[Zoom-in] Visuals in motion
Visual arts and graphics bring to life stories, streets, and stones, enriching what they touch with colourful movement, changing the surroundings and giving new perspectives. Here you can find festivals that this summer and early autumn focus on visual arts, animating screens, walls and streets with their colours, connecting with their visual stories cities and villages, giving new eyes and new ways of looking at them.
IMAGINARIA - Authorial animated film festival
17 Aug - 24 Aug 2025 | Conversano, Italy
Imaginaria was born, lives and transforms itself in the heart of the art city of Conversano, particularly within spaces and venues of exceptional architectural and artistic value, transforming them into open-air cinemas. The Festival is a project for the training, promotion and dissemination of animated cinema as an opportunity for the development and promotion of the territory. Over 100 works in competition from all over the world. International juries and guests. meetings with authors, exhibitions, concerts and a special section for children and teenagers.
Photo credits: imaginaria.eu
Animation Film Festival Nikozi
01 Sep - 7 Sep 2025 | Upper Nikozi, Georgia
After the previous animated film studio was destroyed during the war in 2008, St. Alexandre Okropiridze Art School and cultural centre was established to help children dealing with the stressful experiences of war - offering free classes in fine arts, music, choreography, folk music, chanting, animation, shadows’ theatre, foreign languages and computer skills.
Nikozi Festival represents a call for reconstruction, mutual respect, cooperation and friendship. The purpose of the festival is to bring knowledge, experience and simple joy of animation art, to inspire, not for commercial gain or competition. For locals, it is the way to come into live contact with the world-class art, have their peaceful statement heard and get an opportunity to reach out to other nations and people for cooperation and friendship.
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Photo credits: nikozifestival.ge
Edinburgh Art Festival 2025
07 Aug 2025 - 24 Aug 2025 | Edinburgh, United Kingdom
EAF (Edinburgh Art Festival) is the UK’s largest annual festival of visual art. The Festival’s 21st edition takes root in the EAF Pavilion, branching out to galleries and community spaces, museums and artist-run spaces across the city. The Festival invites you to witness, reflect, and participate in these narratives that have fought to be remembered, from modern myths to queer history, the political body to environmental collectivity.
Both leading international and UK artists and the best emerging talent are the protagonists of the festival, along with major survey exhibitions of historic figures, and a special programme of newly commissioned artworks that respond to public and historic sites in the city. And if that wasn't enough, the vast majority of the festival is free to attend.
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Photo credits: edinburghartfestival.com
Stone Art
17 Aug 2025 - 24 Aug 2025 | Serro Ventoso, Portugal
Located in the middle of a natural park, the project aims to occupy an old quarry in Codaçal, a place that was once the object of extractive exploration and is now transformed into an artistic and cultural attraction. A space for ecological and artistic enhancement, which will enhance the intersection of visual arts and sculpture, with ecology and sustainability.
The project aims to turn the space into a multidisciplinary amphitheatre for cultural events, encouraging collaboration among artists from various disciplines. It will also serve as the foundation for a public art strategy involving both residents and visitors in the transformation process.
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Photo credits: stone-artpark.com
International plein air sculpture and painting Rayuvtsi 2025
14 Sep 2025 - 28 Sep 2025 | Rayuvtsi, Bulgaria
The Festival creates a vibrant platform for artistic exchange and creative inspiration, with a programme including workshops, open discussions, and public exhibitions where artists will develop skills and produce new works, collaborate with schools and cultural institutions to engage the community and highlight the importance of visual arts.
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Photo credits: rayuvtsistars.com
‘nTramenti Art Festival
20 Aug 2025 - 21 Aug 2025 | Brognaturo (VV), Italy
'nTramenti was born as a cultural project rooted in some areas of Calabria's hinterland, to reawaken the silent beauty of often forgotten places - cultivating culture where nothing seems to be growing anymore, showing that even the most remote areas can become a hub through visual arts, street arts, photography, sculpture and dialogues weaving between them.
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Photo credits: Daniel Cundari
