IMMERSIVE PAVILION 2025
The " Immersive Pavilion 2025 The "VR Pavilion" presents a carefully chosen selection of award-winning international works, highlighting the most innovative immersive art projects of recent years. Previously known as the 'VR Pavilion' since 2016, this edition places immersion at the centre of its approach. Spread over two sites in Luxembourg City, this year's exhibition includes immersive light projections, installations based on artificial intelligence, and interactive virtual and augmented realities that plunge visitors into new worlds.
As always, the pavilion remains dedicated to imaginative worlds, innovative narratives and issues of social justice. This edition features testimonies of resistance from Taiwan, France and war-torn Ukraine, explores human encounters on Earth and in space, and follows bodies in transformation seeking new forms of connection. It also reflects on the social impact and possibilities offered by artificial intelligence interfaces, and offers a glimpse into the minds of people with ADHD, brought to life in virtual images and accompanied by the iconic voice of Tilda Swinton.
In collaboration with Luxurymbourg City Film Festivalthe Film Fund Luxembourg is organising the Best immersive experience" award for the best work presented at this year's Immersive Pavilion. The jury for the 2025 competition is made up of three international experts: Juliette Duret, Vassiliki Khonsari and Bettina Leidl.
IMMERSIVE PAVILION 2025 : 6 - 23 March 2025
Monday to Wednesday: 10:00 - 19:00
Thursday and Friday: 10:00 - 20:00
Saturday: 11:00 - 20:00
Sunday: 11:00 - 19:00
neimënster
26, rue Münster
L-21 60 Luxembourg
Free admission. No reservation required.
Participants must be at least 8 years old. Children under 13 must be accompanied by an adult to use the virtual reality helmets.
WORKS IN COMPETITION 2025
PREVIOUS EDITIONS
As part of the Luxembourg City Film Festival, in collaboration with Innovative Initiatives (Digital Luxembourg) and the PHI Centre in Montreal, the Fonds national de soutien à la production audiovisuelle (Film Fund Luxembourg) has been organising the Virtual Reality Pavilion since 2017. The VR Pavilion has been hosted at the Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'Art Contemporain until 2019. Since 2020, the installations have taken up residence in Neimënster (Centre Culturel de Rencontre Abbaye de Neumünster) where the public can discover free of charge innovative and award-winning works shot in virtual and augmented reality.
VR DAY
Since 2018, Pavillon VR has been organising the VR DayThis annual event offers a unique opportunity for all professionals in the sector to learn, discuss the challenges facing the sector, the potential of this technology to reinvent history through new perspectives, and the latest developments in the field. This annual event offers all professionals in the sector a unique opportunity to learn, discuss the challenges facing the sector, the potential of this technology to reinvent history through new perspectives, and Luxembourg's ambitions in this area. There will also be special presentations of virtual reality projects in development.
GAME JAM
Since 2023, the Virtual Reality Pavilion has hosted the " Game Jam. which brings together programming students from the BTS Game Programming and Game DesignThey were invited to create a video game based on the "made in Luxembourg" theme.
Participants engage in an intense and exciting 48-hour competition, where they have the opportunity to bring their own video game to life. During the event, students are grouped into teams, combining their knowledge, skills and passion for technology to demonstrate just how much a team can achieve, even in a very short space of time, when given the right tools. At the same time, professionals and developers from the Luxembourg film and animation industry set the rules of the game, observe, evaluate and share their expertise with the teams.
VR TO GO
VR to GO is an initiative that allows the curious to discover virtual reality technology and bring the general public closer to new, creative and award-winning works. The "To Go" formula, with its rental VR headsets, is a solution developed in Montreal by the PHI Centre, a trusted partner of the Pavilion. It offers a selection of films from the Cinéma VR programme, giving spectators the chance to extend the festival experience from the comfort of their own homes. The formula was tested in 2021, 2022 and 2023, and was a great success.
