Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien

07/09/2026

Back from summer holidays, it's time for registration deadlines, yaaay🎉

The continuation registration/enrolment for the upcoming winter semester is possible between 7 September and 31 October!

All enrolled students can register for the courses offered in Akademie Online from 14 September. Staggered registration periods are intended to prevent overloads or system failures in AkademieOnline. Registration for all courses is open till 30 October. Please check your mail! 🙏

Also maybe of interest to you: There is a new curriculum for the study programs offered by the Institute for Art and Education. Following a resolution by the National Council, education programs for teaching secondary level schools will be reorganised with effect from 1 October 2026: in future, it will comprise a three-year Bachelor’s degree and a two-year Master’s degree.

Other relevant dates and information are available on our website ➡Link in Bio!

📸 Public Relations Office

26/08/2026

What separates the inside from the outside — and what connects them? A wall, a pane of glass, a convention.

Schwelle (threshold) brings together five artistic positions that don't just address this transition, but physically challenge it. Works by Ralo Mayer, Stine Ølgod, Maria Petschnig, Michaela Schweighofer, and Adrien Tirtiaux move into spaces and spheres, shift their contours, and ask to whom space belongs — who occupies it, and how. The rooms of Exhibit Gallery are part of that inquiry.

💌You're invited to the upcoming exhibition in Exhibit Gallery, curated by Ingeborg Erhart and Sofie Mathoi. Opening September 9, 18 h - join us!💌

📸Nico Schleicher and Kathi Siebenhandl

06/07/2026

Some photos of our Graduation Ceremony last Friday! Congratulations again to all graduates and award winners 💐 It was a joy to see you celebrate with your fellow students, mentors, and loved ones! ❤️

Thank you for the sound performances: ct dug & Thomas Vara, AZA & Odessa,
Emma Baier and 20% (all students of Franz Pomassl) 🎤

We wish a very relaxing, pleasant and inspiring summer to all of our graduates, students and colleagues! ⛱️
We’ll see each other again in fall, the official start of the academic year 2026/27 will be October 1!

📸 Public Relations office

06/07/2026

02/07/2026

Your sculpture could soon be standing right here!

The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, in cooperation with Bank Austria, is realizing the project package "The Sum of Its Individual Parts". As part of the project package, a graduate will be chosen to create a temporary sculpture (The "Parts") in a public space.

The competition is aimed at graduates from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. The winning project will receive prize money of 20,000 euros and will be installed for a period of about one year at the northwestern corner of Karlsplatz (on the triangular traffic island between Friedrichstraße and Operngasse). At the end of the presentation period, the sculpture will be placed on a further temporary basis in Bank Austria Park, which was curated by André Heller, in Vienna's 21st district.

⏰Submission deadline: Tuesday, October 6, 2026, 11 h

💡Got ideas? Submit them now via the Link in Bio!

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24/06/2026

Parcours is now open!!!
Thanks for joining the opening festivities yesterday, despite the heat 🌞🪩
See the final works of our graduates until July 5!

📍Schillerplatz
📍Exhibit Eschenbachgasse
📍Studio Building Lehargasse
📍Sculpture Studios Kurzbauergasse

➡️ More info on our website www.akbild.ac.at

📸 eSeL.at - Sarah Tasha

16/06/2026

Book launch!
Fine Companions 3: Cuaderno de tareas de Ana Victoria Jiménez
(re-imagined by andrea ancira and Nina Hoechtl, in cooperation with Mark Pezinger Books and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna)

Tuesday, June 30, 2026, 18 h
VBKÖ, Maysedergasse 2/28 (4. Stock, Lift), 1010 Vienna
With Johan Hartle (Rector Academy of Fine Arts Vienna), andrea ancira, Nina Hoechtl (tumbalacasa ediciones), Thomas Geiger, Astrid Seme (Mark Pezinger Books)

This launch offers an intimate journey into the process of research, imagination, and collaboration, as well as the conceptual and visual decisions that shaped Ana Victoria Jiménez’s Cuaderno de tareas / Work planner (2025).

Cuaderno de tareas brings to life the vision Ana Victoria Jiménez had long held: a work planner designed to document and raise awareness of the care work that sustains life.

Ana Victoria Jiménez (1941-2025, Mexico City) was a feminist artist, editor, and activist who played a pivotal role in documenting the work of feminist activists and artists from the 1960s through the 1990s in Mexico. Her dedication led to the creation of Mexico’s largest feminist archive, housed at the Francisco Xavier Clavijero Library (Ibero-American University), which was recognized by UNESCO in 2024 as part of its Memory of the World program.

This Cuaderno de tareas is dedicated to Ana Victoria Jiménez, to the countless acts of care that made her archive possible, and to the reproductive labor that sustains both personal and collective struggles and histories.

📸Photo: Astrid Semebooks .avj

12/06/2026

Enjoy the teaser for the Platz nehmen #5 film - check it out full length on our YouTube channel ➡️ Link in Bio!

„Platz nehmen #5: Let‘s stick with the Unicorns“ took place at Schillerplatz on May 13, 2026. It‘s a project by the Transformations Group Akbild, the Research Cluster
Sustainability in the Arts and Academy | Art | Public Sphere., in cooperation with the Klima Biennale Wien!

🎥 Jennifer Posny

09/06/2026

SEND THIS TO YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY: IT'S TIME FOR PARCOURS!

Parcours Final Works 2026
23.6.2026–5.7.2026
Free entry!

📍Schillerplatz, Exhibit Eschenbachgasse, Studio Building at Lehargasse, Sculpture Studios at Kurzbauergasse

🥳 Opening: 23.6., 16 h at the courtyard at Schillerplatz

🕐Opening hours
23.6.2026: 16–21 h
from 24.6.2026: Mon–Fri 14–18 h, Sat–Sun 10–18 h

🙋‍♂️Guided tours on Friday, 26.6., Friday, 3.7., and Saturday, 4.7.

More details and program via Link in Bio!

📸 Beton

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