INTERNATIONAL VIDEO POETRY FESTIVAL #13
89 FILMS from 36 countries
and LIVE Spoken Word Performances from Asia, Europe, USA, Greece
BIOS,
Peiraios 84, Athens, Greece
FREE entrance- suggested donation
FRIDAY 11 & SATURDAY 12 SEPTEMBER 2026
International Video Poetry Festival celebrates thirteen years of creative collaboration with more than 2000 artists from 85 countries, a world of poetic visions for the benefit of humanity. Poetry, cinema, music and spoken word come together to communicate the inspiration, dreams, ideas and hopes of all of us.
We welcome you to this magical world.
Organized by:
+The Institute [for Experimental Arts]
http://theinstitute.info
Supported by:
Film Poetry Digital Platform http://filmpoetry.org | Moving Poems http://movingpoems.com
FRIDAY 11 SEPTEMBER 2026 – starts 18.00
VIDEO POETRY ZONE
CAMEROON L.Kan Nkweti | CANADA A.Beda, S.Auza, H.Matte, I.Vaillancourt | CHINA N.Mao | CYPRUS A.Neokleous | DENMARK S.Koppel | ESTONIA M.Lääne | FRANCE E.Buttinelli, A.Lhoste, A.Sadeghi, C.Dubost, J.Hall | GERMANY A.Stern | GREECE Z.Papadopoulou, E.Chatzi, S.Damala, Y.Apostolopoulos, X.Sarli, B.Psarras, E.Panagiotopoulou and C.Petridou, M.Moussa, G.Sifianos, M.Kontaratou, Tasos Sagris | INDIA I.Krishnan | INDONESIA R.Aryo | IRAN P.Ghalamdar | IRELAND K.Siegert | JAPAN Q Poeta | LATVIA M.Gruntmane, J.Gordejevs | LEBANON H.Moussally | MEXICO M.Carver | NETHERLANDS H.Jung | OMAN N.W.Al Kharusi and F.Najjar | PERU B.A.Urizar Perez | POLAND J.Koźniewski | PORTUGAL A.Forte, P.Sena Nunes | RUSSIA V.Eliseeva | RUSSIA-THAILAND V.Cappuccino Cocos | SERBIA A.Yausheva, R.Šejić, A.Pantić | SPAIN M.Požek | TANZANIA J.Kiaga | TURKEY G.Özayten, A.H.Ilhan | UNITED KINGDOM S.Tremlett, O.Cubitt, J.Glennie, J.Lees, B.Hollow | USA S.Holden, M.Mullins, arielko, A.Scheiber, Y.Sharim, G.Roensch, X.Yu, A.Mangiardi and M.Levin, A.E.Stone, C.Kihúut and C.Davalos, L.Brusky Buclet | ZIMBABWE C.Tsikisayi and C.Zvoushe
VIDEO ART ZONE – starts 20:00 / 2 days festival non stop show
AUSTRALIA I.Gibbins | BELGIUM U.Woatzi | CANADA K.Tate | CHINA C.Jiang and Y.Wei | ESTONIA P.Beaudoin | FINLAND M.Ångerman | GERMANY P.Langenheim, J.Rehwinkel | GREECE G.Galanopoulos, C.Platsatoura | IRELAND D.I.Bickley | POLAND T.Grabowski | PORTUGAL H.Chaki | RUSSIA A.Bezrukov | SLOVENIA Y.Kohal | SPAIN Ú.San Cristóbal | TAIWAN T.Tseng | UNITED KINGDOM J.Byrne | USA M.A.Morris, M.Pospiech
SATURDAY 12 SEPTEMBER 2026 – starts 18.00
Spoken Word Live Performances
from Asia, Europe, USA and Greece
Artists catalogue, workshops and lectures
to be announced soon
The 13th International Video Poetry Festival (IVPF), one of the leading international gatherings for visual poetry and spoken word, returns to Athens on SEPTEMBER 11-12, 2026.
The Institute for Experimental Arts founded the International Video Poetry Festival in 2011, introducing the art of Video Poetry to the Athenian audience for the first time. Inspired by the digital platform Moving Poems (USA), the festival has evolved into a dynamic international field of collaboration between artists from America, Asia, Europe, and Africa.
Through the Video Poetry Zone, Video Art Zone, Workshops, Lectures and Live Performance Zone, IVPF creates an open public space for all forms of contemporary visual poetry, spoken word performances, concerts, video art shows, workshops, and lectures.
WHAT IS VIDEO POETRY?
Video Poetry is a contemporary art form where poetic text meets moving image, creating a new audiovisual experience. It can take various experimental forms such as animation, collage, film poetry, video dance, combining words, images, sounds, and movement into a unified artistic work.
Organized by:
+The Institute [for Experimental Arts]
http://theinstitute.info
