Art Brut fair at the Bastille Design Center

If your design radar is tuned to the unexpected, the expressive and the borderline raw, then the third edition of Outsider Paris (October 21-26, 2025 at the Bastille Design Center) should be on your travel wish list.

Unlike the typical art fair, Outsider Paris focuses on art brut, works created outside academic norms, by self-taught artists, outsiders to the mainstream art world. For designers, creatives and culture seekers, this means that this is a fertile ground: where bold gesture and raw authenticity come together, where the composition is not polished but very personal.

Why it matters to you

New materials, new voices: Exhibitors want Creative Growth Arts Center (Oakland) join international galleries and bring fresh perspectives from outsiders to Paris.

Design-forward setting: Held at the Bastille Design Center in the 11th arrondissementThe architecture and atmosphere lean toward bold industrial aesthetics and open exhibition flows.

Visual innovation: Art brut is less about perfection and more about presence, material, gesture, texture, volume. For anyone involved in branding, packaging or spatial design, this is an opportunity to reimagine what ‘finished’ can mean.

Quick practical stuff

Where: Bastille Design Center — 74 bd Richard-Lenoir, Paris 11th.
When: October 21-26, 2025. Press opening on October 21 at 3 p.m. Free admission for public days.
Under the radar. But in the field of design and contemporary culture, the outsider art movement is gaining serious attention – here’s your chance to follow it up close.

For the Abduzeedo audience

Consider how this ties in with our themes: brand identity, materiality, story. Art brut challenges limitations while presenting ideas worth borrowing: how groundbreaking images can disrupt norms, how character can outperform polish, how the “outsider” aesthetic can become the next mainstream design.

So if you’re in Paris this week, add this to your list. Walk through the fair, enjoy the texture and let the raw energy from outside fuel your next creative move.