"Peace", an artwork from Piera di Maio
Following Roberto Gatti's idea and the artistic realisation by Bodypainting artist Piera di Maio, a work with a message for peace was recently created!
The International Beauty Design Fair 2022 presents the WBF winners 2019 - 2021
"Very happy to see the best works and winners from the past World Bodypainting Festival 2019 in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee and the COVID Editions in this amazing exhibition in South Korea" (Alex Barendregt, Founder of the World Bodypainting Festival)
LOST TREASURES - Underwater Bodypainting project from Peter & Petra Tronser
LOST TREASURES (Verlorene Schätze)
An underwater Bodypainting project in the open sea from Peter & Petra Tronser and their team was realized during the last summer in Cyprus. What was the background and the challenges of this project? Peter & Petra tell us in this blog post more about that.
Sea Glam Gala: Sound & Fashion Charity Evening in favour of Reefvillage
Gabi Hajek-Renner (internationally distinguished artist, WBA member and multiple world champion in bodypainting as well as owner of Austria’s Makeup School) has been working together with light artist and underwater photographer Martin Aigner and a dedicated team under the name “Reefvillage – Creating New Life!” for the creation of new habitats for the preservation of the underwater world. A number of unique projects have already been launched to raise money for the construction of coral reefs in regions where natural reefs have been destroyed.
24th Edition of the WBF taking place hybrid in 2021!
Join us for the 24th
World Bodypainting Festival 2021
from 18 -24 July in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee / AUSTRIA.We are celebrating visual culture and music including the World Championships, Special and Amateur Awards Online but with many activities on site! Find all programs and latest information at
WBF 2020 Covid Edition Results
For this year’s World Bodypainting Festival we were broadcasting Live from Klagenfurt am Wörthersee/ Austria. For the first time we produced an online competition which got featured in our LIVE TV Show including a full review from the WBF 2020 COVID Special Edition.
More than 600 competitors from 55 nations in 17 time zones were competing during the week.
A World Championship Event in pandemic times.
TV Recording >>> edited Version without commercial breaks <<<
We presented within the TV Show all the winners in 6 categories but also lots of interesting stories, studio guest, the WBF creative hotspots around the world and reviews from programs that took place on-site.
All results, photo galleries and details about the upcoming World Bodypainting Festival 2021 are available here 2020.bodypainting-festival.com
WBF 2021 Covid Edition Results
It’s now been the 24th World Bodypainting Festival we have been organizing and once again it was a very different experience. The pandemic lasts another season so we decided to organize beside the World Championships and Special Awards online, many more activities on site in the host city Klagenfurt.
We have seen a lot of programs within the festival week from 18 – 24 July and everything went very well.
WBF 2020 Covid Edition
Since 1998 the most colourful event in the world takes place and has, therefore, a very long tradition. It founded the modern bodypainting art movement.
This year due to the Corona Covid-19 situation we had to postpone the full World Bodypainting Festival edition to 2021. However, as we have received a lot of interest this year from the bodypainting community we still want to create a very special event that will present itself in the first place ONLINE.
In certain categories, we are organizing an online competition from July 6th – July 10th 2020 with awards and prizes. The World Bodypainting Festival Week 2020 will still shine in the colourfulness and joie de vivre!
The online competition will be surrounded by selected programs with live activities in Klagenfurt/AUSTRIA from July 5th – July 11th 2020.
Mexican CIMA event contributes to Breast Cancer Program
The Congreso Internacional de Maquillaje Artístico, short CIMA is an event created by young artists and entrepreneurs: Carolina Barbosa and Alexander OjodeLince, member of the WBA since a few years now.
In June 2019 we celebrated the 3rd CIMA In which we embraced a social cause, working with “FUNDACIÓN CIMA” (in spanish homonym of the Congress name). This is a non gubernamental organization, wit no profit beneficies that contributes to low breast cancer in Mexico. Through four lines of action: education, information, services for patients and impact en public politics.
Book Presentation by Jean - Paul Bourdier
Jean-Paul Bourdier is a photographer of unique style, skill, passion and great imagination. His images use multiple crafts – among them painting, poetry, and performance art. He uses no digital enhancement; it is all analog photography.
What you see is what was really there.
Jean-Paul´s work is unique and both simple and yet complex. Each image is a scene – created, staged, captured - of natural landscapes joined with the human form, expressing beauty, truth and wonder in the physical plane, as well as what is in our imaginations.
Read more about his recently published books "Body Mirror" and "Body Unbound":
Germany: Review of Bodypainting Trophy in Munich 2019
The Bodypainting Trophy at the Beauty Forum Munich highlighted last weekend, 26th October 2019.
Ukraine: Review of the Ukrainian Bodypainting Award 2019
The last WBA sanctioned contest took place 25th of May in Kiev, Ukraine within the beauty art festival Viridiland www.viridiland.com. Thousands of leading masters, speakers and judges from all over the world were part of the beauty art space.
Еще один санкционированный конкурс WBA состоялся 25 мая в Киеве, Украина, в рамках фестиваля красоты Viridiland www.viridiland.com. Тысячи ведущих мастеров, спикеров и судей со всего мира были частью пространства красоты.
