Fine Arts

Fine Arts - Photo: Matilde Baldassari, Łukasz Romero, Topi Piirainen

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Fine Arts

The Fine Arts program at the University of Arts Linz equips students with a diverse set of skills to work as freelance artists on both national and international levels. It fosters conceptual skills by helping students recognize when and where artistic action is needed. Practical expertise is developed through focused work in Painting & Graphic Art, Sculpture—Transmedial Space, and Experimental Design. Theoretical competence is cultivated through engagement with academic theory as a source of inspiration, a tool for research and critical reflection, and a means of developing strong argumentation skills. In addition, the program emphasizes organizational and professional techniques, including entrepreneurial thinking and communication skills essential for self-organization and sustainable artistic practice.

  • Between routine and resilience

    Lou Seidl (DE)

    The artist’s project was created during a residency at Marthashofen, Grafrath. During her stay, she explored how routines can function as a psychological protective mechanism.

  • Bio-Mapping Linz

    Lera Entmayr (AT)

    Bio-Mapping Linz is an artistic exploration of the microbial landscapes surrounding the city’s pigeon population. Between 2024 and 2025, samples were collected with cotton swabs from feathers, droppings, food sources, and nesting areas across Linz.

  • Blutjägerschlachtvorhang

    Maxi Kling (DE)

    This work examines male-dominated internet subcultures, especially incels—a term used for men who feel excluded and radicalize through misogyny in online forums like 4Chan or video games.

  • Riddance

    Ali Yaghoubi (IR)

    This project began before the pandemic and has grown over the course of four years, with new video fragments added annually. It represents a visual journey through stillness, struggle, movement, and acceptance—a ritual of release.

  • Scrape Sounds

    Matilde Baldassari (IT), Łukasz Romero (CO), Topi Piirainen (FI)

    Scrape Sounds is a sound installation constituted by a loop of a 1/4 inch sound tape sustained by found objects. The tape, linked symbiotically with the objects’ bodies, binds them together into a playful composition.

  • The Pulse of Dance

    Sheida Ramhormozihosseinizadeh (IR)

    The Pulse of Dance is an interactive kinetic sculpture designed as a plant-like body with soft tendrils, activated by human embrace.

  • Ulva intestinalis

    Sophia Horak (AT)

    The performance shows the sympoietic life of three cyborgs, called Ulva intestinalis (sea lettuce).

  • untitled (to be licked at)

    Laura Walter (DE)

    Who is watching? Who is being watched? untitled (to be licked at) subverts the familiar power dynamics of a (shop) window.

Please note: The program for the Ars Electronica Festival 2025 is still in progress.
We are currently preparing all the information for the website and plan to put the full program online in the coming days – stay tuned!