Events

Works by the Design Studio Platform Geography Landscape Cities at the Institute for Art and Architecture, in Summersemester 2025. The exhibition is part of the interim use program mittendrin.wien.

Public exhibition

Hands on — Urban Landscape Practices in Europe curated by Thilo Folkerts and Christina Condak.
Lecture series at the Institute for Art and Architecture (IKA) in Winter Semester 2025/26.

Lecture series

The Otto Wagner Lecture with Matthew Gandy is organized by the Institute of Art and Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

Otto-Wagner-Lecture

Lecture by Daniel Ganz (Ganz Landschaftsarchitekten, Zurich) as part of the IKA Lecture Series Winter 2025: Hands on — Urban Landscape Practices in Europe curated by Thilo Folkerts and Christina Condak.

Lecture

Exhibition opening

Conference

In 2025, three architecture schools of Vienna formed for a second time a partnership to organise an educational project titled “The Competition of Competitions”. For just a few days, international and Austrian master’s students along with Viennese academics have worked together to create visionary briefs for a design competition. The future of the so-called Opel Werk, a kilometre-long building of the former car factory on the outskirts of Vienna was in the focus of this investigation. 
An international committee of professionals was invited to revise all submitted briefs. After a collective discussion the jury will award one winning entry, which will be honoured during the public event on September 8.

Presentation and Discussion

The three leading architecture schools of Vienna have come together to initiate a public dialogue on how contemporary cities can strategically rethink large-scale industrial sites. The transition from an industrial-era logic to environmentally conscious planning is far from seamless. We are confronted with challenges of unprecedented complexity and must draw on expertise from a wide range of disciplines to develop realistic approaches to XL-scale urban transformation.

Conference

Exhibition of the scenography class with works from this summer semester.

Exhibition

Immersive performance in the sauna as part of the final project of Constanze Bieber (IKA).

Performance

Invitation to discover the sauna and the courtyard at the Academy!

Event

Gender and Space Studio, IKA, SS25 Finals. Drahomíra Fuchsová in the Spa. Rest as a political necessity and act of resistance.

Symposionistic Swimming

Lecture Series at the Institute for Art and Architecture in the summer semester 2025.

Lecture Series

In this lecture, artist Lara Almarcegui will share insights into her work, with a focus on her projects dealing with mineral rights.  With an introduction by Cornelia Escher, HTC Professorship, IKA. Part of the lecture series IKA Lecture Series Summer 25.

Lecture series

At the end of the positively decided procedure for the extension of her contract, Nina von Mechow will present her ideas and plans for her current and future professional activities at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

Lecture

Screening of the film ‘Becoming Outline’ (AT 2024, 70 min) by Miriam Bajtala, with an introduction by Patricia Grzonka, lecturer at the IKA.Part of the lecture series IKA Lecture Series Summer 25.

Lecture series

Lecture from Susanne Brorson, who is the current visiting professor at the Institute for Art and Architecture. In her lecture she will talk about experiments in research, teaching and practice. Part of the Lecture Series S2025.

Lecture

Lecutre by Lýdia Grešáková, sociologist and member of the collective Spolka - organised by Petra Hlaváčková and Nicole Sabella (IKA Gender and Space professorship). Part of the lecture series IKA Lecture Series Summer 25.

Lecture

A performance by Anna Grebennikova and Nikiforos Papadoudis, study program Scenography

Performance

Lecture by Barbara Buser / baubüro in situ within the framework of the IKA Lecture Series FORM SPACE ENVIRONMENT – Towards New Correalisms, curated by Hannes Stiefel.

Lecture

Lecture Series at the Institute for Art and Architecture (IKA) in Winter 2024-25, curated by Hannes Stiefel

Lecture series

Lecture by Wolfgang Tschapeller within the framework of the IKA Lecture Series FORM SPACE ENVIRONMENT – Towards New Correalisms, curated by Hannes Stiefel

Lecture

Lecture by Vinu Daniel from Wallmakers within the framework of the IKA Lecture Series FORM SPACE ENVIRONMENT – Towards New Correalisms, curated by Hannes Stiefel.

Lecture

How did modernist architecture interact with political systems? And how can biographical gaps in architectural archives be explained and filled? Taking Roland Rainer as an example, both of these questions were the subject of investigation in an FWF research project. This symposium presents a discussion of the results of this cooperation between the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the Architekturzentrum Wien.

Conference

A lecture organized by the Institute for Art and Architecture/Scenography.

Lecture

Ein Vortrag organisiert vom Fachbereich Szenografie.

Vortrag

Lecture by Rafael Beneytez-Durán from Rafael Beneytez-Durán & Ophelia Mantz/Z4A/Z4Z4 within the framework of the IKA Lecture Series FORM SPACE ENVIRONMENT – Towards New Correalisms, curated by Hannes Stiefel

Lecture

Collaborative performance within the BIP Blended Intensive Program (ERASMUS +) between the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp and the Estonian Academy of Arts. Organized by the Department of Scenography.

Performance

23 scenographers from the scenography class under the direction of Nina von Mechow spent two semesters developing the central spaces of the Free Republic of Vienna. The Free Republic of Vienna is a project by Wiener Festwochen.

Cooperation