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    Eighty Years Later: NS remembrance work in artistic practice and mediation today

    A joint event of OeAD (ERINNERN:AT program, department of cultural education with schools), the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Graz, and the Department of Education in the Arts at the Institute for Education in the Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

    Conference

    Schillerplatz/ Conference room

    Education in the Arts

    Stilisierte Ziffer 80, mit einem Farbverlauf von Weiß nach Grün, auf violettem Hintergrund und dem Schriftzug „Achtzig Jahre danach. NS-Erinnerungsarbeit in künstlerischer Praxis und Vermittlung heute, 19. und 20. Mai 2025“.

  • Michael Auer: Klopstocks Sound und Ossians Stimmen

    Song Recital Lecture series Lektionen / Lessons

    Paintings Gallery, Exhibit Gallery

  • Wild Apollo’s Arrows. Klopstock Cult & Ossian Fever

    Curator's tour with Alexander Roob

    Schillerplatz

    Paintings Gallery, Exhibit Gallery

    a painting with angels on a blue background

  • How to Become an Island? Using art as a strategy in the crisis

    Lecture by the Danube Transformation Agency for Agency (DTAFA) as part of the Lectures For Future series

    Lecture

    Sculpture Studios
    Kurzbauergasse 9
    1020 Wien
    Project room 1

    Fine Arts

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    Being Present with Confidence. Presence and Presentation for Phd-Students

    The workshop intends to enhance participants’ presence in challenging moments of public appearance, “presence” meaning being fully available for every aspect of a given situation, alert and confident enough to react to ever changing circumstances in an appropriate way.

    Workshop

    Schillerplatz/ Conference room

    Academy

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    Come Closer

    Come closer, for only in proximity do these realms reveal themselves. The exhibition has been organized by the students of the workshop “Production and Project Management in Exhibitions - Practice”.

    Exhibition

    Schillerplatz

    Exhibit Studio

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    Wild Apollo’s Arrows. Klopstock Cult & Ossian Fever

    This exhibition presents significant artistic works that exemplify this epochal shift from the Enlightenment to the irrationalism of the Storm and Stress movement and Romanticism. For the first time, the immense influence of the poet Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock on the fine arts and music of his own age is explored. 

    Exhibition

    Schillerplatz

    Paintings Gallery, Exhibit Gallery

    Gemälde mit Personen im Grünen in historischem Gewand

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    Considering the Collection

    In parallel to the exhibition Wild Apollo’s Arrows. Klopstock Cult & Ossian Fever, a selection of the collection's holdings, featuring numerous highlights, continues to be presented in the Paintings Gallery under the motto Considering the Collection.

    Exhibition

    Schillerplatz

    Paintings Gallery

    a sitting person dressed in black on all black background

  • Frontier, Border and No Man's Land

    A Lecture Performance by Lee Kai Chung, organized Noit Banai, Professor of Diaspora Aesthetics, Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies, as part of "Diaspora Kitchen"

    Lecture Performance

    Schillerplatz/ M20

    Art Theory and Cultural Studies

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    UNIQA Art Prize 2024 Exhibition : Emma Hummerhielm Carlén

    Exhibition of the prize winner and graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna Emma Hummerhielm Carlén.

    Exhibition

    Foyer of the UNIQA Tower
    Untere Donaustraße 21
    1020 Vienna

    Academy

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    "Weisser Fleck" - an artistic research project

    Weißer Fleck (Blind Spot) is an innovative artistic research project that is now on display on the façade of a Gemeindebau in Heiligenstadt, Vienna. This project is a long term collaborative effort (since 2021) between the Insitute for Art and Architecture, the Institute of Natural Sciences and Technology in the Arts and The Dusts Institute.
    It represents an intersection of artistic research, architecture, and geomicrobiology. The project was supported by KÖR and is an integral part of the research at Academy under the title 'Epidermitecture'.

    Research project

    Façade of the Gemeindebau
    Heiligenstädter Straße 141
    1190 Vienna

    Art and Architecture , Natural Sciences and Technology in Art

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    Lectures for Future

    Lecture series in the summer semester of 2025. Lectures for Future (L4F) is an interdisciplinary lecture series offered at various Austrian universities since the winter semester of 2019. In the L4F, researchers provide insights into their current scientific and artistic work on the topics of the climate crisis and sustainable development.

    Lecture series

    Sculpture Studios

    Fine Arts

  • The Paradoxes of Positionality: Diaspora Aesthetics and Transdisciplinary Research

    Noit Banai with Amanda Holmes. Part of the lecture series ‘Aesthetics of Transformation’, curated by the School for Transformation.

    Discussion

    Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab
    Georg-Coch-Platz 2
    1010 Wien

    Art Theory and Cultural Studies

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    Info Session: Research Catalogue and Prize for Best Research Catalogue Exposition 2024/2025 of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

    In this session, Art | Research | Support gives a brief insight into the Research Catalogue and presents the Prize for Best Research Catalogue Exposition of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

    Info session

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    Online via Zoom

    Academy

  • But the Main Thing is I had the Knowledge: Gertrude Langer, Cultural Translation and the Emerging Art Sector in postwar Australia

    A lecture by Philipp Strobl, organized by Noit Banai, Professor of Diaspora Aesthetics, Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies, as part of "Diaspora Kitchen".

    Lecture

    Schillerplatz/ M20

    Art Theory and Cultural Studies

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    Rouven Dürr – Quader

    An exhibition on the significance of sculpture between geometric form and the primacy of experience as part of the Academy Library‘s Wer A.. sagt series.

    Exhibition

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

    University Library

    The color photograph shows four concrete sculptures in different shades of grey by Rouven Dürr, each composed of two to three cuboids. They stand on a simple table consisting of a wooden top and trestles. The studio wall in the background shows splashes of paint, the word “schauen” [look] written in delicate capitals is recognizable.

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    Info Session: Scholarship Early Post Doc Applications 2025 (second call)

    The Scholarship for Early Post Doc Applications aims to support early postdocs in the application for their initial postdoctoral research project. This scholarship enables the intensive preparation of a project proposal, which will be submitted with the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna as the home institution to funding agencies like FWF (ESPRIT funding program) or OeAW (APART GSK funding program) in the end.

    Informative meeting

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    Online via Zoom

    Academy

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    Diploma presentations of the Institute for Conservation-Restoration

    On 26.6.2025 the diploma lectures of the Institute of Conservation-Restoration will take place.

    Lecture

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    Augasse/ Entrance area/foyer

    Conservation – Restoration

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    PARCOURS. FINAL WORKS 2025

    This year's exhibition of the Final Works of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna runs as a parcours through different locations of the university. It shows final works of the most diverse fields of study and departments, which offer a unique insight into the range of artistic forms of expression and productions at the Academy.

    Diploma presentations

    different locations

    Academy

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    Online information meeting for enrollment in the Doctor of Philosophy WiSe 2025-26

    We cordially invite those interested in the Doctor of Philosophy program at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna to attend this online appointment to learn about enrollment requirements and procedures.

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    Online via Zoom

    Academy