Events

An event hosted by the IKW, organized by Jens Kastner.

Book presentation

In advance of the PhD in Practice application process 2026, 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, requirements, the call for submissions and decision procedure of the PhD in Practice program at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

Study information

In advance of the PhD in Practice application process 2026, 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, requirements, the call for submissions and decision procedure of the PhD in Practice program at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

Study information

Three talks on the legacy of colonial histories in North America; the privatization of nature and land; and the logic of the plantation and enclosure on contemporary life organized by Alena Williams, Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies in Winter Semester 2025/26.

Legacies of the Plantation
K. Wayne Yang, Professor of Ethnic Studies & Provost of John Muir College, Co-founder, Indigenous Futures Institute, University of California, San Diego
Monday, 13.10. 2025, 17h

From Plantations to Invasive Infrastructures: Kanaka Maoli Mobilization for 'Āina
Architectural Historian Kelema Moses, Assistant Professor of Urban Studies and Planning and Member, Indigenous Futures Institute, University of California, San Diego
Friday, 17.10.2025, 11h

North of Robert Duncanson’s Canvas
Art Historian Evan Neely, Associate Chair, History of Art and Design, Pratt Institute, New York
Wednesday, 3.12.2025, 11h

Lecture series

Art historian Evan Neely will be presenting on the work of African American landscape painter Robert S. Duncanson. One of three lectures on the legacy of colonial histories in North America; the privatization of nature and land; and the logic of the plantation and enclosure on contemporary life in the series Nature and Sovereignty organized by Alena Williams, Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies in Winter Semester 2025/26.

Lecture

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

Lecture and book presentation

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

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

Lecture

The student-organized lecture series invites you to a moderated talk with author and scholar Noura Salahaldeen on October 30, 18:30 h.

Lecture

Architectural historian Kelema Moses will be discussing Kanaka Maoli epistemologies of the land, sea and sky in Hawai’i. One of three lectures on the legacy of colonial histories in North America; the privatization of nature and land; and the logic of the plantation and enclosure on contemporary life in the series Nature and Sovereignty organized by Alena Williams, Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies in Winter Semester 2025/26.

Lecture

Scholar K. Wayne Yang will deliver one of three lectures on the legacy of colonial history in North America; the privatization of nature and land; and the logic of the plantation and enclosure on contemporary life in the series Nature and Sovereignty organized by Alena Williams, Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies in Winter Semester 2025/26.

Lecture

A lecture by Petra Lange-Berndt (University of Hamburg), organized by Sabeth Buchmann and Isabelle Lindermann, Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies.

Lecture

International conference organised by the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in cooperation with Kunsthochschule für Medien Cologne and eipcp - European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies.

Conference

An event organized by the Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies.

Event

An event by the Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies, Transgender Studies.

Lecture

A lecture by Philipp Strobl, organized by Noit Banai, Professor of Diaspora Aesthetics, Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies, as part of "Diaspora Kitchen".

Lecture

Noit Banai with Amanda Holmes. Part of the lecture series ‘Aesthetics of Transformation’, curated by the School for Transformation.

Discussion

Lecture by Musquiqui Chihying, organized by Univ.-Prof. Mag. Christian Kravagna, Postcolonial Studies (IKW), as part of The Global Lives of African Art.

Lecture

A Lecture Performance by Lee Kai Chung, organized Noit Banai, Professor of Diaspora Aesthetics, Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies, as part of "Diaspora Kitchen"

Lecture Performance

The group exhibition Leakage, Breaching, Motley Tongues challenges the liberal model of solidarity based on empathy and identification.

Exhibition

Opening of the group exhibition Leakage, Breaching, Motley Tongues, a cooperation between Kunstraum Niederoesterreich and the PhD-in-Practice program of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. After the opening there will be a performance at 20 h.

Exhibition opening

Book presentation and public talk by Arsenio Rodríguez Quintana, organized by the Department of Postcolonial Studies.

Book presentation and talk

The panel discussion takes place in the context of the Gender Studies II lecture course, “’The Right to Sex’: Practising Feminist Criticism and Aesthetising its Body Politics” (led by Dr. Lisa Moravec).

Panel discussion

Material imaginary worlds –imaginarios materiales– are effects of „collective aesthetics“. The influential Peruvian theorist Juan Acha (1916-1995) advocated placing them at the centre of all art and cultural studies. The symposium presents theses and research work that can be read in the context of this dictum. Various approaches to art and cultural theory from Latin America will be taken up and applied to different subject areas. All contributions are located in the context of dissertation projects at the IKW. In each case, the analytical perspective is also supported by a normative turn towards what Acha called an „independent visual culture“.

Symposium

Film screening performance and panel discussion, moderated by Prof. Noit Banai, Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies.

Film screening performance and panel discussion

An online information session and Q&A about the application and the MACS program.

Study information

An info event for the doctoral program PhD in Practice.

Study information

A panel discussion as part of the TQW Winter School with Noit Banai (Professor of Diaspora Aesthetics, Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies).

Panel discussion

Lecture and discussion organized by the Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies.

Lecture and Discussion

Webinar