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Festival OFF Arles is a major event for anyone passionate about visual creation. It offers a free and inclusive space for artistic expression.
Running alongside the Drawing Festival and the Rencontres d’Arles, the OFF energizes the local cultural scene with an eclectic program: exhibitions, screenings, workshops and events unfold across the city.
A true artistic laboratory, the OFF encourages experimentation and dialogue around contemporary image-making, turning Arles into a creative playground — open to everyone, and entirely free.
You can submit your registration until June 2, 2026.
To participate, simply complete the online registration form or schedule an appointment with our team.
For more information, please visit the dedicated registration page
as well as our registration guide.
Have a question? Contact us at: team@lakabine.com
The OFF Drawing Festival highlights the diversity of contemporary drawing practices. Open to all, it gives a voice to both emerging and established artists, inviting everyone to create their own exhibition space while benefiting from the visibility of a collective network supported by the festival.
In 2026, OFF Dessin opens its pages wide. Designed like a black and white sketchbook, this new edition is waiting for your lines to bring it to life with color. Artists, venues, and audiences alike are invited to draw their own path and make the city resonate. From the Alpilles to the Camargue, all the way to Occitanie, the festival unfolds a living map of today’s and tomorrow’s drawings. A free territory to explore, inhabit, and invent together.
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Beyond the frame, countless perspectives: the 2025 Festival OFF Arles showcased a photography that is bold, free, and socially engaged, driven by artists from across the globe.
Galleries, collectives, hybrid spaces, alternative venues…
Arles pulsed with audacious proposals: exhibitions, artist talks, urban installations, and events that pushed the boundaries of the image.
Alongside the Photo OFF, Drawing OFF continued to expand the festival’s artistic horizon , embracing a broader vision of visual creation where disciplines and formats collide.
A massive thank you to everyone who made this edition a true celebration of creative freedom and diversity of viewpoints!
Save the dates!
The Festival OFF Photo returns 6 July → 5 october 2026:
2026 Timeline:
• Applications: 5 May → 2 June
• Application review: 3 → 21 June
• Program printing: 22 → 28 June
• Distribution: from 1 July
• Festival: 6 July → 5 September 2026
The 2025 Revelation Prize honors Nathyfa Michel and her series Dans ma chair, un pays: un voyage au cœur de la mémoire et du vivant, a journey into the heart of memory and living beings.
“What does ‘belonging’ mean when ancestors fade away and homes fall apart? In the gaps of transmissions disrupted by colonial history, ‘home’ is reinvented as an ecosystem linking body, nature, and time. At the threshold of buried worlds, fog, minerals, and plants guide us toward hybrid networks, inviting us to breathe the world through the skin and become porous anchors toward memory and healing.”
In 2025, among 460 submissions, Nathyfa Michel won the prize with her series Dans ma chair, un pays.
Her work explores memory, the body, and history: a poetic and powerful journey into the intimate and the collective. Her work will be presented during the 2026 OFF Arles festival.