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Johanna Dohnal sponsorship prizes are awarded to students or graduates from Austrian colleges and universities for master's or diploma theses or dissertations that promote the realization of gender democracy and set an example for girls and women in training and study.

The 40 best dissertations of the academic year 2020/21 will be honored with the state prize “Award of Excellence 2021” from the Federal Minister for Education, Science and Research (BMBWF).

Nora Schultz will be our new professor for Sculpture and Installation at the Academy. Starting February 2022 she will be leading the studio for Sculpture and Installation at the Institute for Fine Arts.

Status: 1 August, 2022

We welcome Francis Ruyter, Doireann O'Malley, DI Andreas Rumpfhuber, Nina von Mechow, Aristide Antonas, Mag. Dr. Sigrid Eyb-Green and Dr. Heike Derwanz, MA to the Academy.

Programme of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna within the framework of the Vienna Art Week 202 1

Orange the world - 16 days against violence against women is an annual international campaign that starts on November 25, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and ends on December 10, Human Rights Day. The Academy of Fine Arts is again in solidarity with the Orange the World campaign in 2021 and will illuminate the building at Schillerplatz during this period.

Rektor Johan F. Hartle is pleased to announce a future-oriented decision for the Academy: Sabine Folie will take over as Director of the Art Collections of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna from January 2022

ONLINE pre-registration is required for the admission to study at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna under following link: https://campus.akbild.ac.at .

Exchanging Sketches is a sketchbook-based project by the International Office for the exchange students at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna during the teaching year 2020/21.

Download digital Version of Exchanging Sketches

Scheduled to open at Kunsthalle Wien Museumsquartier in February 2022, the newest iteration in the series of exhibitions held in conjunction with the Kunsthalle Wien Prize will feature works by the two winners of the first prize as well as six other artists.

The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna will return to its historic building on Schillerplatz over the summer after extensive renovation and modernisation. Opening exhibitions in collaboration with the Indian curator trio Raqs Media Collective will mark the end of the move on 8 October 2021 and will be open to all visitors on 9 and 10 October from 10 am to 6 pm with free admission.

Entrance examination Bachelor in Architecture:  May – July 2021

Deadline for applications Bachelor in Architecture
Online Registration 17.05. – 04.06.2021

Mr. Eduard Saxinger, appointed by the Federal Government as a member of the University Council at the Academy in 2018, was chairman of the University Council from the beginning of this functional period.

One hundred years ago, women were at last allowed to study at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. 100 YEARS - SHE* CAME TO STAY, is a series of events which celebrates this centenary year and cautions that the struggle for equality is far from over.

Due to the current Covid 19 situation, this year's annual tour did not take place in the usual form in January, but instead goes "all year round!" The students of the academy, together with their teachers, have developed a variety of presentation options on different communication channels as well as in public space and thus offer a program that extends throughout the year.