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
The OAF 2022 is published!
Outsider Art Festival is conquering Helsinki again on 12.-21.8.2022! OAF 2022 offers a diverse art program with more than 20 events all around Helsinki and online. The OAF festival guides
Presidents and opened doors
Satu Nekala is a self-taught visual artist and musician from Tampere. The sculptures of presidents Satu made are showcased in the OAF group exhibition, which is her first exhibition. Mika
Obscene comedy, winning of fears, and deep consideration
Outsider Art Festival’s movie programs curators for this year are Niklas Nyholm and Joonas Nyholm and the mentor is Jukka Kärkkäinen. Mika Leminen, the OAF communications assistant, interviewed the Nyholm
Outside of standards and norms
OAF music programs curators Miika Turunen, Sani Valoranta, and mentor Maria Mattila aka Mara Balls are corresponding to this year’s artist selections. Also, John Cafiero (USA) and Richard Phoenix (UK)
Giving everyone a chance: True Equality campaign
In this article True Equality campaign is presented. There are also thoughts about equality from the campaign partners. True Equality is a campaign started by Pertti’s Choice and Kyrö Distillery
OAF is looking for performers
Outsider Art Festival is looking for performers for Open Stage event. The event is held on the 19th of August 2021. The application is open until 11th of July 2021.
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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