OAF Open Call 2026
OAF 2026 applications are open November 3–28, 2025! OAF is a multidisciplinary art festival that will be held in August 2026 as part of the Helsinki Festival. OAF brings together artists working in the margins with international art audiences and cultural actors. The festival has been described as wild, mind-expanding, bold, equal, inclusive, and joyful. […]
OAF Recommends: An Art Trip to Uusimaa region
Outsider Art Festival OAF recommends an art trip to Uusimaa region this summer! Below are the festival team’s top picks for July–August: Hyvinkää’s Middle of Nowhere ITE Art Park has just opened a new exhibition “Middle ITE vol. 2.” It brings together 29 self-taught artists and presents nearly one hundred works, including pieces by Jussi […]
OAF X Pertti’s Choice Gallery: From Senses to Sensations
Pertti’s Choice Gallery 15.8.-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 and the gallery of the Cultural Centre Caisa from 14 to 23 August 2024. The group exhibitions […]
