The University of Applied Arts Vienna invites to the Angewandte Festival 2025 from 25 to 28 June

From 25 to 28 June, the exhibitions at Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz and in the Angewandte's expositions will be open to the public (11.00 a.m. to 9.00 p.m.). A multidisciplinary festival programme will also show how the Angewandte sets impulses across disciplines. With Monuments of the Future, Anab Jain and students from the Design Investigations department will transform Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz, which is closed to traffic, into a place of unexpected encounters: Visitors are invited to reflect on ideas for the future and how we can all contribute to shaping it.

Press conference and guided tour
Invitation to the press conference and guided tour with:
 
Anab Jain, Professor of Design Investigations, concept of the square design
Maria Zettler & Brigitte Felderer, from the rectorate team of the University of Applied Arts Vienna,
Lena Kohlmayr, curatorial head of the Angewandte Festival
 
Time: Tuesday, 24 June 2025 at 10.00 am
Place: Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna

Please register at: isabella.pohl@uni-ak.ac.at by 20 June

About the square design
Every year, the Angewandte presents a new artistic square design on Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz, which is temporarily closed to traffic, as part of the festival. In 2025, Anab Jain and students from Design Investigations present Monuments of the Future: a giant sturgeon, a species of fish that has long since disappeared from Austria, emerges from the ground of Oskar Kokoschka Square. Right next to it, a monument to Vienna's last private car marks the end of an era. The festival's five temporary monuments are not from the past, but embody messages from an as yet unwritten future. ‘Our monuments are not predictions, but gentle provocations,’ says Anab Jain. ’They stand for future designs that are characterised by the social decisions we are currently making. We asked our students to develop installations that question us: Is this the world we want? What do we need to change today in order to achieve new conditions?’
 
With the square design, Angewandte is testing the potential of the university forecourt for dialogue between Angewandte and the city as part of the festival and inviting discourse beyond the university to be negotiated with the public.

The exhibitions
The exhibitions form the core of the festival and provide an insight into the work in the studios, workshops and departments on the university premises. On display are works by students from the 8 institutes of the Angewandte: The variety of departments on display ranges from Fine Arts, including Sculpture and Space, Site-Specific Art (both at the Paulusplatz location), Painting, Photography and Digital Art, to the departments from the field of Design and more recent, transdisciplinary degree programmes, through to artistic research and theory.

Detailed programme from 12 June at www.angewandtefestival.at

Dates:
24 June, 10.00 a.m.: Press conference and pre-guided tour
25 June, 5.00 pm: Opening on the square with Anab Jain Monuments of the Future on Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz (the opening on the square will be simultaneously translated into sign language (ÖGS))

The Angewandte
The University of Applied Arts Vienna is one of the leading international art universities. With 2000 students from 90 countries and around 30 degree programmes at 8 institutes, the Angewandte combines the arts and sciences with the design disciplines of architecture and design.
As an art university, it develops new inter- and transdisciplinary programmes that are focused on social change processes and open up future horizons.