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 your typical art fair, Outsider Paris focuses on art brut, works created beyond academic norms, by self-taught artists, outsiders to the mainstream art world.  For designers, creatives and culture-seekers, that means this is fertile ground: where bold gesture meets raw authenticity, where composition isn’t polished but deeply personal.

Why It Matters to You

New materials, new voices: Exhibitors like Creative Growth Art Center (Oakland) join international galleries and bring fresh outsider perspectives to Paris.
 

Design-forward setting: Held at the Bastille Design Center in the 11th arrondissement, the architecture and atmosphere lean into 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 in branding, packaging, or spatial design, it’s a chance to re-see what “finished” can mean.
 

Quick Practicals

Where: Bastille Design Center — 74 bd Richard-Lenoir, Paris 11e.
When: Oct 21–26 2025. Press opening on Oct 21 at 15:00. Free admission for public days.
Under the radar. But within design + contemporary culture spheres, the outsider art movement is gaining serious traction—this is your chance to follow it close.
 

For the Abduzeedo Audience

Consider how this ties back to our themes: brand identity, materiality, narrative. Art brut challenges constraints, and in doing so, it presents ideas worth borrowing: how boundary-pushing visuals can disrupt norms, how character can out-perform polish, how the “outsider” aesthetic can become the next design mainstream.

So, if you’re in Paris this week, add this to your list. Walk the fair, soak in the texture, and allow the raw, outsider energy to feed your next creative move.