Europe’s most colourful event –
The World Bodypainting Festival. It’s an annual festival held in Seeboden, Austria, near the Millstatter See, on the third week of July every year. 25.000 visitors are expected in the upcoming world championships for bodypainters.
The World Bodypainting Festival is the largest artistic event of this kind and draws thousands of people every year. Artists from 40 nations – including Australia, North Korea, Canada, USA, Columbia, Argentina and South Africa – will be coming to this impressive Event.
The festival is the best gallery in the world for artists to exhibit their bodyart work. The bodypainting will take place in the Klauber Park in
Seeboden, where the unique surroundings of Lake Millstatt provide the appropriate impressionistic backdrop. The bodypainting work at the event is of a high artistic quality. The female – as well as the male bodies – are painted aesthetically, either to the given theme, or from an artistic.
Amidst the breathtaking scenery in
Austria, it’s a place where bodies are boldly put on show, and each artist has the opportunity to show his or her own specialties. The festival has an impressive array of highlights and a varied program in store for artists and models, photographers and video film makers, visitors, and indeed anyone interested in the body cult. The
World Body Painting festival draws a crowd of 15,000 spectators, 250 models and more than 150 artisans each expressing their individual creativity. Award-winning artists from around the globe gather to compete for the title of
World Champion Bodypainter.
The World Bodypainting Festival at Seeboden is the first of its kind in the world and has become the
“Mecca of Bodypainting”. The Lake Millstatter See region’s scenery is the stage, where bodies are boldly put on show, and each artist has the opportunity to show his/her own specialities – bodies painted with many different materials and techniques, and sometimes combined with the most fantastic costumes, masks and
show effects. At the Body Painting Festival, the interesting art of body paiting is showcased with abandon. Body painting is a form of expression used by people who like to be naked to communicate feelings and ideas about the human body by using the body itself as the canvas. Such ideas may sometimes be of a
sexual nature, but that is only a small part of the possible range of thoughts that can be expressed. In fact, the expanded possibilities for self expression that are possible when one doesn’t wear clothes form one of the chief attractions of being naked for some people.
Only the best in their professions teach the classes. And because you never finish learning, the workshops offer possibilities not only for beginners, also for advanced artists to further their knowledge. Group arrangements for schools can be organized on request. There are a number of different contests (including a nighttime competition designed to showcase stunning UV effects) workshops, audience participation, music and performances and a massive fireworks show to enjoy.
