This year’s Zink exhibition returns to the beginnings of the Verein. Emerging from a seminar led by Chantal Kaufmann at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Kunstverein Zink was founded in 2023 as an independent initiative run by students of the Painting Department. For three years, we organized events and curated exhibitions at Hintzerstraße 10, until we recently left the space. What initially felt like an ending became the starting point for this show: how to continue working without a fixed physical space. While our temporary location lies in close proximity to the Angewandte, we approach this nearness as a productive tension, allowing us to reflect on alternative modes of gathering and curating alongside institutions, at their edges, while remaining autonomous and mobile. As the spatial conditions of the Verein have become more fluid than ever, this exhibition marks the beginning of a possible future for Zink—still unfolding, in motion, and searching for new forms of presence.