One Month to Festival

Lara Thoms: The Director. Photo: Bryony Jackson.

ANTI Festival Starts in a Month – Celebrated Live Artists in Kuopio, Finland

ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival 2019 is getting closer as the festival opens on 10th September 2019 in Kuopio, Finland. We have invited internationally celebrated, award-winning artists from around the world to present their projects.

The theme and focus for the 18th edition of ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival is death. The programme traces various iterations of death in an attempt to open-up thinking around our relationship to it and to the many sets of phenomena that surround it. Ideas die, eras end, materials become obsolete, things break, technology supersedes itself, places are abandoned, the natural world is destroyed, social and political ideals are overthrown, and plant, animal and human life is finite.

On Saturday 14th September, we will award ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art, one of world’s most exciting cultural prize. For the first time ever in the history of the prize, the nominees will present their pieces in Kuopio during the festival.

We are also hosting the fourth Future DiverCities Lab in Kuopio 3.-15.9.

Updated festival programme and schedule on our website!
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Maria Lucia Cruz Correia: Voice of Nature: The Trial. Photo: Mark Pozlep.

Reserve your seats!

The 2019 festival has multiple shows with a limited amount of seats. Ensure your entrance to the shows by reserving the free seats well in advance. The reservation is done online through the programme on our website.