ONGOING & UPCOMING:
10–13 September 2026, 12:00–19:00
OPEN CIRCLES & SHAKEN GROUNDS @ ASTORIA ART SHOW
As part of the Astoria Artshow, the University of Applied Arts Vienna presents current approaches to artistic research with Shaken Grounds: Hell is Empty (2026), a three-channel video installation by the Shaken Grounds Collective. The work brings together artistic research across volcanic landscapes in southern Italy, the retreating Pasterze glacier in Austria, Icelandic environments, earthquake monitoring rooms and performative field research. Moving between geological, somatic and philosophical registers, it explores how environmental instability registers in perception and the body, and how human action and responsibility become entangled with increasingly shaken grounds. The installation is accompanied by Open Circles – Encounters on Sustainable Ecologies of Artistic Research, moderated by Alexander Damianisch from the Department of Support Art and Research at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. The encounter brings artistic research projects from the Angewandte into dialogue through practices, speakers and artifacts, asking what artistic practice and reflection can make newly possible in relation to ecological, technological and societal conditions. The exhibition takes place from 10–13 September 2026, 12–19, with the Open Circle on 11 September, 16–17:30, at the Astoria Garage, Trautsongasse 4, 1080 Vienna.
3–6 September 2026
SHAKEN GROUNDS: AT THE EDGE OF FORM
@ MAC – MUSEO D’ARTE CONTEMPORANEA, GIBELLINA – ITALIAN CAPITAL OF CONTEMPORARY ART 2026, SICILY
Shaken Grounds: At the Edge of Form is a four-day programme of film, performance, symposium and artistic interventions exploring seismic landscapes as spaces of ecological, cultural and philosophical inquiry. Bringing together artists, researchers, writers, philosophers, geophysicists and local communities, the event investigates how artistic practice can engage with earthquakes and other forms of planetary and societal transformation.
The programme is part of the international Creative Europe research project Shaken Grounds – Art as Seismography, developed by the Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb (MSU), the University of Applied Arts Vienna, the Iceland University of the Arts and the Volcanic Attitude Festival. It includes the premiere of the new film Shaken Grounds, Shifting Skies, the symposium At the Edge of Form, site-specific interventions, lecture performances and a closing film programme. Please see full programme here.
4 June – 15 November 2026
PAPER UNLIMITED_02 – ERICH GRABNER GRAPHIC PRIZE 2026, KREMS
On 3 June at 6 pm, the four recipients of the 2026 Erich Grabner Prize will be officially announced and honoured. Following the award ceremony, the exhibition paper unlimited_02 will open at museumkrems, in the Dominican Church in Krems. The exhibition presents 52 artistic positions selected by a distinguished international jury, offering a comprehensive overview of the diversity of contemporary graphic art in Austria. With works by Gregor Belancic Pirker, Bosko, Julia Bugram, Sevda Chkoutova, Elisabeth Czihak, Sophie Dvorák, David Eisl, Tom Eller, Heribert Friedl, Micha Payer + Martin Gabriel, Nikolaus Gansterer, Simon Goritschnig, Barbara Höller, Michael Höpfner, Maureen Kägi, Antonia Kasik, Parsa Khalili, Karl-Heinz Klopf, Birgit Knoechl, Isabella Kohlhuber, Eric Kressnig, Elena Kristofori, Miriam Laussegger, Henriette Leinfellner, Xenia Lesniewski, Lucja Radwan, Michail Michailov, Gabi Mitterer, Assunta Abdel Azim Mohamed, Laurenz Nährer, Simona Obholzer, Bettina Paschke, Maria Peters, Wendelin Pressl, Werner Reiterer, Katharina Rosenbichler, Barbis Ruder, Katharina Sauermann, Judith Saupper, Wilhelm Scheruebl, Julia Schulz, Fabian Seiz, Sigrid Sekira, Krasimira Stikar, Viktoria Tremmel, Desislava Unger, Kay Walkowiak, Andreas Werner, Hannah Winkelbauer, Eva Yurkova, Xian Zheng, Stefan Zsaitsits.