Events
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Open Days 2027
During Rundgang (Open Days), institutes will open their atelier doors and studios, and performances, discussions and educational programs are offered. The annual Academy Auction will also take place as part of the tour, for which world-famous and even lesser-known artists will make works available for auction.
Open Studios | Performances | Talks | Guided tours Organisational Units Academy
all Academy locations
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Viena Latina – Living between worlds
Today, around 20,000 people from Latin America and the Caribbean live in Vienna. They are active in many areas of city life and enrich Viennese culture in dynamic and diverse ways. Their varied migration experiences since 1945 have been collected as part of a large-scale, EU-funded project (CERV Program). The exhibition draws on these collected impressions and makes them accessible to a broad audience.
Exhibition
Wien Museum
Karlsplatz 8
1040 ViennaAcademy
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Speaking in the First Person: Art, History, and Afterlives
This event takes the landmark publication The Yugoslav Art Space: Ješa Denegri in the First Person, edited by Branislav Dimitrijević and Jelena Vesić, as a point of departure to reconsider the relevance of Ješa Denegri within historical and contemporary artistic frameworks. A collaborative event by the Kontakt Collection and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
Talk
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Schillerplatz/ Auditorium
Academy
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Let's stick with the unicorns: Aesthetic Consequences of Care, Tidying & Re.Use
Let's stick with the Unicorns is a large-scale artistic intervention at Schillerplatz that examines public space as a concrete ecological and social situation. At its core is the question of how artistic practice can remain effective under conditions of ecological crisis. Transformation is not understood as a goal or a promise for the future, but as a present practice. The artistic works use existing materials, vegetation, traces of use, and temporal processes to actively position themselves against existing capitalist climate narratives. The artistic explorations are temporary, reversible, and site-specific.
Through the conscious use of resources, the acceptance of change, decay, and transience, the space can be experienced as a dynamic structure. Let's stick with the Unicorns refers to an attitude of active agency and personal responsibility under restrictive conditions and highlights the need not to distance oneself or succumb to cynicism despite scientifically described tipping points and irreversible processes.
The first two days are dedicated to lectures and various interventions. On the third day, May 13, the project opens with the format Platz nehmen #5 for collective reflection and invites the public to actively participate in the program.
A project by Transformation group Akbild, Research Cluster Sustainability in the Arts and Academy | Art | Public Sphere, in cooperation with Klima Biennale Wien.
Event
Schillerplatz
1010 Vienna -
Film Screening
As part of Let’s Stick with Unicorns, we present four films that bring together diverse perspectives on ecology, extraction, and the relationship between humans, environments, and power.
Film Screening
Schillerplatz/ Auditorium
Academy
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SPINNENSTROM
A workshop by Stefanie Wuschitz as part of the event Let's stick with the unicorns: Aesthetic Consequences of Care, Tidying & Re.Use.With collected old spinning wheels from all over the land so we can try to spin electricity.
Workshop
Schillerplatz
1010 ViennaAcademy
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Urban Worlding through Assemblage
A workshop with Vik Bayer as part of the event Let's stick with the unicorns: Aesthetic Consequences of Care, Tidying & Re.Use.
Workshop
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Schillerplatz
1010 ViennaAcademy
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Cadavre Exquis
A group exhibition as a part of the international ASA program, curated by Rafael Hofmann.
Group exhibition / performance
Schillerplatz/ Auditorium
Academy
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Market in Place – What responsibility do universtites have in preparing students for the art market?
Market in Place is a series of events organised by the alumni association that focuses on current developments in the art market and discusses them with experts.
Expert talk
Schillerplatz/ Conference room
Academy
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Book presentation: FUTURE-BOLD? SUPERINTELLIGENCE, THE CLIMATE CRISIS, AND THE FREEDOM OF ART
To mark the publication of the book ZUKUNFTSMUTIG (Future-Bold) (Kremayr & Scheriau Publishers) by Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and its Research Cluster | Sustainability in the Arts, together with the cultural future platform ReGenerativa, invite you to a book presentation and panel discussion on the topic The Freedom of Art in the Context of the Climate Crisis and Artificial Superintelligence.
Book presentation and discussion
Schillerplatz/ Anatomy Hall
Academy
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Exhibition: Asya Marakulina
Exhibition at Aula of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna by scholarship holders of the ASoP* scholarship program of the BMEIA in cooperation with the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
Exhibition
Schillerplatz/ Auditorium
Academy
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The Academy at BeSt 2026
Students of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna will be advising interested parties on the study programmes at Austria's renowned art university.
Fair
Halle C
Messe Wien
Messeplatz 1
1020 ViennaAcademy
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Online Info Meeting „Austrian Art Alumni Award 2026“
This information event will be held in German. In the event, you receive information about the application process for the Call “Austrian Art Alumni Award 2026”. Questions are welcome at the end of the meeting.
Information for applicants (in German)
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Online via Zoom
Academy
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Exhibition: Nikolay Karabinovych
Exhibition at Aula of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna by scholarship holders of the ASoP* scholarship program of the BMEIA in cooperation with the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
Exhibition
Schillerplatz/ Auditorium
Academy
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Margins of the Visible
AVU Gallery warmly invites you to the exhibition Margins of the Visible, with artists from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
Exhibtion
AVU Gallery
Veletržní 61-63
Prague 7
Czech RepublicAcademy
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Workshop 2 for the Call for design-orientated publications Fine Companions 2025
To prepare for your submission there will be an opportunity to discuss your topic, receive feedback and clarify any questions in an individual meeting with Astrid Seme and Thomas Geiger (Mark Pezinger Books).
Workshop
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Schillerplatz/ Conference room
Academy
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Guided tour for the exhibitions of the Studio for Art and Space | Spatial Strategies
A guided tour for the exhibitions of Studio Spatial Strategies by Julia Kronenberg and Sheila Grace Tan.
Guided tour
Sculpture Studios/ EG 23
Fine Arts
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Open Days 2026
During Rundgang (Open Days), institutes will open their atelier doors and studios, and performances, discussions and educational programs are offered. The annual Academy Auction will also take place as part of the tour, for which world-famous and even lesser-known artists will make works available for auction.
Open Studios | Performances | Talks | Guided tours Organisational Units Academy
all Academy locations
Academy
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Kunsthalle Wien Prize 2025
Jonida Laçi (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna) and Luīze Nežberte (University of Applied Arts Vienna) will hold a joint exhibition at Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz in November 2025.
Exhibition
Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz
Treitlstraße 2
1040 ViennaAcademy
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Vodkabrunch
The studio for Art and Space | Object invites everyone to the Vodkabrunch in Kurzbauergasse.
Party
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Sculpture Studios/ ground floor, 60
Fine Arts