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Prix Ars Electronica 2025

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  • Frode Oldereid (NO), Thomas Kvam (NO), Requiem for an Exit, 2024
  • Paula Gaetano Adi (AR), Guanaquerx, 2024
  • Zhao Zhou (NL), Bora: Bora
  • Erin Robinson (GB), Anthony Frisby (GB), XXX Machina
  • Ioana Vreme Moser (RO), Mineral Amnesia
  • Navid Navab (IR/CA), Garnet Willis (CA), Organism + Excitable Chaos
The Prix Ars Electronica is the world’s longest-standing competition for media art. Since 1987, it has honored pioneers whose inspiring projects explore the intersection of art, technology, and society. In 2025, the competition received 3,987 submissions from 98 countries. A selection of the award-winning works in the categories New Animation Art, Digital Musics & Sound Art, and Artificial Life & Intelligence will be on view at the Lentos during the Ars Electronica Festival (September 3 – 7, 2025).

A total of eleven works will be exhibited – including the installation Requiem for an Exit by Frode Oldereid and Thomas Kvam (NO), which confronts viewers with the destructive crimes of violence throughout human history, and Guanaquerx, a four-legged robot by Paula Gaetano Adi (AR), which retraced the paths of historical liberation movements across the Andes. Both projects were awarded the Golden Nica of the Prix Ars Electronica in 2025.


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Date Title Time
Thu 05.03Press Conference: The Collection. Reorganization

As the centrepiece of our museum, the Lentos Collection enjoys a generous amount of space: a total of ten rooms are devoted to showcasing the works of the collection in chronological and thematic order. In 2026, the permanent exhibition is being redesigned by the museum’s in-house curatorial team. 

11:00 am–12:00 pm
Thu 05.03Public tour: Being a Girl*!?

Duration: 60 minutes, max. 25 participants, guided tour ticket €4 (plus admission). No registration required (“first come, first served”).

6:00 pm–7:00 pm
Thu 05.03The Room: Short Film Evening with Parisa Ghasemi (artist, International Short Film Festival Linz)

Four years after the beginning of the revolutionary Woman, Life, Freedom” movement, this evening explores how grief, memory, dance, and music intertwine in present-day Iran — how music and rhythmic expression become forms of resistance, and how even funerals become manifestations of collective strength and joy for life. The event will be interpreted into sign language.

6:00 pm–8:00 pm
Sat 07.03Lentos Ate­lier

Children and young people between the ages of 6 and 12 have the opportunity to discover works of art, work creatively and try out different techniques in the Lentos studio.

10:00 am–12:00 pm
Sat 07.03A Studio for All Age Groups (Fully booked)

Every first Saturday each month we throw open the door of our Atelier für Alle”, our studio for sessions with all age groups from 0 – 99. 

2:00 pm–4:00 pm
Sat 07.03Express Tour: Being a Girl*!?

This tour offers an insight into the Lentos. It looks at the museum‘s history and collection of art and includes highlights of the present special exhibition. Language: English, Ticket: 3€ plus admission, duration: 45min

4:00 pm–4:45 pm
Sun 08.03The Room: International Women’s Day Special – Overprint T‑Shirts Screen Printing Workshop (and Art Talks in the Exhibition) on the occasion of International Women’s Day with Cécile Belmont (artist).

A brand logo? A floral motif on a blouse? A geometric fabric pattern? We go louder and invent our own images and statements, which we overprint using screen-printing with paper stencils. It’s about creativity, appropriation, and liberating humor.

10:00 am–1:00 pm
Sun 08.03Rearranged: Women* Artists in the Collection

In this tour, the Lentos curatorial team (Sandra Eichinger, Sofie Hagenlocher, Sarah Jonas, Brigitte Reutner-Doneus, Hemma Schmutz, Andreas Strohammer) offers joint insights into the newly reinstalled collection, with a focus on women* artists’ positions. Participation and admission are free on International Women’s* Day. No registration required (“first come, first served”).

11:00 am–1:00 pm
Sun 08.03Women* Artists in Focus

On the occasion of International Women’s* Day, Lentos Art Museum invites you to a guided tour with art historian and art educator Caroline Steiner. The focus is on the works and lives of the women* artists currently featured in the new Lentos collection presentation and in Being a Girl*!?
 

Participation and admission are free on International Women’s Day. No registration required (“first come, first served”)

1:00 pm–2:00 pm
Sun 08.03Making-of Being a Girl*!?

Curator Brigitte Reutner-Doneus talks about the background and contexts of her exhibition Being a Girl*!? Participation and admission are free on International Women’s* Day. No registration required (“first come, first served”).

2:00 pm–3:00 pm
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