Exceptional year, exceptional ANTI Festival 2020
Media release 3.11.2020
The 19th ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival ended on Sunday in Kuopio, Finland. The festival, with a theme of food, took place between 27th October and 1st November 2020 as a part of the European Region of
Gastronomy Kuopio celebration.
The COVID safety of our audiences, artists and staff members was at the centre of the festival production this year. We received a lot of positive feedback on how the festival was considered safe to attend. Our performances were fully booked, and guests from across Finland visited us. The event attracted also international guests to Kuopio, despite the traveling challenges.
We are enormously grateful to our artists who, this year, made special arrangements to perform in the festival programme.
The safety was considered starting from the curation of the festival: we programmed several artworks designed to be experienced alone or in small groups. The audience capacity of the festival was very limited compared to the past recent years. However, through some festival projects, such as Stan’s Cafe’s Of All The People In All The World, KELP! exhibition by local youth and ANTI Prize Party, we were able to engage a great number of audiences.
Despite the exceptional global situation, ANTI Festival gathered an audience of over 5000 people in Kuopio. In addition around 90 000 people across the world followed the festival events, images and videos online.
A big warm thank you to all our artists, audiences,
staff members, volunteers and partners!
In September 2021, we celebrate the 20th anniversary of ANTI Festival.
ANTI 2020 in images
Our photographer Pekka Mäkinen and videographer Kim Saarinen documented the festival events throughout the festival week.
Photos by Pekka Mäkinen are uploaded to the Best of ANTI 2020 folder on Facebook. Some of the best video clips by Kim Saarinen are already on our Facebook, Instagram and Vimeo pages.
For more information, contact Elisa Itkonen, elisa@antifestival.com, +358 50 305 2005.
