Most tattoo conventions are generalist events. They cover every style, every genre, every level of work — and because of that, no single style gets its due. Geometric tattooing, which demands a very specific eye to be appreciated, tends to get lost in the noise. Geometrip was built to fix that.
Every November, the city of Ancona, Italy hosts the only convention in the world dedicated entirely to geometric tattooing. Artists fly in from Europe, North America, South America, and beyond. What gets made there — in a few concentrated days — represents some of the most precise, intentional tattoo work produced anywhere on earth.
What makes it different
The obvious answer is the curation: every artist at Geometrip works in geometric or sacred geometry styles. There's no mixed programming, no compromise. If you're there, it's because you specialize. That alone creates an atmosphere unlike any other convention. You're surrounded by people who speak the same technical language, who obsess over the same problems — how to compensate for body curvature, how to keep linework crisp at small scale, how to make symmetry hold across a piece that spans a shoulder and ribcage.
But the less obvious reason Geometrip matters is the community it builds. Geometric tattooing is a global style without a geographic center. The best artists doing this work are spread across Italy, France, Germany, Brazil, the United States, Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia. There's no single city where it concentrates. Geometrip is the one week per year where that community actually occupies the same physical space.
Ancona isn't an accident
Geometric tattooing has deep roots in Italy. Some of the most technically accomplished artists in the style are Italian — and several of the names you'll find in the OMF Geometry directory are based there. Ancona, on the Adriatic coast in central Italy, is a working port city — not Rome, not Milan — and there's something fitting about that. Geometrip isn't a glamour event. It's a craft event. The location matches the energy.
The convention has grown steadily since it launched, adding more artists, more programming, and more international representation each year. But it's kept its focus. The moment it becomes a general convention is the moment it stops being Geometrip.
Three years in
Raul Wesche — @weschetattoo, the artist behind @omfgeometry — has attended Geometrip three years running. That's not a casual commitment. Flying from Houston to Ancona every November, year after year, is a statement about what matters.
What he brings back each time isn't just the connections made or the work seen — it's a recalibrated sense of the standard. Spending days surrounded by the best geometric work in the world, produced live in real time, sharpens the eye in a way that following Instagram simply can't replicate. You see where the ceiling actually is. You see who's pushing past it.
That recalibration is part of what makes @omfgeometry's curation what it is. The page doesn't just post good geometric work — it posts work that holds up against the international standard. Geometrip is one of the places that standard gets set.
@omfgeometry at Geometrip
This year, @omfgeometry won't just be attending — the page plans to have a real presence at the convention. That means coverage, artist interviews, behind-the-scenes work from the floor, and spotlights on artists you might not have encountered yet.
Geometric tattooing is a global conversation. Geometrip is where that conversation happens in person. We'll be there.
Follow @omfgeometry for coverage when November comes. In the meantime, explore the artists making this work happen every day in the Artist Directory.