LINZ FMR is a biennial festival and format for artistic processes and positions, that reflects the ephemeral nature of our digital and connected present. The ever-advancing digitalization of everyday life implies an intense overlapping and layering of familiar physical, but also finely interwoven digital spaces. LINZ FMR focuses on the shifts, distortions and rifts that arise in this process and presents current artistic positions in this context.

The festival, whose title alludes to ephemerality and short-livedness, presents works whose initial ideas can be found in virtual and/or digital space or have a strong reference to it, but are shown (sometimes in a transformed way) in the physical surroundings of the city of Linz. The focus is primarily on the interstices that arise during these transformations into public space—outside of museums, galleries or art spaces.

On Friday, 6 June 2025, a prolog to FMR 26 will take place around Linz Schlossberg → FMR 26 Prolog. The event will present initial ideas and concepts developed by residency artists and students from the University of Arts Linz, offering a first glimpse into the upcoming regular edition of LINZ FMR, scheduled for June 2026. The programme will also include impulse lectures, performances, and concerts.

LINZ FMR has taken place three times so far. After → FMR 19 alongside the Danube river and → FMR 21 around the train station Mühlkreisbahnhof → FMR 23 transformed the southern harbor area into a freely accessible art space. Each of the three editions brought lectures, talks, concerts, performances and tours to Linz in addition to a large exhibition with works by numerous artists from the fields of media art, digital art and Internet art.

Linz is located in the geographical heart of Europe and is quick and easy to reach by water, land and air thanks to a good network of motorways and the Linz Airport. Find out here → how to get to Linz.

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Responsible for the festival is the association “LINZ FMR—Art in digital contexts and public spaces”. It was founded by the two art and cultural initiatives → qujOchÖ and → servus.at, → Atelierhaus Salzamt of the city of Linz, → University of Arts Linz and → Sturm und Drang Galerie. Their representatives have been involved in the conception, organization and curation of the festival since its first edition in March 2019.

LINZ FMR is supported by the City of Linz as UNESCO City of Media Arts, the State of Upper Austria and the Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport, as well as numerous organizations and companies.