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  • Sunday tour

    Overview tour through the exhibition The Great Michelangelo Is Dead! Avant-Garde and Academicism 

    Guided tour

    Schillerplatz

    Paintings Gallery

    Visitors during a guided tour of an exhibition in a museum gallery.

  • MA Critical Studies Lecture Series: Concert with Trace Polly with a following Q&A

    The student-organized lecture series invites you to a concert followed by a moderated Q&A with musician and performer Trace Polly.

    Concert with Q&A

    Studio Building/ Prospekthof, gate 2

    Art Theory and Cultural Studies

    black and white foto of a person beside text

  • 20 Years of Kulturdrogerie

    The Viennese artist-run space Kulturdrogerie introduces itself and presents the catalog Kulturdrogerie, published in 2025—as part of the Academy Library’s event series Wer A… sagt.

    Book presentation and lecture held in German

    Schillerplatz/ University Library (Reading room, M7)

    University Library

    Color photo in landscape format: The “Kulturdrogerie” catalog, published in 2025 to mark the 20th anniversary of the artist-run space, lies on a light-colored surface. The yellow cover features the words “Kultur” and “Drogerie” in red capital letters, centered at the top and arranged one below the other. At the bottom is a white graphic consisting of a wide horizontal bar, with three rectangles below it; between the second and third rectangles is an upside-down exclamation mark.

  • Archives as Method: Kaucyila Brooke in conversation with Manuela Ammer

    Kaucyila Brooke in conversation with Manuela Ammer, curator, mumok - Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien on the role of archival practice in research, art, and curation, organized and moderated by Alena Williams, Professor for Theory and Mediation of Contemporary Art, Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies 

    Artist Talk

    Schillerplatz/ M13a

    Art Theory and Cultural Studies

    The horizontal image of paper with hand drawing of black text on white unlined paper. The headline reads in all capital letters and in italics: “‘TYPEWRITER IS ‘SUBVERSIVE.’” The body text reads: “McAlister, Okla (LNS)--All typewriters at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlister, Oklahoma, were seized during June because, as the prison warden told the Daily Oklahoman, ‘they can be instruments to encourage subversive influence.’” Beneath the body text it reads in italics: “Continued on page 22.”

  • Payer Gabriel: Drawing as a Pluralistic Field of Experimentation between an Epistemic Form and an Autonomous Artistic Practice

    Lecture with Payer Gabriel as part of the IBK Lecture Series, organized by Philip Patkowitsch, studio Art and Image | Graphic.

    Lecture

    Schillerplatz/ Anatomy Hall

    Fine Arts

    broken fragments on black background

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    Performance and Contemporary Art History: Mapping a Critical Subject, Medium, and Method in a Transdisciplinary Field

    A conference organised by Prof. Dr. Lisa Beißwanger (University of Koblenz) and Dr. Lisa Moravec (IKW, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna).

    Conference

    Schillerplatz/ Conference room

    Art Theory and Cultural Studies

  • Weekend of Graphics 2026 - Spotlight Tour of the Exhibition The Great Michelangelo Is Dead! Avant-Garde and Academicism

    Guided tour

    Schillerplatz

    Paintings Gallery

    Historical depiction of an art academy with numerous figures drawing, sculpting and studying sculptures and anatomical models.

  • Weekend of Graphics 2026

    Masterpieces from the Graphic Collection

    Guided Tour

    Schillerplatz/ Study room

    Graphic Collection

    Painted figure with an orange head, a white top, turquoise trousers and black boots against a brown background.

  • Sunday tour

    Overview tour through the exhibition The Great Michelangelo Is Dead! Avant-Garde and Academicism 

    Guided tour

    Schillerplatz

    Paintings Gallery

    Visitors during a guided tour of an exhibition in a museum gallery.

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    Research Day 2026 of the Academy

    The Research Day 2026 of the Academy presents the range of current research activities at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, gives insights into specific projects and their results, and encourages collegial discussions. The Research Day focuses on presentations of research projects in advanced stages.

    Conference

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    Schillerplatz/ Conference room

    Academy

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    Welcome Session for the Doctor of Philosophy

    We would like to invite all new doctoral students in the Doctor of Philosophy program to the Center for Doctoral Studies' Welcome Session which covers all important steps, milestones, dates, and deadlines.

    Welcome-Session

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    Online via Zoom

    Academy

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    Kritische Selbstverständnisse. Ein Podium zum Stand der Kunstwissenschaft

    Talk with Sebastian Hammerschmidt, Isabelle Lindermann, Lotte Püttmann, Thorsten Schneider, Ruth Sonderegger, organized from the Institute of Art Theory and Cultural Studies.

    Book launch

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    Schillerplatz/ M13a

    Art Theory and Cultural Studies

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    Opening: Blut und Kaffee / Blood and Coffe

    The exhibition curated by Marianne Vlaschits and Mariana Lemos, brings together works by international and local artists engaging with non-normative embodiment, illness, and disability aesthetics.

    Exhibition opening

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    Schillerplatz

    Exhibit Gallery

  • Opening: Amöbe (Rückblick voraus)

    Opening of an exhibition by Imre Nagy and Jörg Reissner on decoding perception, as part of the Academy Library‘s Wer A.. sagt series.

    Exhibition Opening

    Schillerplatz/ University Library (Reading room, M7)

    University Library

    The color illustration in landscape format shows the yellow book cover of “Amöbe (Rückblick voraus)” [Amoeba (Review Ahead)] on the left half. On the right, we find an image of a small sculpture against a colored background.

  • Rosa-Johan Uddoh: 33 Black History Months and Counting

    A performance by Rosa-Johan Uddoh as part of the exhibition Blut und Kaffee / Blood and Coffee.

    Performance

    Schillerplatz

    Exhibit Gallery

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    meins ist deins

    This autumn we celebrate a decade of curatorial collaboration with the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. 

    Exhibition

    Austrian Cultural Forum London
    28 Rutland Gate
    London

    Academy

  • Sunday tour

    Overview tour through the exhibition The Great Michelangelo Is Dead! Avant-Garde and Academicism 

    Guided tour

    Schillerplatz

    Paintings Gallery

    Visitors during a guided tour of an exhibition in a museum gallery.

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    Short presentations Dr.phil Winter Semester 2026/27 (Session 1)

    We cordially invite everyone interested to attend the public short presentations in the Dr. phil. program, where doctoral candidates present their exposés to an academic advisory board.

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    Schillerplatz/ Conference room

  • "Métro, Boulot, Lycée, Caveau" (Metro, Work, High School, Grave). A slogan of French high school students during the school blockades in October 2026.

    The lecture follows up on an exchange that took place in 2010: In the wake of a student occupation of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Anthony Davies invited Sabeth Buchmann to Central Saint Martins (University of Arts London) to discuss the relationship between institutional critique and institutional politics from the perspective of a ’squatting academy’. Now, Davies and Rowan Parker-Renwick are coming to Vienna to shed light on current developments in British art higher education and the “polycrisis” facing the University sector.

    Lecture

    Schillerplatz/ M13a

    Art Theory and Cultural Studies

  • Guided tour Plaster Cast Collection

    With its approximately 450 preserved plaster casts, the collection offers a unique overview of European sculpture history.

    Studio Building/ Plaster Cast Collection

    Plaster Cast Collection

    a few sculptures of people in a cellar