The World Bodypainting Festival – connecting cultures

Now the World Bodypainting Festival in Seeboden, Austria, is connecting cultures and expanding to create a second event in the second largest stadium in Asia, in Daegu, South Korea.
Festival week 25th-31st Ausgust 2008

The World Bodypainting Festival with the World Championships has been held for over a decade in Seeboden, with artists travelling from 40 nations each year to show their art, compete and to spread knowledge and understanding for the art of bodypainting. The World Bodypainting Festival has become the centre of the bodypainting world and has encouraged the growth of this amazing art form by supporting and celebrating these artists.

The World Bodypainting Festival is expanding to meet the demands of the ever growing industry and, with a vibrant and dedicated team in South Korea will host a second event. The World Bodypainting Festival with the Asian Awards will be held in ‘Colorful Daegu’ from the 25th to the 31st August 2008 for the first time and connect the rapidly growing Asian bodypainting industry to its partners all around the world. The festival will follow the successful structure of the World Bodypainting festival with a week of workshops and side events ending in three main days of competition, entertainment and awards. The competition is open to artists from all around the world.

Daegu is a vibrant city of 3,5 million people with a pumping fashion industry that showcases an interesting mix of Asian and Western styles of fashion. Along with the fashion industry, Daegu is also host to a massive make-up industry with thousands of make-up students training throughout the many advanced make-up schools.

With the advertising slogan of ‘Colorful Daegu’ and the expanding interest in western styles of body art, this fashion run city is truly a dream location for an event that had to be held. The mixing styles of Asian and Western art during the festival week will surely promote new directions for body art, opportunities for companies to reach new markets and an exciting learning experience for everyone involved.

The “Asian Bodypainting Photo Award”

The festival offers photographers the best opportunity to really go wild for once, because nowhere else can provide the combination of so much living canvas and such unique settings, and all in front of the camera.
The models can only be "captured" once, before the works of art ultimately fade away. There is a restricted photo contest area, reserved for participants in the contest. Here the most fantastic photos are taken and can be sent to us after the festival.
An international photo jury judges the best works in the categories “photo print” and “digital art”.
From the best photos, a high quality photo catalogue will be printed.
A large photo gallery can be admired on the Internet under the address "www.bodypainting-festival.com".