Hope4Hope

As global crises multiply and exhaustion becomes chronic, the very notion of hope feels suspiciously kitschy, yet dangerously all the more desirable. While despair tempts us with a certain clarity, the challenge of our time lies in rediscovering the potential of hope as a driving force for change. In the exhibition Hope4Hope, MA students from the Department of Cross-Disciplinary Strategies at the University of Applied Arts Vienna undertake a search for traces of hope across various fields, exploring the conditions under which hope manifests. Undermining the rigid logic of delimited research areas, their investigations combine a wide range of artistic strategies, scientific methods, and technological tools to reflect the richness and ambiguity of different modes of hoping. Interweaving these different methodologies, Hope4Hope generates a manifold map: hoping as collective emotion, hoping as poison, hoping as an act of resistance. Together, the works materialise a constellation of diverse perspectives, depicting “hope for hope” in a collective brainstorm. 

Group exhibition by MA students of the department Cross-Disciplinary Strategies (CDS), University of Applied Arts Vienna:
Yiwen Che, Khadisha Dabayeva, Sophie Hamann, Sara Karimi, Lili Kátai & Elias Schulz, Aimée Kohn & Charlotte Kuoi, Marlene Lethmayer, Subham Manandhar, Alessia Meyer, Benjamin Palme, Marshall Paul, Ádám Salomvári & Laura Oyuela, Charlie Spies, Lea Würtenberger

Exhibition design: Arbeitsgruppe TAT 

Performances: 
Sara Karimi
IF MY LAND WERE FLAT, NONE OF THIS WOULD HAVE HAPPENED
approx. 20 mins
May 01, 5.00 PM / May 03, 6.30 PM
May 09, 4.00 PM / May 10, 8.30 PM

Lili Kátai & Elias Schulz
STAYING IN TOUCH
approx. 27 mins
May 02, 4.00 PM / May 03, 5.00 PM
May 09, 5.30 PM / May 10, 7.00 PM

Ádám Salomvári & Laura Oyuela
ROCKS, I MEAN; – STARS
approx. 25 mins
May 02, 5.30 PM / May 03, 8.00 PM
May 08, 4.30 PM / May 10, 5.30 PM

Content Note: One exhibition contribution deals with old-age dementia, two others with political violence.