The Festival is ToFF’s yearly programming effort to bring together artists, galleries and patrons from all over the globe in a socially friendly setting, so that they can network as well as buy and sell works.

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The event captures the spirit of Tom of Finland and Folsom Street Fair. A vibrant atmosphere for dancing and fetish enthusiasts. It serves as a unique gathering that celebrates alternative lifestyles and allows attendees to express themselves freely in a safe and inclusive environment.

Inspired by his experience in Los Angeles, this brand-new series of pastel drawings is the artist’s most daring and erotic works yet. The works will be displayed alongside BDSM equipment in the actual darkroom at Art Space Silom located within PULSE Club BackDoor (CBD) by PULSE Social Enterprise.

films4fags returns this year with two nights of special community screenings. Co-curators Jose Tinoco and Harrison Davis are proud to present film4fags: Immoral America. The films shown this season celebrate themes of intergenerational Queerness, Trans togetherness, and fetish as rebellion, and invite us to envision an America run by Queers, outcasts, and misfits.

20 is a group exhibition celebrating the David Kordansky Gallery’s twentieth anniversary. The gallery has long been concerned with providing space for artists to look both inward, toward the development of their mediums and the personal motivations that drive them to make art...

This exhibition features 67 local and national artists who work in disciplines such as sculpture, photography, painting, ceramics, drawing, collage, metal, works on fiber, and more. This year’s guest juror is Gabriela Urtiaga, an Argentinian art historian and curator.

The characters in Tom of Finland’s drawings – lumberjacks, bikers, soldiers and policemen – exude vitality, joy and pride. The artist drew to arouse desire, initially for his own private pleasure, and later for an expanding world of fans.

Dreamy – Queer Imaginaries, from the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma’s collection, aims to underline the connectivity between past and present practices dealing with LGBTQI+ identities, historicizing recent practices and signaling Tom of Finland’s pioneering agency.

"When I look at all the final images, I find myself in awe. To paint with light on the black leather surfaces and smooth skin tones of the models made light feel more like a paint brush." – Viktoria Raykova

Go to… the Tom of Finland Art and Culture Festival

 

This weekend, the annual Tom of Finland Arts & Culture Festival returns to London, this time to The Standard Hotel.

Speaking with AnOther Magazine, Dehner highlights the work of four participating artists at the Art & Culture Festival London: 2022 Emerging Artists Competition-winner Marc-Aurèle Debut, The Institute of Digital Fashion, 2022 Emerging Artists Competition-winner Matt Pagett, and former Artist-in-Residence James Davison.

"When you come to festivals, let your guard down and experience things, you can discover the beauty of life. The collecting of art is the most rewarding hobby I’ve ever experienced.” – Sir Durk Dehner

CLAW LA Leather Getaway's Kinky Art Show is back! Artists are invited to submit up to 5 artworks of leather, fetish or BDSM eroticism. All types of media are acceptable.

The deadline for submissions is Monday 14th August with artists to be notified of the jury’s decision by 30th August.

"The Tom of Finland Erotic Art Fair was marvelous. I sold fairly well. And I connected with fellow New York artist Michael Kirwin and made the acquaintance of talented illustrator Sean Platter. And I posed for dick pix with a young man selling penis jewelry, the two of us standing arm-in-arm with our pants down as gem encrusted weights swung heavily from our junk." – Michael Mitchell

Celebrating Queer erotic art and championing artists from around the world, the non-profit brought artists, galleries and patrons to London to admire and pick up works from the next generation of artistic provocateurs. This year, the Art & Culture Festival is back, this time taking over The Standard with a new slew of creative Queer artists.