SEAT RESERVATION

Full 5-day festival passes and single day passes give access to all events at Theater Utrecht, as long as seats are available.

Many events are likely to be busy. To avoid disappointment please reserve your seat in advance for your favourite events. Reserving your seat will grant you priority access to the venue. Seat reservation is optional, but we strongly advise to do so – especially for the film events in Studio 3, where capacity is limited.

Single event tickets automatically include a seat reservation.

How to reserve your seat
After purchasing your festival pass or day pass, you will receive a confirmation email. In the email you will find a personal code to make seat reservations for specific programmes.

Use this code to book single tickets (free of charge) for individual events. A single ticket booked in this way counts as a seat reservation.

As long as seats are still available, online reservations can be made until 23:59 on the day before the event.

Priority Access during the festival
We use a “speedy boarding” procedure for prioritising seating:

• 10 minutes before the start of an event, we give visitors with a seat reservation and/or single event ticket priority access to the venue so they can choose their seats.
  Remaining visitors can enter from 5 minutes before the start of the programme, until all seats are taken.
• Reserved seats will be kept up to 5 minutes before the indicated starting time of the event. After that all reservations become invalid.
• Remaining visitors can enter from 5 minutes before the start of the programme, until all seats are taken.

If you have any questions regarding seat reservations, please contact us at kassa@impakt.nl

ONLINE AT PLANET IMPAKT

All tickets give you unlimited online access to the 5-day festival programme on Planet IMPAKT.

Planet IMPAKT is our virtual venue for online events and the online festival. Planet IMPAKT has several virtual floors where you will find the livestream as well as extra content, links and articles so you can dive deeper into the themes of the festival.

All IMPAKT Festival passes and tickets give you access to Planet IMPAKT, where you have online access to most of the festival events to watch them live, or as soon as they are uploaded, up to one week after the festival! Also, a selection of films screened in the festival will be available on-demand.

How to access Planet IMPAKT
If you have purchased a ticket for the IMPAKT Festival, you will receive an email with a button to log in directly to Planet IMPAKT.

Alternative login method

1. Go to https://planet.impakt.nl
2. Enter your personal code (you will find this in the email)
3. Enjoy! 

EXHIBITION TOURS

We are organising exhibition tours with the festival curators and artists, to delve deeper into the festival exhibition Techno-Ancestrality. 

If you have a festival pass, the tours are included in your ticket.

Spots for the tours are limited. Please book a ticket. If you have a festival pass or day pass you can reserve one by using your personal “seat reservation code”. Read more in the “Seat reservation” section above.

Tours:

Time and Dates to be announced soon

PROFESSIONALS & ACCREDITATION

Are you a professional or journalist?

We look forward to meeting you at the IMPAKT Festival 2026: Techno-Ancestrality, whether at our festival venue in Utrecht or online. As a journalist or professional you can apply for accreditation here. The deadline to apply for accreditation is 27 March 2026. 

Request accreditation

Meanwhile, have a look at our festival programme and make sure you put your favourite keynotes, performances, panels and film programmes in your calendar.

Founded in 1988, the IMPAKT Festival is the longest running media art festival in the Netherlands. IMPAKT investigates urgent issues in digital and transglobal culture, by focusing on the relationship between society, media, technology and arts. In addition to the annual festival we present exhibitions, film screenings, lectures, panel discussions, performance, presentations and artist talks – both online and in our own centre in Utrecht: IMPAKT [Centre for Media Culture]

The deadline to apply for accreditation for the IMPAKT Festival 2026 is 27 March 2026.

For press enquiries and press materials, contact leonie@impakt.nl or call +31 0 30 29 44 493. 

STUDENT GROUP VISITS & DISCOUNTS

We are happy to welcome student groups. In addition to the regular programme, we offer student groups special introductions by the curator or artists, as well as tours of the festival exhibition.

To receive more information about student group discounts and special student activities, please contact Lars Bleijenberg at lars@impakt.nl 

QUESTIONS?

Do you have a question about your visit?
Contact us at festival@impakt.nl or call +31 0 30 29 44 493.