The Project - bound Seminar “On Exhibition” in the winter semester 24/25 will take place as a cooperation between the University of Applied Arts Vienna ("Expanded Museum Studies"), the Vienna University of Technology, Architecture ("Spatial Design") and basis wien.

basis wien is a Documentation Centre for Contemporary Art in and from Austria, in which material on art production, presentation and reception in analogue and digital form are collected and archived. In cooperation with artists, curators, critics, media, exhibition spaces, art galleries and off spaces, the holdings of the archive have been steadily expanded. The collection of the archive and library of basis wien consists of publications on contemporary visual art in book form and periodicals as well as literature, floor plans and ephemera of various origins: secondary materials that are produced in the course of cultural activities. They provide a wide range of background information of activities that happen during and around exhibitions, a form of cultural productions that in itself reflects current artistic practice that underly the conception and production of contemporary exhibition.

Students from both departments will work together on the process of developing and designing an exhibition from basis wien archive material. The aim of the studio is to reflect on spatial practice, design processes and media on and around exhibitions as a base to conceptualize and design an exhibition. A core aspect of the course is the exhibition as a medium, which should enable levels of mediation, bringing together different temporality(ies), real-spatial location, exhibits, research, presentation and discourse. The final presentation of the Seminar will be an arrangement of the proposed exhibitions in the space as an exhibition. An exhibition of exhibitions!

The seminar is for 3rd semester students of Expanded Museum Studies. It is mandatory to register for both seminars; On Exhibition (Aaron Amar Bhamra & Basma Abu-Naim)