3.–7.
Sept.
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
Impressions
Das war das Ars Electronica Festival 2025
Liminal Ring / Jin Lee (KR), Photo: vog.photo
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.
2025 Program
Downloads
Here you can download the PDF files of the 2025 Ars Electronica Festival.
Blog
Dystopia Land / Etsuko Ichihara (JP), Civic Creative Base Tokyo [CCBT], Photo: vog.photo
Blog
Delve into topics such as digital theater, the climate crisis, artificial intelligence and surveillance as well as protest, democracy, biotechnology and shared visions of the future in the accompanying stories on the Ars Electronica Blog.
Interview
Interview
From the uncertainty of the present to the power of art – in conversation with Gerfried Stocker, Artistic Director of Ars Electronica, we shed light on the festival theme.
“What we need is not alarmism, but a critical awareness. A kind of digital immune system.”
Gerfried Stocker
@arselectronica
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Since 1979, the Ars Electronica Festival has been all about art, technology and society. From exhibitions, concerts and performances to talks and workshops – here’s what you can expect.
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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