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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 It will not use academicism a pejorative label for all that is outdated, nor credit the avant-garde with a monopoly on the new.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

  • Werner Busch: Carstens und Koch. Die Zerstörung des zentralperspektivischen Raumes und die Rolle der Französischen Revolution

    Vortragsreihe Lektionen / Lessons

    Sitzungssaal

    Paintings Gallery

    Gemälde eines sitzenden Mannes in heller Kleidung, der sich entspannt an einen Baum lehnt. Er hält ein Buch in der Hand; im Hintergrund ist eine farbige Landschaft zu sehen. Über dem Bild steht der Schriftzug „Lektionen / Lessons“.

  • Sunday tour

    Overview tour through the exhibition The Great Michelangelo Is Dead! Avant-Garde and Academicism 

    Schillerplatz

    Paintings Gallery

    Visitors during a guided tour of an exhibition in a museum gallery.

  • Sunday tour

    Overview tour through the exhibition The Great Michelangelo Is Dead! Avant-Garde and Academicism 

    Schillerplatz

    Paintings Gallery

    Visitors during a guided tour of an exhibition in a museum gallery.

  • Sunday tour

    Overview tour through the exhibition The Great Michelangelo Is Dead! Avant-Garde and Academicism 

    Schillerplatz

    Paintings Gallery

    Visitors during a guided tour of an exhibition in a museum gallery.

  • Sunday tour

    Overview tour through the exhibition The Great Michelangelo Is Dead! Avant-Garde and Academicism 

    Schillerplatz

    Paintings Gallery

    Visitors during a guided tour of an exhibition in a museum gallery.

  • Weekend of Graphics 2026

    Masterpieces from the Graphic Collection

    Guided Tour

    Schillerplatz/ Study room

    Graphic Collection

    Painted figure with an orange head, a white top, turquoise trousers and black boots against a brown background.

  • Wochenende der Grafik 2026

    Studiensaalführung: Meisterwerke aus dem Kupferstichkabinett

    Schillerplatz/ Studiensaal

    Graphic Collection

    Gemalte Figur mit orangefarbenem Kopf, weißem Oberteil, türkisfarbener Hose und schwarzen Stiefeln vor einem braunen Hintergrund.

  • Sunday tour

    Overview tour through the exhibition The Great Michelangelo Is Dead! Avant-Garde and Academicism 

    Schillerplatz

    Paintings Gallery

    Visitors during a guided tour of an exhibition in a museum gallery.

  • Sunday tour

    Overview tour through the exhibition The Great Michelangelo Is Dead! Avant-Garde and Academicism 

    Schillerplatz

    Paintings Gallery

    a group of men paints an act

  • Curator’s tour of the exhibition The Great Michelangelo Is Dead! Avant-Garde & Academicism

    Schillerplatz

    Paintings Gallery

    Poster for the Paintings Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna advertising the exhibition “Der große Michelangelo ist tot!” (“The Great Michelangelo Is Dead!”), with the subtitle “Avantgarde & Akademismus” (“Avant-Garde & Academicism”). Against a black background, colour-altered details from several historical artworks are combined into a collage: on the left, a female figure in vivid yellow, green and orange tones; in the centre, a large blue male sculpture; on the right, an orange and brown bearded figure; and in the lower right, a black-and-white group of figures. Large white lettering reads “Der große Michelangelo ist tot!”. At the top left is the text “A…kademie der bildenden Künste Wien – Gemäldegalerie”. At the bottom left are the exhibition subtitle “Avantgarde & Akademismus” and the dates “2.10.2026–22.8.2027”. The bottom right contains opening hours, the address, the website and a QR code.

  • Regine Prange: The Heroic in an Age of Decadence. Baudelaire’s Aesthetics of Modernity between Realism and the Supernatural

    Gustave Courbet laid the foundations for modern painting in his rural homeland, Franche-Comté. His friend Charles Baudelaire found, in the city of Paris alone, a ‘heroic’ beauty in modern life that could stand on equal terms with the classical tradition. This lecture traces the poet and art critic’s anti-modern conception of modernity.

    Lecture series Lektionen / Lessons

    Schillerplatz/ Conference room

    Paintings Gallery

    Painting of a seated man in light clothing, leaning casually against a tree. He holds a book in his hand, with a colourful landscape in the background. The image includes the title “Lektionen / Lessons”.

  • Sunday tour

    Overview tour through the exhibition The Great Michelangelo Is Dead! Avant-Garde and Academicism 

    Schillerplatz

    Paintings Gallery

    a group of men paints an act

  • Sunday tour

    Overview tour through the exhibition The Great Michelangelo Is Dead! Avant-Garde and Academicism 

    Schillerplatz

    Paintings Gallery

    a group of men paints an act

  • Sunday tour

    Overview tour through the exhibition The Great Michelangelo Is Dead! Avant-Garde and Academicism 

    Schillerplatz

    Paintings Gallery

    a group of men paints an act

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    A Night at the Paintings Gallery - Long Night of Museums 2026

    Guided Tours

    Schillerplatz

    Paintings Gallery

  • Opening Reception of The Great Michelangelo Is Dead! Avant-Garde and Academicism

    Schillerplatz/ Auditorium

    Paintings Gallery

    a collage of three figures of historic paintings in yellow, orange and a bluish color

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    Drawing after Antiquity – The Plaster Cast Collection opens for an afternoon of drawing

    The afternoon opening of the Plaster Cast Collection is an offer to all those who want to deal intensively with drawing.

    Workshop

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    Studio Building/ Plaster Cast Collection

    Plaster Cast Collection

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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

  • 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

    Guided tour with the artist Ana Torfs and curator Synne Genzmer

    Guided tour

    Schillerplatz

    Paintings Gallery

    exhibition space with oil paintings on the wall and other art objects