Angewandte Festival 2025

From June 25 to 28, the University of Applied Arts Vienna will present a wide range of artistic and scientific projects, including graduation projects and theses. A multidisciplinary program accompanies the exhibitions, demonstrating how the Angewandte generates impulses for society across disciplinary boundaries. The exhibitions are the heart of the festival—in the department’s rooms, students present their works, showcasing what they have lived, thought, created, and tried out over the course of the year. The best way to visit them is to stroll through the university buildings or take part in the guided tours that start at the infopoint at Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz if not stated otherwise. The activities of the festival extend outward, reclaiming the square in front of the Angewandte. The street is closed to traffic, once again highlighting the importance of public spaces in the city; as zones of freedom, moments of calm, and consumption-free places that resist constant movement. The festival also resonates inward, bringing together members of a university for the arts, and demonstrates how deeply the Angewandte radiates into the city; why it holds international relevance and is perceived as a significant institution for education in art, design, architecture as well as interdisciplinary theory and practice. 

This year's visual concept announcing the exciting program hint at the intense efforts happening "behind the scenes"—right up to the very last minute before the opening. Those who visit the festival gather at Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz, where Monuments of the Future are being erected—monuments that point to the urgencies of our present and evoke a future that we are both speculatively and inevitably approaching. These monuments—critical and humorous at the same time—appeal to our shared sense of responsibility and address us as a society that produces futures every single day. As a university, the Angewandte is always (co-)responsible for shaping futures—futures that we understand as productive alternatives, possibilities, and spaces for thought.

The graphic design by students of the Department of Communication Design also points to the invisible work required to make it all happen. The Department of Design Investigations conceived and implemented the Monuments of the Future, and we warmly invite everyone to follow the themes that have materialised here: not to renounce the future, but to shape it. A university of the arts provides all the essential conditions to do so.

Find all information about the exhibitions and the program online at angewandtefestival.at

Exhibitions in the main university buildings of the departments of the Angewandte
Wednesday, June 25 to Saturday, June 28, daily from 11am to 9pm 

Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna
Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7, 1030 Vienna
Georg-Coch-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna (Former Postal Savings Bank)

Exhibitions in the city
Various exhibitions are located at the annex locations of the university (Paulusplatz, University Gallery at Heiligenkreuzerhof) and other locations spread in different districts of the city: 1, 3, 7, 20

Program
Book / Discourse / Film / Game / Guided Tour / Intervention / Reading / Performance / Sound / “Werkstätten” (Workshops) / Workshop

‘AAA Summer 25 (Angewandte final projects)
The majority of the final projects are exhibited in the university buildings as part of the festival. Since winter semester 21/22 the final projects of Angewandte are presented digitally at aaa.dieangewandte.at—the website grows with each semester. 

For further information or questions about the Angewandte Festival 2025 please feel free to get in touch: angewandte.festival@uni-ak.ac.at.