TransArts

BA semester presentations winter‘25/26 - first year bachelor‘s

We congratulate our first year bachelor‘s for finishing their first semester and producing these great works!

slide 1,2 Maximilian Steinacker, Beten oder Frittieren?, 2025 ()

slide 3,4 Branko Bekavac, Anselm Wieland, untitled, 2026 ()

slide 5,6 Anastasiia Fashchevska, Refraction Field, 2025 ()

For this semesters second excursion, the class went to Venice to see this year‘s art Biennial ().

Together with Professors Roswitha Schuller () and Roman Pfeffer () the class spent a couple of days in Venice in between arts, discourse and socializing.
Next to visits to the Giardini and the Arsenale, the class had the chance to visit other locations around the city, such as the national pavilions, Fondazione Prada () and Fondazione In Between Art and Film (). On the last day, the students also got a tour of the exhibition at OCEAN Space ().

Tolia Curriculum - TransArts

⏳ Thursday, 28th of may 19h
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Together with curators Leon Hösl (.hoesl_) and Magdalena Stöger (), students from the TransArts class invite to a collective evening of readings, visual and material sources and an exploration of physical and mental interiors. A fragment of GIRL by Marietta Mavrokordatu becomes a common starting point, circling the impossibility to inhabit spaces of our childhood.

With contributions by: Frederike Gordillo (), Jordi Albers (), Juli Winterstein (.ony__), Kimiya Rastgou Moghadam (), Lea Liebl (), lutzz bog-lárk. (), Michael Robert Jiménez (), Momoko Berthold (), Natallia Yelavik, Noa Schaub, Pieter Zomereijk (), RAQVIA (), Yoav Ben-Moshe (.dewho)

In the framework of the Tolia Curriculum as part of the exhibition „Figure of the child“ by Tolia Astakhishvili ().
The event will be held in english and german.

In the framework of the exhibition „Element: Metal“ at , including positions from seven of our students, the first excursion of this semester lead to Schloss Hollenegg in styria.

For the first stop of the excursion, our students visited Absteige zur Bärtigen Therese (), Austria’s first q***r Hotel 1000 meters above see level. There they got an input about their program and how it works to combine hotel, restaurant and a space for arts and culture as a q***r space in the countryside.

After a joined lunch at Absteige zur Bärtigen Therese, our students were given a tour of Schloss Hollenegg‘s premises and the current Exhibition „Element: Metal“. Curated by Alice Stori Liechtenstein (), the exhibition combines positions from different designers and contemporary artists, who approached the topic of metal in their very own and diverse ways.

Element: Metal

Exhibition views from the show „Element: Metal“ at Schloss Hollenegg (), curated by Alice Stori Liechtenstein ().

The exhibition „Element: Metal“ at Schloss Hollenegg combines positions from 18 designers and contemporary artists, including 7 students from the TransArts class. Coming from different starting points, disciplines and media, all positions form their very own approach towards the element metal. Combining conceptual thoughts, techniques and starting from a site specific confrontation with the castle and it’s history, the works mirror the diversity of the exhibited artists and the element metal.

slide 1 Jordi Albers, You Can’t Pour From an Empty Cup, 2026

slide 2 Elena Riener, Still At Work, 2026

slide 3 Lea Liebl, 46°48’51.7“N 15°12’44.7“E I 104 Minuten, 2026

slide 4 Klemens Hegen, Mind The Gap, 2026

slide 5 Luise Lutz & Michel Strümpfe, -Um Etwas-, 2026

slide 6 Lorenzo Zerbini, An Echo is The Whisper of an Absence, 2026

Special thanks to Barbis Ruder () for the project lead. Further thanks to Judith Fegerl ()and for supporting the production of the works.

Photos by Julius Hirtzberger ()

Tuesday lectures recap, first half of summer ‘26

Starting off the summer semester ‘26, the artist duo Kennedy & Swan visited the class for a lecture and a workshop, following on their practice and working with the topic of AI in arts.
For thirteen years, the duo has been transforming reality into digital spheres. What initially emerges as hand-built sculptures, figures, spaces and landscapes finds its way into animated 3D scans: the basis for their VR experiences, films and apps.
„kennedy+swan“ (founded in 2013) comprises the works of artists Bianca Kennedy and Swan Collective. In their collaboration, they explore the future of non-human intelligence and its impact on plants, animals, machines and humans.
(photo: exhibition view The Red Queen effect, Schering Stiftung 2015)

Drawing on 25 Years of collaborative practice, Matthias Bildstein redefines social sculpture as a practice of administrative intervention. By „remixing“ institutional frameworks from DIY culture to institutional systems, he demonstrates how statutes, community-building and organizational „care“ function as raw sculpture materials.
Additional to the lecture, Matthias Bildstein will also develop a part of the class‘ contribution to this years edition of Angewandte Festival together with a group of students.bildstein (photo: Darko Todorovic)

Finishing off the first half of the semester, Aaron Samar Bhamra and Monika Georgieva, founders of LAURENZ visited the class to share their project and their knowledge on off-spaces. The projects they realize under LAURENZ are often concerned with expanding the traditional understanding of exhibition-making and drawing inspiration from different disciplines. By focusing on a more discursive approach, LAURENZ seeks to create new and nurture existing relationships within the cultural field.space (photo: Aaron Amar Bhamra)

Curation and organization: Rowsitha Schuller () with the support of Roman Pfeffer (), Stephan Hilge, Barbis Ruder () and Anja Werkl

ELEMENT: METALL

Sieben Studierende der Abteilung TransArts sind in der Gruppenausstellung ELEMENT: METALL im Schloss Hollenegg for Design vertreten – in einer erstmaligen Kooperation zwischen Schloss Hollenegg und der Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien.

Die Arbeiten von Jordi Albers, Klemens Hegen, Lea Liebl, Elena Riener, Luise Lutz, Michel Strümpf und Lorenzo Zerbini sind ortsspezifische Positionen, entwickelt im Dialog mit den historischen Räumen von Schloss Hollenegg.

TransArts-Exkursion am Di. 12.Mai
Mit dem Bus zur Ausstellung, davor Lunch-Stopp beim einzigen q***ren Hotel Österreichs, der „Absteige zur bärtigen Therese“.

📅 12.05.2026 - Treffpunkt 8:00 Uhr · Abfahrt 8:15 Wien - Oskar-Kokoschka Platz
🔗 Restplätze & Anmeldung: Link in Bio

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Seven students from the TransArts Department are taking part in the group exhibition ELEMENT: METALL at Schloss Hollenegg for Design – as part of a first-time collaboration between Schloss Hollenegg and the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

The works by Jordi Albers, Klemens Hegen, Lea Liebl, Elena Riener, Luise Lutz, Michel Strümpf and Lorenzo Zerbini are site-specific positions developed in dialogue with the historical rooms of Schloss Hollenegg.

TransArts excursion on Tue, 12 May 2026
We will travel by bus to the exhibition, with a lunch stop beforehand at Austria’s only q***r hotel, “Absteige zur bärtigen Therese”.

📅 12 May 2026 – meeting 8:00, departure 8:15, Vienna – Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz
🔗 Remaining seats & registration: Link in Bio



artists:

With support by:

MA semester presentations winter ‘25/26

With guest juror Pia Wamsler () from

slide 1,2 Trin Alt, Unboxing, 2026 ()

slide 3,4 Yoav Ben Moshe, Smalltown, 2025 (.dewho)

slide 5,6 Verena Frauenlob, Den Nabel Entstören - Dedisrupting the Navel, 2025 (.verena)

slide 7,8 lutzz bog-lárka, —OXiTociN-BeAcH—, 2036 ()

MA semester presentations winter‘25/26

With guest juror Pia Wamsler () from DAS WEISSE HAUS

slide 1,2 Ilse Kind, Counting Sheep, 2026 (Ilse Kind)

slide 3,4 Momoko Berthold, The Weight of This World, 2026 (Momoko 桃子)

slide 5,6 Daniil Sukhov, First Look into the Suitcase Exhibition 2021 (Kazan, Russia), 2026 ()

slide 7,8 Jurij Hartman, Matisse Without the Colors, 2025 (Jurij Hartman)

die Angewandte

Yuqi Zhou BA graduation winter‘26

„REAL“
installation
2026

The hand stirring in a popcorn machine – a mundane action for humans, yet an utterly incomprehensible scene for AI: complex occlusions, chaotic textures, repetitive yet semantically void motions, and ambiguous causality. It must be guessed again, in nearly every frame whether this is indeed a hand.
The more fundamental and repetitive the action, the more it represents humanity’s stable, perceptual structure of the world.
If we knew the ground would be soft, we might touch with light, attempting to comprehend the AI’s vision – fuzzy probabilities, fractured time, causeless space.

Thesis supervision: Roman Pfeffer (), Patricia Grzonka

Photos: Vincent Forstenlechner