ART*VR: Festival of Virtual Reality and Immersive Art
21 – 26 Oct 2025
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How does it work? Tickets can be purchased online during the festival or on site at the DOX box office.
VR installations are part of our exhibition space:
- You can watch the competition films in special installations in the auditorium. Specific time slots can be reserved on site.
- VR glasses with films on the theme of non-human perspectives are freely available in exhibition space C.
- The AsteRisk* section can be found in the classroom.
Curators assist visitors with putting on VR headsets and instruct them on how to use them.
When can I come? All spaces can be visited at any time during the gallery's opening hours from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
How long does the screening last? The films vary in length from 7 to 45 minutes. It depends on which film you choose. You are welcome to watch all 30 films.
How much is the ticket?
Daily ticket to the festival:
- basic: CZK 250
- students, teachers, and seniors: CZK 130
- family (2 adults + up to 3 children under 15): CZK 560
- children aged 7 to 15: CZK 100
- school groups: CZK 120/person (min. 10 people)
- adult group: CZK 260/person (min. 10 people)
Admission to the festival + entire gallery:
- basic: CZK 480
- students, teachers, and seniors: CZK 280
- family (2 adults + up to 3 children under 15): CZK 900
- children aged 7 to 15: CZK 180
- school groups: CZK 120/person (min. 10 people)
- groups of adults: CZK 260/person (min. 10 people)
Ticket for the entire festival (6 days):
- basic: CZK 1,000
- students, teachers, and seniors: CZK 800
- children aged 7 to 15: CZK 450
- When purchasing a full festival ticket, you are eligible for a one-time 40% discount at the DOX Center.
DOX Club members have a 30% discount.
DOX Centre for Contemporary Art
Poupětova 1, Praha 7
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We invite you to the opening of the ART*VR: Festival of Virtual Reality and Immersive Art on Tuesday, October 21, at 7 p.m. The opening ceremony will include guided tours and access to the VR projects on display. Come immerse yourself in virtual worlds and explore non-human perspectives. Admission is free.
The ART∗VR Festival returns to DOX for the third time! From 21 to 26 October it will present outstanding works of virtual reality art from around the world. Over six days, ART∗VR will feature three dozen VR projects, encounters with their creators, public debates, and the international Zip-Scene Conference.
ART∗VR offers three programme sections featuring projects that have received international recognition at the most prestigious festivals, as well as works that will have their world premiere at DOX:
- International Competition: fifteen of the most significant VR projects of the past year. Artistic VR films, interactive experiences, and installations that push the boundaries of the medium.
- More-than-Human Perspectives: a thematic section dedicated to projects that challenge the boundary between humans, nature, and technology. Selected projects explore new ways of coexistence in an interconnected world, and examine the perspectives of plants, animals, technologies, and artificial intelligence. This section will be exhibited until 23 November 2025.
- AsteRisk*: a special section focused on human rights and socially engaged VR projects. Interactive works that merge art with activism and spark discussions on pressing contemporary issues.
A highlight of this year’s edition is also the Fulldome Competition: four public screenings will present audiences with the best of current international fulldome art. The selected films will be shown in collaboration with the newly renovated Prague Planetarium.
The event will also include the Zip-Scene Conference (October 23–25), bringing more than 40 XR researchers and creators from around the world to Prague. The public will have the opportunity to meet the authors of the showcased works in panel discussions.
The festival will also organize screenings for primary and secondary school students, offering a specially curated educational programme focused on more-than-human perspectives and related topics.
Full festival programme can be found on www.artvr.cz.
Keep exploring
ART*VR: More-than-Human Perspectives
VR installation complementing the Festival of Virtual Reality and Immersive Art ART*VR. The VR section opens up worlds in which human perception intertwines with plant, animal, and synthetic forms of life.
Joel-Peter Witkin: Broken World
An exhibition presenting photographs and drawings by Joel-Peter Witkin from 2010-2025. The exhibited works, by one of the most influential authors who brought photography to the forefront of the visual arts, show why his work continues to shape the way we think about the body, memory, and the meaning of images.
Daniela Ponomarevová: Call of Nature
An exhibition of pop art drawings by Daniela Ponomarevová creating the illusion of digital graphics at the Archive of Fine Arts.
A View into the Archive 17 – The Theatre Program
An exhibition of the Archive of Fine Arts collection of theatre programmes reflecting the diversity and quality of the typographic scene of the second half of the 20th century.
Miquel Barceló and the Written Worlds
The first-ever presentation of the internationally acclaimed Spanish artist Miquel Barceló in the Czech Republic, focusing on his long and intense relationship with literature.
Point of View 3: Balance
The third instalment of a long-term project seeks a balance between the organic and technical worlds. The work of Czech and foreign artists reveals the various connections between nature and technology - two seemingly disparate environments to which we intrinsically belong today, even though we perceive a certain tension between them.
David Lynch: Up in Flames
The exhibition of the American artist David Lynch will present the artistic work of this icon of world cinema for the first time in the Czech Republic.
Orhan Pamuk: The Consolation of Objects
The exhibition Consolation of Objects for the first time offers insight into visual, conceptual, and photographic work of Turkish writer and Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk.
