Closing Time of the Paintings Gallery
Due to exhibition set-up, the Paintings Gallery will be closed from 1 September to 2 October.
The next exhibition The Great Michelangelo Is Dead! Avant-Garde and Academicism is opening on October 1, 2026 at 19 h in the auditorium on Schillerplatz.
It aims to give new form to an age-old debate. It will not use academicism a pejorative label for all that is outdated, nor credit the avant-garde with a monopoly on the new. Rather, the objective is to uncover the creative dynamic playing out between these two poles – both in a deep historical perspective and as it currently demarcates positions in the field of contemporary art.
The occasion is a tercentenary of what is now the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna – the anniversary of the drafting of its statutes, modelled on those of the French academy, by Jacob van Schuppen in 1726.
More info via www.kunstsammlungenakademie.at