You Are Here. ANTI Festival 9.–14.9.2025.
ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival will take place between 9th and 14th September 2025 in Kuopio, Finland. This year’s festival programme explores questions of producing, archiving and exhibiting knowledge. The festival works also discuss different phenomena drawing on place, space and belonging. ANTI will offer participants a place to collectively reflect on challenging themes and topics but also to simply gather together.
“It’s our privilege to create an environment for the live encounter with each other in our shared present, to take space, to share space, to assert what we experience as knowledge about this moment in history. In a moment when so much is unknown – and much remains to discover, recover and repair – we hope that in Kuopio in 2025, we will be able to say one thing with certainty: You Are Here,” the festival’s curators Elisa Itkonen and Season Butler write.
Read the full curatorial statement, including descriptions of the festival works, on our website.
The ANTI Festival programme presents live art works by international and Finland based artists in various different locations across Kuopio. All events are free of charge for the audience. The festival week celebrates both live art and the City of Kuopio; the festival actively contributes to the Kuopio 250 anniversary programme. The festival week will culminate with a festival club and the announcement of the 2025 winner of the ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art.
Come and find out more about the programme at the opening of our new office on Tuesday 29th April from 11am to 6pm!
ANTI Festival 2025 – Main Programme
Chiara Bersani (IT): Left Behind *
SJ Norman (AU): Bone Library *
Harold Offeh (UK): Body, Landscape, Memory *
Tea Andreoletti (IT) & Konepaja Community: A Piece of Space
Andy Field, Beckie Darlington (UK) & Kuopio school kids: Museum of Small and Overlooked Things
Sonia Hughes (UK): I am from Reykjavik
Teo Ala-Ruona (FI): Etiological Hydro Disruption Report (EHDR)
Anna Mustonen (FI): Lilluminen
Suominen, Kirvesniemi, Lång & Räsänen (FI): On-Time Performance
Aalto University Students (FI): Participatory works in public spaces (will be publishes later)
* Shortlisted for the ANTI Live Art Prize
More coming up
During the summer, the festival programme will be complemented with meet-the-artist sessions and public discussions. We will also release the programme of our legendary closing party!
The daily schedule and bookings (required to some of the performances) for the festival will be published in August.
