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Open Days 2025

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Open Studios | Performances | Talks | Guided tours Organisational Units Academy
all sites of the Academy

Opening: Thursday, 16.1.2025
Sculpture Studios
Kurzbauergasse 9
1020 Vienna

Opening hours:
Thursday, 16.1.2025, 16–24 h
Friday, 17.1.2025, 11–22 h
Saturday, 18.1.2025, 13–22 h
Sunday, 19.1.2025, 13–18 h

Special opening hours for Exhibit Studio, Exhibit Gallery, Paintings Gallery, Karl-Schweighofer-Gasse, and Augasse!

The Open Days offer the opportunity to get to know the university's operations and gain insight into the ongoing work processes. Teachers and students from all institutes provide information and are looking forward to dialogue and discussion with the visitors. With open Studios, exhibitions, study Information, Performances, discussions,  concerts, mediation program and much more.

Locations:

Schillerplatz
Paintings Gallery, Exhibit Gallery, Exhibit Studio,
Institute for Art and Architecture, Institute for Fine Arts,
Insitute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies, University Library
1010 Vienna, Schillerplatz 3

Studio Building
Institute for Art and Architecture (Scenography),
Institute for Fine Arts
1060 Vienna, Lehárgasse 8

Sculpture studios
Institute for Fine Arts
1020 Vienna, Kurzbauergasse 9

Exhibit Eschenbachgasse
1010 Vienna, Eschenbachgasse 11

Karl-Schweighofer-Gasse
Institute for Education in the Arts
1070 Vienna, Karl-Schweighofer-Gasse 3

Augasse
Institute for Conservation – Restoration,
Institute for Natural Sciences and Technology in the Art
1090 Vienna, Augasse 2-6

* Special opening hours

Augasse (IKR)
during programs only

Paintings Gallery (free admission)
Thu, 16.1. 16–22 h
Fri, 17.1. 10–18 h
Sat, 18.1. 10–18 h
Sun, 19.1. 10–18 h

Exhibit Gallery and Studio
Thu, 16.1. 10 - 22 h
Fri, 17.1. 10 - 18 h
Sat, 18.1. 10 - 18 h
Sun, 19.1. 10 - 18 h


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    A book for VinziWerke

    The University Library's charity book bazaar for the benefit of VinziWerke, a community for alleviating poverty and overcoming homelessness in Austria. 

    Charity book bazaar

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    Schillerplatz/ University Library (Reading room, M7)

    University Library

    Die Farbfotografie im Querformat zeigt den von Theophil Hansen konzipierten Lesesaal mit historischem Buchbestand. Auf einem Originaltisch mit Leselampen im Vordergrund ist ein buntes Angebot von teils liegenden, teils stehenden Büchern präsentiert.

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    Guided tours for school classes, Studios - Institute for Conservation-Restoration (IKR)

    Only on request & with registration: cons@akbild.ac.at

    Guided tour

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    Augasse 2-6
    1090 Vienna
    Kern N

    Conservation – Restoration

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    Info desk Student Welcome Center

    The Student Welcome Center offers information and counselling on the study programs, requirements, admission examinations and studying and living in Vienna.

    Study information

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    Schillerplatz/ E7

    Student Service

  • Guided Tour Schillerplatz

    Guided tour through the Academy building at Schillerplatz for people interested in studying at the Academy.

    Guided tour

    Schillerplatz/ E7

    Student Service

    Studierende bei Studieninfo im Anatomiesaal am Schillerplatz

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    Competition for barrier-free access: Talk and coming together

    Presentation of all submissions to the competition for barrier-free access to the main building of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, during the tour from January 16th to 19th 2025.

    Event

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    Studio Building/ 1. floor, studio south

    Fine Arts

  • Guided Tour Schillerplatz

    Guided tour through the Academy building at Schillerplatz for people interested in studying at the Academy.

    Guided tour

    Schillerplatz/ E7

    Student Service

    Studierende bei Studieninfo im Anatomiesaal am Schillerplatz

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    Study information for conservation-restoration (incl. portfolio advice), IKR staff

    Study information

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    Augasse 2-6
    1090 Vienna
    Kern N

    Conservation – Restoration

  • 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

  • Masterpieces of intaglio printing from the Graphic Collection

    Guided tour in cooperation with the intaglio printing workshop

    Guided Tour

    Schillerplatz/ Study room

    Graphic Collection

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    Portfolio Consultation for the Bachelor's Degree Program in Art and Education

    Teachers and students of the Institute for Education oin the Arts (IKL) provide individual feedback on artistic/design portfolios with a view to the entrance examination for the Bachelor's degree in Art and Education.

    Study information

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    Karl-Schweighofer-Gasse 3
    1070 Vienna
    Room3.07

    Education in the Arts

  • Guided Tour Lehárgasse

    Guided tour through the Atelier building in Lehárgasse for people interested in studying at the Academy. 

    Guided tour

    Studio Building

    Student Service

  • Technical tour through the screen printing workshop and presentation of the first pilot of the project Clinch

    Technical tour through the screen printing workshop and presentation of the first pilot of the project “Clinch” by Theresa Eipeldauer and Magdalena Kreinecker: an original graphic artist's book with contributions by Gregor Beiwl, Carli Biller Chien-Yu Lin, Thyra Marie Wanvig Steffensen

    Guided tour

    Schillerplatz 3
    1010 Vienna
    Siebdruckwerkstatt E16

    Fine Arts

    Druckprozess, transparentes Coating, letzte Farbe

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    prospects [Ende in Sicht]

    Together with the painter Susa Blaufuß and the theater maker Nora Strömer, Emil Borgeest invites visitors to a melancholic spectacle in the gallery of the Semperdepot, focusing on backdrops and the use of it.

    Performance

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    Studio Building
    Lehárgasse 8
    1060 Vienna
    3. floor Scenography class

    Art and Architecture

  • Guided tour, Studios - Institute for Conservation-Restoration

    Guided tour

    Augasse 2-6
    1090 Vienna
    Kern N

    Conservation – Restoration

  • Gender and Postsecularity in Visual Culture and Knowledge Production

    As part of the book presentation, the editors will provide a brief introduction to the topic of post-/secularity and gender and present selected contributions from the anthology.

    Book presentation

    Schillerplatz/ M20

    Art Theory and Cultural Studies

    Das Buchcover ist in drei vertikale Bereiche unterteilt: ein breiter orangefarbener Streifen links, ein schmaler hell-lila Streifen in der Mitte und ein schmaler weißer Bereich rechts. Im oberen Teil des orangefarbenen Streifens steht in großer schwarzer Schrift der Titel „A...Series“. Weiter unten, zentral platziert, folgt der Haupttitel des Buches: „Gender and Postsecularity in Visual Culture and Knowledge Production“. Darunter sind die Namen der Herausgeber*innen in schwarzer Schrift aufgelistet: „Sabine Grenz, Doris Guth, Boka En und Fatma Uysal (Eds.)“. Im schmalen weißen Bereich auf der rechten Seite befindet sich oben rechts der Hinweis „Vol. 27“ in schwarzer Schrift. Am unteren Rand des orangefarbenen Streifens steht in kursiver Schrift der Name des Verlags „Sternberg Press“, begleitet von einem kleinen, stilisierten Sternsymbol.

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    Presentations of works

    Studio Art and Intervention /Concept/ Post-conceptual Art Practices / Prof. Marina Gržinić

    Presentations

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    Studio Building/ 1. floor, studio south

    Fine Arts

  • Show printing in the intaglio printing workshop

    In cooperation with the Graphic Collection, which introduces you to its world with engravings by Martin Schongauer, Albrecht Dürer and Rembrandt, we invite you to experience the complementary, practical contemporary counterpart to this field of work as a follow-up to the guided tours.

    Show printing

    Schillerplatz/ S13

    Fine Arts

    Arbeitssituation an der Vorbereitung des Druckablaufs am 1.7.2024 zur Druckperformance. Zu sehen sind Studierende der Akademie der Kunstuni und ein Studierender der Angewandten vor einem Linolschnitt auf dem Grund vor einer Strassenwalze.Die Aufnahme stammt aus der Produktion einer Reihe von Großformaten, fotografiert von Renata Darabant.

  • Video-Screening Titel und AFK

    A video-screening by Video II.

    Screening

    Sculpture Studios
    Kurzbauergasse 9
    1020 Vienna
    Room 1.33

    Fine Arts

    Das Poster zeigt die Nahaufnahme einer Nahaufnahme des Gesichts der Marmorskulptur "Hexe bei der Toilette für die Walpurgisnacht" der jüdischen Bildhauerin Teresa Feodorowna Ries aus dem Jahr 1895 und die Hand des Filmemachers beim Auslösen der Aufnahme. Der Text auf dem Poster kündigt das Video-Screening "Titel" beim Rundgang an, das täglich um 17:00h im Computerraum des Bildhauereigebäudes stattfindet.

  • Ein Ort (A Place)

    The performance is based on a part of the novel "Heidi."

    Performance

    Studio Building
    Lehárgasse 8
    1060 Vienna
    3. floor Scenography class

    Art and Architecture

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    Speed Dating with authors and editors around IKW concerning new publications

    Authors and publishers associated with the IKW invite everyone interested to join them in (approx.) 5-minute slots to talk about newly published books or to arrange further discussions.

    Book presentation and talk

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    Schillerplatz/ M13a

    Art Theory and Cultural Studies