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  • University Library – February 2024 Vacation

    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 February 5 to 18, 2024.

  • Admission Examination Master in Critical Studies

    Registration online and Submission of the examination assignment online: February 1 until February 29, 2024 

  • Admission Examination Scenography

    Online registration and upload at: www.akbild.ac.at/admission from February 1st until February 29th 2024

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  • Admission Examination PhD in Practice

    Application period: February 1–29, 2024
    Beginning of studies: October 1, 2024

  • Admission Examination Fine Arts

    Online Registration form January 24th 2024, 10 h CET to February 14th, 12 h NOON CET, only via www.akbild.ac.at/admission

  • TODAY UNTIL 5pm! 10 years academy auction

    The annual online auction of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, in cooperation with Dorotheum Vienna, takes place for the tenth time in 2024. The proceeds will benefit students at the academy who are exposed to difficult living conditions - for example due to their nationality - as well as the initiatives tralalobe and solidarity matters, which support refugees in Austria.

  • Admission Examination Conservation and Restoration

    Online Registration 8.1. – 31.1.2024: www.akbild.ac.at/zulassung

    In the center of the image is a round, black lacquer tabletop with inlays, resting on two wooden work trestles. A student is sitting behind it on the right, bending over the object and working on the inlays.

  • University Library – Vacations at the turn of the year 2023/2024

    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 December 22, 2023 to January 7, 2024. 

    Magazine shelf in the Academy Library with hot off the press titles from the arts and sciences. Among others, the following magazines can be recognized: "Social Semiotics", "Social Text", "Spike", "Weltkunst", "werk, bauen+wohnen", and "wespennest".

  • Award of Excellence for Helena Schmidt

    Helena Schmidt, since this year university assistant (post-doc) at the Institute for Education in the Arts (IKL) - Department of Art and Education, was honored for her dissertation From poor image to poor images. Digital didactics in art education, supervised by Elke Krasny, received the Award for Excellence from the BMBWF.

  • The Academy mourns the death of Wolfgang Hollegha (1929 - 2023)

    From 1972 to 1997, Wolfgang Hollegha was professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, where he last taught a masterclass in painting.

  • Gender Studies Day on 5.12.2023

    Gabriele Possanner was the first woman to receive a doctorate in Austria-Hungary in 1897. 100 years later, the Ministry of Science launches the Gabriele Possanner Prizes for services to the promotion of gender studies. On the 2nd Day of Gender Studies - Tuesday, December 5, 2023, the winners of the 2023 Possanner Prizes will be announced.

  • Kiosk – Platform for Diversity and Equal Opportunities

    Project presentation and launch of the new study information platform "Kiosk – Platform for Diversity and Equal Opportunities".

  • Holiday Opening Hours 2023/2024

    Information on the holiday opening hours of the contemporary exhibitions, the exhibition of the Art Collections and the service facilities of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna:

  • The Academy's course feedback WS2023/24

    So, how’s it? Everybody needs feedback sometimes. Help us to improve the quality of studies and teaching at the Academy and strengthen the dialogue between teachers and students.

  • STOP THE VIOLENCE

  • ORANGE THE WORLD 2023

    This year, the Academy of Fine Arts is showing solidarity with Orange the World by displaying orange flags at the entrance of the main building at Schillerplatz. With this participation, we want to publicly position ourselves against all forms of gender-based violence.

  • The Academy mourns the death of Gerda Sack

    The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna announces with great regret that Gerda Sack, long-time manager of the childrens day care of the Academy has passed away.

  • Bucherer Sponsorship Award for Academy graduate Andrea Zabric

    Andrea Zabric, a graduate of the Master in Critical Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, received the Bucherer Sponsorship Award, endowed with 5,000 euros. In addition to the award ceremony in the Bucherer Salon at Graben, her work was also on display for three weeks in the windows of the store on the corner of Kärntnerstrasse and Graben. 

    Picture of three people with awards in their hands

  • Gabriele Possanner Prize 2023 goes to Elke Krasny

    Prof.in Mag.a Elke Krasny, PhD is a feminist cultural theorist and curator. After a career as a freelance academic, she has been Professor of Art and Education at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna since 2014.

  • Msgr. Otto Mauer Prize 2023 goes to Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński

    As a part of her PhD-in-Practice at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński researched the performativity of Blackness in relation to Austrian coloniality. Based on scenes from Austrian history, she is interested in memory that transcends space and time and Black radical imagination.