Master's projects | winter semester 2025/26

The Art & Science master's projects of the winter semester 2025/26 are being exhibited under the umbrella of AAA on 23 and 24 January 2026, 11:00-19:00.

The examinations are being held publicly, two days before on 21 January 2026, at the times and locations listed below.

09:00 | Dunia Sahir | Found in Translation

Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7, (4. OG) B11-B12

Found in Translation gathers work from my recent research in structural biology, sculpture, history, philosophy of science, and media theory. I trace common inceptions and present entanglements of these fields by focusing on morphology in scientific model-making. Models make the invisible tangible through several layers of abstraction and scaling. They act in a context of reference points which generates both generalisation and accessibility. While models are commonly studied through their representational value, I am far more interested in their operationality and worldbuilding potential.

Three elements compose this cosmology: wax sculptures, Xray print and a video work within a camera obscura setting. The installation brings digital elements into physical form, while the videowork functions as context, background and alternate world. We follow a fictional candid relationship between Anna Morandi, 18th century anatomist, and her wax sculpture, Chantal, both writing intimate letters in search for a common language to breach their material discontinuities. 

09:30 | Camille Belmin | Metabolic Girl 

Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2, EG, Lichthof B

2026, Lecture performance and installation

How to grasp – and feel – the global earth system in a viscous, process-filled pot? Just like a Girl, a SCOBY (Symbiotic Culture of Bacteria and Yeast) has a body and a smooth skin. But it is not subject to desire, rather disgust. May a Girl help you find admiration in this wet and sour body? May they help you see the biosphere in this gloopy mixture and find the connection between that molecule of carbon dioxide you just breathed out and capitalismfueled climatic changes?

In times of ecological collapse, Dr. Camille and her SCOBYs will use the Ecoslay methodology to investiguate how to reinvent environmental science communication through the seductive yet ambiguous figure of the Girl.

Co-supervisors: Lucie Strecker, Clemens Apprich
camillebelmin.github.io

10:00 | Sabrina Rosina Bühn | Roadkil(l)n   

Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2, EG, Lichthof B & weitere Orte

2025-26, Keramik Skulpturen installiert im privat/öffentlichen Raum

Artistic practice against death-blindness:
Live your life while noticing the Roadkill by untraining your visual filter for those critters:
The run over by cars. The trampled upon. The stuck in a fence to die.
Pause your errands and witness them for a moment. Then pick them up and take care of them. Store them in a freezer in a body bag until the funeral is prepared. Create an urn for them. Cremate them in it. Make their ashes the glaze for the urn. Each body now a sculpture to remain in the visible world. To softly remind us every time we dust the shelve with the weird scultpure urn on it, that we cared and will continue to do so to. Until no more Roadkill shall be.

How to visit this work:
Each Roadkil(l)n has a card. Choose one (or several) and follow its location info. All urns are located within the Angewandte. Sometimes you will have to knock on a door. Don’t be shy, don’t look away.
www.sabrinarosina.com / @sabrina.rosina

10:30 | Marton Zalka | Anaesthetics.  

Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2, EG, Lichthof B

2026, Interactive installation

Degradation, decay and death are thoughts that are hard to navigate in our everyday life, in the world of harsh objective sciences. Thus we create systems and surfaces that deter us from our own mortality salience, into constant growth as an anxiety buffer.

The thesis Anasthetics dissects the global north’s predominant fascination with smooth and optimised aesthetics, an approach that is a result of the secular dread of modernity. In times of accelerated change and masked despair we might find an unexpected calm in the worn and the raw.

The scene is a medical waiting room, a place where vulnerability and hope puts us into a state of suspense. While the never-thought-of lingers and pushes us into a numbing but safe uncertainty, a game in the corner invites us for a minute to regress and reflect on our personal and collective agency towards identity and matter. As neither is free of change.  

11:15 | Charlotte Bastam | After all, this is just another beginning

Alte Postsparkasse/Georg-Coch-Platz 2, Angewandte Performance Lab (Hochparterre)

2026, Durational Performance

What do we do with beginnings once everything has become relational?
In contemporary discourse, where philosophical and artistic thought is often shaped by relational ontologies, the performance project After all, this is just another beginning asks what has actually become of beginnings. Are beginnings everywhere because new contingencies constantly arise? Or have they disappeared because everything co-emerges from pre-existing relations? And yet we mark beginnings socially: we celebrate them, we time them, perhaps we even fear them.

After all, this is just another beginning is a durational performance exploring this dilemma. In doing so, it uncovers the force, risks, possibilities, and responsibilities that arise when we don't discard beginnings but keep thinking-through them relationally.

11:45 | Martina Moro | Gutterspace Adeline

Alte Postsparkasse/Georg-Coch-Platz 2, SR 31 (1st. Floor)

2026, Audiovisual performance

Gutterspace is a room; Adeline is an instrument. Playing for the in-between of architecture, culture, identity, and reason. Walls echo fiction, liminality, memory and bass. My salute to the PSK (Österreichische Postsparkasse) will be resonant.

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All students have been supervised by Univ.-Prof. Virgil Widrich, unless otherwise stated.

Members of the Jury:
Ass. Prof. Dr.phil. Monika Halkort
Univ.-Prof. Oliver Kartak
Sen.Art. Mag.art. Sascha Alexandra Zaitseva
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Isabel Kranz 
Univ.-Prof. Virgil Widrich (Chair)