The Música Visual Festival skips 2026: a move to every other year is under study

The Festival de Música Visual de Lanzarote will not hold an edition in 2026. The Cabildo de Lanzarote y La Graciosa has announced it is working on a new stage for the festival, and that the pause is there precisely to prepare that shift.

This is not a closure. The Culture Department is weighing up different ways to lengthen its working timescales: more months for planning, a deeper selection of artistic proposals, and greater room for producing and developing projects. Among the options is a biennial format — one edition every two years rather than every year.

What Música Visual is

It is one of the island's most recognisable cultural events, and it grew out of a specific idea: a dialogue between music, contemporary creation, the landscape, and some of Lanzarote's most singular spaces. This is not a festival that could move elsewhere without losing what it is — the settings are as much a part of the programme as the musicians.

That is also why stretching the timescales makes sense: a concert conceived for one specific place on the island demands preparation that an annual deadline squeezes.

What the Cabildo says

The Culture councillor for the Cabildo de Lanzarote y La Graciosa, Jesús Machín Tavío, said the festival «forms part of the contemporary cultural history of Lanzarote» and that the intention is to keep protecting what has made it a singular proposition.

For anyone following the island's cultural calendar, the practical message is this: there will be no Música Visual this summer or autumn, and the next edition will arrive in a revised form. The final decision on how often it runs has not yet been taken.