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12th World Bodypainting Festival ®
Seeboden, Austria

13 - 19 July 2009


News:

2 Oct. The World Bodypainting Festival DVD 2008 is now in store. Pre orders will be sent out today.
25 Sept. The Festival DVD 2008 will be ready by the upcoming week. You can now order the DVD from our shop.
24 Sept. New Best of Photo gallery by Martin Sternthaler updated.
18 Sept. New photo galleries from each of the main days by Hans Knechtskern updated.
1 Sept. The ASIAN World Bodypainting Festival ended yesterday night. We awarded the artists in different categories with the ASIAN Bodypainting AWARDS 2008 in the World Cup Stadium in Daegu. The results are already online. The next days we will put more photo galleries, videos and the festival report on the website.
31 August The winners from the Asian Facepainting Award, Special Effects Make up and Semi Pro Awards are published. We are looking forward to see the winners for the finals today. The ASIAN AWARDS in the 3 main categories Brush/Sponge, Airbrush and Special Effects Bodypainting will be given tonight. Find here all Details about the WBF ASIA.
30 August The first main day of the ASIAN World Bodypainting Festival is over. We put already many images online. Find there the galleries from the Festival Friday.
27 August BodyCircus, Chapter two. The World Bodypainting Festival ASIA started on Monday and we have tonight the first program highlight, the BodyCircus in the center of Daegu (Novotel) with the famouse Art Colour Ballet from Poland.
Find here all Details about the WBF ASIA.
22 August

Information for participants in the World Bodypainting PHOTO Award:
All participant should have received the labels for the photo prints by next week. If not, please give us a short note, we will pass them on.

19 August New Photo gallery by Rudi Schabetsberger available.
18 August New external galleries linked.
14 August The Sunday gallery with the artists and their finished models after the jury is now online. .
This gallery should help you to find out which painter created which artwork.
  New Photo gallery by Peter Ziegler available.
11 August Our festival report with a full review on the World Bodypainting Festival 2008 in Austria has been published.
  New photo gallery by Hans Joerg Weidenhammer available.
9 August

New photo galleries by Orizio Pierangelo updated:
from Friday:
- Fluoro Award
- Photo Award Area
from Saturday
- Photo Award Area
from Sunday
- Photo Award Area
Specials
- Photographers at work

7 August New external galleries linked.
6 August The Saturday gallery with the artists and their finished models after the jury is now online. .
This gallery should help you to find out which painter created which artwork.
5 August New Best of Photo gallery by Harry Laub updated.
3 August The "Hall of Fame" is updated.
30 July The friday gallery with the artists and their finished models after the jury is now online. .
This gallery should help you to find out which painter created which artwork.
  5 new Festival TV clips are now in a WMV streaming file available.
28 July New photo galleries by Friedrich Jamnig updated:
from Friday:
- Fluoro Award
- Photos from during the day
- Photo Award Area
- Stage presentation
from Saturday
- Fotos vom Tag
- Photo from during the day
- Stage presentation
  New Best of Photo Gallery by Ulf Scherling updated.
27 July The book "Bringing Bodypainting to Life" was presented at the Festival last week. From now you can order that book displaying a teaching guide, bodypainting in the past and now, iconic artists of our time and much more.
  First photos from the After Show Party by Dirk Hartung updated.
26 July New Best of Photo Gallery by Oswin Eder updated.
25 July The franks botttle design contest was presented on the final day of the world bodypainting festival. Please find here the winning bottle with a travel voucher of 1.500 Euro to go to the next event in Korea.
23 July New press information updated.
  The winners are all online. Some missing photos will be added soon.
  The results of all categories are availalbe in the download area.
22 July

The World Bodypainting Festival 2008 is history. The next days we will publish reports, results, photos and videos from the even. Please be a bit patient, we are just moving the festival office back from the grounds.

20 July The video from the second main day in online.
19 July The galleries from Backstage area are online.
19 July Live TV from the World Bodypainting Festival 2008.
19 July The gallery from the second main day is available.
19 July The video from the BodyCircus is online.
19 July The gallery from the World Fluoro Award is available.
19 July The results from the first main day are online.
18 July New galleries from the backstage area.
18 July The video from the first main day is available.
18 July Live TV from the presentations.
18 July New galleries from the first main day are online.
18 July A new gallery from the BodyCircus is online. (fenstergucker24.at)
18 July 7.00 am, after heavy rain and storm during the night, its dry again and the sun will come out. We are looking forward to have a fantastic first main day.
17 July Festival - Pre Glow. We present today on the festival grounds the new book "Bringing Bodypainting to Life".
16 July The shrill fantasy ball "BodyCircus" is on today in the castle Sommeregg in Seeboden.
  The Pago Truck will stop today in the center of Seeboden. Get your free Pago drink and one of 1000 day tickets for the festival main days. for only € 4.
15 July The side event today starts at 8.00 pm in the bar Point.
  The second day of the Festival Academy started with bodypainting, airbrush, facepainting and beauty make up workshops. See here the todays gallery of the Festival Academy.
14 July The first workshops started. The photo galleries will be extended every day now. Here are the first photos from the 3 days SFX workshops.
12 July Our video crew have produced a nice preview of the trophies for the World and Special Awards of the festival 2008. Click for wmv video.
12 July The first workshops start on Monday, 14 July. We ask the participants to please be at the location 15 minutes prior. Participants in the photo workshops and UV meet in the culture hall, the others are in the "Hauptschule" Seeboden.
11 July

New postings on the car share site.

  The build up of the festival grounds started. Find the first impressions here. Click for main gallery
8 July The final festival grounds map is now updated and can be downloaded in the infosheet download area.
7 July Due to a cancellation we have 1 space left in the Workshop with Jinny, presented by Mehron on the 16 and 17 July. Workshop status here
2 July Details about the demonstration program within the Festival-ACADMEY available. Alex Hansen will present a special from the movie "300".
30 June New possibilities in the travel community.
24 June Some more of the workshop classes are now fully booked now. Latest
booking status here
23 June Some new information about the Festival in Korea can be found on the Asian Version of the World Bodypainting Festival -->
19 June Artists:
The closing date for artists to register is 4 July, but we have so many registrations that some categories have only 1 or 2 places left.

Photographers:
Only 6 photo tickets are left over for the festival main days. Book soon.
14 June This year the special guest at the fantasy ball "BodyCircus" is bodypainting calligrapher Yukki Yaura from Japan who is famous for is illustrations for the film "The Pillow Book" (Peter Greenaway & Steven Spielberg). Details and tickets here.
6 June The list of exhibitors on the festival trade show area has been updated.
29 May Again artist from around 35 nations worldwide are registered in the World Bodypainting Festival in Austria. See here the flag parade of the artists and photographers.
27 May Due to a cancellation there are now 2 places available in the following workshops: Fashion Make up with Einat Dan, Bodypainting Workshop with Jinny presented by Mehron. Festival-Academy details.
18 May Frank's bottle design contest:
Design your own Frank's bottle and win € 1.500 in travel vouchers. Energize your world with Frank's. Details here
17 May All the artist and photo information for our partner event in Asia is available. Details here...
2 May

New overview on our website for the booking status for the Festival-Academy classes. Some are already fully booked.

30 April With our partner “Netcompany” we can provide on the festival grounds specially for artists and photographers a WLAN Hotspot free of charges.
26 April Fantasy Worldwide from Belgium & BodyFX with Yo Bartram from New Zealand will present a 2 days bodypainting class within the Festival-ACADEMY. Bookings are welcome ...
25 April The latest list of exhibitors on the festival trade show area has been published.
16 April Festival flyer posters are printed. If you'd like one, just send us your post adress.
9 April

Check out the great festival program details. Keep looking over the next months for additions.

8 April General information (PDF File) in French available
7 April Some workshops at the Festival-ACADEMY are fully booked already. But there are still various classes available.
2 April

The Austrian Railway Service ÖBB give you especially for the World Bodypainting Festival a 25 % reduction [with the club card "VorteilsCARD" 60%] on any tickets within Austria to the trains station "Spittal/Millstaettersee".
The voucher is from now available and can be downloaded in a PDF format. All arrival details

1 April New press information in French available in the press area