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POSTCITY
Linz
Ars Electronica Festival // 2025
Ars Electronica Festival // 2025
From September 3 to 7, 2025, Linz once again became a hotspot for the international media art scene. Exhibitions, performances, concerts and conferences were held at festival locations throughout the city, most of them at POSTCITY, the festival’s central venue in 2025.
The next Ars Electronica Festival will take place from September 9 to 13, 2026, in Linz!
5 days // over 122.000 visits // 1,472 artists, scientists and activists from 83 countries // 51 co-curators // 398 collaborators // 440 cooperation partners // 379 exhibits // 684 events
Blog // Ars Electronica
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The blurry line between the arts and healthcare
The Ars Electronica Festival 2025 blurred boundaries between art and healthcare, showing how creative practices can power health innovation and re-imagine patient-centred care.
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That was the Ars Electronica Festival 2025
For five days, Linz once again became a meeting place for art, technology, and society—and POSTCITY served as a stage for encounters, experiments, and visions one last time.
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Rethinking the Future of Europe through Art and Culture
Art and culture are driving forces for a resilient Europe of the future. But real change can only come from collaboration—and it is precisely this collaboration that is at the heart of the Ars Electronica Festival 2025.
Watch // Conferences
Festival // Exhibitions
2025 // Impressions
Festival // Downloads
Here you can download the PDF files of the 2025 Ars Electronica Festival.
Podcast // Art Is Not a Thing
Art Is Not a Thing is a podcast series about art as a practice of critical inquiry, knowledge production and world-building.
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2025 // Partners
The 2025 Ars Electronica Festival was supported by the City of Linz, the Province of Upper Austria, the Austrian Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport as well as numerous sponsors and partner institutions. Historically closely linked, the festival was also be held in cooperation with ORF Upper Austria in 2025.
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