Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien

23/09/2026

HAPPENING NOW: Orientation Days for First Year Students

✅get to know the services of the Academy for students
✅get your questions answered
✅get to know students from other study programs

‼️DON'T MISS:
Welcome Meeting for first year students with Q&A session
Next week, Wednesday 30 Septemeber, 09:30-14 h
Schillerplatz 3, ground floor, room EA1, Sitzungssaal

Other program points:
Guided Tours of all locations of the Academy
Guided Tour through the Paintings Gallery
Guided Tour through the exhibition "Schwelle"
Introduction to the Library
Introduction „Accessible Studying—Offers, Advice, Support"

➡ Dates and more info via Link in Bio and on www.akbild.ac.at!

We wish you a fun and easy start to your studies at the Academy 💖

📸 Ilay Schwingshandl

15/09/2026

Amazing! You have been accepted to the Academy of Fine Arts! And now what?
In this video, André Rachadel guides you through the first most important steps after having passed the admission exam. Your essential guide to starting at the Academy!
A must-see for all new students ✌️🎉

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10/09/2026

„Schwelle“ is now open! So see you soon? 🙌
An exhibition with Ralo Mayer, Stine Ølgod, Maria Petschnig, Michaela Schweighofer, Adrien Tirtiaux.
10.9.–18.10.2026
Exhibit Gallery, Schillerplatz 3, 1. floor

ALSO: Don’t miss the artists at Astoria Artshow this weekend!!
10.–13.9.2026
Astoria Garage, Trautsongasse 4

📸Photos of the exhibition opening yesterday evening by eSeL - Was in der Kunst passiert - Robert Puteanu

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