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Under the umbrella term Exhibit, the exhibition area of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna is concerned with enabling teachers, students and alumnae_i to engage in diverse practices of exhibiting, as well as to reflect on exhibitions as a medium. With the program of its three exhibition spaces, the exhibition area of the Academy strives to operate at the interface of academic teaching and exhibition practice. At the same time, it presents the Academy’s contemporary production of knowledge and art to the general public.

Exhibit Gallery

In addition to the diploma presentations, the Exhibit Gallery at Schillerplatz hosts exhibition projects that refer to topics discussed at the academy and thereby take up current trends in contemporary art. Attention is paid to the fact that the projects develop out of the teaching activities of the institutes and departments or are designed as epoch-spanning collaborations between the art collections of the Academy and its contemporary art production. The focus is on positioning students and their works in a contemporary art context and on giving graduates the opportunity to collect experience in exhibiting.

Exhibit Eschenbachgasse

Exhibit Eschenbachgasse offers teachers and researchers at the Academy the opportunity to use the exhibition space for their projects for a maximum of three weeks. The space thus sees itself as a field of experimentation for an expanded teaching and research practice and brings exhibition making into view as a special artistic field of action. Exhibit Eschenbachgasse is also used for collaborative projects.

Exhibit Studio

Exhibit Studio at Schillerplatz is the exhibition space allocated to students of the Academy. Students can exchange ideas across different departments, test out various exhibition formats and gather practical experience by curating and organizing exhibitions.

Exhibition Committee

Kirsten Borchert
Ingeborg Erhart
Astrid Exner
Sabine Folie
Doris Guth
Sarah Held
Michael Höpfner
Christina Jauernik (on maternity leave)
Sofie Mathoi
Mark Napadenski (ÖH)
Mario Strk (ÖH)
Annette Südbeck (external)
Franziska Wildförster (external)

Upcoming events

  • Arts of Change – Change of Arts

    The Arts of Change–Change of Arts coaching programme brings together students from all Austrian art universities and fosters the development of projects on the topics of art, sustainability and transformation. In the winter semester 2024/2025 exhibition of the three art projects from the 2024 programme will be shown at two of the six participating universities.

    Exhibition

    Eschenbachgasse

    Exhibit Eschenbachgasse

  • Guided Tour through the exhibition in dialogue with Miriam Stoney and Pille-Riin Jaik

    The curators Leon Hösl and Magdalena Stöger will guide through the exhibition and share insights into their concept, the creation of the publication the exhibition is based on, the works of the exhibiting artists and the Cathrin Pichler Archive. 

    Guided tour

    Schillerplatz

    Exhibit Gallery

  • About making artists' books

    In their lecture, book designer Astrid Seme and Thomas Geiger from Mark Pezinger Books will present a selection of artists' books and talk about their close collaboration with artists, publishers and institutions and the always exciting path from the idea to the publication. 

    Lecture

    Schillerplatz

    Exhibit Gallery

  • Guided Tour through the exhibition in dialogue with İpek Hamzaoğlu and Martina Genetti

    The curators Leon Hösl, Magdalena Stöger and Martina Genetti will guide through the exhibition and provide insights into their concept, the creation of the publication the exhibition is based on, the works of the exhibiting artists and the collection of the Cathrin Pichler Archive.

    Guided tour

    Schillerplatz

    Exhibit Gallery

  • [...] in the still of the night

    For the third and final exhibition at Exhibit Studio in 2024, Juan Rodrigo Torres Plata and Jennifer Posny are proposing one last experiment to scrutinize the Here and Now.

    Exhibition

    Schillerplatz

    Exhibit Studio

  • Das Cathrin Pichler Archiv von RPU-Artaud-001 bis DAV-Plakate-029

    The exhibition Das Cathrin Pichler Archiv von RPU-Artaud-001 bis DAV-Plakate-029 is examining the written estate of curator and academic Cathrin Pichler (1946–2012). 

    Exhibition

    Schillerplatz

    Exhibit Gallery

  • Sööt/Zeyringer: Invisible Collection

    brut in Exhibit Eschenbachgasse. In the exhibition space, the artists lead the audience through a collection of invisible works that slowly take shape in the listeners' imagination.

    Exhibition

    Eschenbachgasse

    Exhibit Eschenbachgasse