Institute

Visitor with striking orange hat in front of a wall with white abstract wall sculptures

Several people wearing FFP2 masks stand in a room with columns and wooden floor. In the foreground you can see an artistic work: 3 stuffed wild cats, 2 leopards a panther lying on the floor in front of feeding bowls in the same position.

A performer sits cross-legged in a room behind a glass wall and tears up photos. The snippets are spread around her, she wears black clothes, her hair is pinned up. The surrounding space is reflected in the glass.

The artist sits behind his work table with mask and sunglasses. He is surrounded by his works, a multitude of small-scale, colorful and abstract paintings and drawings.

Three small paintings hang on a wall, two portraits and a hand with a raised index finger, above them projected two forearms, obviously in a gestural motion sequence. The cross-fades create an orange-red, abstract environment that frames the white cut-out.

Black and white image of younger woman smoking cigarette with serious skeptical look. She is sitting in a garden.

Three performers spit water they drink from plastic bottles into the air. Their upper bodies are naked or wearing purple, non-gender-specific tops.

Huge fabric sculpture that looks like an amoeba-like animal, in light and dark orange colors and small outgrowths.

The Institute for Fine Arts is a center of artistic education, practice, and research. It aims to provide students with comprehensive yet precisely targeted artistic competence, including technique and content. For the past ten years, the institute has consistently expanded on the classic disciplines of painting and sculpture, to include fields such as contemporary media, photography, film, video, performance, and conceptual art. These developments provide today’s students with 18 studios of artistic education. By expanding our workshops and enhancing autonomous teaching by non-professorial staff, we have been able to establish a wide and distinctive scope of artistic development.

A close link to the Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies supports us by the direct combination of theoretical and practice-related teaching content. In its current configuration, the Institute for Fine Arts offers a combination of individual and group artistic instruction, workshops, and laboratories with different foci, as well as a large variety of courses in practice and/or theory, many of which are interdisciplinary in nature.

As a part of the curriculum, artists rooted in international discourse manage the Studios (central artistic subjects), and counsel and accompany students in their courses. Together, they develop projects visible beyond the scope of the Academy. Apart from teaching, the Academy has been increasingly focused on the field of artistic research—research that, in turn, enhances the number and quality of courses offered.

Sufficient room and space, separate workplaces, and state-of-the-art professional equipment support our students in their individual development and prepare them for independent work after their studies. The Institute’s international orientation is shown not only by its selection of lecturers, but also by the large number of international students in attendance and the constant presence of its graduates in a very comprehensive artistic context.

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Institute for Fine Arts

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Study Program Fine Arts

Chair

Univ.-Prof. Mag. Christian Schwarzwald
Mag. Isabella Kresse (Deputy chair)
Univ.-Prof. Julian Göthe (Deputy chair)
ibk_leitung@akbild.ac.at

Office

Josef Lämmermayer
P +43 (1) 58816-7101
F +43 (1) 58816-7199
laemmermayer@akbild.ac.at

Nicole Müller
P +43 (1) 58816-7102
Ni.Mueller@akbild.ac.at

Mag. Dr. Christian Müllner
P +43 (1) 58816-7102
c.muellner@akbild.ac.at

Sibylle Schwarzkogler
P +43 (1) 58816-6101
s.schwarzkogler@akbild.ac.at

AV Technics

Gilbert Marx
P +43(1)58816-6102
g.marx@akbild.ac.at

Flavia Mudesto Passos (Teaching assistant)
Pal Rees (Teaching assistant)