The Lumen Prize Announces 2025 Award Ceremony at Kunstsilo, Norway

Kristiansand welcomes global digital art leaders for a weekend of exhibitions and panels

The Lumen Prize, the leading international award for art created with technology, is proud to announce a landmark partnership with Kunstsilo, Norway’s iconic cultural beacon situated on the southern coast in Kristiansand. Once a functional grain silo, Kunstsilo has been reimagined into one of Northern Europe’s most forward-thinking museums for modern and contemporary art. In November 2025, this architectural marvel will host a dynamic weekend of cutting-edge programming, culminating in the much-anticipated 2025 Lumen Prize Award Ceremony.

Since 2020, Kunstsilo has been a dedicated supporter of the Prize, establishing the Lumen Prize Nordic Award to honour the region’s most compelling voices at the intersection of art and technology. This November marks a deepening of that partnership, with Kunstsilo hosting a full weekend of public programmes, discourse, and celebration dedicated to the artists redefining our digital future.

This year’s programming has also been shaped by insights from The Liminal Review: New Signals in Arts Technologies, the Lumen Prize’s inaugural trend report, launched this autumn in partnership with Sónar+D and supported by Onassis ONX. Developed from over 2,200 submissions to the 2025 Prize, the report identified three critical thematic signals which now serve as the conceptual backbone of the weekend’s talks, panels, and commissioned artworks.

FEATURED INSTALLATION: Lab212 – Growing

Unveiled on Friday 7 November, Growing by Lab212 will transform the Kunstsilo façade into a living, generative meditation on ecological fragility. Using real-time environmental data and projection mapping, the work explores the behaviours of invasive species as a metaphor for expansion, imbalance, and adaptation in the Anthropocene.

Running until February 15, 2026, Growing invites viewers to witness the building itself become a responsive ecosystem, drawing attention to growth as both a natural process and a site of cultural tension.

This new work is presented by Nicolas Guichard and Béatrice Lartigue of Lab212, a French artist collective and past recipients of the Lumen Prize Performance Award (2015) for their installation Portée/. Founded in 2008 by graduates of les Gobelins in Paris, Lab212 creates sensory, participatory works that transform intangible forces—light, sound, atmosphere, motion—into poetic, embodied experiences. Their installations have been presented at the V&A Museum, Barbican Centre, Miraikan Tokyo, Museum of Digital Art Zurich, Centre Pompidou, and DMuseum Seoul. The collective’s work has earned accolades from Ars Electronica, the Sundance Film Festival, and the French Ministry of Culture.

NEW SIGNALS IN ARTS TECHNOLOGIES SEMINAR PROGRAMME: Saturday 8 November

On Saturday afternoon, Kunstsilo will host a curated seminar programme of three panel discussions, inspired by the themes identified in The Liminal Review. While full speaker details will be announced closer to the date, each session will explore topics drawn directly from the 2025 finalist pool:

• Living Facades – Eco-Data, Growth & the Anthropocene
  How artists are using live data, invasive species, and ecological metaphors to make visible the invisible consequences of environmental change.
  
  
• Signals from the Future – Launching The Liminal Review
  A deep dive into the 2025 trend report and the way arts technologies are shaping contemporary art.
  
  
• Owning the Machine – IP & Authorship in the Age of AI
  A conversation on evolving notions of authorship, curatorial stewardship, and the legal futures of non-human collaboration.

2025 LUMEN PRIZE AWARD CEREMONY: Saturday 8 November

The weekend culminates in the Lumen Prize Award Ceremony, honouring this year’s winning artists across nine categories - including new awards for Nature & Climate, Literature & Poetry, and Performance & Music. With a record-breaking 2,244 entries from 71 countries, the 2025 cycle reflects a surge of experimentation, decentralised authorship, and socio-political urgency in the digital arts.

QUOTES

Gillian Leitten, Director of The Lumen Prize:
"This weekend at Kunstsilo represents what The Lumen Prize has become: not just an award, but a movement. With the launch of The Liminal Review, we've created a foundation for critical dialogue, and this year's programming creates space for those insights to inform conversations with and for the artists driving this field forward."

Maria Mediaas Jørstad, Director of Kunstsilo: “At Kunstsilo, we are committed to exploring how art and digital technology can expand cultural horizons and create new forms of dialogue. This collaboration reflects our ambition to be a future-oriented institution where innovation, creativity, and global exchange come together.”

Torill Haugen, Head of Innovation and Digital Development, Kunstsilo:
“Hosting the Lumen Prize weekend reflects Kunstsilo’s commitment to exploring how technology intersects with contemporary art and environmental thought. We are thrilled to present Lab212’s installation and to deepen our engagement with voices at the forefront of digital culture.”