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Location: All across Nipaluna/Hobart and beyond
Welcome to the strange and spectacular world of Dark Mofo – Tasmania’s midwinter festival that dives deep into the weird, the wild, and the wonderfully wicked. Think giant artworks, fire rituals, late-night revelry, a whole lot of music, and yep, a bunch of brave souls stripping off for a dip in the Derwent.
Here’s your quick and easy guide to what’s on:
Dark Mofo isn’t just a festival—it’s a full-blown midwinter adventure. These are the moments that define the week: the fiery rituals, the wild parties, the deep-belly laughs and the heart-thumping spectacles. Whether you’re feasting by firelight, dancing till dawn, or tossing your fears into the flames, these are the must-do, must-see, you-had-to-be-there events that make Dark Mofo unforgettable.
Dark Mofo will present the Winter Feast across two weeks at Princes Wharf 1 (PW1), from Thursday 5–Sunday 8 June and Thursday 12–Sunday 15 June, showcasing the best of the best Tasmanian food, wine and spirits.
Huddle by the warm winter fires, under our deserted Tasmanian sky and enjoy the bounty from the last harvest. Over 75 stallholders will provide the best of local produce, alongside a nightly program of music and performance, as we collectively dream of the birds returning in spring.
Dark Mofo’s infamous Nude Solstice Swim returns for 2025. With an increased capacity, the event will take place at Long Beach at sunrise on Saturday 21 June, welcoming back the light after the longest night. Entry is free and via registration only. Visit darkmofo.net.au for details.
Welcome to the holy mess. Night Mass is Dark Mofo’s infamous after-dark playground—an immersive, sensory-charged party that transforms the city’s backstreets and buildings into a fever dream of art, music, and pure chaos.
This year, it’s bigger, weirder, and holier-than-thou. Over 100 artists and musicians will sprawl across a brand-new location—multiple city blocks stitched together into one pulsating labyrinth. Think rooftops, alleyways, warehouses, and who-knows-what-else, all drenched in crimson light and shadow.
There are no maps, no rules—just beats, fire, flashing lights, surreal encounters, and the odd ritual or two. Lose your mates, find something strange, dance like you’re possessed, and maybe have a moment of divine revelation in a pop-up confessional. It’s part club night, part art installation, part fever dream… and totally unforgettable.
Dark Mofo’s most spellbinding ritual returns, and this year the spirit taking the heat is very close to home: the Maugean skate, an ancient, endangered fish found only in Tasmania’s wild west waters.
In the lead-up to the big night on 15 June, festival-goers are invited to write down their fears—personal, political, existential, whatever—and feed them to the giant fish-shaped effigy. When the sun sets, a slow, solemn procession will snake from Parliament Lawns to Dark Park, with firelight flickering and the bass rumbling low.
Then, it all goes up—flames, fears, the whole bloody thing—in a massive, cathartic burn. It’s eerie, emotional, and weirdly beautiful. There’s nothing quite like watching your fears go up in smoke under the cold Hobart sky with a few thousand kindred souls.
From blazing sculptures and surreal light storms to deeply moving installations, Dark Mofo 2025 isn’t just art—it’s an experience that might rattle your bones (in the best way).
Crash Body and the Aftermath
Two cars. One stunt driver. And an artist willing to risk it all. Paula Garcia’s live performance builds to a full-throttle collision over two hours at the Regatta Grounds—revving engines, screeching tyres, and an atmosphere thick with anticipation. You’ll feel this one in your chest. The wreckage? That becomes an eerie installation in Dark Park.
We threw them down the rocks where they had thrown the sheep
Nathan Maynard doesn’t hold back. This basement-based installation uses flesh (yep, actual flesh) to confront Tasmania’s colonial past. Brutal, poetic, and unapologetically local.
Warning: Graphic content, taxidermy, references to racial violence
La Danse Macabre
Capitalism meets chaos. Two pianists play Saint-Saëns while flames consume a wooden sculpture, and a motocross rider jumps through fire. Yep, that’s happening—on a huge screen in Dark Park.
Void
Gender, gods, and dance collide in a mesmerising performance by Joshua Serafin. Set inside the Theatre Royal, this piece unravels a dreamlike queer mythology with movement, sound, and a sprinkle of chaos. Strange, stunning, and utterly spellbinding.
SORA
Enter a swirling, kinetic cosmos built from light. Created by Nonotak, this hypnotic installation turns a warehouse into a strobe-drenched dreamscape—sometimes soft and drifting, other times like riding out an electrical storm.
Coffin Rides, Chocolate Goblins and Quasi-horrors
Expect the unexpected: take a literal ride in a coffin (souvenir included), encounter a monstrous chocolate sculpture that’s both pregnant and unsettling, and look up to spot a giant hand-face hybrid peering over the city.
Ritual, resistance, and the raw
Nicholas Galanin’s Neon Anthem invites kneeling—for grief, rage, or reflection.
Carlos Martiel’s Custody traps the artist inside an hourglass, naked, restrained, slowly buried in sand.
Ida Sophia’s Witness captures a near-drowning baptism of haunting beauty.
And in Because the knees bend, Paul Setúbal’s baton-wielding figure paces a dark corridor, leaving marks behind—literally and emotionally.
All this (and stacks more) spills across Hobart—from back-alley basements and forgotten vaults to rooftops and waterside warehouses. If you’re into bold, challenging, or downright bizarre art, this is your playground.
From soul-bending ballads to full-throttle sonic chaos, Dark Mofo’s 2025 music lineup is wild, weird, and wonderfully exclusive. Seventeen acts you literally can’t see anywhere else in Australia this year are descending on Hobart—and it’s everything from whisper-soft folk to face-melting metal.
Beth Gibbons
Yes, the haunting voice behind Portishead is here for two intimate shows at The Odeon. It’s been nearly two decades since her last album—don’t miss your chance to see a music icon back in full force.
Tierra Whack
This Philly rapper and R&B surrealist is like stepping inside a technicolour cartoon of raw emotion and sharp wit. It’s her first and only Aussie appearance, and we’re ready to get weird.
Berlin Atonal’s Nox Omnia
A dream collab with the cult Berlin experimental music festival, this limited-capacity Playhouse Theatre takeover is part electronic church, part audio hallucination. Expect audiovisual art, deep listening, and mind-melting live sets.
Robert Ames + the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
High art meets ambient atmospheres. London Contemporary Orchestra’s Robert Ames joins forces with the TSO for an abstract symphonic journey of water, dissolution, and rebirth.
Baroness, Clown Core, Machine Girl, Divide and Dissolve
For lovers of the loud, heavy and absolutely unhinged.
Baroness brings sludgy, soaring metal anthems.
Clown Core mixes jazz, metal, and pure chaos… from inside a portable toilet (seriously).
Machine Girl serves up high-BPM electronic hardcore that sounds like a rave in a dystopian video game.
Divide and Dissolve will rumble your soul with doom-laden drone paired with fierce political intent.
And there’s more:
Alabaster DePlume, saxophonist-poet of the soul
Jessica Pratt, whispery folk dreams from the LA haze
Clown Core, Uboa, Spectral Wound, Angry Blackmen, Shackleton + Siddhartha Belmannu… the list goes on and gets weirder.
Whatever your vibe—gothic synths, glitchy beats, psychedelic ballads, experimental opera, or doom metal from the desert—Dark Mofo will have something that grabs you by the ears and doesn’t let go.
If your idea of a good night is popcorn, red velvet seats, and staring into the existential abyss—this one’s for you.
Dark Mofo Films is back at the State Cinema, Hobart’s beautifully moody, century-old movie house. The 2025 film lineup is stacked with cult classics, eerie indies, and cinematic oddities that’ll leave your brain spinning (in a good way).
Week One features:
Sound of Metal – a raw, heart-rattling dive into silence and identity
Eraserhead – David Lynch’s nightmarish masterpiece (brace yourself)
Hundreds of Beavers – slapstick meets fever dream in a very strange frontier
The Most Australian Band Ever! – a doco full of punk chaos and unfiltered Aussie energy
Week Two ramps it up with:
The outback brutality of The Proposition
Junkie love in Candy
Cult vampire chic with A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
The gothic mind-bender The Lighthouse
Aussie psych-classic Wake in Fright
The unforgettable Bad Boy Bubby
And Melancholia—Lars von Trier’s beautifully bleak take on the end of the world
Whether you’re chasing arthouse angst or just want to get weird in the dark with strangers, this is the perfect way to warm up (or wind down) your festival nights.
This year, Dark Mofo is slipping past the city limits—because Hobart shouldn’t get to have all the strange fun.
In Launceston, the vibes get dreamy and deeply local:
Methyl Ethel brings their jangly, slightly surreal dream-pop to the Princess Theatre
Thelma Plum, one of Australia’s most powerful singer-songwriters, brings the heart and soul with her raw, confessional lyrics
Over in Ulverstone, things get intergalactic at The Hive’s Planetarium.
Enter the swirling world of XYZZY by Jess Johnson (NZ) + Simon Ward (USA)—a trippy, cosmic audio-visual adventure full of self-replicating temples, alien gods, and fleshy worm mandalas. It’s like a cult sci-fi film come to life under a star-filled dome.
So if you’re in the north, or keen for a Dark Mofo-flavoured road trip, there’s plenty to explore beyond the Hobart city glow.
It’s cold – rug up, then rug up again.
Some stuff sells out fast, so jump on tickets early at darkmofo.net.au
Pace yourself – this fest is a marathon, not a sprint (unless you’re streaking into the Derwent).
Expect the unexpected – weird is part of the deal.
If you plan to attend Dark Mofo this year, you’ll want to find the perfect place to stay that will let you make the most of this incredible event.
Here are a few of our top picks for where to stay in Hobart for Dark Mofo.
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