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Three days, countless perspectives! Artists, researchers, and creatives from all disciplines joined workshops, focus sessions, and expert insights – covering artistic empowerment, professional practice, self-employment, and taxes. Organized by Support Art and Research, Summer School 2025 at the Angewandte annex Rustenschacher Allee offered inspiring exchanges, new ideas, and valuable connections. Thank you to everyone who participated!

Das Institut für Sprachkunst freut sich über neue Erfolge: Die Shortlist-Nominierung von Fiona Sironic zum Deutschen Buchpreis 2025, die Nominierung von Nea Schmidt zum Open Mike Berlin, sowie neueste Veröffentlichungen von Absolvent*innen. Außerdem sind zwei Absolvent*innen des Masters für die Longlist zum Debütpreis des Österreichischen Buchpreis 2025 nominiert.

Das Stück am Musiktheater an der Wien unter der Regie von Nikolaus Habjan wurde mit dem österreichischen Musiktheater Preis in der Kategorie Beste Gesamtproduktion für junges Publikum ausgezeichnet. Univ.Lect.Mag.Jakob Brossmann (Lehrender in der Abteilung Bühnen- und Filmgestaltung ) ist für das Bühnenbild verantwortlich (künstlerische Mitarbeit Marlene Lübke-Ahrens) - Studierende jener Klasse haben den Probenprozess von der Probebühne bis zur GP mitbegleitet.

From 11 to 14 September, the University of Applied Arts Vienna presented works from the TransArts department at Vienna Contemporary 2025 under the title You dissolve / It’s just another way you exist. Katharina Birkmann, Maja Bojanić and Mariia Mihdieieva, three graduates from last summer semester, are showing works that thematically explore the unstable space between presence and absence, memory and erasure, materiality and transformation. 

Congratulations to [Applied] Foreign Affairs at the Institute of Architecture, University of Applied Arts Vienna, for being selected to participate in the 14th São Paulo International Architecture Biennale, Architectures for an Overheated Planet, running from September 18 to October 19, 2025.

Congratulations to Baerbel Mueller and Daniil Zhiltsov of [Applied] Foreign Affairs at the Institute of Architecture, University of Applied Arts Vienna, who—together with the University for Development Studies in Tamale, Ghana—have been awarded Africa-UniNet funding for their research project Tamale’s Urban Resilience (TUR). The project will run from December 2025 to November 2027.

By establishing a new Doctoral Centre, the University of Applied Arts Vienna is taking another step towards raising the profile and visibility of its research-driven development in art and science. While individual programmes in scientific, artistic and artistic-scientific doctorates have been developed in recent years, the new organisational structure will consolidate and further integrate them.

The University of Applied Arts Vienna is delighted that several outstanding artists have been honored with the prestigious Outstanding Artist Award 2025 from the Federal Ministry for Housing, Arts, Culture, Media, and Sport (BMWKMS). Andreas Duscha wins in the category of artistic photography, Katrin Hornek in the category of media art, Liesl Raff receives the award in the field of fine arts, and Petra Zimmermann was honored in the category of experimental fashion design (jewelry art).