18th Avant Art Festival 2025 WROCŁAW: Experimentation, Identity, and Radical Sonic Freedom

In September 2025, Avant Art Festival will spread its transgressive wings over Warsaw for the 9th time, running from September 4–14 and presenting one of the most radical and unpredictable editions in its history. Since 2008, the festival has created a space for dialogue between experimental music, visual arts, and cinema, placing emphasis on artistic independence, social engagement, and the uncompromising exploration of form.

This year’s edition could carry the manifesto: “more courage, more risk.” Festival Artistic Director Kostas Georgakopulos announces a shift toward a punk ethos and DIY spirit, while also embracing new forms of folk, transcultural electronics, and post-genre hybrids. As every year, the festival will be a space for encounters between artists who push the limits of expression and redefine contemporary sound.

Partners: Pardon, To Tu; SPATiF; Komuna Warszawa; TR Warszawa Theatre; Polish Radio Channel 2; Iluzjon Cinema; Chmury; Hydrozagadka

Co-financed by: the City of Wroclaw and the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage with funds from the Culture Promotion Fund – a state special-purpose fund – as part of the “Music” program implemented by the National Institute of Music and Dance, and by the British Council within the UK/Poland Season 2025.