Kuopio 70110
Finland
ANTI is an international contemporary art festival held annually in September in Kuopio, Finland. All of the festival events are free to attend.
The festival has been organised for 25 years and is Finland’s leading live art event. Live art is an umbrella term for innovative performance art that includes artwork that is performative, participatory and embedded in the present moment. At ANTI Festival, new forms of art, the urban culture, and reaching a variety of audiences meet educational and research-based perspectives. Annually, the festival reaches around 10,000 visitors in Kuopio.
At the festival, the works of artists from around the world take over public and private spaces in the city, including homes, shops, market squares, companies, business premises, forests and lakes. The audience and various communities get to be incorporated into the works of art in their everyday environments – both in creating and experiencing the art. We are proud to support a growing group of up-and-coming artists and are often the first to bring international attention to them.
The world’s only live art prize is awarded at the ANTI Festival
Established in 2014, The ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art, is presented biannually at ANTI - Contemporary Art Festival, Kuopio, Finland. The prize is generously supported by the Saastamoinen Foundation.
An award of 30,000 euros makes the world's only international prize for Live Art one of the richest cultural prizes in the arts. The winning artist receives a cash prize of 15,000 euros and the same amount in production support for bringing a new work to the ANTI Festival two years after receiving the award. The latest, 2025 winner of the Prize is Chiara Bersani (Italy).
In addition to the festival, ANTI is a versatile art organisation whose work also includes facilitating art and the work of artists around the year thanks to various partnership projects.
