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Eva Egermann, PhD student at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, and Cordula Thym were awarded for their film C-TV (Wenn ich Dir sage, ich habe Dich gern ...) in the category Innovative Cinema. The prize is endowed with 6,000 euros. Congratulations!

Tizza Covi, professor of Art and Film at the Institute of Fine Arts since October 2022, and Rainer Frimmel were awarded for their portrait film Vera in the feature film category. The prize is endowed with 21,000 euros. Congratulations!

The University Library of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna is on vacation. The Main Library and the Branch Library at the Institute for Education in the Arts will be closed from April 3 to 10, 2023.

Online registration: March 27 - April 23, 2023

Online registration: April 17 - May 14, 2023

Jens Kastner in Artis Observatio. Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Kunstsoziologie und Soziologie der Künste, Bd. 2 Nr. 1 (2023) https://doi.org/10.11576/ao-5336

Status: 13.03.2023

On February 24, 2022, Russia began its invasion of Ukraine. The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna continues to condemn this war and expresses its solidarity with the civilian population in the war zones as well as the displaced persons.

The Academy particularly addresses all affected students, to whom we offer help in administrative matters with psychosocial support and, where possible, also financially.

With the beginning of the summer semester, Susanne Zottl and Norbert Steiner take up their professorships at the Institute of Art and Architecture, Platform Analogue Digital Production.

Selma Doborac studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Art and Film (Harun Farocki) from 2008 to 2012.

The annual charity auction of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in cooperation with the Dorotheum raised around € 200,000 in donations in January 2023. Half of the amount goes to students of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna who are exposed to difficult living and studying conditions due to their nationality or psychological stress. The rest of the net proceeds will be distributed to the associations tralalobe (€ 60,000) and solidarity matters (€ 35,000), which work with refugees in Austria.

Deadline for application: February 28th, 2023

Registration online and Submission of the examination assignment online: February 1 until February 28, 2023 

Carola Dertnig, professor for performative art at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, wins the competition announced by viennacontemporary and honors with her work the legendary Viennese saxophonist and circus performer Lucia Westerguard.