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This year, the PLAYGROUND ART PRIZE 2023 of the Galerie VON&VON goes to Lotti Brockmann, student at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Prof. Veronika Dirnhofer, for her work Stolen Statues (Licked). Since 2016, the PLAYGROUND exhibition series has offered young artists the ideal opportunity to present their work to a broad audience and make their first contacts in the art world.

The first step for admission to a degree programme at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna - after passing the entrance examination - is the online admission at campus.akbild.ac.at - "pre-registration".

All information, the individual steps and procedures are summarised on the website at Studies > General Study Information > Admission > Online Admission. For further questions, please contact the Registrar’s Office at studienabteilung@akbild.ac.at.

Please note, that the General student registration is from September 4 - October 31, 2023.

The Award for Scientific Works 2022/23 is awarded to Nargess Khodabakhshi for her dissertation (IKL). The Honorary Award goes to Helena Schmidt for her dissertation (IKL).

Paula Strunden's work Alison's Room: An Extended Reality (XR) Archive, which she produced as part of her dissertation as part of the EU research project TACK: Communities of Tacit Knowledge: Architecture and Its Ways of Knowing, has been nominated for the Dutch film award Gouden Kalf.

In period 19. 06 to 23.06.2023, students and academic staff from three Academies of Fine Arts met in Barcelona to close a year-long Blended Intensive Program (2022-2023) encounter and exchange program of events.

For the academic year 22|23, the Academy will award the following prizes to distinguished graduates and students:

Tizza Covi, professor of Art and Film at the Institute of Fine Arts since October 2022, and Rainer Frimmel were awarded for their portrait film Vera in the feature film category. Congratulations!

The walk-in art installation shows the importance of the forest in times of climate change - a cooperation between the Austrian Federal Forests, the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and MQ. The design by the Vienna-based artist Johannes Franz-Figeac was selected by a jury of experts as part of the graduate funding program. Franz-Figeac was accompanied in the implementation by Mona Hahn, Johannes Hoffmann and Richard Reisenberger-Littasy, artists and teachers at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, in the form of mentoring.

Deadline for applications Bachelor in Architecture
online registration: 22.5.–9.6.2023
www.akbild.ac.at/admission

Masimba Hwati receives the Cathrin Pichler-Prize 2023, sponsored by the City of Vienna and endowed with 2,500 euros. The award ceremony and presentation of the work will take place on Wednesday, June 7, 2023, 17 h in the Anatomy Hall of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

Studio support program for graduates of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Deadline: Tuesday, June 13, 2023, 11 a.m.
Submission via https://calls.akbild.ac.at/calls/

The Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS) is carrying out the Student Social Survey 2023 on behalf of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (BMBWF).

The station exhibition A'Wiener Karavanserei was designed by Asma Aiad, a student of the Studio for Conceptual Art.

So, how’s it? Everybody needs feedback sometimes. Help us to improve the quality of studies and teaching at the Academy and strengthen the dialogue between teachers and students.

On 1.3.2023, the new University Council was appointed for the next 5 years.

The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna revises the list of its honorary members.

The nationwide ÖH elections will take place from May 09 to May 11, 2023.

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