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Events

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    Postdoc Get-together

    We cordially invite you to the Postdoc Get-together at the Academy which forms part of the Postdoc Appreciation Week Austria. The event aims to foster informal exchange and networking between colleagues in similar career stages.

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    Schillerplatz/ Conference room

    Academy

    The event banner in the Postdoc Appreciation Week Austria design. Against a grey and orange gradient background, an abstract glass figure is depicted. It features the text ‘Postdoc Get-together’, the date and time of the event, a link to this website, and the logo of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

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    Vienna Humanities Festival 2026 – Agency/Tu Was

    From September 23 to 27, the ninth Vienna Humanities Festival will once again bring together leading thinkers from around the world under this year's overarching theme "Agency/Do something".

    Conference

    Academy Building

    Academy

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    Welcome Meeting for first year students with Q&A session

    Orientation Days

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    Schillerplatz/ Conference room

    Student Service

  • Opening Reception The Great Michelangelo Is Dead! Avant-Garde and Academicism

    Schillerplatz/ Auditorium

    Paintings Gallery

    a collage of three figures of historic paintings in yellow, orange and a bluish color

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    Micropolitics

    A conference in collaboration between the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, the Academy of Media Arts Cologne and the eipcp / European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policie.

    International conference

    Schillerplatz/ M13a

    Art Theory and Cultural Studies

  • Sunday tour

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

    Schillerplatz

    Paintings Gallery

    a group of men paints an act

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    Online information session: Dissertation Completion Fellowship

    This session will provide information about the call, the submission process and the fellowship.

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    Online via Zoom

    Academy

  • Semester Welcome

    We would like to open this academic year with a semester kick-off and invite all students, teachers and staff of the Academy to join us on Monday, October 5 at 16 h to the Courtyard at Schillerplatz.

    Get-together

    Courtyard
    Schillerplatz 3
    1010 Vienna

    Picture of many people in the Mensa of the Academy listening to the speech of the vice rector

  • Feminist Internet Research Network: Keynote by Serene Lim

    The lecture will take place within the framework of the Erasmus Blended Intensive Program “Network for Digital Art Education (N—DAE)”, a collaboration between TU Dresden and the University of Porto, from October 5–9, 2026. It is organized by Sophie Lingg and Helena Schmidt, Institute for Education in the Arts – Art and Education.

    Lecture

    Schillerplatz/ Conference room

    Education in the Arts

  • Aria Danaparamita: Architectures of Violence

    A lecture curated by the Program for Art and Education at the Department of Education in the Arts and the Institut für Art and Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, in cooperation with wonderland.

    Lecture

    Schillerplatz/ Anatomy Hall

    Education in the Arts

  • Best Intentions

    A lecture-performance by INGLAM, curated by Elke Krasny, Art and Education.

    Lecture-Performance

    Schillerplatz/ Auditorium

    Education in the Arts

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    Mechanisms of Fascisation in Art and Culture. An Antifascist Summit

    The antifascist summit featuring panel discussions, screenings, lectures, concerts, workshops and performances is organized by the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the Institute of Art History at the University of Vienna.  

    Conference

    Academy Building

    Art Theory and Cultural Studies

  • Sunday tour

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

    Schillerplatz

    Paintings Gallery

    a group of men paints an act

  • Introduction to the Fine Arts Curriculum and Information on Recognition

    This event is aimed at all students of Fine Arts. We will introduce the curriculum, its structure, and organization.

    Study information

    Schillerplatz/ Anatomy Hall

    Fine Arts

  • Screening Beautiful and Neat Room

    Film screening Beautiful and Neat Room by Maria Petschnig,as part of the exhibition Schwelle in Exhibit Gallery.

    Film Screening

    Topkino
    Rahlgasse 1
    1060 Vienna

    Exhibit Gallery

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    Red threads, loose ends, another sculpture is possible

    A symposium with Enrico David, Agnes Meyer-Brandis, Iris Touliatou and Trisha Donnelly, organized by the studios of the sculpture studios at Kurzbauergasse.

    Symposium

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    Sculpture Studios/ EG 23

    Fine Arts

  • Artist Talk: Stine Ølgod and Michaela Schweighofer

    Artist Talk with Stine Ølgod and Michaela Schweighofer as part of the exhibition Schwelle.

    Artist talk

    Schillerplatz

    Exhibit Gallery

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    DEMOK: ACT AND SPEAK: Democracy Under Pressure

    It is high time to strengthen democratic action. Artists, in particular, are called upon to actively oppose the erosion of democratic structures through teaching, practice, and community-building. As the Academy of Fine Arts, it is clearly our duty to commit ourselves to preserving and safeguarding a democratic society. Starting in October 2026, the long-term DEMOK program will actively invite participants to help shape it and get involved.

    Series of Talks and Workshops

    Academy Building

    Fine Arts

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    Schwelle

    An exhibition with Ralo Mayer, Stine Ølgod, Maria Petschnig, Michaela Schweighofer, Adrien Tirtiaux
    curated by Ingeborg Erhart and Sofie Mathoi.

    Exhibition

    Schillerplatz

    Exhibit Gallery

  • Sunday tour

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

    Schillerplatz

    Paintings Gallery

    a group of men paints an act