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    Final Steps: Submission of your PhD thesis and Defensio / Rigorosum

    How do I formally submit my dissertation? What are the benefits of a voluntary plagiarism check before submission? What is a revocation application (Sperrantrag), and what role does it play if I am planning to publish my dissertation? How and when do I register for my thesis defense (Defensio) or Rigorosum?

    Coffee Table Talk

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    Online via Zoom

    Academy

  • PhD in Practice | Info Meeting

    In advance of the PhD in Practice application process 2027, the program invites potential and interested applicants to an online information session where you will have the opportunity to meet the program leaders and professors Anette Baldauf and Renate Lorenz, learn about the program, the call for submissions and decision procedure of the PhD in Practice program at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

    Info event

    Online via Zoom

    Art Theory and Cultural Studies

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    Exposé Schreiben auf Deutsch

    The exposé forms the foundation of the doctoral. It is an important first step in the writing process and serves as a roadmap for the further development of thedissertation project. This one-day workshop is designed for doctoral and PhD candidates and offers hands-on guidance for writing exposés in German.

    Workshop

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    Karl-Schweighofer-Gasse 3, 1070 Vienna, room DG 18

    Academy

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    Exposé Writing in English

    The exposé forms the foundation of the doctoral. It is an important first step in the writing process and serves as a roadmap for the further development of thedissertation project. This one-day workshop is designed for doctoral and PhD candidates and offers hands-on guidance for writing exposés in English.

    Workshop

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    Karl-Schweighofer-Gasse 3, 1070 Vienna, room DG 18

    Academy

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    Academy Auction 2027

    The annual online auction of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, in cooperation with Dorotheum Vienna, takes place again in 2027. The artistic works can be viewed from Wednesday, 20.1. to Friday, 22.1.2027 at the Prospekthof of the Atelierhaus of the Academy.

    Charity Auction

    Academy

  • Performance by JJJJJerome Ellis

    A performance by JJJJJerome Ellis as part of the exhibition Blut und Kaffee / Blood and Coffee.

    Performance

    Schillerplatz

    Exhibit Gallery

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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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    Digital Realities / Analog Feelings

    We live in a constant stream of images and algorithms that shape not only what we see, but how we perceive, remember and represent ourselves. Digital Realities / Analog Feelings takes the phrase “Touch some grass” literally and asks what happens when our bodies becomes a site of knowledge in a world already organised by images.

    Exhibition

    Studio Building/ Studio

    Exhibit Studio

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    Lectures for Future

    Lecture series in the winter semester 2026/27. Lectures for Future (L4F) is an interdisciplinary lecture series that has been offered at various Austrian universities since the winter semester of 2019. In L4F, researchers provide insights into their current scientific and artistic work on the topics of climate crisis and sustainable development.

    Lecture series

    Various locations

    Fine Arts

  • Designed For Repair: Regeneratives Design Beyond Greenwashing

    A lecture by Alexandra Fruhstorfer as part of the Lectures for Future series, hosted by Kunst und Raum | Objekt.

    Lecture

    Sculpture Studios/ Project room 2, 104

    Fine Arts

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    Amöbe (Rückblick voraus)

    A pictorial-sculptural intervention and exhibition on decoding perception by Imre Nagy and Jörg Reissner, as part of the Academy Library‘s Wer A.. sagt series.

    Exhibition

    Schillerplatz/ University Library (Reading room, M7)

    University Library

    The color illustration in landscape format shows the yellow book cover of “Amöbe (Rückblick voraus)” [Amoeba (Review Ahead)] on the left half. On the right, we find an image of a small sculpture against a colored background.

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    HUMAN ATTEMPTS

    The group exhibition HUMAN ATTEMPTS - of Curators’ Agenda: VIENNA 2026 - stems from the need to explore the intuitive human action that stubbornly confronts the complexity of reality. 

    Exhibition

    DAS WEISSE HAUS
    Souterrain
    Hegelgasse 14
    1010 Vienna

    Art Theory and Cultural Studies

    Poster blue writing on red background

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    Online info session for enrollment in the Doctor of Philosophy SuSe 2027

    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. You will also learn about the structure of the program.

    Info session

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    Online via Zoom

    Academy

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    Blut und Kaffee / Blood and Coffee

    Blut und Kaffee / Blood and Coffee, curated by Mariana Lemos and Marianne Vlaschits, brings together local and international artists working across disability, illness, embodiment and disembodiment.

    Exhibition

    Schillerplatz

    Exhibit Gallery

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    Bourdieu Lectures: From the Left to the Right Hand of the State: Polarizations and Authoritarian Transformations

    The Bourdieu Lectures 2026 are an interdisciplinary conference, created as a joint initiative of Bielefeld University, Zeppelin University (Friedrichshafen), Freiburg University of Education and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in close cooperation with the Fondation Bourdieu.

    Conference

    Kunsthalle Bielefeld
    Artur-Ladebeck-Straße 5
    33602 Bielefeld
    Deutschland

    Art Theory and Cultural Studies

  • Graduate Conference 2027

    At the Graduate Conference 2027 doctoral and PhD candidates in their final phase will present results of their dissertation projects.

    Conference

    Schillerplatz/ Conference room

    Academy

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    The Great Michelangelo Is Dead! Avant-Garde and Academicism

    The exhibition The Great Michelangelo Is Dead! Avant-Garde and Academicism 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.

    Exhibition

    Schillerplatz

    Paintings Gallery