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The Prize for Scholarly Works 2020/21 is awarded to Marion Thuswald for her dissertation (IKL). The Honorary Award goes to Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński, also for her dissertation (PhD in Practice). Congratulations!

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.

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.

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

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

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 .

Vienna, 04.06.2020

We, students, teachers, assistants at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, and community members of Austria, stand firmly against the violence of the police, not only in the U.S. but also here in Austria and in the European Union, where Black people are being killed by racist police officers and white supremacists.

July 8th, 2020

We regularly inform you about the adjustment of the measures in accordance with the instructions of the Federal Government. Please check your e-mails regularly and stay in contact with us, your respective committees and representatives, superiors or teachers.

05.05.2020

Until further notice, all locations of the Academy will remain closed. Until 30 June 2020 , in order to protect all members of the University and to restrain the spread of the corona virus, no courses with physical presence (seminars, lectures, meetings and meetings of any kind) will be held on the premises of the Academy. With the focus on summer diplomas, the workshops will be opened as soon as the COVID19 protective measures imposed by the Federal Government allow it.