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05/06/2026

Kohei Saito in Vienna: Planning Against Climate Fascism

To mark the publication of the German translation of his book "Dark Socialism. Hope in a Ruined World", Japanese philosopher and bestselling author Kohei Saito will give a lecture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

⏰12 June 2026, 17 h
📍Studio Building, Lehárgasse 8, 1060 Vienna
Prospekthof

Climate facism is a political form in which ecological breakdown becomes the pretext for authoritarian control, militarised exclusion, and the unequal distribution of survival. In this context, the central question is no longer whether planning will return, but what kind of planning will govern the future. Rejecting the false choice between market solutions and technocratic state control, this lecture argues for counter-planning: a democratic, egalitarian, and ecologically grounded reorganisation of production, consumption, and social reproduction.

The event will be opened by Johan F. Hartle, Rector of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. The evening will be moderated by Ulrich Brand, Professor of International Politics at the University of Vienna. Following the opening remarks, Astrid Schöggl (Vienna Chamber of Labor) and Lisa Mittendrein (Attac Austria) will offer commentary.

This event is a collaboration between , the Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna, the Austrian Foundation for Development Research (ÖFSE), Attac Austria, the Vienna Chamber of Labor, the Institute for International Development at the University of Vienna, and the Vienna Democracy Center.

📸1 Kohei Saito © Yusuke Uchida, 2 Book cover dtv Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co.KG

02/06/2026

Sunggu Hong receives the Cathrin Pichler Prize 2026 - congratulations 🥳

Hong is being honored for his work "Uncanny Habitat, under the unmoving Moon". In it, the Vienna-based Korean artist opens up a poetic space for thought and experience, where bodies, machines, robots, movements, sounds, atmospheres, and affects are interwoven into a multifaceted synesthetic experience of coexistence.

The jury finds: "Especially in a present where art is often pushed towards quick readability, a clear message, or smooth communication, Hong's strength lies in not reducing complexity, but rather making it tangible as an open-ended cartography: a fluid structure of relationships, ruptures, dependencies, and open questions, negotiated with a high degree of physical presence and dance-like skill. His work conceives of the relationship between the human and the non-human as a shared movement, as a reciprocal shaping, touching, and nurturing."

Sunggu Hong, born in Seoul, lives and works in Vienna. He studied Fine Arts in South Korea and at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, where he graduated in 2025 with a degree in Art and Time | Performance. The concept of relationship is central to his artistic practice.

📸1) Yang Soeun; 2,3) eSeL.at - Joanna Pianka

29/05/2026

Thank you to all students and staff who showed up to protest together against the looming budget cuts on Wednesday! ✊

28.000 people sent a strong message for the future of universities, sciene and research 🏛️

Let’s keep the momentum going: Sign the petition initiated by via the Link in Bio now! 🖋️

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26/05/2026

Got feedback? In the summer semester 2026, Course Feedback will be carried out at the Institute for Art and Architecture as well as at the Institute for Fine Arts.

💌 Please check your mail 💌

Students will receive the link to the online questionnaire via their Academy email address. The questionnaire can be completed from 18.5. to 30.6.2026.

✨Thank you for participating!✨

📸© Nico Schleicher

22/05/2026

Outside of what I can see, framed within my window
29.5.–12.6.2026
University Library of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna at Schillerplatz

This exhibition project was developed by Nataša Ilić and Ivet Ćurlín (WHW) with the students of their two-year program at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, in close collaboration with the Kontakt Collection.

It presents four women artists whose practices explore notions of belonging and diasporic European experience: Alma Bektaš (b. 1992 in Bosnia and Herzegovina, lives in Vienna), Lana Čmajčanin (b. in 1983 in Sarajevo, lives in Vienna), Mila Panić (b. 1991 in Brčko, lives in Berlin), and Selma Selman (b. 1991 in Bihać, lives in Amsterdam and New York).

Program:

You Have No Idea: Performance by Selma Selman
Friday, 29 May 2026, 18 h, Schillerplatz

Opening of the exhibition
Friday, 29 May 2026, 19 h, Library

Jokes: stand-up comedy by Mila Panić
Monday, 1 June 2026, 19 h, Library

Outside of what I can see, framed within my window…: Film program
Tuesday, 2 June 2026, 18 h, Blickle Kino (Arsenalstraße 1, 1030 Vienna)
Curated by Hana Ćurak and Asija Ismailovski

More info ➡ Link in Bio!

📸1) Selma Selman, YHNI, 2016, Credits: Maria Piroski, 2) Alma Bektas, Courtesy of the Artist, 3) Lana Čmajčanin, 551.35 — Geometry of Time (detail), 2014 (2026), 4) Mila Panić, Comedy notes 7' set, photograph, 2026.

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20/05/2026

With the ground-breaking ceremony on May 13, the Bundesimmobiliengesellschaft (BIG) begins the renovation, expansion, and extension of the so-called Ballonhalle in the Vienna Arsenal.

The former military building, which is under heritage protection, will be adapted for new use by the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Completion is planned for the end of 2027; will begin using the building in early 2028.

The design by Schenker Salvi Weber Architects was selected as the winning project in an architectural competition. Within the approximately 15-meter-high interior of the Ballonhalle, two additional floors will be constructed using a "box on stilts," housing seminar rooms. The ground floor below will contain an auditorium, library, and event spaces.

The characteristic barrel roof and the large windows will be preserved, allowing the spatial character of the original building to remain perceptible. The extension consists of a single-story hall for workshops and studios, as well as a four-story tower for office and laboratory space.

The expansion creates the much needed spatial and technical prerequisites for the Institute for Conservation and Restoration and the Institute for Natural Sciences and Technology in the Arts.

Follow us and stop by our website www.akbild.ac.at to stay up to date with our project 💘

📸 - Joanna Pianka

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18/05/2026

Many thanks to all teachers, students, participants, enablers, supporters and attendees for their dedicated contributions and collaboration on “Platz nehmen #5: Lets stick with the Unicorns”! 💖

On Wednesday, May 13, 2026, the fifth edition of the event series “Platz nehmen” took place at Schillerplatz. It was a project by the Transformation group Akbild, the Research Cluster Sustainability in the Arts and Academy | Art | Public Sphere, in cooperation with Klima Biennale Wien. Enjoy the impressions of the Participatory Drawing Performance, the Summer Showing by , the lecture by Helga Kromp-Kolb, installations around Schillerpark and the concert by !

Conceived by Academy | Art | Public Sphere, the series of events with different focal points is intended to bring the teaching taking place at the Academy to the outside and invite public debate on socially relevant topics. The focus is on involving and generating a public at Schillerplatz. As a central signal for these meetings, furniture designed and built by students creates a setting that is staged and designed by students and lecturers from different departments, together with invited institutional cooperation partners and international guests. Once a semester, debates on various key topics are held jointly and openly for everyone at Schillerplatz. The public is cordially invited to take part in the discourse.

📸 – Lorenz Seidler

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11/05/2026

student Anna Poell talks about her work „Raumlinie“, currently on view as part of the exhibition “In the Fold of the Sack” at Exhibit Gallery and Studio! Stop by to see it in person! 👀

In the Fold of the Sack�Only till 24.5.2026!�Exhibit Gallery�Schillerplatz 3, 1. floor��🎥 Newsroom GmbH��

04/05/2026

ONE MORE MONTH!
Don't miss the chance to visit "In the Fold of the Sack", on view till 24.5.2026!
📍Exhibit Gallery, Schillerplatz 3, 1. floor

In the Fold of the Sack proposes a critical framework in which materials are understood not simply as the substrates of artistic production, but as active agents embedded within systems in relation to artists’ bodies, memories, and positionalities.

📸Photo: kunst-dokumentation.com

29/04/2026

Get ready for the fifth edition of Platz nehmen!
Platz nehmen #5: Let's stick with the Unicorns – Aesthetic Consequences of Care, Tidying and Re.use

A project by Transformation group Akbild, Research Cluster Sustainability in the Arts and Academy | Art | Public Sphere, in cooperation with Klima Biennale Wien.

"Let's stick with the Unicorns" is a large-scale artistic intervention at Schillerplatz that examines public space as a concrete ecological and social situation. At its core is the question of how artistic practice can remain effective under conditions of ecological crisis. Transformation is not understood as a goal or a promise for the future, but as a present practice. The artistic works use existing materials, vegetation, traces of use, and temporal processes to actively position themselves against existing capitalist climate narratives. The artistic explorations are temporary, reversible, and site-specific.

The event begins two days before the main event, on May 11. These first two days are dedicated to lectures and various interventions. On the third day, May 13, the project opens with the format Platz nehmen #5 for collective reflection and invites the public to actively participate in the program:

16 h
Softening the Ground - Participatory Drawing Performance

16:45 h
What does climate protection have to do with peace? - Lecture by Helga Kromp-Kolb followed by a discussion

18 h
Summer Showing - Performances by the Studio Art and Time | Performance

19:30 h
Construction Choir Collective - Concert

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