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  • Weekend of Graphics 2025

    Focus tour in the Paintings Gallery

    Schillerplatz

    Paintings Gallery

    sitting woman

  • Weekend of Graphics 2025

    Masterpieces from the Graphic Collection

    Guided Tour

    Schillerplatz/ Study room

    Graphic Collection

    drawing of a woman

  • 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

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    Invitation to the Defense of Mehri Khalil

    The Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna kindly invites you to the defense of Mehri Khalil’s dissertation project "Roots and Routes: The Journey of Two Egyptian Artists in Paris and Beyond".

    Defense

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    Online via Zoom

    Art Theory and Cultural Studies

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    SALON°FUTUR 2025: From Burnout To Siesta

    Kick-off of the discussion and lecture series From Burnout To Siesta, which will explore how art and artistic research will open up new horizons for a more relaxed future life in 2025. SALON°FUTUR is an event series of the Research Cluster | Sustainability in the Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in cooperation with FUTURAMA°LAB. It takes place as part of VIENNA ART WEEK.

    Event series

    Schillerplatz/ Anatomy Hall

    Academy

  • Q&A with Hedya Klein

    We gain insight into life with graphic and printmaking in the visual arts in the series of Q&A invitations from the intaglio workshop. This time, we are given an insight into Hedya Klein's approach to artistic practice, as well as her experiences at the LeRoy Neiman Centre for Print Studies at Columbia University's School of the Arts in New York.

    Q&A Session

    Intaglio Printing room S13
    Schillerplatz 3
    1010 Vienna

    Fine Arts

    stained paper and collagraph collage black brown

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    Research Day 2025 of the Academy

    The Research Day 2025 of the Academy presents the range of current research activities at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, gives insights into specific projects and their results, and encourages collegial discussions. The Research Day focuses on presentations of research projects in advanced stages.

    Conference

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    Schillerplatz/ Conference room

    Academy

  • A Disciplining of the Gaze

    A book presentation and panel discussion on the history of conservation training at the Academy as part of the Academy Library’s event series Wer A… sagt.

    Book presentation and Panel discussion held in German

    Schillerplatz/ University Library (Reading room, M7)

    University Library

    Detail oft he book cover of "A Disciplining of the Gaze" by Sigrid Eyb-Green. It features a detailed drawing with fine blue and red lines on a beige background. A yellow vertical strip with the Letter P publisher logo is visible on the left side. The subtitle reads: "Conservation Training at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in the 20th Century".

  • Categorical Impertinence: From the Surrealists to the Situationists

    An event organized by the IKW, organized by Jens Kastner in collaboration with Eva Schörkhuber and Andreas Pavlic.

    Lecture

    Schillerplatz/ M20

    Art Theory and Cultural Studies

  • Market in Place – What contribution do art fairs make to the art market?

    Market in Place is a series of events organized by the alumni association that focuses on current developments in the art market and offers discussions with experts from this field.

    Talk

    Schillerplatz/ Conference room

    Academy

  • Epidemics and Their Metaphors

    A lecture by Edna Bonhomme, organized by the Institute for Education in the Arts, Art and Education program.

    Lecture

    Schillerplatz/ Anatomy Hall

    Education in the Arts

    Book cover of "A History of the World in Six Plagues" by Edna Bonhomme. The background is a map. The main title is in large, bold black text stacked centrally. A horizontal tear effect rips across the middle, fracturing the title and the map. Below this, the subtitle "How Contagion, Class and Captivity Shapes Us, From Cholera to Covid-19" is in bright yellow. The author's name is in the upper right corner.

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    Robert Vanis – back of a book

    In back of a book, Robert Vanis will replace the spines of selected historical books in the reading room with mirrors, photographs, facsimiles, photographic paper, and glass. The work reflects on representation and (in)accessibility, as well as the materiality and transience of knowledge. A project realised as part of Foto Wien 2025 at the Academy Library.

    Exhibition

    Schillerplatz/ University Library (Reading room, M7)

    University Library

    The color photograph in landscape format shows a section of a bookshelf with historical holdings, designed by Theophil von Hansen for the reading room of the Academy Library. Some books have been removed, and their place between the spines is taken by a portrait-format color photograph with a cloudy sky.

  • Empowering Aesthetics. Contemporary Art from Post-Socialist Central Europe

    A lecture by Denisa Tomková, organized by the Institute for Education in the Arts, Art and Education program.

    Lecture

    Schillerplatz/ Conference room

    Education in the Arts

    Book cover of "Empowering Aesthetics: Contemporary Art from Post-Socialist Central Europe" by Denisa Tomková. Against a gray background, the title is in large black text at the top, with the author and Bloomsbury logo at the bottom. The subtitle runs vertically in white text on the right. The central artwork shows intertwined hands and feet printed on a creased, translucent strip. This strip, which has fragmented text along its edges, rests on a light, textured surface.

  • 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

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    Open Door Event Winter Semester 2025/26

    The Center for Doctoral Studies welcomes new and continuing doctoral students to an open door event in the winter semester 2025/26.

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    Schillerplatz/ 201

    Academy

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    Bourdieu Lectures: Gender – Domination – Visuality

    The first edition of the Bourdieu Lectures will take place on 19–20 November 2025 at the Kunsthalle Bielefeld, under the title Gender – Domination – Visuality. This conference is a joint initiative by the University of Bielefeld,  Zeppelin University (Friedrichshafen), University of Education Freiburg and Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, in close cooperation with the Fondation Bourdieu.

    Conference

    Kunsthalle Bielefeld
    Artur-Ladebeck-Straße 5
    33602 Bielefeld
    Germany

    Art Theory and Cultural Studies

  • Entangled Art Histories

    Invitation to two lectures and a book presentation, organized by Sabeth Buchmann, Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies.

    Lecture and book presentation

    Schillerplatz/ M13a

    Art Theory and Cultural Studies

  • 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

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    Copyright - Citing correctly, avoiding plagiarism

    The workshop deals with questions relating to copyright in dissertations and provides information, tips and background knowledge on how copyright must be taken into account when writing a dissertation.

    Workshop

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    Karl-Schweighofer-Gasse 3, 1070 Vienna, DG 18 (meeting room)

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    Who Gets to Feel Safe? Who Gets to Speak Up? A Lecture by Dr. Bontu Guschke

    The Coordination Office for Women's Advancement | Gender Studies | Diversity as Part of the Genderplattform invites to a lecture by Dr. Bontu Guschke titeld Who Gets to Feel Safe? Who Gets to Speak Up? Understanding and Addressing the Intersections of Sexism and Racism in Higher Education.

    Lecture

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    Online via Zoom

    Academy