schu,
Gabriele Senn, Peter Sickert, Gustav Siegel, Rini Tandon, Octavian Trauttmansdorff, Franz Vana, Arye Wachsmuth, Martin Walde,
Peter Weibel, Hans Weigand, Lois Weinberger, Franz West, Ingrid Wiener, Zelko Wiener, Eduard Josef Wimmer-Wisgrill, Erwin
Wurm, Robert Adrian X, Heimo Zobernig
Supplementary documentation material and photographs from the holdings
of the Art Collection and Archive, including: Das ästhetische Feld: Vorträge zu Praxisformen in der Kunst, Hochschule
für angewandte Kunst in Wien (1992), Symposium mit Beiträgen von Colin de Land, Peter Fend, Andrea Fraser, Renée Green, Jeff
Koons, John Miller, Christian Phillip Müller, Raymond Pettibon, Gerwald Rockenschaub, Jessica Stockholder, Peter Weibel
