Body Painting Festival

Body Painting Festival

Bodypainting is all about embellishing the beauty and mystery of the human form in a provocative, competitive and we've got to admit, a titillating environment using paints, props, music, and above all imagination.

"Body Gras!™", the host of the Canadian Bodypainting Championships, was set in motion in the summer of 2002 when its founders convinced nearly 20 artists, and just as many models and stylists, to compete in a new body painting competition staged in Nanaimo, B.C. – a tough, yet artsy former coal town graced with one of the most amazing harbours on the entire West Coast of North America.

Body Painting Festival

During the debut competition, nearly a thousand people over the span of three nights took in the spectacle! Three evenings filled with rousing, often boisterous entertainment, artistic fineness - and certainly the most provocative feature of this extravaganza - body painting teams competing for prize money and the chance to be in the well-covered spotlight.

We invite you to enjoy some of the unique creations we have had the privilege to showcase in our "Body Gras!™" shows since 2002.

This week-long festival is a mixture of live bands, DJs, dance and the art of body painting. With five or six live acts on during the day, a Ministry Of Sound tent and acts in the Red Bull Academy there should be plenty to choose from before a two hour presentation of some of the best body art in the world.

Body Painting Festival

There are also musical workshops that can teach festival-goers percussion, didgeridoo, how to DJ and much more. The main days of the festival are from Friday to Sunday, 16-18 July, daily from 10.30 am in the "Bodypaint City". The artists start painting in the public park and later in the day the artwork is judged by a professional jury. The models are then presented to the audience on the main stage. During the day lots of music and show acts are presented. There are music concerts on program till late

Flower Girl at the Daegu International Body Painting Festival

One of the living works of art at the Daegu International Body Painting Festival shows off her flowery buds.

Flower Girl at the Daegu International Body Painting Festival

World Body Painting Festival Photos

World Body Painting Festival

Who will refuse to an invitation for World Body Painting Festival? If you do, then you don’t know how to appreciate creativity and art.

Known to be the ‘Mecca of Body Painting’, the World Body Painting Festival is an indulgence for creative and artistic people. That is why it is not a surprise that throng of curious tourists, body artists and photographers visits this annual event. It is one of a kind festival in the world where you can relish the various creative and remarkable paintings in a canvas of human body.

The World Body Painting Festival is held in Seeboden, Carinthia, Austria every third week of July. This annual event of creativity draws approximately 15,000 spectators around the globe and more than 200 body painting artists and models across the continent vie for the title of ‘World Champion Body Painter’.

The festival lasts for one week in which during the first four days will be series of special workshops and lessons hosted by the World Body Painting Festival Academy. The last three days will be the actual painting event and body painting artists start to create their magnum opus in a unique canvas which a human body.

There are three categories to compete that include brush and sponge, airbrush and special effects such as UV body painting and face make-up The yearly festival comes with a theme and body painting artists are expected to produce their work of art that tone with the theme both erotically and aesthetically.

As for the models, there are no restrictions. Artists can use either male or female however all models must wear pants while being painted but female models can go topless if needed. Most of the models are volunteers and unpaid. They take pleasure in experiencing this unique and rare opportunity of transforming their human body into a magnificent work of art.

At the end of each day of the actual paint event, the painted models will walk down the catwalk and stroll amidst the flock of very enthusiastic photographers who are clamoring for the best snapshot. Special prizes are waiting for the best top three photos.

The brainchild of World Body Painting Festival is Alex Barendregt who started the first event in 1998 for the purpose of rekindling the tourism industry in his small village. Since then, it became one of the most anticipated and biggest events in the body painting community as artists aspire to bang the ‘World Champion Body Painter’ award, an ultimate recognition of their unsurpassed talent and skills am