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We welcome Monika Kammer (Univ.prof. § 98 Conservation-Restoration) at the Institute for Conservation – Restoration, warmly at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna!

Bidding periods for 2nd Year Scholarship and Student Assistance Fund as early as October 2023.

We warmly welcome Emily Wardill (Univ.prof. § 98 Art and Film at the Institute for Fine Arts) to the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna!

We warmly welcome Aristide Antonas (Univ.prof. § 98 Architectural Design (Platform Analog Digital Production) at the Institute of Art and Architecture), to the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna!

We warmly welcome Alexei Penzin (Univ.prof. § 99 Philosophy and Aesthetic Theory at the Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies) to the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna!

We warmly welcome Alice Creischer and Andreas Siekmann (Univ.prof. § 98 Contextual Painting at the Institute for Fine Arts) to the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna! The department is co-chaired by both of them.

IAA Card to be recognised at the Kunsthistorisches Museum and the Albertina. The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna also advocates, in the sense of promoting artists, that artists with the International Artists' Card of the IAA receive free admission to all Austrian federal museums.

For the 17th time - and for the first time in international cooperation with Bergen Kunsthall in Norway - Kunstraum Niederoesterreich awards the H13 Lower Austria Prize for Performance, this time to Rehema Chachage, PhD in Practice student at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

The registration for the courses of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna is possible from 18.9. on AkademieOnline. The access data will be sent by email with the enrollment. Searching for courses in German and English or for teachers is possible here.

Together with the Austrian art universities, Ö1 is again looking for talented young artists in 2023. A grant for visual arts in the amount of 10,000 euros will be awarded, which will be made available by Wiener Städtische Versicherungsverein.

Winner of the first prize of the University of Applied Arts Vienna is Marielena Stark.

Every year, the Italian "Fondazione Zegna" (https://founderscholarship.fondazionezegna.org/en/) offers scholarships to a restricted number of exceptionally promising candidates to undertake a course of study or research abroad.

The University Library of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna is on vacation. The Main Library will be closed from August 1 to 20, 2023. From Monday, August 21, 2023, the team will be available again for your questions.

The University Library of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna is on vacation. The Main Library will be blosed from August 1 to 20 and the Branch Library at the Institute for Education in the Arts will be closeduntil October 1, 2023.

This year, the PLAYGROUND ART PRIZE 2023 of the Galerie VON&VON goes to Lotti Brockmann, student at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Prof. Veronika Dirnhofer, for her work Stolen Statues (Licked). Since 2016, the PLAYGROUND exhibition series has offered young artists the ideal opportunity to present their work to a broad audience and make their first contacts in the art world.

General student registration from September 4th - October 31st

The Award for Scientific Works 2022/23 is awarded to Nargess Khodabakhshi for her dissertation (IKL). The Honorary Award goes to Helena Schmidt for her dissertation (IKL).

Paula Strunden's work Alison's Room: An Extended Reality (XR) Archive, which she produced as part of her dissertation as part of the EU research project TACK: Communities of Tacit Knowledge: Architecture and Its Ways of Knowing, has been nominated for the Dutch film award Gouden Kalf.