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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

  • Doing Things with Being Undone in the Necrocene

    IBK Lecture series, SoSe 2023. Lecture by Prof. Dr. Jill H. Casid (U.S.), organized by the Studio for Post-conceptual Art Practices/Prof. Marina Gržinić.

    Lecture

    Online via Zoom

    Fine Arts

    Portrait of woman in leather jacket
  • Daniel Richter

    Vienna premiere of the film DANIEL RICHTER and talk on the film with Daniel Richter and Rector of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna Johan F. Hartle. An event of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and FILMLADEN.

    Film and talk

    CineCenter Wien
    Fleischmarkt 6
    1010 Wien

    Fine Arts

    Daniel Richter with 2 parrots on hand
  • Come una pupilla al variare della luce

    Exhibition by Constanze Ruhm, Professor of Art and Digital Media.

    Exhibition

    Belvedere 21
    Arsenalstraße 1
    1030 Wien

    Fine Arts

    Girl with a reflective shard.
  • 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