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ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival

ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival

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70600 KUOPIO
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ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival

ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival is an international contemporary arts festival presenting site-specific works made for public spaces.

Held annually in Kuopio, the city hosts the festival, projects by artists from around the world inhabit the spaces of public life – homes, shops, city squares, business, forests, lakes – and directly engage communities and audiences in the making and showing of their work.

ANTI Festival is annual and free of charge for audiences. Next festival will take place on September 2024.

ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival

Over 20 years old, the ANTI Festival is Finland’s leading live art event. Live art is an umbrella term for innovative performance art, encompassing cross-disciplinary, participatory, and contemporary approaches to artistic expression.

At the ANTI Festival, new forms of art, urban culture, and reaching diverse audiences are combined with educational and research perspectives. In 2023, the festival attracted approximately 9,000 visitors in Kuopio.

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