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The Institute for Fine Arts is a center of artistic education, practice, and research. It aims to provide students with comprehensive yet precisely targeted artistic competence, including technique and content. For the past ten years, the institute has consistently expanded on the classic disciplines of painting and sculpture, to include fields such as contemporary media, photography, film, video, performance, and conceptual art. These developments provide today’s students with 18 studios of artistic education. By expanding our workshops and enhancing autonomous teaching by non-professorial staff, we have been able to establish a wide and distinctive scope of artistic development.

A close link to the Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies supports us by the direct combination of theoretical and practice-related teaching content. In its current configuration, the Institute for Fine Arts offers a combination of individual and group artistic instruction, workshops, and laboratories with different foci, as well as a large variety of courses in practice and/or theory, many of which are interdisciplinary in nature.

As a part of the curriculum, artists rooted in international discourse manage the Studios (central artistic subjects), and counsel and accompany students in their courses. Together, they develop projects visible beyond the scope of the Academy. Apart from teaching, the Academy has been increasingly focused on the field of artistic research—research that, in turn, enhances the number and quality of courses offered.

Sufficient room and space, separate workplaces, and state-of-the-art professional equipment support our students in their individual development and prepare them for independent work after their studies. The Institute’s international orientation is shown not only by its selection of lecturers, but also by the large number of international students in attendance and the constant presence of its graduates in a very comprehensive artistic context.

Upcoming Events

  • Bridging Bodies, Technology, Theory, and AI for Civic Resistance

    This symposium is part of the Ludic Method lecture series. The symposium is supported by the research project Conviviality as Potentiality (2021-2025), funded by Austrian Science Fund FWF: AR 679.

    Conference

    University of Applied Arts Vienna
    Experimental Game Cultures
    Georg-Coch-Platz 2, 1.floor
    1010 Vienna

    Fine Arts

  • VIELGESCHICHTIG. 6 Portraits | 31 Conversations | 6 Languages

    On October 4, 2023, the artistic installation will open at the Alma Rosé Plateau. It thematizes the multi-layered lives of six people who share them in conversation with different audiences.

    Opening

    Neue Burg
    Heldenplatz
    Vienna

    Fine Arts

  • Studio Building/ 2. floor, Multi-Purpose Space

    Fine Arts

  • Information on recognition from previous studies and competences in the Fine Arts study program

    We would like to cordially invite all students of Fine Arts to the following info session on the Fine Arts curriculum: Information on recognitions from previous studies and competences acquired outside the university in the Fine Arts curriculum.

    Information event

    Studio Building/ 2. floor, Multi-Purpose Space

    Fine Arts

  • Zwischenwurzeln

    An exhibition project by the studio Expanded Pictorial Space-Action/Sculpture/Installation.

    Exhibition

    Forstmuseum Silvanum
    Großreifling 33
    8931 Landl
    Steiermark

    Fine Arts

  • Recognition in practice - How do I submit an application?

    We provide a hands-on introduction to the world of paperwork for recognition of examinations and other competences. 

    Information event

    Online via Zoom

    Fine Arts

  • Muslim*Contemporay 2023 I The Third Edition

    The third edition of Muslim*Contemporary is titled Von Gästen zu Gastgebenden - War das jetzt unfreundlich?! and reflects on the fact that Vienna was once again named the most unfriendly city.

    Conference

    Eschenbachgasse

    Fine Arts

  • Recognition in practice - How do I submit an application?

    We provide a hands-on introduction to the world of paperwork for recognition of examinations and other competences. 

    Information event

    Online via Zoom

    Fine Arts

  • Eine Wand mit Gesichtern (A wall with faces)

    Painting by Fabian Köttl on the KUNSTWAND at WIEN MITTE The Mall. Winning project of a tender by WIEN MITTE in cooperation with the Faculty Studio Expanded Pictorial Space of Univ. Prof. Daniel Richter.

    Exhibition

    KUNSTWAND WIEN MITTE The Mall, 1st Floor

    Fine Arts

    Art wall at Wien Mitte showing the artwork of Fabian Köttl
  • VIELGESCHICHTIG. 6 Portraits | 31 Conversations | 6 Languages

    On October 4, 2023, the artistic installation will open at the Alma Rosé Plateau. It thematizes the multi-layered lives of six people who share them in conversation with different audiences.

    Exhibition

    Neue Burg
    Heldenplatz
    Vienna

    Fine Arts