Showcase of artistic projects by alumni of the University of Applied Arts Vienna
In its third edition, AIL Ping-Pong gathers eight Angewandte graduates around a single, loaded word: collapse.
Presented in the small vitrine of the Otto Wagner Postsparkasse, their works explore the term from multiple angles — as rupture and transformation, as systemic failure and personal unraveling, as ending and as opening.
Collapse can describe the fall of ecological, economic, or political structures.
It can speak to bodies, relationships, or identities under pressure.
It raises questions:
How do we hold the tension between resistance and surrender? What forms of care, adaptation,
or creativity can grow from breakdown?
Intervention at Counter 13 with Francesca Aldegani, Rosa Andraschek, Sebastian Grande, Anne Glassner, Theresa Hattinger, Matthias Kendler, Merve Sahin, Tsai-Ju Wu.
AIL – Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab
Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab is a space and a platform for projects at the intersection of art, science and artistic research. Founded in 2014 by the University of Applied Arts Vienna as an initiative by Gerald Bast, it was launched to enable exchange among different disciplines and to open up art and artistic research. AIL is dedicated to facilitating dialogue between all visitors and participants as well as various fields of knowledge and connects partners from the fields of science, arts, design, research with the resources of the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
AIL Ping-Pong #3: Collapse
20 Mar 2026 - 31 Jul 2026
Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab
Georg-Coch-Platz 2, 1010 Wien, Österreich
©Merve Sahin
