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Today: Opening Parcours. Final Works 2025!
The ceremonial opening of the exhibition of the final works will take place today at 16 h in the courtyard at Schillerplatz!
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Course Feedback at the Academy in summer semester 2025
Take part in the course feedback and help improve the quality of teaching and learning at the Academy, while strengthening the dialogue between students and teachers.
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Anna Orbanic receives the Cathrin-Pichler-Prize 2025
Anna Orbanic will receive the 2025 Cathrin-Pichler-Prize, endowed with 2,500 euros, sponsored by the City of Vienna. The certificate will be awarded during the graduation ceremony on June 27, 2025.
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Erste Bank Art Prizes 2025 awarded to Alina Sokolova and Željka Aleksić
Sokolova and Aleksić are graduates of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Works by the two "emerging artists" were auctioned at the 2025 Academy Auction. Now both have been honored by Erste Bank and DAS WEISSE HAUS.
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Klocker Art Prize 2025 to Jakob Lena Knebl and Ashley Hans Scheirl
According to the jury's statement, Knebl and Scheirl pursue "an open, transdisciplinary artistic practice in which genre boundaries are permeable and consciously expanded." The prize, endowed with 20,000 euros, will be presented this fall at the opening of the duo's exhibition in Hall in Tirol.
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Conservation-Restoration: Peeling the layers of the Hermesvilla
Students of the Academy conduct research on the interior of the Hermesvilla. The Kurier has published an article on this on May 18, 2025.
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Global Classroom: New Podcast with Fashions und Styles (IKL)
The Department for Fashions and Styles of the Institute for Education in the Arts is working on Global Classroom, a podcast format, together with two other international universities. The third episode was recently released!
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Senate election 2025: If you don't vote, you'll miss the party!
The 2025 Senate election will take place on May 20, from 8–15 h in the Senate Office (Room E08), Schillerplatz 3!
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Golden Lion of the Venice Architecture Biennale for Andrea Faraguna
The pavillion 'Heatwave' of the Kingdom of Bahrain, curated by Faraguna, wins the Golden Lion for Best National Participation at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale. Andrea Faraguna held a teaching position as Professor in the platform ADP/CMT at IKA during the study year 2024/25.
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Epidermitecture featured at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025
Outcomes of the research project Epidermitecture are presented within the main curatorial exhibition at the Arsenale as part of the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025. This research is a collaboration of the Institute for Art and Architecture, the Institute of Natural Sciences and Technology in the Arts and the Dust Institute. The project team consists of Michelle Howard, Adam Hudec, Laura Rabbachin, and Katja Sterflinger.
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What is Anti-Fascist Philosophy? Conference in Weimar
A conference on anti-fascist philosophy will take place at the Friedrich Nietzsche College in Weimar, Germany, from May 8-10, 2025. Rector Johan Hartle will participate and give a lecture on Saturday, May 10, entitled "The Popular Front as Philosophical Condition: Reconsidering Anti-Fascist Strategy."
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Die Akademie trauert um Prof. Mag.art. Peter Halbgebauer (1939-2025)
Mit großem Bedauern teilt die Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien mit, dass Peter Halbgebauer am 18. April 2025 in Wien verstorben ist.
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OUT NOW! A…Series Vol.27 Gender and Postsecularity in Knowledge Production and Visual Culture
Vol.27 of the Publication Series of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
Sabine Grenz, Doris Guth, Boka En, and Fatma Uysal, Berlin, Sternberg Press, 2024
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Admission Examination Master Education in the Arts for the study year 2025/2026
Registration period: April 11 – May 19, 2025 (online registration)
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University Library – Spring 2025 Vacations
The Main Library and the Branch Library at the Institute for Education in the Arts of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna will be closed from 1–2 May 2025.
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The Alumni Club is now on Instagram!
The alumni club's Instagram page provides information about events, continuing education opportunities, and calls!
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Gringa_os at UEMA
Since September 2024, UEMA in São Luís, Maranhão, Brazil, has been a new partner university of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna as part of an Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility project.
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Bulgarian engraver Nikola Popov: Exhibition and donations
On April 9, an exhibition on Nikola Popov's work opens at the Bulgarian Cultural Institute – "Haus Wittgenstein." Popov studied at the Special School for Engravers at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna from 1890 to 1895. In 2024, the University Archive received two donations: a print by Popov and two documents from his student days.
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Welcome to Summer semester 2025
We wish all new and returning students, teachers and staff a successful, exciting summer semester at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna!
Below you will find a compact overview of dates, links and contacts related to your studies!
