2026

[Reverberated]

[REVERBERATED]
Following the Movement of Memory

Opening: Tuesday, 09 June 2026, 18:00
Welcome by Rector Ulrike Kuch,
Martin Reinhart, Virgil Widrich (Art & Science),
and participating artists
Performance Leah Giertz (19:30)
Performance Laura Chalabi
Audio performance by Leonard Otterbein (20:15)

Exhibition running: 10 June 2026 – 10 July 2026
at AIL – Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab
Georg-Coch-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna
Opening hours: Mon-Fri: 11:00-18:00

Full Exhibition Programme, Workshops and Performance times:
AIL – Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab [Reverberated]

Memory is not a stable archive of the past. Rather, it unfolds as a dynamic process in which traces are continuously reshaped by perception, narration, and material conditions.

This year’s exhibition, [REVERBERATED], explores memory through the metaphor of reverberation — the persistence and reflection of sound across surfaces, spaces, and bodies. Just as echoes continue to resonate long after their source has disappeared, memories move through environments, technologies, landscapes, and human experience in unstable and transformative ways.

Bringing together artists from diverse artistic and scientific backgrounds, the exhibition presents installations, performances, audio works, research-based practices, and speculative narratives that engage with ecological traces, artificial intelligence, storytelling, perception, and material archives. Across the historic spaces of the former Kassenhalle, the works resonate with one another and invite visitors to experience memory not as something fixed, but as something continuously produced through interaction and transformation.

With contributions by:
Agustina Belén Agüero, Lobna Awidat, Phin Anibal, Rimon Alyagon Darr, Ronnie Danaher, Tatiana Del Valle, Hasti Ghasedi, Leah Barbara Mukui Giertz, Hanna Hofmann, Tal Horesh, Mauritius Itzinger, Laura Isselhorst, Dina Karaman, Moritz Klarer, Anna Buchner, Leonard Otterbein, David Ristić, Rajarshi Sarkar, Agnes Schyberg, Aryan Shahabian, Majedeh Shahvelayati, Mehrta Shirzadian, Pauline Simon, Laura Chalabi and People of Soil

Exhibition Programme:

10 June 2026 OPENING 18:00
Welcome by Rector Ulrike Kuch,, Elisabeth Falkensteiner (AIL), Martin Reinhart (Art & Science) and participating artists
Performance Leah Giertz (19:30)
Performance Laura Chalabi
Audio performance by Leonard Otterbein (20:15)

11 June 2026
17:00 Guided Tour

16 June 2026
18:00 Wonder Tables – Memory, Archives, and Latent Traces. Conversations on Memory I

18 June 2026
15:00 Workshop „Dream Screen“ by Dina Karaman
For registration, write to (please state the name of the workshop in the e-mail subject): artscience.exhibition@uni-ak.ac.at
17:00 Guided Tour

24 June 2026
18:00 Wonder Tables – Memory, Archives, and Latent Traces. Conversations on Memory II

25 June 2026
15:00 Guided Tour

16:30 Reading Group „Practices of Memory / Praktiken der Erinnerung” organized by Tal Horesh

2 July 2026 (extended opening hours 11:00–21:00)
15:00 Workshop „Lumen Prints: Photographing with the Sun” by Agustina Belén Agüero
For registration, write to (please state the name of the workshop in the e-mail subject): artscience.exhibition@uni-ak.ac.at
17:00 Guided Tour