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  • Dec 19, 2025

    Residency in Cairo 2026 awarded

    In collaboration with the Austrian Cultural Forum Cairo, the Federal Ministry for Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport, and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, a residency in Cairo was announced for graduates of the Academy. We are pleased to announce that Marlene Coates has been invited to undertake the residency in Cairo in April and May 2026. Furthermore, in cooperation with PART – International Art Residency Austria, the Egyptian artist Omar Abd El-Baqi has been invited to complete a one-month residency in Vienna in February 2026.

    Academy

  • Die Stürze (The Falls)

    Performance on the theme of falling, based on Amitav Ghosh's book The Nutmeg's Curse. What must fall and how? Falling backwards, changing direction, falling in slow motion. The audience experiences falls to come, in the Gallery of the Studio Building. 

    Performance

    Studio Building/ 3. floor, gallery

    Art and Architecture

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    Exhibition: Asya Marakulina

    Exhibition at Aula of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna by scholarship holders of the ASoP* scholarship program of the BMEIA in cooperation with the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

    Exhibition

    Schillerplatz/ Auditorium

    Academy

  • Sunday tour

    Overview tour through the exhibition Considering the Collection & The Day You Were Thinking About the Sibyl While You Were Picking Autumn Leaves An Insert by Ana Torfs

    Schillerplatz

    Paintings Gallery

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    Theorising Materiality – Materialising Theory

    A lecture series organized by the Insitute for Conservation – Restoration, the University of Vienna, and the Courtauld Institute.Convenors: Carolin Bohlmann (Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien), Pia Gottschaller (Courtauld Institute, London), Sandra Hindriks (Universität Wien).

    Summer Lecture Series

    Lecture hall C1
    Hof 2
    Spitalgasse 2
    1090 Vienna

    Conservation – Restoration

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    Nonconforming Criticisms: Practices, Strategies, Poetics

    Two-day writing workshop followed by a lunch lecture by Dr. Diana Damian Martin (Royal School of Drama and Speech, University of London). Organized by the FWF project “The Performance of Criticism: AI, Bodily Intelligence and Posthumanist Aesthetics” (Led by: Lisa Moravec, Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies), in cooperation with Tanzquartier Wien.

    Workshop

    Karl-Schweighofer-Gasse 3
    1070 Vienna

    Art Theory and Cultural Studies

    Person with brown hair and a red vest

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    Cadavre Exquis

    A group exhibition as a part of the international ASA program, curated by Rafael Hofmann.

    Group exhibition / performance

    Schillerplatz/ Auditorium

    Academy

    Ausstellungsraum mit Bildern die an Drähten hängen

  • Opening Care – between Tenderness and Resistance

    An exhibition in the course of Mentoring Program Art.
    In a time of multiple crises – ecological destruction, social fragmentation, and political polarization – care emerges as a central reference point for alternative forms of living together.

    Exhibition opening

    Schillerplatz

    Exhibit Gallery

  • Sep 18, 2025

    FAQs / Frequently Asked Questions

  • Aug 05, 2025

    Residency in Cairo: Thoughts on an unfamiliar city

    Benedikt Werth spent two months as an artist-in-residence in Cairo, Egypt. In collaboration with the Austrian Cultural Forum Cairo (ACF), the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, and the Federal Ministry for Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport, the residency in Cairo was advertised for graduates of the Academy.

    Academy