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IT'S TIME: Platz nehmen #3: Right of Passage - Wegerecht
With a Communal Walking Experience by Hamish Fulton, a Lecture by the philosopher Jens Badura and contributuons of Fine Arts students, curated by Miya Yoshida.

Thu 24.10.2024, 16–18h
Schillerplatz

The event will take place in any weather!
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Public space is an open and free space in the general sense. A space that does not have to be fought for, but is available to all and can be used equally. A lofty illusion. The right to maintain a public space has always had to be obtained. It is only by entering and passing through that a space is claimed and at the same time democratically negotiated. This "Right of Passage" is always also a political act. It creates a transition from the opening of one's own individual space to a social public space: I trust my counterpart and share a communal space. The public space is therefore the framework of trust and the shared understanding of accepting each other and giving each other space. This process must be protected and guaranteed as fundamentally equal.

The artists approach the freely accessible Schillerplatz, which surrounds the academy, with this awareness: to be politically active. We have a common understanding of the need to change communal space with artistic means. This does not require audible politicians or institutional languages, but rather a very own socialized artistic assumption of connected and consenting thought and action: By standing and walking together, we can grow, be audible and visible, can determine and shape social space. A small artistic revolutionary moment that produces fascial and synaptic growths and miracles.

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KEYNOTE LECTURE: Da'Shaun L. Harrison - The politics of Anti-fatness as Anti-Blackness

A lecture as part of the event series "GENDER TALKS: ThiccPhatUtopias" 21.– 24.10.2024. Organized and financed by the Referat Genderforschung of the University of Vienna.

Co-financed and significantly supported by the Abteilung Organisationskultur und Gleichstellung of the University of Vienna, the Equal Opportunities Team at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna , the Master in Critical Studies at , the BaGru Gender Studies, the research platform GAIN, and with thanks to TU Wien.

Mon 21.10.2024, 17:30h
Schillerplatz 3, Room 211a

Registration: Link in Bio!

FYI, another lecture announcement: MA Critical Studies Lecture Series with Da'Shaun L. Harrison on October 24, 18h Schillerplatz 3, Conference Room!
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Platz nehmen #3 program:

16 h
Meeting point outside the academy Portal, Welcome and Introduction
+ Binding registration for participation in the Communal Walking Experience by Hamish Fulton on site - followed by parallel training for this group!
Spontaneous participation is no longer possible during the holding of the walk from 17 h!

16:15 h
Miya Yoshida and the students of the Institute of Fine Arts: Clemens Grömmer, Kweku Okokroko, Ilay Schwingshandl, Matei Alexandrescu, Esther Vörösmarty, Randolf Helmstetter walk through the outdoor space of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the Schillerplatz

16:40 h
Lecture: Platzen. Ein Plädoyer für Unvermittlung by Jens Badura

17 h
Communal Walking Experience von und mit Hamish Fulton

18 h
End and conclusion
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Platz nehmen #3 with Hamish Fulton

Hamish Fulton, born in 1946, is a British photographer, conceptual artist, painter and sculptor. Since 1973 he has created works based exclusively on the experience of walking and the human walk in the environment and calls himself a Walking Artist. He realizes his walks and guided performances in a variety of media, including photography, illustrations and wall texts. His work is represented in major museum collections such as Tate Britain and MoMA. He has participated in Documenta 5, 6, and 7.

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Ever wanted to know what the Institute for Conservation-Restoration studios look like?

For the European Days of Conservation-Restoration 2024, the IKR opens their studios on Thursday, October 17, 2024 from 16 h until 18 h.

Find them not on Schillerplatz but at Augasse 2-6, 1090 Vienna, Kern N, Foyer.
📸IKR Studio, Lisa Rastl 2018
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🌍🌎🌏 Academy-Students go Global 🌍🌎🌏
Do not miss the from October 16 to 18, 2024 at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna!

The International Office invites all interested Academy students to participate in informational events regarding studying and interning abroad. These events will provide insights into the preparations and processes of a semester or internship abroad.

➡️Wed, Oct 16, 14-16 h : Information event "Go Global": Students report about their semester abroad. Conference room, Schillerplatz 3.

➡️Thu, Oct 17, 11-12 h: Information with Simon Barranque, online.

➡️Fri, October 18, 18-20 h: Flora Franke and Raphael Hofmann will share their experiences at KNUST in Ghana. Ernestina Doku, an exchange student from KUNST, will be available to answer questions from interested students. Atelier an der Quelle, Quellenstraße 149, 1100 Wien.

Link in Bio!

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The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna welcomes the curator collective What, How & for Whom (WHW) as guest lecturers in a curatorial project with students. Nataša Ilić and Ivet Ćurlin will be realizing exhibition projects with students over the next two years with the support of the Kontakt Collection.

With the project "The secret is that there is no secret", WHW want to discuss curating as a collaborative effort with students at the Academy. As part of their teaching assignment, Ilić and Ćurlin will specifically address institutions in Vienna and Austria that have showcased artistic practices from Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe (CEE).

The two-year teaching assignment at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, supported by the ERSTE Foundation, promotes educational programs that make knowledge about the theory and practice of art in former Eastern Europe accessible. The ERSTE Foundation is supporting the project on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Kontakt collection.
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Did you know that the basement of the Atelierhaus/Studio Building is home to an extensive plaster cast collection?

On October 23 at 16 h you are in for a treat: The Plaster Cast Collection opens its doors to the public!

The collection was founded at the end of the 17th century for study purposes and has since been systematically expanded. With its approximately 450 preserved plaster casts the collection offers a unique overview of European sculpture history and contains plaster casts of the most famous sculptures in art history.

How are the plaster casts made? What happend to the other 2000 casts that used to be part of the collection? And how did the casts end up in a basement?

Join the tour to find out - and don't forget: the rooms can only be visited on guided tours!

📆Check our highlight "Coming up in..." to find the newest dates for the tours!
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Last week, .at's "Pass Egal Wahl" took place at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. 144 votes were cast in total. 77 people with a non-Austrian citizenship participated, and 67 Austrian citizens handed in a solidarity vote.

The 77 people are citizens of 24 different countries - European and non-European both. About half of them are German citizens, others are citizens of, for example, Bangladesh, Argentina, Russia, the US, or Pakistan.

The general result for the "Pass Egal Wahl" in Austria is as follows:

A total of 19,854 people with passports from 120 different countries took advantage of the symbolic voting opportunity, including 11,428 Austrian citizens who expressed their solidarity with people who do not have the right to vote.

Among voters without Austrian citizenship, the SPÖ took first place among the parties running nationwide. It received 36.8 percent of the vote. They were followed by the Greens with 19.3 percent, KPÖ with 10.4 percent, FPÖ with 8.1 percent, NEOS with 7.9 percent, ÖVP with 6.4 percent, KEINE with 3.2 percent, BIER with 2.9 percent and LMP with 0.7 percent.

Thank you to everyone who participated at , and thank you to all colleagues involved in realizing this project!

If you want to know more about the "Pass Egal Wahl" and its results, please visit www.passegalwahl.at!
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We are happy and proud to welcome our new professors!

Thilo Folkerts, Univ.prof. Architectural Design (platform GLC), Institute for Art and Architecture

Cornelia Escher & Lars Fischer, Univ.prof. Architectural Theory and Architectural Design (platform HTC), Institute for Art and Architecture

Petra Hlaváčková & Nicole Sabella, Univ.prof. Gender & Space / Design, Institute for Art and Architecture

Noit Banai, Univ.prof. Diaspora Aesthetics, Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies

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It's time for ORF-LANGE NACHT DER MUSEEN!

On Saturday October 5, you can visit the Paintings Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna till midnight!
There will be hourly tours (from 18 - 23 h) through the exhibition ‘Considering the Collection & Cranach's Holy Productivity An Insert by Klaus Scherübel’. An art educator from the Art Collections team will guide you.

The exhibition ‘Considering the Collection & Cranach's Holy Productivity An Insert by Klaus Scherübel’ shows highlights from the Paintings Gallery's collection – from Bosch to Rubens – including works related to the insert by contemporary artist Klaus Scherübel. Focusing on the Baroque period, the exhibition presents a cross-section of the core of the collection.

So put the Academy on your LNDM-timetable, it's gonna be worth it!
For more info on the event see Link in Bio!
📸Exhibition view © Kunstsammlungen der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Photo: Iris Ranzinger

The Academy at KARLSTAG 2024

SPECIAL TOUR - 16 h
Tour of the exhibition »Die Sammlung betrachten & Cranach’s Holy Productivity An Insert by Klaus Scherübel« in the Paintings Gallery.
Register directly on site at the main entrance (first come first serve).

MEGATOUR - 17:30 h
Karl Bruckschwaiger leads interested parties on a mega tour lasting over 8 hours across Karlsplatz and into the art houses. It is possible to board at the respective stations.
Free entry
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WELCOME WELCOME: Orientation Days for First Year Students in October 2024

The Student Welcome Center organises a diverse program together with lots of services, departments, institutes and students of the Academy. All details, including the exact dates of the study programs and studios, are available at the Academy Website. Link in Bio!

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Don't miss the Welcome Meeting with a Q&A session!
Thursday, October 3, 09:30 - 13 h
Schillerplatz 3, ground floor, room EA1, Sitzungssaal
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"Weißer Fleck" (Blind Spot) is an innovative artistic research project that is now on display on the façade of a Gemeindebau in Heiligenstadt, Vienna!

It is a long term collaborative effort between the Insitute for Art and Architecture, the Institute of Natural Sciences and Technology in the Arts, and The Dusts Institute. It represents an intersection of artistic research, architecture, and geomicrobiology.

The project consists of ‘drawing’ a 10-meter diameter circle on the façade of a housing block by removing the thin layer of microoganisms that occupy the surface of the building.

"Weisser Fleck questions what the outer surfaces of buildings need to look like in an age of climate crisis and why,” says Adam Hudec (co-author of the project). “By removing biopatina from a single building, we aim to show why these microorganisms should be embraced rather than erased, encouraging a shift from a cleanliness-based model of urban care to one that values biodiversity and resilience.”

The project was supported by KÖR and is an integral part of the research at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna under the title 'Epidermitecture', led by professors Michelle Howard and Katja Sterflinger.

Heiligenstädter Straße 141, 1190 Vienna
From 27 September 2024
Official opening: 27.9. 16 h

Link to project website in Bio!
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It's almost winter semester - a new study year is upon us!
Here are some important dates and deadlines to keep in mind:

📆Semester start: 1 October 2024
📆Semester Welcome: 7 October 2024
📆Continuing student registrations: 2 September - 31 October 2024
📆No classes (All Soul's Day): 2 November 2024
📆Christmas holiday: 21 December 2024 - 5 January 2025
📆Rundgang 2025 (Open Days): 16 - 19 January 2025
📆End of the Winter semester: 28 February 2025
📆Semester holiday: 1 - 28 February 2025

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OPEN DOORS at Creative Cluster! See the studios of our Akademie-Studio-Program scholarship holders live!

Fri 20.09. and Sat 21.09.
13–21 h
Free entry

140 artists / 40 studios / 3600 m2
Performances, Exhibitions, Art-Interventions
Pizza & Drinks by TURBO

Art practice, networking, the public: the Akademie Studio Program offers a support structure for graduates of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna by providing a studio space for artistic practice. As part of the one-year program, 10 scholarship holders move into a studio space in the Creative Cluster in the 5th district of Vienna.

Join us for two days full of art and culture in Viktor-Christ-Gasse 10, 1050!
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The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna is the first University in Austria to join SOS Mitmensch's "Pass Egal Wahl" project!

A total of 31.03% of students in Austria are not entitled to vote (as of winter semester 2023/24). The Academy sees itself as an open, international and diverse place for the arts and sciences, from which important social impulses emanate. Important goals are to help shape public and political discourses and to participate in social transformations. Many of the people who study and work at the Academy of Fine Arts do not have an Austrian passport, even if they have lived here for a long time or were even born here. So it is all the more important that we bring the Pass Egal election to a university for the first time.

The Pass Egal Wahl will take place on Monday 23rd and Tuesday 24th of September in the Academy's Aula at Schillerplatz. This internal Project is aimed at students and staff of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

The poster is one of the two winning entries of our Student contest for this project.
it was designed by Anna-Lena Helmer, who is a Bachelor student at the Institute for Art and Architecture.

"Based on the ISOTYPE pictograms by Otto Neurath and Gerd Arntz, I have chosen a contemporary interpretation that does not directly depict people, but visualizes the topic in a more abstract way. My design shows a sheet of paper in various stages of crumpling, symbolizing the idea of ​​worthlessness and powerlessness. The image motif represents the one-third share of the voting population that is symbolically "thrown away" and "crumpled" due to the lack of voting rights. The motif attempts to take up Otto Neurath's graphic language and at the same time develop it further in order to address electoral injustice in a modern, accessible context, without direct depiction and classification into binary categories."

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On 24 September, the Vienna Humanities Festival will open its doors for the seventh time, inviting visitors to five days of lectures, talks, and discussions with some of the world's most brilliant minds under the overarching theme "Uncharted/Neuland". We are pleased to welcome Catherine Ashton (Wiener Vorlesungen), Christopher Clark (Wien Museum), Stephen Kotkin, and Phil Manzanera (Volkstheater Wien) as this year's keynote speakers.
Learn more here:
https://www.iwm.at/news/vienna-humanities-festival-2024-keynotes Time to Talk

On the occasion of the 2024 National Council elections in Austria, we want to draw attention to the issue of growing electoral injustice and the associated democratic deficit.

All people who live in a country are crucial to life and the functioning of that country. But almost one in five people living in Austria is now excluded from democratic participation because they have the "wrong" passport. In the whole of Austria, a total of 1.5 million people of voting age are excluded! In Vienna, 33.4% of people of voting age are currently not entitled to vote! The interests of all these people are not represented in the elections in Austria. This leads to an enormous and constantly growing democratic gap and promotes alienation. The Pass Egal election sets an example for a more democratic Austria.

The poster is one of the two winning entries of our Student contest for this project.
it was designed by Jakob Grabher, who is a Master student at the Institute for Art and Architecture.

"In statistics like this, the figures are often arranged in militant rows. However, I deliberately chose a random arrangement. Almost every person who is entitled to vote is next to someone who is not. Even in the real population, most of us will know people who are not entitled to vote in Austrian national elections. This applies to all levels of education and all social classes of the population."
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To all new students at the Academy: Come and pick up your Welcome Bag at the Student Welcome Center at Schillerplatz!
You'll get a lot of info material, like the new Welcome Guide, as well as some nice goodies. Stop by and get to know us!

Opening hours: Mon-Tue 13 - 16h, Tue-Thu 9-12 h

Where is the SWC? In the Academy building at Schillerplatz 3, on the ground floor, in the left wing of the building (seen from the main entrance), room E7a 🙂

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