ONGOING & UPCOMING:
10 October 2026 – 6 January 2027
DIE MISCH-MASCH-MASCHINE ODER IM ATOMVULKAN
An exhibition by Piju Gansterer–Carroll and Nikolaus Gansterer
Piju is six years old and has been drawing since his earliest years. His drawings are populated by figures, machines, animals, labyrinths, letters and forms that have no name yet. Some tell stories, others explain how things work. Piju and his dad, often draw together. They simply start, continue, draw over each other’s marks and respond to one another. Two ways of seeing and drawing the world meet and mingle, creating something new. Humour and surprise are part of the process, as is a logic of its own that unfolds through drawing. In the public exhibition space Dialogfenster, the display brings together mainly Piju’s drawings alongside many works made collaboratively. The sheets hang closely together, without any fixed order. Some were made in just a few minutes, while others have been worked on again and again. They hold traces of very different moments in life The exhibition keeps growing: drawing will continue until the midissage on 20 November 2026, and beyond. Those who pass by regularly will see something different each time. Die MischMaschMaschine oder im Atomvulkan is about inventing and mixing things up, and about the resonances that emerge when two worlds of drawing meet. Piju Gansterer–Carroll and Nikolaus Gansterer are son and father, and have been drawing together since Piju could hold a pencil. Piju invents entire universes. Nikolaus is an artist and researcher whose work explores signs, materials, languages and language games, including those of Ludwig Wittgenstein. His work has been presented internationally through exhibitions, performances and projects, and he teaches at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Midissage: Friday, 20 November 2026, from 4 pm. Introductory words by Viola Rühse. Children and adults alike are warmly invited! Dialogfenster, Favoritenstraße 17, 1040 Vienna. Open to the public around the clock.
5–7 November 2026
PRACTICE(≈)SYMPOSIUM 2026: AND THEN IT GOT WINGS
The Angewandte Performance Lab (APL) invites artists and practitioners to And Then It Got Wings, a practice symposium bringing together performance, choreography, visual arts, sound, research and social practice. Through workshops, presentations, conversations and collective experiments, the symposium explores shared artistic practices, methods and unexpected forms of collaboration. Featuring contributions by artists and researchers including Sonja Bäumel, Thomas Feuerstein, Jens Hauser, Jeroen Peeters, Charlotta Ruth and Janne-Camilla Lyster, the symposium opens up a rich field of artistic exchange and experimentation. On Friday, 6 November, 13:00–14:30 Janne-Camilla Lyster (Oslo National Academy of the Arts) and Nikolaus Gansterer (University of Applied Arts Vienna) lead the workshop Notating Now-ness exploring drawing, movement and choreographic scores through a fluid poetics of time. What does it mean to notate the now? Exploring the subtle relations between time, temperament and temperature, the workshop approaches time not as an abstract measure, but as something felt through the body and its surroundings. Outdoors at the Danube Canal, scores by Lyster and Gansterer activate individual notations in an attentive, playful and collective process, exploring how movement, drawing, weather and the shifting qualities of the present moment can become ways of sensing and notating time. Explore the full programme on the APL website.
4 June – 15 November 2026
PAPER UNLIMITED_02 – ERICH GRABNER GRAPHIC PRIZE 2026, KREMS
On 3 June at 6 pm, the four recipients of the 2026 Erich Grabner Prize will be officially announced and honoured. Following the award ceremony, the exhibition paper unlimited_02 will open at museumkrems, in the Dominican Church in Krems. The exhibition presents 52 artistic positions selected by a distinguished international jury, offering a comprehensive overview of the diversity of contemporary graphic art in Austria. With works by Gregor Belancic Pirker, Bosko, Julia Bugram, Sevda Chkoutova, Elisabeth Czihak, Sophie Dvorák, David Eisl, Tom Eller, Heribert Friedl, Micha Payer + Martin Gabriel, Nikolaus Gansterer, Simon Goritschnig, Barbara Höller, Michael Höpfner, Maureen Kägi, Antonia Kasik, Parsa Khalili, Karl-Heinz Klopf, Birgit Knoechl, Isabella Kohlhuber, Eric Kressnig, Elena Kristofori, Miriam Laussegger, Henriette Leinfellner, Xenia Lesniewski, Lucja Radwan, Michail Michailov, Gabi Mitterer, Assunta Abdel Azim Mohamed, Laurenz Nährer, Simona Obholzer, Bettina Paschke, Maria Peters, Wendelin Pressl, Werner Reiterer, Katharina Rosenbichler, Barbis Ruder, Katharina Sauermann, Judith Saupper, Wilhelm Scheruebl, Julia Schulz, Fabian Seiz, Sigrid Sekira, Krasimira Stikar, Viktoria Tremmel, Desislava Unger, Kay Walkowiak, Andreas Werner, Hannah Winkelbauer, Eva Yurkova, Xian Zheng, Stefan Zsaitsits.