World Body Painting Festival

  • Country and Location: Austria, Seeboden
  • Frequency: yearly
  • First edition: 1998
  • Usually in July
  • competition with prizes in 3 categories
  • Link: www.bodypainting-festival.com

The Web site features pictures of the body paintings from the last editions.

There is a second body painting festival from the same organization in South Korea. It started in 2007.

 

Festival International du Film Fantastique et de Science-fiction de Bruxelles

  • Country and Location: Belgium, Brussels
  • Frequency: yearly
  • First edition festival/body painting: 1983/1988
  • competition with prizes
  • Link: www.bifff.org

Unfortunately, this event ended in 2008. There is no show anymore, but instead some body paintings are performed every evening.
 

 

Rencontres Body painting France

 

 

Maskerade

  • Country and Location: The Netherlands, Venlo
  • Frequency: every year
  • First edition: 2004
  • usually in Oct or Nov.
  • Competition with prizes in several categories
  • Organisation: Bert Verstappen
  • Link: www.maskerade.org

 

 

Body-Art

  • Country and Location: Belgium, near Mechelen
  • Frequency: yearly
  • usually in November
  • First edition: 2002
  • competition with prizes
  • Link: www.body-art.be

 
 

 

 

Color Mundo

  • Country and Location: Canada, Montréal
  • Frequency: every year, but has stopped now.
  • Last edition in 2008
  • Competition with prizes in several categories
  • Chief Editor/Rédactrice en Chef: Gaëlle Mouster
  • Link: www.colormundo.com

 

 

U.K. Body Painting Festival

  • Country and Location: United Kingdom
  • Frequency: yearly
  • First edition: 2006
  • Link: www.ukbpf.com

 

 

 

 

Italian Body Painting Festival

Photos here

 

 

Body painting festival in Jamaica, in hedonism resorts. See

http://www.BodyPaintingX.com

http://www.Hedonism1.com

 

Estetika

  • Country and Location: Brussels, Belgium
  • Frequency: twice a year, spring and autumn
  • First edition of the exhibition in 1978
  • Competition with prizes in 4 categories, one is body painting

Estetika is a exhibition for esthetics professionals.
On the Saturday there is a make-up, face painting and body painting competition. There are usually few "true" body paintings.

Salon du tatouage et de la décoration corporelle (Tatoo and Body Decoration)

  • Country and Location: France, Paris
  • Frequency: yearly
  • First edition: 2000
  • Link: www.edd-salons.com

This event is focused on piercing and tatoo. There is only one artist showing his works (René Boelle). See http://www.colormundo.com

You can see pictures of the 2001 edition in the gallery.

 

Fantasy Fest

  • Country and Location: Key West, Florida, U.S.A.
  • Frequency: yearly
  • First edition:
  • Last time: last weekend of October, 2006
  • Next Time: last weekend of October, 2007
  • at least 3 body painting competitions
  • Link: the official site is http://www.fantasyfest.net/

This is a wild party, during ten days, and the last weekend is the climax.It is always the last weekend of October (with the big parade on the
Saturday on or before Halloween). Body painting is not the main attraction, but it is a part. You see mainly breast painting.

For pictures of painted bodies from the Fantasy Fest, visit the galleries of

Paul Katcher 2007 http://paulkatcher.com/archives/001149.shtml

http://www.brianzajac.com/fantasy_fests.cfm

Steve Dimse at http://www.aprs.net/FantFest99/index.html

http://www.aprs.net/FantFest2000/

http://www.wdwgdas.com/

and the galleries of Lenshead at http://lenshead.com, also Key West 2002

 

Agenda of Body painting Events

 

in the U.S.A.