Fernheilung: The 1980s and Early 1990s Through a Distorted Lens
An exhibition by Collection and Archive at the University of Applied Arts Vienna
With
the exhibition 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.
The practices of 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 Klinger-Jürgenssen, Brigitte Kowanz, Friedl Kubelka-Bondy, Maria Lassnig,
Bruce Nauman, Albert Oehlen, Franz West, Gerwald Rockenschaub 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
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
©Ernst Caramelle, tin, undated, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Art
Collection and Archive, 5249/O
Photo: Dominik Buda
Events
Exhibition opening
15. October 2025
- 18:00
Universitätsgalerie der Angewandten im Heiligenkreuzerhof | Schönlaterngasse 5 / Grashofgasse
3, Stiege 8, 1. Stock, 1010 Wien
Duration
16. October 2025 - 31.
January 2026
Ort: Universitätsgalerie der Angewandten im Heiligenkreuzerhof | Schönlaterngasse
5 / Grashofgasse 3, Stiege 8, 1. Stock, 1010 Wien
