Biennale des Plakates

The jury of the Sixth International Socio-Political Poster Biennale met at the International Youth Meeting Centre (IYMC) in Oświęcim, Poland, on the 1st of June 2016.

The members of the jury:

1. Prof. Władysław Pluta, Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, Poland- chairman;
2. Krzyszytof Dydo, Cracow Poster Gallery, Poland;
3. Peter Grohmann, AnStifter Foundation, Stuttgart, Germany;
4. Sebastian Kubica, University of Silesia in Katowice, Institute of Art in Cieszyn, Poland;
5. Leszek Szuster, IYMC Director, Oświęcim, Poland;
6. Paweł Warchoł, Curator of the Biennale, Oświęcim, Poland;
7. Chao Yang, College of Technology and Art, Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute, China;
8. Elmar Zorn, Munich, Germany.

294 artists from 27 countries (Poland, Czech Republic, Russia, Lithuania, Taiwan, Mexico, China, Slovakia, Turkey, Germany, Serbia, Hungary, Argentina, Japan, Ukraine, Greece, Iran, Belarus, Ecuador, Great Britain, France, South Korea, Switzerland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria, Jordan and USA) participated in our competition. From 594 posters sent to us by artists, 81 qualified for the competition exhibition.

The jury awarded the following prizes:

• 1st Prize - Tomasz Bogusławski (Poland), “Never again…”
• 2nd Prize - Justyna Jędrysek (Poland), “West-East Imigration”
• 3rd Prize - Faldin Family (Russia), “Conflict”

• City of Dachau Prize - Mingliang Li (China), “Berlin Wall”
• AnStifter Foundation Prize - YiMing Liu (China), “Freedom of speech”
• Rector of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków Prize: Linas Spurga Jr (Lithuania), “Freedom of Speech”
• Rector of the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice Prize: Faldin Family (Russia), “Nature Morte”
• Józef Hołard Prize funded by Rector of the University of Silesia in Katowice: Piotr Depta (Poland), “Greece”
• Association of Polish Artists and Designers Prize: Marta Tomczyk (Poland), “Uchodźcy”

Honourable mentions were awarded to:

• Mario Fuentes (Ecuador), “Excess baggage”
• Biwei Zhu (China), “Ask Confucius”
• Szymon Szymankiewicz (Poland), “25 Mbp”
• Jochen Stankowski (Germany), “Za dużo oręża”
• Bela Faragó (Hungary), “Human Rights”
• Wu Zhonghao (China), “Nanjing massacre 70”
• Lex Drewinski (Germany), “Li(f)e”
• Iwona Rypesc-Kostovic (Poland), “EGO-ECO”

Posters Qualified for the Competition Exhibition:

• Krzysztof Białowicz (Poland), „User’s manual”
• Andrzej Błażejczyk (Poland), „Facebook nowa broń”
• Andrzej Błażejczyk (Poland), „Religie – równoprawność” (triptych)
• Tomasz Bogusławski (Poland), „WWI/WWII/WWIII”
• Xin-Yuan Chen (Taiwan), „The Web of islamic”
• Filip Ciślak (Poland), „Europe 2016”
• Daali (France), „If it’s not happening in our country….”
• Agnieszka Dajczak (Poland), „Where is longer live”
• Piotr Depta (Poland), „Loading”
• Lex Drewinski (Germany), „Play with fire”
• Virag Doczi (Austria), „Ohne Titel”
• Aneta Drohomirecka (Poland), „Wspomnienie z dzieciństwa”
• Aneta Drohomirecka (Poland), „Dzieci to nie śmieci”
• Alice Drueding, Joe Scorsone (USA), „Fistula”
• Faldin Family (Russia), „Peace”
• Sha Feng (China), „The right to decide”
• Sha Feng (China), „Wife? Doll?”
• Erick Ginard (Mexico), „Fundamental right”
• Magdalena Grzegorzek (Poland), „Hate”
• Wesam Mazhar Haddad (Jordan), „Cradle of Tortured Peace”
• Alexey Ivanitskiy (Russia), „Alcoholism in the family”
• Maja Janczak, Ewa Morzyk (Poland), „Dzieci i ryby głosu nie mają”
• Peter Javorik (Slovakia), „Life is beautiful”
• Tomasz Kipka (Poland), „Prawdza czy fałsz”
• Łukasz Kliś (Poland), „Let’s talk”
• Oswald Korczyński (Poland), „Choice”
• Monika Kościuszko (Poland), „What’s worse”
• Aleksandra Kozarzewska (Poland), „Justice”
• Scott Laserow (USA), „Refugee”
• Stefan Lechwar (Poland), „No news”
• Lin Lin (China), „Hit me now”
• Yana Mosnytska (Ukraine), „Strzeż język ojczysty”
• Natalia Nikoulina (England), „Crisis”
• Mohadeseh Maleki (Iran), „With brights lights“
• Eric Mayen (Germany), „Refugees Welcome”
• Yana Mosnytska (Ukraine), „Stop terrorism”
• Marek Osman (Poland), Jeszcze jedno takie zwycięstwo”
• Mehdi Saaedi (Iran), „Photo edition”
• Mehdi Saaedi (Iran), „Homing the visual”
• Chen Hsiao-Shuang (Taiwan), „Fashion victim”
• Jacek Staniszewski (Poland), „Refugees”
• Jochen Stankowski (Germany), „Miteinander”
• Justyna Stefańczyk (Poland), „Uchodźcy”
• Renato Tagli, Sabina Oberholzer (Switzerland), „City”
• Fangye Tan (China), „I want to learn”
• Nicos Terzis (Greece), „Pokój - portret własny”
• Nicos Terzis (Greece), „Noah’s Ark of the 21st Century”
• Grzegorz Tomasiak (Poland), „My icon”
• Hsu Tzu-Yuan (Taiwan), „Co2”
• Li Wei (China), „Detechement A”
• Marcin Urbańczyk (Poland), „Choose your environment”
• Shiau-Rou Wang (Taiwan), „End child marriage”
• Ewa Włostowska (Poland), „CO2”
• Magdalena Wosik (Poland), „STOP! GMO“
• Yin (China), „When buying air”
• Zhang Yulian (China), „Black or white”
• Zhang Yulian (China), „Communicate”
• Qingqi Zhou (China), „Standard”
• Wanjiang Zhu (China), „Racial equality”
• Agnieszka Ziemiszewska (Poland), „Dywan”
• Agnieszka Ziemiszewska (Poland), „Lanscaped”
• Leszek Żebrowski (Poland), „Putin”