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Hope4Hope: Impressions from the Hope4Hope exhibition at Donaufestival Krems, May 2026, Images by © David Visnjic, © Daniel Wendt and © CDS

Hope4Hope
Cross-Disciplinary Investigations

1 – 4 July 2026, MA Group Exhbition
as part of Angewandte Festival 2026
Seminar Room 8, OKP

2 July, 6.00 pm Book Launch

More info: hope4hope.at

As global crises multiply and exhaustion becomes chronic, the very notion of hope feels suspiciously kitschy, yet all the more desirable. While despair tempts us with a deceptive clarity, the challenge of our time lies in rediscovering the potential(s) of hope.

We, the MA students from the department of Cross-Disciplinary Strategies, are undertaking a search for the manifold traces of hope in our daily currents and surroundings – exploring the conditions under which hope manifests and/or becomes a definitive feature of our activities. Undermining the constraints of traditional disciplinary boundaries, we want to investigate the phenomenon of hope through a mix of artistic strategies, scientific methods, performative moves and technological tools. By interweaving different methodologies and approaches, the exhibition sets out to generate a multifarious map of different modes of hope, such as hope as collective emotion, hope as illusion, hope as resistance … Together, the works form a constellation of diverse perspectives, depicting possible hopes “for hope” in a collective brainstorm to which visitors are very much invited to contribute.

Works by:

Yiwen Che
Khadisha Dabayeva
Sophie Hamann
Sara Karimi
Lili Kátai & Elias Schulz
Aimée Kohn & Charlotte Kuoi
Maya Kornfeld
Marlene Lethmayer
Sophie Hamann
Subham Manandhar
Alessia Meyer
Benjamin Palme
Marshall Paul
Emilie Schmidt
Charlie Spies
Lea Kristin Würtenberger

with Christian Höller

AN ATLAS FOR UPENDING
THE WORLD

1 – 4 July 2026, CDS Group Exhbition
as part of Angewandte Festival 2026
1st floor, Rooms 158, 162
CDS Studio, GCP

There is something beautifully intriguing in the sensation of travelling places without actually going there… through hearing, reading, seeing pictures of them – and through the simple gesture of placing a finger on a map. In that sense, the map can be a rich backdrop for explorations, an activator of imagination as much as means of investigation.

What can mapping, scientifically and artistically, represent in today’s rapidly transforming world of intensified data exchange and rising existential threats? As part of the Cross-Disciplinary Strategies study area Politics, Economics, and Global Change, the seminar An Atlas for Upending the World prompted students to explore urban areas as main drivers of global change, places of concentrated challenges yet home to the majority of people. Their contributions on ‘Hotspot Cities’, those growing fastest in the most critical biological areas, go beyond traditional space-bound investigation and upend (twist, overturn, flip, …) carefully researched data into essays, maps, and artworks. The atlas is an attempt to question data classes, statistical thresholds, graphic code, and info hierarchy, reinventing the map as device between freedom and constraint.

Works by:

Elias Altrichter
Anne Altmeyer
Yiwen Che
Iris Cîrlan
Pierina Erazo
Artem Ergaev
Nora Eros
Alexander Jahr
Sara Karimi
Viktoria Körbler
Kyra Krencioch
Valentina Pickering Contreraz
Sarah Rapatz
Pernille Ramstad
Deborah Schultheis
Matthew Simpson
Viktoria Körbler
Hannah Stoeger
Danbi Sung
Miriam S. Surányi
Cansu Tandoğan
Gergana Tseneva
Claus Wares
Greta Weihmann

with Yona Catrina Schreyer

Do the Locomotion
Capturing Fleeting Phenomena

1 – 4 July 2026, MA Group Exhbition
as part of Angewandte Festival 2026
Seminar Room 34, GCP

“Viewed in this perspective, the cinema is objectivity in time.”
(André Bazin)

The exhibition brings together works developed during the course with the same name. We retraced the steps before the invention of cinematography, and through that looked at for connections between science and film. Furthermore, we were interested in looking at artistic strategies / methods such as copying, replicating, repeating, imitating in the context of cross-disciplinary practices.

Devices such as the thaumatrope, the phenakistoscope, the zoetrope, the praxinoscope, the flipbook, … were invented in parallel, without or with knowledge of each other. What they had in common, however, was the scientific dream of capturing the ephemeral moments of reality as they are.

In 1st semester we set out in search of the fleeting phenomena that surround us and worked on a detailed reproduction of one of these instruments.

In 2nd semester we worked on the detailed analysis and reproduction of an existing work of art that depicts ephemeral phenomena.

Works by:

Mar de Alvaro Martín
Emma Enzi
Jan Hadler
Maria Lutkova
Marlene Nutz
Sara Martinez Ortiz
Gi Sampaio
Flora Schreiber
Elias Schulz
Fabiana Vaca Diez
VazquezAnastasiia Zotova

with Adnan Balcinovic

Witnessing

1 – 4 July 2026, BA Group Exhbition
as part of Angewandte Festival 2026
1st floor, Rooms 158, 162
CDS Studio, GCP

In a world undergoing profound and rapid change, there is a need to gain an understanding of the complex dynamics of this change and to identify applied formats that make this understanding tangible and comprehensible. With our various global challenges becoming embedded in new streams of digital information (‘real’ or ‘artificial’), Witnessing takes on new significance.

This exhibition gathers the works of BA Cross-Disciplinary Students critically examining this year’s annual theme of the CDC Application Lab, extending their research and project works to diverse types of witnessing and its protagonists, from eye–, to expert, political, to silent witnesses. Each type underscores how testimony presents only a partial view, demanding trust, interpretation, and careful navigation, thereby opening a field of ethical and epistemological concerns. Across various media formats, visitors are invited to reflect on the possibilities and limitations of witnessing and the critical questions that arise whenever we encounter our natural, digital, human, and more-than-human surroundings.

Works by:

Virginia Bonareri
Grace Christenson
Zsófi Csoboth
Elys Entrup
Stella Králová
Madeleine Krenbiel
Flora Amina Peham
Louisa Petermann
Valentina Pickering Contreras
Luisa Rott
Gi Sampaio
Daisy Quaile-Leahy
Jul Marian Schadauer
Lisa-Maria Schmidt
Oleksa Shevchenko
Julsie Skrobisz
Varvara Omelchenko
Zlata Ulitina

with
Nina Bandi,
Gudrun Ratzinger
Sophia Rut
Yona Catrina Schreyer

Angewandte Abschlussarbeiten Summer 2026

CDS Finalists Summer 2026

Exhibition of the CDS Bachelor and Master Finalists of Summer 2026

1st Floor, Room 147, GCP
(Bachelor Exhibition)

Ground Floor, Lichthof B, OKP
(Master Exhibition)

Exhibition of all works by students graduating from the CDS Bachelor and Master Program in the Summer Term 2026. More information on the single contributions on the AAA Website aaa.dieangewandte.at/abschlussarbeiten

Diletta Caragnetto
Iris Cirlan
Fanny Dobler
Emma Enzi
Lisa Gerner
Filip Grujic
Sanea Hertlein
Helin Özdemir
Anastasiia Klysakova
Jana Kohlmannova
Christina Noitzmüller
Flora Schreiber

HOPE4HOPE

Cross-Disciplinary Investigations
MA Group Exhibition

donaufestival 2026

@ Forum Frohner in Krems

May 1 to May 3

May 8 to May 10

https://hope4hope.at

As global crises multiply and exhaustion becomes chronic, the very notion of hope feels suspiciously kitschy, yet dangerously all the more desirable. While despair tempts us with a certain clarity, the challenge of our time lies in rediscovering the potential of hope as a driving force for change.

In the exhibition Hope4Hope, MA students from the Department of Cross-Disciplinary Strategies at the University of Applied Arts Vienna undertake a search for traces of hope across various fields, exploring the conditions under which hope manifests. Undermining the rigid logic of delimited research areas, their investigations combine a wide range of artistic strategies, scientific methods, and technological tools to reflect the richness and ambiguity of different modes of hoping. Interweaving these different methodologies, Hope4Hope generates a manifold map: hoping as collective emotion, hoping as poison, hoping as an act of resistance. Together, the works materialise a constellation of diverse perspectives, depicting “hope for hope” in a collective brainstorm.

Works by

– Yiwen Che
– Khadisha Dabayeva
– Sophie Hamann
– Sara Karimi
– Lili Kátai & Elias Schulz
– Aimée Kohn & Charlotte Kuoi
– Marlene Lethmayer
– Subham Manandhar
– Alessia Meyer
– Benjamin Palme
– Marshall Paul
– Ádám Salomvári & Laura Oyuela
– Charlie Spies
– Lea Würtenberger

Exhibition design: Arbeitsgruppe TAT
Content Note: One exhibition contribution deals with old-age dementia, two others with political violence.

correspondent trans*mutations by Momo E. Hontebeyrie,
image by © Erli Grünzweil

CDS Finalists Winter 2026
Friday, 23 January
Saturday, 24 January
11 AM to 7 PM

Exhibition of the CDS Bachelor and Master Finalists during the ‘AAA Winter 26

Where: Postsparkasse, Georg-Coch-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna, 1st Floor, Room 147 (Bachelor Exhibition) and Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz, 5th Floor, STAR3 (Master Exhibition)

Works by:

– David Gees: Heridas Abiertas, Interstellar Crossings: Embodied Topologies in Anzaldúa’s Borderlands and Preciado’s Uranus
– Momo E. Hontebeyrie: correspondent trans*mutations
– Ayu Maya Kornfeld: Creativity in the Age of Capturability: Analyzing Visual and Communication Strategies Artists Use Within Instagram’s Attention Economy
– Selina Meier: Pathologies of Health Care: Reading the Trieste Model of Mental Health Care and the Affective – Exploitation of Health Care Workers through Affect Theory
– Zahra Mirza: Voice at Intersections. Human and AI Vocal Training and the Uncertain Voice

– Pierina Erazo Patiño: Of Tigers, Lions, and Wolves: Affective Semiotics in TikTok’s Organized Crime Affiliated Digital Cultures
– Jul Schadauer: Negotiating Safety’s Fragile Workings: On “Safety” in NSFW Image Moderation // Nothing Stays Forever Waned
– Lisa-Maria Schmidt: Play Until Further Notice: Indie Game Developers Navigating (In)Visibility After The itch.io NSFW Policy Shift // Nowhere Sucks Forever Whisper
– Mete Sinan: The Architecture of Banks and the Embodiment of Financial Capitalism: A Comparative Study of the Postsparkasse and the First Savings Bank (ErsteSparcasse) on the Graben in Vienna, 19th-20th Century // Speculative Iterations of the Postsparkasse (19th and 21st Centuries)

CDS Studio © Tara Momeni

Angewandte OPEN HOUSE 2025
Tue, 4 November 2025
10 AM to 6 PM

Meet Students and Faculty from the Cross-Disciplinary-Strategies Department (CDS)

Where: CDS Studio, Georg-Coch-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna, 1st Floor

Information about the BA and MA study program by current CDS Student

Introduction to the BA and MA study program by CDS Faculty every full hour

Information about the BA and MA Entrance Exams by current CDS Students and CDS Faculty

Coffee, drinks and snacks all day.

For prospective applicants who cannot be physically present in Vienna on that date, we offer an online Info Meeting at 3 PM (CET)

Zoom Link: https://dieangewandte-at.zoom.us/j/63313468125

CDS MA Finalists

Get your spirits in a place where natural ghosts, digital echoes and voices meet across time.

Vordere Zollamtstraße 7
FLUX 2
June 25–28, 2025, 11:00–21:00

Works by:

Anna Tenzer: Weaving, Braiding, Twining a Future That Does Not Exist
Luca Hierzenberger: Will Death Tear Us Apart? Speculative Reflections on Digital Afterlife
Paula Bracker: Phosphorus as Pharmakon: Various Stories About Phosphorus, the Earth System, and the Anthropocene
Samo Zeichen: “Veliko nas je bilo / We Were Many” – Articulating Disappearance: Slovene Voices from the Archive

Large: Phosphorus as Pharmakon by Paula Bracker, photo © kunst-dokumentation.com; Above: Will Death Tear Us Apart? by Luca Hierzenberger; Below: Weaving, Braiding, Twining a Future That Does Not Exist by Anna Tenzer, photos © Jorit Aust

CDS BA Finalists

Postsparkasse
Rooms 147 + 149 (1st Floor)
June 25–28, 2025, 11:00–21:00

Works by:

Aarushi Nitharwal: “The Mountain View”
Aizat Sagymbaeva: Low Life (not feat. Future)
Alma Ruby Fjelrad Palmer: no, because you won’t believe what I heard… there’s no way… that’s what I said, but you know… well, I thought… yes that too… unbelievable… well, let’s keep that between us
Helene Hochrieser: Speculations in Hyperreality
Jaro Tom Habiger: “You press the button, we do the rest”
Joëlle Antonie Gbeassor: If We Were Vampires
Luca Ladányi: Beyond Market Metrics
Lukas Frank: Cultural Anthropophagy
Marius Balan: Designing the Red Dream
Sarah Naomi Rapatz: (Re-) Imagining Time

Large: Cultural Anthropophagy by Lukas Frank; Above: “You press the button, we do the rest” by Jaro Tom Habiger; Below: “The Mountain View” by Aarushi Nitharwal; photos © Jorit Aust

After Confusion

CDS Master Group Exhibition
OKP Ferstel Trakt
Seminar Room 8
June 25–28, 2025, 11:00–21:00

Confusion is a volatile condition of the human mind signifying disorder in an unsettling blend of chaos and uncertainty. “After Confusion” is an exhibition of various works utilising multiple disciplines to explore disorientation across temporal, spatial, cognitive, and identity constructs. Beyond seeking for resolution, the works realised by the MA students in Cross-Disciplinary Strategies invite visitors to engage with shifting, puzzling narratives and concepts.

Works by

Khadisha Dabayeva
Eva (CHE Yiwen)
Momo E. Hontebeyrie
Sara Karimi
Aimée Kohn, Charlotte Kuoi, Momo E. Hontebeyrie
Charlotte Kuoi
NAMI (Filipa Reis)
Helin Özdemir
Benjamin Palme
Ádám Salomvári
Elias Schulz, Lili Kátai
Yanina Sharipova
Charlie Spies

Visual by Helin Özdemir and Benjamin Palme

Forecast

CDS Bachelor Group Exhibition
Postsparkasse
CDS Studio
June 25–28, 2025, 11:00–21:00

The Department Cross-Disciplinary Strategies (CDS) presents “Forecast,” an exhibition showcasing Bachelor projects that critically and creatively engage with the concept of forecast. Bridging art, science, and philosophy, students present applied projects alongside reflective investigations that question the technologies, narratives, and power structures shaping our visions of heterogenous and oftentimes conflictual futures. From speculative design to data-driven scenarios, the works explore how forecasting informs action, imagination, and responsibility across disciplines engaging with global challenges.

Works by

Jana Kohlmannová
Iris Cirlan
Tara Momeni, Miriam Suranyi
Marlene Nutz
Julia Skrobisz
Louisa Petermann
Elias Altrichter
Mika Perner
Sarah Wolf
Para Gisa Anzi
Sanea Hertlein
Kiana Arshadbakhtiari
Emma Gioia Enzi with Michael Schulte, Anisha Kosgahakumbura, Agatha Rosa, Karolina Trembecka, Cezanne Reindl-Schweighofer

Visual by Sanea Hertlein

Tuesday I Became Clouds

Group Exhibition
Postsparkasse
Seminar Room 34
June 25–28, 2025, 11:00–21:00

The exhibition shows artworks and series of visual essays that were developed as part of the course “Tuesday I Became Clouds” at the Department of Cross-Disciplinary Strategies in the winter semester 2024 / 2025. In exploring the annual theme of “Forecast”, our gaze wandered upwards. We were interested in the shape of things to come, specifically the everchanging shapes of clouds. We looked at the sky and various artistic and scientific ways of image making of clouds. We worked on actual reproductions of artworks and scientific instruments that looked at the clouds . In this way, we explored the potential of reproduction as an artistic strategy in interdisciplinary contexts – a way of seeing, understanding, producing and sharing knowledge.

Works by

Iris Cirlan
Marlene Nutz
Diletta Caregnato, Iris Cirlan
Miriam S. Surányi
Valentina Pickering Contreras
Kabel Cayaban
Lili Kátai

with Adnan Balcinovic

Clouds II, by Valentina Pickering Contreras

Staying in Touch

Performance
OKP-Ferstel-Trakt
Seminarraum 8
June 25, 2025, 20:00
June 26, 2025, 19:00
June 27, 2025, 18:00

This performance addresses and tries to digest the state of dementia. The two directors’ personal experiences are connected to extensions from psychology, literature theory, philosophy, and care work. It is a dialogue to accompany a gradually fading memory and its occasional comeback. The palliative turn’s body is still warm, and we hold its hand.

Performance by

Lili Kátai and Elias Schulz

Visual by Lili Kátai and Elias Schulz

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