EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN
As part of this year’s VIENNA ART WEEK, the University of Applied Arts Vienna is presenting an exhibition programme comprising two events at its location on Paulusplatz in the 3rd district: Students from the departments of Site Specific Art and Sculpture and Space have been working there together with various groups of people from the ‘lost open space’ of St. Marx to explore the theme of temporary uses and the issues surrounding them – focusing on the lost spaces in this city, the search for new ones, and what needs to change now.
WHY NOT THIS SPACE? A theatre that acts properly.
“Much was promised to us, and much was never delivered. A romantic comedy turned into a horror film, a pirate became a tennis player, and temporary uses turned into abstract theatre. Nevertheless, a group of young and not-so-young urban developers from below sets out once again to reclaim what was taken from them.
But what is that sound coming from behind the abandoned bowling alley?”
Meetingpoint: Geiselbergstraße, 1100 Wien, in front of the S-Bahn Station
Exhibition opening:
05.11.2026, 18:00
Exhibition space, Paulusplatz 5, 1030 Vienna
Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien
The University of Applied Arts Vienna is committed to an open society, creates intellectual, creative freedom and ensures a discourse that is as critical as it is empathetic. Together with teachers and researchers, students and graduates, employees and partners, the University of Applied Arts develops artistic and radical solutions for shaping and managing technological, media and social change.
Performance: „WHY NOT THIS SPACE? A theatre that acts properly.“
12 Nov 2026/16:00-18:00H
Treffpunkt: Geiselbergstraße, 1100 Wien, vor der S-Bahn Station
Geiselbergstraße 1100, Wien, Österreich
Bildcredit: Florian Berger
