the_print_fest Vienna Edition

Founded in 2023 by Renata Darabant in the Academy’s intaglio workshop, the_print_fest is conceived as a traveling event series that celebrates the collaborative spirit of printmaking. Following editions with partners from Bratislava, Budapest, and Vienna, the festival returns to its place of origin for its most extensive edition to date. The event is funded as part of the EU program as a Blended Intensive Program (BIP). Workshops, lectures, and an exhibition will run concurrently over five days.

The program centers on four practice-oriented workshop tracks: paper-making led by Beatrix Mapalagama (Papierwespe / University of Applied Arts Vienna), toolmaking and biopolymers with Renata Darabant, and electro-etching and non-toxic etching solutions with Bernhard Cociancig. The program is complemented by a permanent Animation Film Lab led by Adnan Popovic from the Academy’s Animation Lab—which is accessible throughout the week as an open stop-motion station and serves as a format to bring together aspects of self-empowerment in material production and toolmaking with artistic practice. With the help of all partners (in particular Gergely Suplicz, Bartlomiej Chwilczynski, and Andrea Pezman), materials and ideas are brought into play in the form of spatial collages and installation-based approaches, where improvisation is essential.

The lecture program brings together international perspectives: Valentina Ljubic Tobisch (Vienna University of Technology) will speak about the historical connection between daguerreotype, electrotype, and contemporary art as part of her research project PHELETYPIA. Ina Baumeister, conservator of books and paper at Tate Britain in London, will explore conservation as an ecological practice. Artist Fatma Abdulhadi from the MISK Art Center in Riyadh will present her work with plant-based pigments, and Judith Frederike Popp from Freie Universität Berlin will open a philosophical-aesthetic discourse on the Anthropocene. The Vienna-based material reuse initiative wert-stoff.at is participating both as a guest speaker and as a cooperation partner for the exhibition setup. 

Some of the lectures will take place on-site during the week, while those that do not have already been announced in the Academy’s event catalog and have, in some cases, already taken place.

A special highlight of the soft opening on April 20 at 6 p.m. is the overview of printmaking productions from the partner universities in Krakow, Bratislava, and Budapest.

Programme:

Monday, April 20
11 h Lecture by Beatrix Mapalagama on paper-making 
Book and Paper Workshop, University of Applied Arts Vienna

14 h Workshop by Adnan Popovic: Stop Motion in Animation
Exhibit Eschenbachgasse, 1010 Vienna

16 h Workshop with A. Pezman, G. Suplicz, B. Chwilczyński
Exhibit Eschenbachgasse, 1010 Vienna

18-20 h Soft Opening Show
Graphic Art in Bratislava, Krakow, and Budapest

Tuesday, April 21
10 h Demonstration by Bernhard Cociancig on e-etching and B.I.G. grounds non-toxic
Intaglio Workshop S13, Schillerplatz 3, 1010 Vienna

14 h Lecture on PHELETYPIA by Valentina Ljubic Tobisch
Exhibit Eschenbachgasse, 1010 Vienna

16 h Demonstration by Renata Darabant and Oliwia Kalwa: Pigments from workshop use
Intaglio Workshop S13, Schillerplatz 3, 1010 Vienna

Wednesday, April 22
10 h Experimental series on bioplastics and roller casting with Renata Darabant
Intaglio Workshop S13, Schillerplatz 3, 1010 Vienna
(Paper making, e-etching, animation, and installations are available throughout the week)

Thursday, April 23
14 h Ina Baumeister on sustainability in everyday museum life
Exhibit Eschenbachgasse, 1010 Vienna

18-22 h Exhibition opening Art, Ecology and the Anthropocene: Printmaking in Contemporary Discourse
Exhibit Eschenbachgasse, 1010 Vienna

Friday, April 24
14 h Fatma Abdulhadi: artistic practice with pigments
Exhibit Eschenbachgasse, 1010 Vienna
Festival closing

This event is part of a series of events with both virtual and in-person components taking place within the format of the_print_fest, now in its fourth edition, and within an EU-funded BIP Blended Intensive Program involving the following institutions:

Our partners:
Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, Poland
Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts (HUFA) Budapest, Hungary

Our guests:
Academy of Fine Arts and Design (VSVU) Bratislava, Slovakia
National College of Art and Design (NCAD) Dublin, Ireland

Additional partners include:
the Book and Paper Workshop at the University of Applied Arts Vienna
As well as the material initiative wert:stoff

This event is part of a series of events—combining virtual and in-person components—held within the framework of the_print_fest, now in its fourth edition. As part of an EU-funded BIP Blended Intensive Program, it brings together the following institutions and departments to offer workshops and lectures on the themes of sustainability in artistic practice and self-empowerment as a method in this debate, offering workshops and lectures to diversify perspectives.
Students and faculty from four European partner universities are participating in the fourth edition.

Lecturers: Beatrix Mapalagama, Judith-Frederike Popp, Adnan Popovic, Bernhard Cociancig, Renata Darabant, Valentina Ljubic Tobisch, Ina Baumeister, Fatma Abdulhadi, Yola and Angela Team wert:stoff

Exhibitors and Project Works by: Anna Újszászi, Emese Nagy, Eszter Németh, Ilona Tombor-Madarassy, Zorka Hanna Nagy, Zita Pataky, Réka Cserveny, Hannah Maria Clancy, Laura Péteriová, Simona Slováková, Václav Sebesta, Elizaveta Belozertseva, Jennifer Posny, Melisa Dalkilic, Yonathan Aharoni, Chien Yu Lin, Benjamin Ben Amotz, Hayue Chen, Boris Laevsky, Maja Oracz, Sofia Eccetto, Adam Nieuwazny, Angela Margarethe Lehner, Karolina Kryjom, Justina Rosicka, Maciej Zięba, Ida Rupp, Szymon Wiążewski, Alma Moos Nunez, Zofia Piotrowska, Kamryn Parison, Aleksandra Ptak, Julian Kadrnoschka, Antoni Targosz, Elham Hadian, Samira Homayouni, Elia Velluti, Enrico Bani, Irma Ivkovic, Manuela Kosevic, Anamarija Kvas, Oliwia Kalwa

Organizing staff: Andrea Pezman, Gergely Suplicz, Bianka Dobó, Neil Dunne, Bartłomiej Chwilczyński, Renata Darabant, Kirsten Borchert