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We warmly welcome Andrea Faraguna and Emily Wardill to the Academy and are delighted that Alastair Mackinven has extended his contract.

With the help of numerous donors - from very young, little-known artists to international stars - the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna supports students with the Mental Health Fund and Support Fund for particularly promising but socially disadvantaged students. A total of 110,000 euros will go to the associations tralalobe and solidarity matters, which work with refugees in Austria.

The AICA Prize for Young Art Critics, endowed with 12,000 euros and awarded for the first time, goes to Sophia Roxane Rohwetter, Master in Critical Studies student.

For admission to most of the study programs at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (with the exception of some Doctoral Studies) an admission exam must be passed, in addition to meeting other formal criteria. An overview of all admission tests for the study programs can be found here. More detailed information on the admission tests can be found on the page for each study program.

The 1st Elfriede Mejchar Prize for Photography 2024 is awarded to the photographer and artist Lisa Rastl, who was born in Lower Austria and lives and works in Vienna and Burgenland.

On the actuality of Pierre Bourdieu's cultural sociology. With a foreword by Franz Schultheis. Published by Turia + Kant. Vienna/ Berlin 2024.

The University Library of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna is on vacation. The Main Library and the Branch Library at the Institute for Education in the Arts will be closed from February 5 to 18, 2024.

The annual online auction of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, in cooperation with Dorotheum Vienna, takes place for the tenth time in 2024. The proceeds will benefit students at the academy who are exposed to difficult living conditions - for example due to their nationality - as well as the initiatives tralalobe and solidarity matters, which support refugees in Austria.

The University Library of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna is on vacation. The Main Library and the Branch Library at the Institute for Education in the Arts will be closed from December 22, 2023 to January 7, 2024. 

Helena Schmidt, since this year university assistant (post-doc) at the Institute for Education in the Arts (IKL) - Department of Art and Education, was honored for her dissertation From poor image to poor images. Digital didactics in art education, supervised by Elke Krasny, received the Award for Excellence from the BMBWF.

From 1972 to 1997, Wolfgang Hollegha was professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, where he last taught a masterclass in painting.

Gabriele Possanner was the first woman to receive a doctorate in Austria-Hungary in 1897. 100 years later, the Ministry of Science launches the Gabriele Possanner Prizes for services to the promotion of gender studies. On the 2nd Day of Gender Studies - Tuesday, December 5, 2023, the winners of the 2023 Possanner Prizes will be announced.

Information on the holiday opening hours of the contemporary exhibitions, the exhibition of the Art Collections and the service facilities of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna: