Shortlist LIVE! Celebrates the Live Art Prize Nominees
Media release 10.9.2020 ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival is thrilled to present the four shortlisted artists for the 2020 ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art and their performances in the Shortlist LIVE! Programme – a unique set of artists and artworks for a unique year. The nominees for the 2020 ANTI Festival International Prize […]
Open Call for Artists and Curators to participate in the Global City Local City Labs
3.9.2020 Global City Local City is a new international laboratory platform – initiated as a collaboration between ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival in Kuopio, Finland, Reykjavík Dance Festival in Iceland and The Map Consortium in the United Kingdom. The GCLC labs are an initiative aimed at bringing together artists and curators whose work centers upon […]
ANTI Festival 2020 – Food at the centre of life and art
Media release 27.8.2020 The 19th edition of ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival will take place between 27th October and 1st November 2020 in Kuopio, Finland. “Let’s do the thing that has been so difficult to do this year, let’s gather together. Let’s do that in acknowledgement that many around the world cannot, that we are […]
Curatorial Statement 2020
17.8.2020 The world has changed since we last gathered in Kuopio to experience and celebrate ANTI Festival. For much of this year the very act of gathering, of coming together, has never – in our lifetimes – evoked such a complicated set of questions and problems, problems that remain unresolved as we write this in […]
Newsletter 06/2020
#BlackLivesMatter ANTI Festival is deeply committed to anti-racism work, and in the future, we want communicate better what this means in our activity. We are constantly evaluating our activity and willing to educate ourselves. Despite we have succeeded in presenting work by (marginalised) artists with diverse backgrounds, we have not succeeded in increasing diversity inside […]
Newsletter 05/2020
After 8 with @antifestival : Kalle Pulkkinen, Eevi Tolvanen & Marika Räty ANTI Festival will join the global online cultural community regenerated in social media this spring. As we can’t gather together on the ground we have invited our fascinating friends and colleagues to meet and talk with us online. These informal encounters and discussions […]
After 8 with @antifestival on Instagram Live!
Media release 20.5.2020 ANTI Festival will join the global online cultural community regenerated in social media this spring. As we can’t gather together on the ground we have invited our fascinating friends and colleagues to meet and talk with us online. These informal encounters and discussions will be shared with you – our friends, colleagues […]
ANTI Festival moving to late Autumn
Media release 29.4.2020 Like every organisation we are closely monitoring global developments regarding COVID-19. As an international festival our response to the crisis is guided by conditions and restrictions in place across the world; it is clear, from all sides, that the 2020 edition of ANTI Festival, usually presented in early September, should be moved […]
Coronavirus’ effects on our activities
17.3.2020 Like many organisations and events we are closely monitoring global developments regarding Coronavirus. It may become necessary to delay ANTI Festival and/or rethink our programming of the festival to reflect Finnishand international travel restrictions and advice. We are carefully following this changeable issue and will make a decision on the festival’s timing and its […]
Newsletter 2/2020
A sculpture buried by ANTI Festival to be removed from its grave – welcome to take your own piece of Artefact! An Impossible Performance Examines Coexistence and Relations of Codependency New multiannual cooperation agreement with the City of Kuopio A sculpture buried by ANTI Festival to be removed from its grave – welcome to take […]