Outsider Art Festival
Outsider Art Festival (OAF) invites everyone to celebrate equality! OAF gives voice to the outsider artists by presenting a vibrant collection of music, visual arts, performing arts, films, literature and life stories. OAF is a partner festival of the Helsinki Festival.
News
OAF Resident Artists 2024 come from Ukraine!
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
Thank you for your applications for the 2024 Outsider Art Festival!
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
TRAINEESHIP APPLICATION OPEN!
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
OAF Artist Residency Open Call for international artists
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
OAF Academy is looking for new artists for 2024 and 2025!
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.
Outsider Art Festival 2024 Open Call for artists
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
Tickets and reservations
The Outsider Art Festival includes events both free of charge and with paid tickets. The program takes place in live events as well as online.
Tickets sold via Tiketti and Lippu.fi. You can the OAF ticket shop from Tiketti here. Tickets for the Sellosali events are sold via Lippu.fi here and tickets for the Kannusali events here.
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