Art and Image | Figuration

Class meeting of the department of figurative painting.18 Students of the class are gathered in room E 18 at Schillerplatz.They are discussing and exchanging ideas. In the background are works in progress of Gregor Hagenauer and Bergur Nordal.

First floor, Schillerplatz 3. In the corridor, the students' paintings of the class for figurative paintings are on display. Clemens Grömmer points with his hand to a painting by Alberto Cappai. Also visible is a work by Arang Choi.

The studio for Art and Image | Figuration (prev. Figurative Painting) offers students a structured framework for an intensive investigation of contemporary art production. Based on the idea and history of figurative painting as a former "key medium" of Modernism, formal, methodical and theoretical approaches in the sense of an expanded concept of art are discussed, thus enabling students to develop their own, individual artistic stance. Together, they will discuss their works and specific exhibitions, read texts and analyze them according to a set of criteria critically linked to artistic-conceptual approaches and referring to the logic of imagery. In recent years, classes were held by Amelie von Wulffen, Birgit Megerle, Silke Otto-Knapp, Henning Bohl, Kirsi Mikkola and Francis Ruyter.

Name: Univ.-Prof. M.A. Alastair Mackinven
Phone: + 43 (1) 58816 - 6500
Email: a.mackinven@akbild.ac.at

Name: BFA MFA Nino Svireli
Phone: + 43 (1) 58816 - 6515
Email: n.svireli@akbild.ac.at

Schillerplatz 3. ground floor 17, 17a, 17b, 17c, 18, first floor 115, second floor 214a, 214b
1010 Vienna
gegenstaend_malerei@akbild.ac.at