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Events

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    Goose Quill, Squiggle, Ink Blot – Reading and Writing Kurrent Script

    A three-unit Kurrent workshop of the University Archives with Ulrike Hirhager as part of the Academy Library’s WissensWert event series

    Free course held in German

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    Schillerplatz 3, 1010 Vienna, University Library (Reading room, M 7)

    University Library

    Top left: Matriculation register from the holdings of the university archive of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, 1754–1769/72; top right: Kurrent alphabet; bottom left: Kurrent memory cards; bottom right: Practice sheet, quill with steel nib, glass inkwell

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    Introduction to the use of the library of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (in English)

    An introduction to the use of the A...cademy Library's holdings with Patrizia Wiesner-Ledermann as part of the WissensWert series.

    Introduction held in English

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    Schillerplatz/ University Library (Reading room, M7)

    University Library

    Logo WissensWert

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    Fabian Seiz – Exact Secrets

    An exhibition on the polarity of form and content, the essence of secrets, memory, and material by Fabian Seiz as part of the Academy Library‘s Wer A.. sagt series.

    Exhibition

    Schillerplatz/ University Library (Reading room, M7)

    University Library

    On display is a 65 cm high tower built from 50 layers of wood. The individual layers stand out visually from each other due to their different colours and types of wood. The top layer shows the cover of Wittgenstein's book “Tractatus logico-philosophicus” from edition suhrkamp in red. The tower was milled along the right side in the form of a curved bracket. The photo was taken from diagonally above right.

  • Opening: Fabian Seiz – Exact Secrets

    Opening of an exhibition on the polarity of form and content, the essence of secrets, memory, and material by Fabian Seiz as part of the Academy Library‘s Wer A.. sagt series.

    Exhibition opening

    Schillerplatz/ University Library (Reading room, M7)

    University Library

    On display is a 65 cm high tower built from 50 layers of wood. The individual layers stand out visually from each other due to their different colours and types of wood. The top layer shows the cover of Wittgenstein's book “Tractatus logico-philosophicus” from edition suhrkamp in red. The tower was milled along the right side in the form of a curved bracket. The photo was taken from diagonally above right.