Master projects | winter semester 2024/25

The Master Exams will take place on 22 January 2025 at Angewandte premises in 1010 Vienna. This semester, we have five graduating students who will present their work to the Jury from 9:00 am onwards. The works of all graduates of Angewandte will be exhibited at the AAA-Exhibition which is open on 24 and 25 January 2025. Details below.

You are cordially invited to attend the exam as well as the exhibition afterwards.


09:00 | Peter Reischl | Die Universität für angewandte Kunst retten. 

2024/25, Intervention
Location: Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7, Atrium
Exhibition open: 22-25 January, 2025, during University opening hours

Künstlerische Intervention und Organisationsentwicklung?
(Wie) passen diese beiden Felder zusammen? Welche Entwicklungsansätze ergeben sich aus einem ästhetisch, phänomenologisch und systemtheoretisch geprägten Blick auf Mensch und Organisation? Diesen Fragen geht das angewandte Diplomprojekt nach und setzt sich dabei das Ziel, die Universität für angewandte Kunst zu retten.
Laufende Dokumentation auf 23971z.com
peterreischl.com
@conditio.humana


09:30 | Sophie Olivia Taleja Schmidt* | Die Wartung_ein kapitalistisches Produkt.

2024, Rauminstallation, Skulptur
Location: Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7, Atrium

Exhibition open: 22-25 January, 2025, during University opening hours

Wir warten ständig und überall
auf das Klingeln des Weckers
auf das Kochen das Nudelwassers
auf die 100% der Handybatterie
und auf Weihnachten.

Räume, die explizit fürs Warten bestimmt sind, zeichnen sich durch eine besondere Raumtypologie aus. Warteräume sind Vergegenwärtigungen
von politischen und sozioökonomischen Auswirkungen kapitalistischer Machtstrukturen auf die Gesellschaft. Zwischen Unabhängigkeit und Kontrolle staut sich die Erwartung
in der Warteschlange. Wer wird von der eigenen Ungeduld begraben und wer sieht im Warten einen Moment der Freizeit? Es ist ein Wettlauf zwischen der eigenen Neugierde und dem nächsten Termin. Die Erwartung steigt. Was erwarten Sie hier?
https://sophieotschmidt.com

 
10:00 | Toqa Eissa | The Body as an Archive: A Journey Through the Marks and Memories We Bear.

2024,
Location: Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7, Library 5th floor | Sonderlesesaal/Special collection room |
Dates for display: 22-29 January 2025, 11:00–15:00, during Library opening hours

 

A scar, a crease, a subtle asymmetry—marks left behind by the body’s ongoing dialogue with the world. These traces, silent yet persistent, narrate stories of adaptation, routine, and resilience. The body collects them without permission, much like an archive noting that records interactions with time, space, and circumstance. Imprints form through movement, habit, and the passage of time, layering history onto skin and bone. These marks are neither deliberate nor decorative, yet they archive entire lives. They document the contours of existence, shaped not by grand gestures but by repetition, memory, and the quiet weight of belonging to a body that remembers even when we forget.
toqaeissa.com


10:30 | Leo Olson-Ury | 133 Yarmulkes: An Exploration of the Viennese Jewish Experience

2024, Book
Location: Georg-Coch-Platz 2, Art&Science Seminar Room (044, HP)
Dates for display: 22-25 January 2025, 11:00–19:00

133 Yarmulkes is an illustrated book for readers ages 10-14 that explores the joys and hardships of Viennese Jewish life through the perspective of an 11-year-old Jewish narrator named Davi. Davi’s best friend Mir is preparing to have the first B’nai Mitzvah in a decade at a small synagogue in Vienna. In order to make Mir's B’nai Mitzvah extra memorable, Davi attempts to help Mir crochet 133 yarmulkes for the event. Throughout this project, Davi and Mir discover new aspects of the Viennese Jewish experience that are not always easy to process.

Image Caption:
An illustration from 133 Yarmulkes, page 123

11:00 | Barbara Böröcz | Cultura Animi

2024/25, Visual-Narrative Archive
Location: Georg-Coch-Platz 2, Art&Science Office (042, HP)
Dates for display: 24+25 January 2025, 11:00–19:00

The visual language of the Hungarian countryside has shaped how I see beauty and the virtue surrounding it has shaped the person I have become. In order to understand the roots of my interest in bottom-up initiatives and peripheral communities, I went back to a place where art started out for me: in the dusty conversations, intriguing anecdotes and the vibrant presence of the people of Cered and the community around the ArtColony Cered.

Cultivation of the soul is the spirit I grew up with. I learned to create ‘off-placed’ realities, layers in which I can thrive freely without preformulated social constraints. In reflection of this work, the term ‘ANIMI’ refers to the immaterial quality of conceptual art practices and their community-building function.

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All students are supervised by Univ.-Prof. Virgil Widrich unless otherwise stated.
*Sophie Schmidt is supervised by Univ.-Prof. Mag.phil. Eva Maria-Stadler

The Jury consists of the following members:
Univ.-Prof. Julienne Lorz
Univ.-Prof. Mag.phil. Eva Maria-Stadler
a.o.Univ.-Prof. i.R. Dr.phil. Ernst Strouhal
Univ.-Prof. Virgil Widrich (Chair)