Skip to main content

Events

  • Hanne Loreck: Das Sibyllinische zwischen Mythos und Aktualität – Ana Torfs’ Bildteppiche

    Lecture series Lektionen / Lessons

    Schillerplatz/ Conference room

    Paintings Gallery

  • Photography of Activism, Exile, and Espionage: Gu Shuxing in 1930s–40s U.S.

    Lecture from Dr. Yizhou Wang, Assistant Professor in Chinese Art and Culture at Hong Kong Chu Hai College, organized from the Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies, Univ.-Prof. Noit Banai. The lecture focuses on Gu Shuxing’s (1897–1968) photographs of working-class Americans captured during her exiles in New York in the late 1930s and late 1940s.

    Lecture

    Schillerplatz/ M13a

    Art Theory and Cultural Studies

    schwarz-weiß Foto einer Person im Schlachter Ausrüstung mit Tierkadavern im Vordergrund

  • Fuck Patriarchy! Dystopian Baroque in Mathilde ter Heijne and in The Handmaid’s Tale

    Lecture by Alma-Elisa Kittner. A cooperation between the Department of Art and Education and the Department of Fashion and Styles within the framework of the seminars Introductory Seminar in Art-Theoretical and Art Historical Methods (Juliane Saupe) and Fashions, Styles, Identities (Elke Gaugele).

    Lecture

    Karl-Schweighofer-Gasse/ 3.06

    Education in the Arts

  • –

    Invitation to the Defense of Johannes Tichy

    The Institute of Natural Sciences and Technology in the Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna kindly invites you to the defense of ohannes Tichy's dissertation project "Pink halophilic and halotolerant biofilms on cultural heritage monument surfaces: investigation of structure and function through DNA and RNA sequencing".

    Defense

    –

    Kelsenstraße/Raum 0.10 Seminarraum 2

    Natural Sciences and Technology in Art

  • –

    Invitation to the Defense of Henrie Dennis

    The Institute for Fine Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna kindly invites you to the defense of Henrie Dennis' dissertation project "Gendered Language Discourse in Border Policies: Examining the Role of Whiteness and its Impact on Global Migration". 

    Defense

    –

    Schillerplatz/ M20

    Fine Arts

  • –

    Invitation to the Defense of Miguel González Cabezas

    The Institute for Fine Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna kindly invites you to the defense of Miguel González Cabezas' dissertation project "MULTIPLICITIES IN SINGULARITY. Ambivalence and Democracy in the Present Global Capitalist World".

    Defense

    –

    Schillerplatz/ M20

    Fine Arts

  • Research Cluster | Digital Cultures Network Meeting

    The Research Cluster Digital Cultures warmly invites Academy staff and cooperation partners to an informal end-of-semester meeting. The evening offers an opportunity to meet colleagues from across the Academy and beyond, exchange ideas, and connect around ongoing projects, shared interests, and future collaborations.  We look forward to welcoming you!

    Networking

    Eschenbachgasse

    Academy

  • Artistic Internationalism in the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939)

    A lecture by Jens Kastner, Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies.

    Lecture

    Schillerplatz/ M20

    Art Theory and Cultural Studies

  • –

    Öffentliche Hearings für die Gender und Space Gastprofessur am IKL

    Die öffentlichen Hearings für die Gender und Space Gastprofessur am IKL finden am Freitag, 19.06.2026 per Zoom statt.

    Hearings

    –

    Online via Zoom

    Education in the Arts

  • –

    Invitation to the Defense of Hong Shan

    The Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna kindly invites you to the defense of Hong Shan's dissertation project "Vortex — Chinese contemporary watercolor painting".

    Defense

    –

    Online

    Art Theory and Cultural Studies

  • –

    Invitation to the Defense of Teodora Raicu

    The Institute of Natural Sciences and Technology in the Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna kindly invites you to the defense of Teodora Raicu's dissertation project "Identification, Stability, and Aging Phenomena of Synthetic Organic Colorants used in Modern Inks and p-PVC".

    Defense

    –

    Hybrid

    Natural Sciences and Technology in Art

  • –

    Invitation to the Defense of claudia* sandoval romero

    The Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna kindly invites you to the defense of claudia* sandoval romero's dissertation project "Searching for Palenques between the Periphery and Center: A Relational Case Between the Photographic Work of Nora Aslan (AR) and Rochelle Costi (BR) and the Museological Framework".

    Defense

    –

    Schillerplatz/ M20

    Art Theory and Cultural Studies

    The image overlays the lists of artists whose works entered mumok's collection between 1998 and 2018 onto a portrait of a young girl from San Basilio de Palenque, Colombia. The girl's face remains unrecorded: the photograph was made at the very end of the film roll, where the photosensitive emulsion had already been exhausted.

  • 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

    people watch a colorful oil painting by bosch

  • –

    Doomscrolling with Rob Swainston

    In collaboration with the International Office (Angelina Kratschanova), the class Art and Image | Graphics (Christian Schwarzwald), the class Art and Space | Object (with Michael Part), and the IBK Intaglio Workshop (with Renata Darabant), we are pleased to invite our colleague Rob Swainston from SUNY Purchase, NY—partner institution in our ASA Network—to discuss his artistic practice. We look forward to seeing many of you there!

    Talk

    –

    Schillerplatz/ Anatomy Hall

    Fine Arts

  • –

    Alone or Together: Neue Vermittlungsformate

    As part of a collaboration with the Vienna Digital Cultures Festival 2026 Alone or Together, students from the Academy of Fine Arts, Institute for Education in theArts, Department of Art and Education, developed workshop formats and guided tours.

    Course on Art and Media Didactics led by Helena Schmidt

    Workshops

    –

    FOTO ARSENAL WIEN
    Arsenal Objekt 19A
    1030 Vienna

    Education in the Arts

  • Parcours: Master Walk (Kunst und Bildung)

    Während des Master Walks präsentieren die Studierenden des Fachbereichs Kunst und Bildung ihre Masterprojekte in der Ausstellung. 

    Führung

    Atelierhaus/ EG Nord

    Education in the Arts

  • Parcours: Master Walk (Gestaltung im Kontext)

    Während des Master Walks präsentieren die Studierenden des Fachbereichs Kunst und Bildung ihre Masterprojekte in der Ausstellung. 

    Führung

    Atelierhaus/ EG Nord

    Education in the Arts

  • Parcours Opening

    The opening of this year's Parcours takes place on June 23, 2026, 16 h in the Courtyard at Schillerplatz.

    Opening

    Schillerplatz 3
    1010 Vienna
    Courtyard

    Academy

  • –

    Online info session for the Early Postdoc Fellowship 2026 (2nd call)

    The Early Postdoc Fellowship aims to support early-career postdocs in preparing their first postdoctoral research project application. In this info session, the call for applications will be discussed. 

    Info session

    –

    Academy

  • Artists on the Road

    Guided tour in the study hall of the Graphic Collection

    Guided Tour

    Schillerplatz/ Study room

    Graphic Collection

    a sailor sits an a ship and watches the open sea