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The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna is pleased that this year numerous works by teachers, former teachers, students, as well as alumni are represented at the Viennale 2023.

Henrie Dennis due to her outstanding Fine Arts diploma achievements is awarded the “Würdigungspreis 2023” by the Federal Minister of Education, Science and Research. 

Art Conservation and Architecture students of the Academy travelled together to survey land art pieces belonging to a private collector in Friuli. A joint project of the Institute of Art and Architecture, Christina Condak and Institute of Conservation - Restoration, Carolin Bohlmann. In collaboration with Michela Lupieri, contemporary Italian art curator and researcher.

The Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research grants planning approval for the construction project "Renovation and Extension to Ballonhalle" with a total investment volume of approximately 50.1 million euros gross.

We warmly welcome Anastassia Smirnova-Berlin und Alexander Sverdlov (Univ.prof. § 99 Architectural Design (platform Geography Landscapes Cities) at the Institute for Art and Architecture) to the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna! The department is co-chaired by both of them.

Congratulations: The best oral presentation and best poster awards at the 6th International Mass Spectrometry School in Cagliari, Italy, 17-22 September 2023, went to Teodora Raicu, MSc, first-year PhD student at the INTK.

We welcome Monika Kammer (Univ.prof. § 98 Conservation-Restoration) at the Institute for Conservation – Restoration, warmly at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna!

Bidding periods for 2nd Year Scholarship and Student Assistance Fund as early as October 2023.

We warmly welcome Emily Wardill (Univ.prof. § 98 Art and Film at the Institute for Fine Arts) to the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna!

We warmly welcome Aristide Antonas (Univ.prof. § 98 Architectural Design (Platform Analog Digital Production) at the Institute of Art and Architecture), to the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna!

We warmly welcome Alexei Penzin (Univ.prof. § 99 Philosophy and Aesthetic Theory at the Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies) to the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna!

We warmly welcome Alice Creischer and Andreas Siekmann (Univ.prof. § 98 Contextual Painting at the Institute for Fine Arts) to the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna! The department is co-chaired by both of them.

IAA Card to be recognised at the Kunsthistorisches Museum and the Albertina. The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna also advocates, in the sense of promoting artists, that artists with the International Artists' Card of the IAA receive free admission to all Austrian federal museums.

For the 17th time - and for the first time in international cooperation with Bergen Kunsthall in Norway - Kunstraum Niederoesterreich awards the H13 Lower Austria Prize for Performance, this time to Rehema Chachage, PhD in Practice student at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

The registration for the courses of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna is possible from 18.9. on AkademieOnline. The access data will be sent by email with the enrollment. Searching for courses in German and English or for teachers is possible here.

Together with the Austrian art universities, Ö1 is again looking for talented young artists in 2023. A grant for visual arts in the amount of 10,000 euros will be awarded, which will be made available by Wiener Städtische Versicherungsverein.

Winner of the first prize of the University of Applied Arts Vienna is Marielena Stark.