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    honoris causa 2025

    With honoris causa, the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna launched a series of events in 2023 to face up to historical responsibility as an educational institution.

    Conference

    Schillerplatz/ Conference room

    Academy

  • Exhibition tours with the art information of the Exhibit Gallery

    A guided tour of the exhibition Suck My Code  in the Exhibit Gallery.

    Guided Tour

    Schillerplatz

    Exhibit Gallery

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    Transformation: reBuilding and reThinking the ‘Built Fabric’ Advocating for New Common Good(s)

    The 11th Forum Architectural Science aims to synthesise the recent debates on the transformation of the existing, the ‘built fabric’. At the same time, it poses the question of which new advocacies need to be formulated in order to negotiate the issues of social, ecological and aesthetic common good(s) in the context of transformation.

    Conference

    Various locations

    Art and Architecture

  • Sunday tour

    Overview tour through the exhibition Considering the Collection & The Day You Were Thinking About the Sibyl While You Were Picking Autumn Leaves An Insert by Ana Torfs

    Schillerplatz

    Paintings Gallery

    people in an exhibition room

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    Ragnar Kjartansson & Ingibjörg Sigurjónsdóttir

    This talk is organized by the Studio of Art and Time | Film as part of their theme: Life-Like.

    Lecture

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    Studio Building
    Lehárgasse 8
    1060 Vienna
    1st floor
    Atelier LG0111

    Fine Arts

    Ragnar Kjartansson & Ingibjörg Sídórsdóttir in their re-staging of a McDonald's reception

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    Info Meeting | PhD in Practice

    We cordially invite you to attend this online appointment to learn about the requirements, the call for submissions and decision procedure of the PhD in Practice program at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

    Informative meeting

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    Online via Zoom

    Art Theory and Cultural Studies

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    Mariyam Malik: Anti-racist mediation practices

    An anti-racist reflection on educational spaces. A workshop for students, organized by the Studio for Education in the Arts.

    Workshop

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    Karl-Schweighofer-Gasse/ 3.01

    Education in the Arts

    poster

  • PhD in Practice | Info Meeting

    In advance of the PhD in Practice application process 2026, the program invites potential and interested applicants to an online information session where you will have the opportunity to meet the program leaders and professors Anette Baldauf and Renate Lorenz, learn about the program, requirements, the call for submissions and decision procedure of the PhD in Practice program at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

    Study information

    Online via Zoom

    Art Theory and Cultural Studies

  • THE STRUGGLE IS UNREAL! Mit erlebbaren Gedankenexperimenten aus der Imaginations-Krise

    Lecture by Alexandra Fruhstorfer as part of the lecture series Lectures For Future, hosted by Art and Image | Drawing.

    Lecture

    Akademie der bildenden Künste
    RoomS04
    Schillerplatz 3
    1010 Vienna

    Fine Arts

    Eine Qualle wird von violett-pinkem Licht angestrahlt. Sie schwimmt dabei kopf über, während ihre Tentakeln durchs Bild schweben.

  • Artist Talk: Jonida Laçi and Luīze Nežberte

    Jonida Laçi and Luīze Nežberte in conversation with Anna Marckwald and Hannah Marynissen, Co-Curators Kunsthalle Wien Preis 2025.

    Artist talk

    Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz
    Treitlstraße 2
    1040 Vienna

    Academy

  • Disconnective Cartographies, Connective Memories

    A lecture by John Njenga Karugia, organized by Noit Banai, Professor of Diaspora Aesthtics, Art Theory and Cultural Studies.

    Lecture and Film Screening

    Schillerplatz/ M13a

    Art Theory and Cultural Studies

    Event poster

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    We never spent nights printing posters.

    Or why an exhibition needs almost nothing ... but a printer. A lecture by Leon Hösl and Magdalena Stöger.

    Lecture

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    Schillerplatz 3
    1010 Vienna
    E16

    Fine Arts

    Tobi Fabek, CANCEL LEJ MONU­MENT (2024), Installationsansicht, 10. f/stop Festival, Leipzig, 2024 und Lisl Ponger and Tim Sharp, 2000, TransAct, museum in progress

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    Invitation to the Defense of Caitlin Berrigan

    The PhD in Practice program at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna kindly invites you to the defense of Caitlin Berrigan's dissertation project “Incantations of Inhuman Language”.

    Defense

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    Art Theory and Cultural Studies

    Imaginary Explosions Cosmology at “Cassandra With a Flood in Her Mouth,” JOAN Los Angeles, February—April 2023, Curated by Suzy Halajian with Hannah Spears Photographer: Evan Walsh

  • The Last Judgement Triptych by Hieronymus Bosch

    A guided tour through ‘Heaven and Hell’

    Schillerplatz

    Paintings Gallery

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    Drawing and painting in the heart of the Paintings Gallery

    Workshop for kids aged 6 to 12 years

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    Schillerplatz

    Paintings Gallery

    a kid painting

  • Sunday tour

    Overview tour through the exhibition Considering the Collection & The Day You Were Thinking About the Sibyl While You Were Picking Autumn Leaves An Insert by Ana Torfs

    Schillerplatz

    Paintings Gallery

    people in an exhibition room

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    perhaps elsewhere

    perhaps elsewhere is an invitation to dream and explore.
    Close your eyes, open your mind.
    Breathe in, breathe out, ask yourself.

    Exhibition

    Schillerplatz

    Exhibit Studio

    white exhibition objekt and a painting with faces on the wall

  • Cinema screening Another Body (Sophie Compton/Reuben Hamlyn)

    Presentation of the film Another Body (Sophie Compton/Reuben Hamlyn, 2023, 80 min.) as part of the exhibition SUCK MY CODE!.
    ATTENTION - NEW TIMING! Starting 17:30 h instead of 20 h

    Film screening

    Stadtkino im Künstlerhaus
    Akademiestraße 13
    1010 Vienna

    Exhibit Gallery

  • Between collapse, class struggle and anti-fascism: The state and future of the climate movement

    Lecture by Manuel Grebenjak as part of the lecture series Lectures For Future, hosted by Art and Image | Drawing.

    Lecture

    Akademie der bildenden Künste
    RoomS04
    Schillerplatz 3
    1010 Vienna

    Fine Arts

    Ein Bär auf einer kleinen Scholle treibt dem Sonnenuntergang entgegen. Dabei schaut er verzweifelt den_die  Betrachter_in an.

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    Narrarives and livable futures: artistic collaborations on the topic of sustainabilty

    Final exhibitions of Arts of Change 2025, year 6

    Exhibition

    Eschenbachgasse

    Exhibit Eschenbachgasse