Events
List of entries
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Main Character Energy: When Content Creators turn into fascist Worldbuilders
MA Critical Studies Lecture Series: Workshop with Vera Klocke und Freya Herrmann
Workshop
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Schillerplatz 3
1010 Vienna
Room 116Art Theory and Cultural Studies
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Nonconforming Criticisms: Practices, Strategies, Poetics
Zweitägiger Schreibworkshop mit anschließender Lunch Lecture von Dr. Diana Damian Martin (Royal School of Drama and Speech, University of London). Organisiert vom FWF-Projekt „Die Performance der Kritik: KI, körperliche Intelligenz und posthumanistische Ästhetik“ (Leitung: Lisa Moravec, Institut für Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften), in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Tanzquartier Wien.
Workshop
Akademiegebäude
Art Theory and Cultural Studies
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OeAW | DOC application writing (2026)
The Center for Doctoral Studies invites all doctoral candidates of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna interested in applying for the OeAW DOC grant to participate in this session, which will address requirements, preparation, proposal writing, and more.
Coffee Table Talk
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Karl-Schweighofer-Gasse 3, 1070 Vienna, room DG 18
Academy
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FWF Funding Opportunities
The KFS (Art | Research | Support) invites all researchers at the Academy to an online information session on FWF funding opportunities.
Info session
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Online via Zoom
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Graduate Conference 2026
At the Graduate Conference 2026 doctoral and PhD candidates in their final phase will present results of their dissertation projects.
Conference
Schillerplatz/ Conference room
Academy
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Curator’s tour
Considering the Collection & The Day You Were Thinking About the Sibyl While You Were Picking Autumn Leaves An Insert by Ana Torfs
Curator's tour with Synne Genzmer and Claudia Koch
Schillerplatz
Paintings Gallery
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Platz nehmen #5:Let´s stick with the Unicorns – Aesthetic Consequences of Care, Tidying and Re.use
A project by Transformation group Akbild, Research Cluster Sustainability in the Arts and Academy | Art | Public Sphere, in cooperation with Klima Biennale Wien.
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Schillerplatz
1010 ViennaAcademy
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When I Sneeze, Home Arrives by Duannaiyu Wang
The artist reads the text about memories while sneezing due to the irritation of the chili powder.
Performance
Schillerplatz
Exhibit Gallery
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Lectures for Future
Lecture series in the summer semester of 2026. Lectures for Future (L4F) is an interdisciplinary lecture series offered at various Austrian universities since the winter semester of 2019. In the L4F, researchers provide insights into their current scientific and artistic work on the topics of the climate crisis and sustainable development.
Lecture series
Various locations
Fine Arts
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lll (loveloveletters)
Reading of selected texts from lll (loveloveletters) by Mara Printz as part of the exhibition In the Fold of the Sack.
Performance
Schillerplatz
Exhibit Gallery
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Resilience and Agency
Strengthening our Attitude in Challenging Times.
This workshop for doctoral and PhD candidates offers a safe space to explore and strengthen personal resources.
Workshop
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Schillerplatz/ Conference room
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In the Fold of the Sack
The exhibition In the Fold of the Sack, curated by Yein Lee, explores materiality as a shifting fold in which meaning, circulation, and transformation become visible.
Exhibition
Schillerplatz
Exhibit Gallery
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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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Theorising Materiality – Materialising Theory
A lecture series organized by the Insitute for Conservation – Restoration, the University of Vienna, and the Courtauld Institute.Convenors: Carolin Bohlmann (Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien), Pia Gottschaller (Courtauld Institute, London), Sandra Hindriks (Universität Wien).
Summer Lecture Series
Lecture hall C1
Hof 2
Spitalgasse 2
1090 ViennaConservation – Restoration
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Bodily Intelligence: Decentralising the Performance of ‘Intelligence’
A 4-part transdisciplinary workshop series, organised by Lisa Moravec (FWF project The Performance of Critique, Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies, Summer Semester 2026) in collaboration with Tanzquartier Wien.
Workshop series
Various locations
Art Theory and Cultural Studies
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PARCOURS. FINAL WORKS 2026
Opening: 23.6., 16 h, at the courtyard at Schillerplatz.
Diploma presentations
different locations
Academy
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Considering the Collection & The Day You Were Thinking About the Sibyl While You Were Picking Autumn Leaves An Insert by Ana Torfs
The format Considering the Collection & An Insert by … features highlights from the collection of the Paintings Gallery as well as installations and groups of works conceived as inserts by contemporary artists and incorporated into the temporary arrangement from the permanent collection. The insert by Belgian artist Ana Torfs is the third presentation in this series.
Exhibition
Schillerplatz
Paintings Gallery
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Online info session for enrollment in the Doctor of Philosophy WiSe 2026-27
In this online session will address questions regarding the admission to the Doctor of Philosophy program at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna — including requirements, potential challenges, and prerequisites.
Informative meeting
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Online via Zoom
Academy
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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