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News
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Jul 06, 2026
Award winners 2025/26
For the academic year 2025/26, the Academy will award the following prizes to distinguished graduates and students:
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Jul 03, 2026
Congratulations: Awards for Scholarly Works 2025/26
The Awards for Scholarly Works 2025/26 goes to Hannah Katalin Grimmer for her dissertation (IKW). The 3 (!) Honorary Awards go to: Franzis Kabisch for her dissertation (IKW), Jasemin A. Khaleli for her master-thesis (Master in Critical Studies) and Doris Leitner for her final thesis (IKR). Congratulations!
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Jul 02, 2026
Competition: Art in Public Space - Akbild x Bank Austria
The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, in cooperation with Bank Austria, is realizing the project package The Sum of Its Individual Parts. As part of the project package, a graduate will create a temporary sculpture in a public space. The competition is aimed at graduates from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. The winning project will receive prize money of 20,000 euros and will be installed for a period of about one year at the northwestern corner of Karlsplatz (on the triangular traffic island between Friedrichstraße and Operngasse).
Submission deadline: Tuesday, October 6, 2026, 11 h
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Jul 01, 2026
For Graduates: Applications for START studios are now being accepted
The Cultural Affairs Department of the City of Vienna (MA7) awards workspaces in START studios every two years in the field of visual arts. Each workspace is approximately 30 square meters. Applications are accepted from July 1 to 31, 2026, for a studio available between March 2027 and February 2029.
