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The Academy Auction 2023 is online since today on www.dorotheum.com/akbild! Bids can be submitted until 20 January 2023, the proceeds will support students in precarious situations students in precarious living situations as well as the associations tralalobe and solidarity matters, which take care of refugees in Austria.

Representatives of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna wish for a continuation of the intensive cooperation with the trio of directors of the Kunsthalle Wien, especially in the promotion of young artists. With the departure of the Kunsthalle direction, Vienna's cultural landscape would be missing an important curatorial position!

The jury has chosen a work by Juliane Jungblut, a student at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. The Open Days 2023 will take place from January 19 to 22 at all locations of the Academy.

We congratulate Judith Huemer on receiving the Cultural Award of the Province of Upper Austria for Photography.

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.

Robert Gabris studied Scenography at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna from 2010–2014 and Costume and Set Design at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava (2006–2010).

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:

We congratulate Carola Dertnig, Professor of Performing Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, on receiving the Recognition Award of the Province of Lower Austria.

Maruša Sagadin studied Performing Arts and Sculpture with Monica Bonvicini at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna from 2005 to 2010, where she worked as an assistant professor from 2012 to 2017.

The Conference of the Chairs of the Senates of Austrian Universities urgently warns of the budgetary emergency situation that is looming.

The senate chairs of the Austrian universities are alarmed at the brutality and aggression with which the Iranian regime is confronting the demonstrators and the people of Iran.

The exhibition Next Generation is aimed at young artists and students from eight art schools, art academies and university programs for visual arts.

for November 2022 date please send by mail to studienabteilung@akbild.ac.at

We congratulate Elisabeth von Samsonow on winning the 1st prize of the Schiele Award, endowed with 5000€.

The artist and former academy professor of Figurative Painting, Silke Otto-Knapp, died in Los Angeles after a long serious illness at the age of 52.

The Austrian Universities Conference (uniko) is shocked by the continuing brutal violence of the Iranian regime against students, professors and civil society and attempts to surpress any protest from the start.

We look forward to the future cooperation with:

At this point, the Rectorate of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna vehemently points out the urgent need for additional financing of the Austrian universities. Since the beginning of the drastic price increases, the Academy has also been waiting for a clear signal from the Ministry to cover the additional costs of maintaining a functioning university. We do not want to leave the current situation without comment and inform members of the Academy as well as the wider public about the drastic nature of the situation.

We warmly welcome Tizza Covi (Univ.prof. §99 Art and Film at IBK), Romana Hagyo (Univ.prof. §99 Gender & Space at IBK), IJsbrand Hummelen (Univ.prof. §99 at IKR), Alastair Mackinven (Univ.prof. §98 Figurative Painting at IBK) and Ines Weizman (Univ.prof. §99 Architectural Theory and Design (HTC) at IKA) to the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna!