OAF Resident Artists 2024 come from Ukraine!

Ton Melnyk ja Masha Ravlyk Lukianova

The amazing OAF artists-in-residence for 2024 are Ton Melnyk and Masha Ravlyk Lukianova from Ukraine!  Ton and Masha, who arrived in Finland as refugees in 2022, are queer feminists, activists and artists. They work in a variety of art forms including textile art, performance art, street art and video art. Collective work and the building […]

Thank you for your applications for the 2024 Outsider Art Festival!

Outsider Art Festival 2024 taiteellinen työryhmä

A big thank you to all the artists who applied for the 2024 Outsider Art Festival: we received a huge number of bold, surprising and inspiring applications. We received a record number of applications this year, almost 400! The Outsider Art Festival will take place this year from 15-25 August 2024 and the OAF artistic […]

TRAINEESHIP APPLICATION OPEN!

OAF tuottajahaku harjoittelijahaku 2024

We are looking for arts and culture interns to join our communication and event production teams. The OAF 2024 festival will take place from 15-25 August 2023. The interns will work with OAF production team members in either the communication or the event production of the festival. In the communication team, the interns will work […]

OAF Artist Residency Open Call for international artists

OAF OPEN CALL RESIDENCY PROGRAM FOR INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS 2024

Outsider Art Festival is looking for international artists for OAF Artist Residency 2024. The admission process is open 1.11.–30.11.2023. The aim of the residency is to support international collaboration in the outsider art field. Any outsider artist can apply, regardless of their art field. The residency is aimed for artists living outside of Finland. The […]

OAF Academy is looking for new artists for 2024 and 2025!

OAF AKATEMIA haku

OAF Academy is Outsider Art Festival’s new art program that supports the employment of outsider artists in the fields of visual arts, performing arts, music, film, literature and media arts. You can either apply yourself or suggest an artist you think would be a good fit for the program. OAF Academy’s theme is power, and […]

Outsider Art Festival 2024 Open Call for artists

Outsider Art Festival Taiteilijahaku Open Call 2024

Apply to be an artist for the 2024 Outsider Art Festival! Outsider Art Festival invites all artists working in the field of outsider art to join us for the fifth edition of the festival. OAF will take place in August 2024 as part of the Helsinki Festival. Open call for the 2024 festival will be […]

OAF Academy: Myrtillius Kauria’s Modern Slavery exhibition

Myrtilius Kauria

A warm welcome to Myrtillius Kauria’s Modern Slavery exhibition! The exhibition will be held at Pertti’s Choice Gallery as part of Helsinki Design Week festival during 8.9.-30.9.2023. Welcome also to the opening of the exhibition on Thursday 7.9. at 17-19! Pertti’s Choice shop and gallery is located at Helsinki’s Hakaniemi, in the address Hakaniemenkuja 2. […]

OAF 2023 continues online and needs your feedback

Does your life feel empty after the festival? Do you miss OAF’s amazing art experiences? Worry not! Through OAF Online Stage you can still get into the festival atmosphere. On Online Stage you will find a virtual gallery, OAF’s film program, OAF Opening event’s Keuhkot concert stream and artist greetings! The Virtual Gallery has been […]

Outsider Art Festival 2023 says thank you!

Outsider Art Festival avajaiset kansallismuseo karhu

Thank you to all the artists, partners, work teams and of course the audience of the festival! At OAF 2023 we enjoyed meeting familiar faces and new audiences for 10 days and in more than 20 live events. Here we have collected some thoughts from the guests and working teams of the festival. The theme […]

OAF 2023 award for the best artist has been given!

Outsider Art Festival mika ruohola vuoden taiteilija palkinto

The Outsider Art Festival OAF presents the annual Artist of the Year Award. The winner for 2023 was Mika Ruohola for his film Kylä (The Village). Ruohola is a Vantaa-based journalist and filmmaker. The award was presented on the Night of the Arts on 17 August 2023 at the National Museum of Finland during OAF’s […]