ONGOING & UPCOMING:
30 June – 3 July 2026
CONVOCATION III
, at Expositur Rustenschacherallee 2–4, University of Applied Arts, Vienna
Convocation III is a gathering for language-based artistic researchers — not a public event, but a space for conversation and exchange. It brings together researchers whose work engages with the materiality and mediality of language, working across visual arts, performance, film, theatre, music, choreography, and literature. The intent is not to define language-based artistic research, but to reflect how it is practised in its diversity. Contributions take the form of Practice Sharings — experiential, participatory, or performative encounters with a practice — and Glimpses, short presentations offering insight into a practice.
On 3 July, at 10:45-12:00 Nikolaus Gansterer invites for Other-wor(l)dly Milieus: Co(n)-Notating as Con-Vocation, a participatory outdoor session proposing live notating as a collective practice. Gathering around circular paper fields, participants work with charcoal in asemic, automatic writing-drawing — a live score where lines precede stable meaning while carrying connotative potential. Vocal traces surface as lines emerge; the paper circles may connect into a living map, returned to through collective vocalisation. Building on Gansterer’s research into notating choreographies and atmospheres, the session approaches sense-making as relational practice, a shared ecology where lines con-figure new wor(l)dings. More information: https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/835089/4670088
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.
1 June 2026
BOOK PRIZE: CONTINGENT AGENCIES – INQUIRING INTO THE EMERGENCE OF ATMOSPHERES
Contingent Agencies – Inquiring into the Emergence of Atmospheres, edited by Alex Arteaga and Nikolaus Gansterer, has been awarded as one of The Most Beautiful Books of Austria 2025 in the category Scientific Publications, Educational and Textbooks. The award ceremony will take place on 1 June 2026 at the Praterateliers in Vienna. The awarded books will also represent Austria in the international competition The Most Beautiful Books from All Over the World and will be presented at international book fairs and exhibitions. Developed as a designed research space, the publication Contingent Agencies brings together contributions from a wide range of disciplines exploring atmosphere as an emergent interplay of human and non-human agencies. Similar to the reduced exterior appearance of the book — with its cloud image, monochrome coloured edges, and the tactile quality created through softcover and volume paper, evoking a fragment of atmosphere itself — the interior is likewise shaped by subtlety and the omission of excessive design gestures. One typeface in three sizes and rhythmic white spaces sequence a multiplicity of texts and images into a parallel-readable constellation. Despite the thematic structuring into five chapters, the design sustains an ongoing dialogue between different modes of reading across more than 400 pages with remarkable lightness. To concretise and render tangible that which is elusive is perhaps one of the most common motivations of human cultural production. This publication is no exception — and yet something feels different: despite its manifestation as a printed object, its clearly designed pages, and its precise typographic language, a sense of processual transience remains palpable. A finished object — at least physically — that nevertheless appears unfinished and part of something larger, thereby creating one of the most beautiful sensations imaginable: holding something in one’s hands that can be felt and seen, but never fully grasped. Published by Hatje Cantz Verlag. Designed by Marie Artaker and Alexandra Möllner.