OAF X Radio Helsinki
You can listen to the OAF program during the festival in the coverage area of Radio Helsinki on the frequencies Helsinki 89,7, Turku 89,3, Tampere 106,8 and Oulu 90,9 MHz Joensuu 92,3 MHz, Jyväskylä 105,2 MHz, Kuopio 97,2 MHz, Lahti 99,7 MHz, Pori 97,6 MHz as well as on the Radio Helsinki online radio. You […]
OAF X Runokuu Talks: Aatos Ketvel & Minna-Kaisa Kallinen
Outsider Art Festival and Runokuu (Poetry Moon Festival) will hold a joint discussion in Tekstin talo’s (House of Text) Permantosali on Friday, 15 August, 17:30–18:30. The distinctive singer-songwriter and spoken-word poet Aatos Ketvel, who records with the band Kirsikkapuu for Minna Records, will publish a debut poetry collection with Puoliuni Publishing in autumn 2025. How […]
OAF Poetry Stage
Permantosali, the House of Text, 14.8.2025 at 20:15-22:00 OAF Poetry Stage asks the question: what kind of literature could exist outside the known literature? The poets of the OAF Literature Programme will take over the stage of Permantosali, together with a guest poet from the publisher WSOY. The evening will feature a diverse array of […]
OAF X Caisa: Pekka Luodeslampi
Cultural Centre Caisa, courtyard. 14th of August 5.30 PM – 5.45 PM Pekka Luodeslampi’s performance challenges traditional ideas of being a superhero. Luodeslampi’s superhero repertoire includes blowing up terracotta pots with explosive punching power, bending one-centimeter-thick steel bars, popping the bottoms off unopened drink cans, and destroying coconuts. In these thrilling stunts, Luodeslampi utilizes the […]
LIPGLOSSBOY – RAT CITY
RAT CITY: Cultural Centre Caisa, lobby. 14th of August. 5.40 PM – 6.02 PMRAT CITY: Espoo Cultural Centre, lobby. 21st of August. 6.30 PM – 6.52 PM LIPGLOSSBOY: RAT CITY LIPGLOSSBOY ’s performance RAT CITY conveys a scenario where hyper metropolitan traits of rats have become a desired commodity. The once impure and diseased city rat […]
OAF X Caisa: Kaaos Company – Katras
Katras: Cultural Centre Caisa, Lobby. 16.8. 3 PM – 3.45 PMDiscussion: Cultural Centre Caisa, Lobby. 16th of August 3.45 PM Kaaos Company: Katras Kaaos Company will present a dance performance titled Katras (2021). Katras is a movement-based conversation with others and the surrounding environment, while playing with what emerges from togetherness. An urban flock of four dancers […]
OAF X Caisa: RÄKÄlicious, Jussi P Niinku Pekka & Vähäsähkö, Milla Heart
Culture Center Caisa, Caisa Hall 14.8.2025 The musical offerings at the Outsider Art Festival’s opening night will be provided by RÄKÄlicious, Jussi P Niinku Pekka & Vähäsähkö, and Milla Heart. RÄKÄlicious is a performative pop-punk duo consisting of video artist Sandra Marins and sound artist Mai Pesonen. The essence of RÄKÄlicious is a DIY approach and a slightly […]
OAF X Caisa: Ksenia Voy Kheninen & Zherbin – Plants
Kulttuurikeskus Caisa, Caisa-sali 14.8.-15.8.2025 Ksenia Voy Kheninen & Zherbin – Plants The artist duo Ksenia Voy Kheninen ja Zherbin present their installation called Plants. Plants is space turned into an artificial sounding garden; AI art without the AI; clay, sound waves, and found objects grown into interactive electronic plants. Plants explores sculptures as immortal artificial […]
OAF X Caisa Gallery: Future
The Cultural Centre Caisa, Caisa Gallery 14.8.-23.8.2025 What does the world look like from the perspective of an outsider artist? And what could it look like? OAF’s visual arts programme will answer these questions by spreading out to Pertti’s Choice Gallery, the gallery of the Cultural Centre Caisa and the virtual gallery from 14 to […]
OAF X Caisa: Homa Shokri – Ashla: 00:00:01
Culture Center Caisa, Caisa Hall, 19.-20.8.2025 The performance artist Homa Shokri presents Ashla: 00:00:01, a performance developed from an ongoing choreographic project of the same name. The work investigates how hidden violence dismembers the body—physically and psychologically—through movement and image. Ashla integrates fantasy, techno-inspired movement and collective bodily scores as responses to unseen structures of […]