The cultural event, organized by the Cabildo, will be held from October 8 to 18 in various natural areas of the island.
Lanzarote, July 21, 2025. The Lanzarote Visual Music Festival will celebrate a new edition from October 8 to 18, 2025 with a program that will once again integrate avant-garde musical proposals with visual arts, in dialogue with the most unique natural and architectural spaces of the island. Organized by the Cabildo de Lanzarote, the festival will be supported this year by the Government of the Canary Islands through the Canary Islands Institute for Cultural Development (ICDC) and the collaboration of the Contemporary Festival of the International Music Festival of the Canary Islands, with which it has established a joint promotion agreement.
This institutional synergy reinforces the scope of a project that, since its inception, has opted for a unique format: bringing together contemporary music, visual art and volcanic landscape in the same artistic gesture. The Visual Music Festival was created in 1989 at the proposal of artist Ildefonso Aguilar and, after thirteen consecutive editions up to 2002, it managed to position itself as one of the most relevant encounters of international sound creation. Figures such as Brian Eno, Michael Brook or Jon Hassell have been part of its history, attracting the attention of specialized media and audiences from all over the world.
After a fifteen-year hiatus, the Cabildo relaunched this proposal in 2017 with the aim of recovering its prestige and consolidating it as a cultural reference for residents, visitors and creators. Since then, the festival has recovered the innovative pulse that characterizes it, and in 2025 it will once again offer an immersive experience that transcends the musical to turn each concert into an artistic intervention integrated into the landscape.
The Councilor for Culture of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, Jesús Machín Tavío, stresses that “the Visual Music Festival not only represents one of the most valuable cultural projects that this island has given, but also embodies a way of doing culture that looks at the world from our landscape.”
Emblematic stages for a unique experience
The Lanzarote Visual Music Festival is characterized by its staging in natural and architectural spaces with a high heritage value, such as the Jameos del Agua, the Cueva de los Verdes, or the CIC El Almacén. The choice of these enclaves is not only aesthetic: it responds to an artistic philosophy that understands the environment as an active part of the sound and visual discourse.
With this, Lanzarote once again positions itself as a strategic enclave for contemporary culture, offering an event that highlights both the artistic talent and the unique landscape and heritage of the island.
The complete program and the names of the participating artists will be announced in early August, when ticket sales will also open.