Outsider Art Festival

On Helsinki Day, Espan lava (Espa Stage) will be taken over by a diverse group of outsider artists. The OAF Stage is curated by Pertin Valinta and will feature outsider art,

The OAF Musical Microcosm is lyrical, original, touching and topical. This year’s 2024 OAF music program features performance artist and music maker Stella Massa, Nairobi folk musician Ondi, rap group

Outsider Art Festival is launching a new collaboration with the City of Espoo this year. For this collaboration we have curated a special OAF Programme to be presented at Espoo’s

Outsider Art Festival’s Festival Director Heini Merkkiniemi has won AGMA’s Mediator of the Year award! By giving out the Mediator Awards (Välittäjä-palkinto), AGMA wants to highlight the intermediaries in the

This year, the Outsider Art Festival’s film programme features a diverse selection of new Finnish outsider film. There will be silence and nature mysticism, introspection and the pain’s of creation,

Production intern Satu Kankaanpää has been looking into the accessibility of the OAF festival. In this blog, Satu compiled some important perspectives on the topic. It’s a very broad topic.