The open call for vaft 2025 has ended. Thank you for your submissions!

The selected artists will be informed by the end of July 2025.  

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​Video Art Festival Turku (VAFT) is an international video art festival that will be held for the eighth time in November 2025.

VAFT is looking for insightful and interesting video works for its upcoming festival. The theme for 2025 is "Curiosity". The theme tickles the imagination, leaves room for interpretations and invites us to consider what curiosity can mean for an individual, a community, society or on an even larger scale.

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The juror for VAFT 2025 is visual artist Pilvi Takala. Takala is one of the best-known and most successful video artists of her generation, whose video works are based on performative interventions. She studies communities in order to address social structures and question the normative rules and truths of our behavior in different contexts. Often, the hidden rules of a social situation can only be discovered by disrupting the situation.

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VAFT 2025 will be accepting submissions for entry from 1–28 February 2025. Once the open call has started, you can submit your work via this page.

 

Anyone, regardless of nationality or degree, can submit their work for this open call. To submit, you don't have to pay any jury fee. It's possible to participate as a collective or send a concept for a work or a workshop. For us at VAFT, video art is anything including audiovisual content. The most important thing is the artistic quality of the work/workshop

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GUIDELINES FOR ARTISTS:

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• The theme of VAFT 2025 is Curiosity

• You may only submit one (1) work.

• Additionally, you may also submit one (1) work as a collective or group.

• The artwork can be single- or multi-channelled. There is no limit for form, genre or duration. Alternatively, you may submit a proposal for other content, for example an artist talk, workshop or live performance.

• If your artwork is in a language other than Finnish or English, it needs to be subtitled in Finnish or English. 

• For marketing purposes 1–2 still images of the art work are required. Share the images (.jpg or .png) for example via Dropbox or Google Drive by adding the download link in the form. 

• The artist must hold full copyright to the work or have an agreement with all copyright holders to present the work at the festival. The artists retain all rights to their work. Ääriö ry only has the right to present the work at the Video Art Festival Turku on 13–16 November 2025, unless agreed otherwise.

• No entry fee is required.

• The festival commits to paying all selected artists a screening fee. Taxes and other deductions apply. 

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