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At the Institute for Education in the Arts (IKL), contemporary artistic and creative activity in art, design, fashion and architecture are closely linked to theory-guided reflection, didactics, and mediation.

The studies at the IKL results in receiving professional qualifications for teaching at secondary level in Austria (e.g. AHS, BHS, NMS). The interdisciplinary orientation enables graduates to work in art and cultural education, in artistic, creative and scientific-research contexts as well as in curatorial practice.

The IKL encompasses the two fields of study Art and Education and Design and Context as well as the educational science-pedagogical field of study Pedagogy, Arts and Culture. Art, design, mediation and didactics are developed intersectionally with a view to societal transformation processes through climate crisis, migration, decolonization, queer feminism, and digitality.

The following study programs are offered: 

Bachelor’s and master’s degrees (in cooperation with the PH Vienna):

  • Art and Education
  • Design and Context

Doctoral studies, Dr. phil.

Based on the curriculum, the IKL cooperates with the Institute of Fine Arts (IBK), the Institute of Art Theory and Cultural Studies (IKW) and the Institute of Art and Architecture (IKA).

Internationally, the IKL cooperates with other artistic teacher-training programs, pedagogical education institutions, civil society partners (citizen science) and institutions of emancipatory art education, critical art, architecture, fashion and migration research, as well as contemporary feminist theory formation. In the doctoral seminars, many international students write their dissertations in English.

The IKL’s Karl Schweighofer Gasse campus has classrooms, workshops, and laboratories for artistic, design, craft, and digital techniques in textiles, wood, metal, fashion, ceramics, painting, drawing, video, photography, printmaking, screen printing, performance, installation, sound, art-based arts education, and animation.

Key research areas include art didactics and digitality; materiality and sustainability; art and cultural pedagogy; architecture and urban studies; fashion and textile studies; care; curatorial practices/museum studies; circular design/repair; practice-based knowledge and transformation processes in art, design, education, and didactics.

Upcoming Events

  • Leseclub

    Students and teachers of the Institute for Education in the Arts and students from different Viennese schools meet regularly to read texts* together.

    Community Event

    University library
    Branch IKL, 4th floor
    Karl-Schweighofer-Gasse 3
    1070 Vienna

    Education in the Arts

  • KI Care Café - networking, exchanging ideas, thinking ahead

    Organised by Matgorzata Oliwa and Helena Schmidt, with experts Franziska Thurner und Andreas Ferus.

    Info Event

    Schillerplatz/ University Library (Reading room, M7)

    Education in the Arts

  • textile healing - resistant threads. feminist interventions on femicides

    a workshop organized by the institute for education in the arts, in cooperation with the coordination office for the advancement of women | gender studies | diversity, as part of the campaign 16 days of activism against gender-based violence.

    lecture workshop with gossip

    Karl-Schweighofer-Gasse/ 2.01

    Education in the Arts

  • Leseclub

    Students and teachers of the Institute for Education in the Arts and students from different Viennese schools meet regularly to read texts* together.

    Community Event

    University library
    Branch IKL, 4th floor
    Karl-Schweighofer-Gasse 3
    1070 Vienna

    Education in the Arts

  • KI Care Café - networking, exchanging ideas, thinking ahead

    Organised by Matgorzata Oliwa and Helena Schmidt, with experts Franziska Thurner und Andreas Ferus.

    Info Event

    Schillerplatz/ University Library (Reading room, M7)

    Education in the Arts

  • Leseclub

    Students and teachers of the Institute for Education in the Arts and students from different Viennese schools meet regularly to read texts* together.

    Community Event

    University library
    Branch IKL, 4th floor
    Karl-Schweighofer-Gasse 3
    1070 Vienna

    Education in the Arts