Kunstuniversität Linz

08/09/2026

💚 Kunstuni Campus Opening 🩷

Official opening of the Ars Electronica Festival Kunstuni Campus 2026 and Pre-opening walk

with Rector Brigitte Hütter, Curators Manuela Naveau and Hess Jeon, Gerfried Stocker, Artistic Director of ARS ELECTRONICA, and many more.

📍University of Arts Linz, Hauptplatz 6, courtyard
📅 Tuesday, September 8, 5:00 p.m.

🎙️ At 5:30 p.m.: Sound Campus

07/09/2026

Kunstuni Campus Guided Tour ✨

From Wednesday to Saturday, the University of Art and Design Linz invites visitors to explore its exhibition as part of a guided tour and to immerse themselves in the diversity of student projects and thematic discussions.

👉 Starting from the installation at main square, you will explore the university’s most important buildings and discover more than 250 works by students, artists and international partner universities.

The guided tour starts at 5:00 PM from Wednesday to Saturday at Linz’s main square (Hauptplatz 6, Infopoint) and is offered in German or English. It lasts approximately 50 minutes.

📅Wed-Sat, 5:00 PM
👉Admission is free.
👉Language: EN, DE

Join us on a guided tour of the Linz University of Art campus 🩷💚

03/09/2026

02/09/2026

🩷A selection of highlights at Kunstuni Campus 2026💚

Exhibition Opening Hours
📍Hauptplatz 6 & 8 and Domgasse 1
📅 Tuesday, September 8, 2026: 5:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Wednesday, September 9 – Saturday, September 12, 2026: 11:00 AM – 8:00 PM
Sunday, September 13, 2026: 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM

Graphic design: MOOI DESIGN

✨ Hanna Kortus (DE), Ellinor Brandenburg ELLINOR BRANDENBURG (DE), Zeitbasierte und Interaktive Medienkunst

Egomaniac - Color the Night
Central to this song is the experience of q***r people whose voices are systematically silenced by ignorance and homophobia. It explores distorted perspectives, powerlessness and the pain that arises, as well as the mechanisms behind them: power, fear, coldness, vulnerability and hate. The video forgoes a traditional narrative, focusing instead on visualizing these emotions.

✨ Lisa Puchner (AT), Zeitbasierte und Interaktive Medienkunst

spininGround
“spininGround” is a playful exploration of the A1 highway and the perception of landscape, as well as a declaration of love for movement on the bike. Having fixed a camera to the spokes, a bike tour develops
as close as possible alongside the highway. The ambivalence of proximity and inaccessibility, omnipresence and non-place, is reflected in the video installation. While the rotating image shows a hypnotizing landscape, viewers have to pedal in order to catch a glimpse of ground.

✨Carina Danzer (AT), Zeitbasierte und Interaktive Medienkunst

Cyb3rD4wg5
Tired of being constrained by your flesh-prison? Of your meek and feeble human appendages? Of your lack of arms? Fear not! “Cyb3rD4wg5” is the solution for you—yes, you! Reach your full post-human potential with our state-of-the-art “Cyb3rD4wg5”! Grab yourself some hotdogs to your heart’s desire, and then grab even more—with the four arm-attachments from “Cyb3rD4wg5”! (Batteries not included.)

✨ Sara Bravin Sara✨ , Alessandro Bravin (IT), Zeitbasierte und Interaktive Medienkunst

What does the skin remember?
“What does the skin remember?” is a performance-based research project with two performers wearing
custom wearable devices. Inspired by contact improvization, it explores touch as a way of listening and connecting through movement. Each contact leaves a sonic trac

31/08/2026

Press conference Ars Electronica Festival 2026 🎤

Brigitte Hütter, Rector of the University of Arts Linz: “The Ars Electronica Festival is an annual international focal point for innovative media art. For over two decades, the University of Arts Linz has been part of this spectacular event through its campus, serving as a platform for young artists and international partner universities."

While this year’s festival theme suggests that a future lies ahead, the Kunstuni Campus presentation poses the bold question: "At what cost?"

31/08/2026

Flood the Zone with Courage Program at Linz Main Square 💚🩷

Selected Interface Cultures students are also taking part in this year’s Flood the Zone with Courage ­ program at Linz’s Main Square. They are presenting ­ projects that answer the program’s call for artists, activists, students and citizens to develop new forms of protest—performative, participatory and radically collective.

Saumil Bhandari (IN), Shared Act
A participatory kinetic sculpture driven by global conflict data. As violence escalates, structural support is continuously withdrawn, causing the sculpture to collapse. Only the physical intervention of passing strangers can restore and sustain it. The work proposes shared maintenance over automated mediation, suggesting that a common world is sustained through the continuous collective care of strangers.

Vlada Oleinik (AT), Nail Gainulov (AT), Into the air
Into the air is a technological and sound installation by m22. Infrasound and seismic waves generated by military explosions disrupt avian magnetoreception, causing birds to abandon their habitat. The object consists of three antenna-like structures connected by steel cables, reminiscent of the real-life objects birds use to perch upon. Each cable is fitted with transducers that translate seismic and infrasound data from
monitoring stations in Ukraine into audible and visible vibrations.

Carolina Sofia Bischof Carolina Sofia Bischof (AT), Carmen Daniela Cordoba Martinez (CO), At Least I’m Making Money

How financial systems profit from war At Least I’m Making Money is an interactive installation about how money, power and the arms industry uphold modern war. War is usually framed as a conflict between nations, such as the US vs Iran, Russia vs Ukraine or Israel vs Palestine, but this can hide other dimensions. For instance, war is also a financial event. These layers are often so abstract that we forget how they sustain modern war and geopolitical conflict. As systems collapse, the cost is counted in numbers, never in terms of the people paying for it.

Technical Support: Joshua Mattson

Gustiele Fistaról Gustiele Fistaról (BR), Spectral Roots
Spectral Roots is an interactive installation ­ linking 19t

27/08/2026

Flood the Zone with Courage 💚🩷

this year on the main square (between the Neptune Fountain and the Trinity Column) is a joint project by Ars Electronica and the University of Arts Linz: A public container structure offers art and people an open space and a safe place where everyone can express their opinions and listen to the voices of both individuals and the collective. In this public intervention, look out for activist collaborations with partners such as Attac Österreich FIFTITU% and the „Flood the Zone with Courage“ initiative - which also involves Interface Cultures students presenting five projects and calls upon artists, activists, students, and visitors to develop new forms of protest that are performative, participatory, and radically collective.

Flood the Zone with Courage 
📍Hauptplatz (activity zone)
📅 Wednesday, September 9 – Saturday, September 12, 2026: 12:00 AM – 8:00 PM

Architect: Paul Eis Paul Eis
Graphic design: MOOI DESIGN

Installation at Hauptplatz made possible by support from LinzAG

25/08/2026

Kunstuni Campus 2026 at Ars Electronica Festival ✨

This year’s collaboration with Festival is stronger than ever. With nearly two dozen international universities coming together at Hauptplatz 8, nearly 200 students from Kunstuni Linz who are presenting their works at Hauptplatz 6 and Domgasse 1, and at the very center of it all comes a public container structure in the middle of Hauptplatz.
„Flood the Zone with Courage“ is the title of this year’s mainsquare activities.

📆 Exhibition Opening Hours
Locations: Hauptplatz 6 & 8 and Domgasse 1
Tuesday, September 8, 2026: 5:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Wednesday, September 9 – Saturday, September 12, 2026: 11:00 AM – 8:00 PM
Sunday, September 13, 2026: 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM

📆 Flood the Zone with Courage
Location: Hauptplatz (activity zone)
Wednesday, September 9 – Saturday, September 12, 2026: 12:00 AM – 8:00 PM

Will you join us for Kunstuni Campus 2026? 💚

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