wie lang – Association for Art, Research and Societal Transformation is a transdisciplinary platform for artistic research at the intersection of art, science, and societal transformation.

wie lang means “how long.”

It is both a name and a question: How long can things continue as they are?

How long do we maintain systems that we know need to change? How long do we wait, adapt, endure, or resist? And when does waiting become a decision in itself?

The association develops artistic and research-based projects and collaborations around moments in which established conditions become unstable: when pressure builds, decisions become unavoidable, and actions begin to have irreversible consequences.

Its work investigates the forces that shape how individuals, groups, and institutions respond to such moments, power, perception, behavior, responsibility, dependency, and collective decision-making. Particular attention is given to the tension between knowing and acting, and to the structures that determine who can act, who must adapt, and who bears the consequences.

Through artistic interventions, installations, experiential environments, laboratories, and collaborative research, wie lang creates situations in which these questions are not only discussed but encountered.

Art is understood here as a form of inquiry: a means of testing conditions, disrupting what appears given, and making other ways of perceiving, deciding, and acting imaginable.

At its core, wie lang asks a deceptively simple question: How long can we continue - and what happens when we no longer can?

The executive board: 

Martina Lang, PhD(c) (Kuns& Forschung), Nina Fountedakis (Kunst, Kultur, Inklusion), Dr. Isabella Uhl-Hädicken (Umweltpsychologie), Dr. Lena Ramstetter (Politikwissenschaft)