AI – Threats and Promises – Artistic Positions on Post-Digital Futures – AG18 GALLERY Vienna, June 30 - August 26, 2026

Fotocredit: poster artwork by Ana Vollwesen

AI – Threats and Promises

Artistic Positions on Post-Digital Futures

Following its presentation at the Austrian Cultural Forum in Warsaw, the exhibition has been revised and expanded for its Vienna edition.

While AI has become one of the most significant developments of our time, exhibitions that critically engage with its implications remain surprisingly rare. Yet precisely for this reason, artistic engagement is essential.

How do we negotiate agency and responsibility in a culture shaped by AI and algorithms?

This exhibition approaches AI not merely as a creative tool but as an infrastructure that shapes perception, knowledge production, social relations and imaginaries of the future. The participating artists explore questions of bias, surveillance, ethics, authorship, delegation and participation, examining both the potentials and the risks of AI and data-driven systems.

Artists:

Academic Partners

The Future Foundation

The Future Foundation is an interdisciplinary forum of professionally distinguished and independent personalities thinking about and working on questions of technology in our digitised future. Its mission is to develop practical, orientation-providing guidelines for urgent and forward-looking questions concerning the good life in a digital world. The 10 Rules for the Digital World were developed by 11 university representatives from 13 different disciplines in 2025. https://www.thefuturefoundation.eu/en

Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Network Medicine at the University of Vienna

The institute employs several graduates of the University of Applied Arts Vienna and supports the exchange between art and science. Professor Dr. Jörg Menche will give a lecture on this topic as part of our exhibition. https://netmed.lbg.ac.at/

Opening: Tuesday, 30 June 2026, 6:00–10:00 pm
Closing Event: Wednesday, 26 August 2026, 6:00–10:00 pm

Talks: Tuesday, 21 July 2026, 7:00-8:30 pm, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Jörg Menche, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Network Medicine will speak about the collaboration of artists and scientists and AI in research.
Curator Andreas Schlichtner will give a lecture on the topic of "Authorship and Art Production: From the Renaissance to the AI Era."

Discussions: in August a panel discussion on the topic of "AI in Art" will take place. The participating artists will speak. The date will be announced.

Venue: AG18 Gallery, Annagasse 18, 1010 Vienna
Website: ag18gallery.com

Opening hours: Wednesday–Friday 3:00 PM–7:00 PM, Saturday 11:00 AM–4:00 PM

Curator: Andreas Schlichtner

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