9th Poster Biennale
The jury of the 9th International Socio-Political Poster Biennale met at the International Youth Meeting Centre (IYMC) in Oświęcim, Poland, on the 4th of August 2022.
The members of the Jury:
Krzysztof Dydo, Cracow Poster Gallery – chairman;
Joanna Klęczar-Déodat, IYMC in Oświęcim;
dr hab. Sebastian Kubica, University of Silesia in Katowice, Faculty of Arts and Educational Science in Cieszyn;
Ewa Natkaniec, poster artist, Cracow;
Prof. Władysław Pluta, Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow;
dr Maria Anna Potocka, Museum of Contemporary Art in Cracow MOCAK;
Leszek Szuster, IYMC in Oświęcim;
dr Paweł Warchoł, Curator of the Biennale, Oświęcim.
274 artists from 40 countries (Albania, Austria, Bangladesh, Belarus, Brazil, Bulgaria, Colombia, China, Croatia, Eritrea, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Italy, Israel, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mexico, Pakistan, Persia, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Sweden, Turkey, Spain, Taiwan, Ukraine, United Kingdom, USA, Uzbekistan) participated in our competition. From 629 posters sent to us by artists, 80 were qualified for the exhibition.
The jury awarded the following prizes:
1st Prize – Mayor of Oświęcim – City of Peace Prize – Szymon Łacheta (Poland) “P€ace”
2nd Prize – FRG Consul General's in Cracow Prize – Chia Hsiang Lee (Taiwan) “Speech Killing”
3rd Prize – Starost of Oświęcim Prize – Katarzyna Nachman (Poland) “Sheep”
City of Dachau Prize – Alicja Kultys (Poland) “Independence”
District of Dachau Prize – Szymon Łacheta (Poland) “Ukraine ‘22”
Prize of the Rector of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow – Martyna Paluchiewicz-Łabaj (Poland) “Belarus-Poland”
Prize of the Rector of the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice – Zebiao Lin (China) “Quarantine”
Prof. Józef Hołard Prize founded by the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Educational Science in Cieszyn, University of Silesia in Katowice – Małgorzata Łodygowska (Poland) “Polska”
General Board of the Association of Polish Artists and Designers Prize – Marek Osman (Poland) „Starwars 2022 Ukraine”
Prize of the Mayor of the Oświęcim Municipality - Reza Sheri (Iran) “Liar”
Posters qualified to the exhibition:
Agata Adaszek (Poland) „Profilak-tyka”
Heibat Ahmadi (Iran) „Border”
Anna Bąk (Poland) „Strzeżcie się fałszywych proroków, którzy przychodzą do was w owczej skórze, ale wewnątrz są drapieżnymi wilkami”
Edi Berk / KROG (Slovenia) „Black Hen Lay White Eggs”
Daria Białas (Poland) „Uwaga”
Przemysław Bukowski (Poland) „No Title”
Taber Calderon (USA) „Tolerance”
Ardi Chandra (Indonesia) „Woman at Point Zero”
Goyen Chen (Taiwan) „The Sadness of War”
Xiaofeng Chen (China) „Women are not Slippers”
Jacek Doszyń (Poland) „Swan”
Lex Drewinski (Poland/Germany) „Putin’s Kampf”
Lex Drewinski (Poland/Germany) „Putin’s Victims”
Dmytro Dziuba (Ukraine) „Dependence”
Asal (Tayebeh) Eghbaldar (Iran) „End Child Labour”
Klaudia Ejchorst (Poland) „Self-isolation”
Iwona Gabryś (Poland) „Together with Ukraine”
Iwona Gabryś (Poland) „My Whole World in One Case”
Stanisław Gajewski (Poland) „OUT!”
Gaojiaying (China) „Flower”
Christopher Han (South Korea) „Stop the Trafficking of Women”
Farhan Hossain (Bangladesh) „Stop Massacre”
Rael Hoxha (Albania) „The Crowd”
Peter Javorik (Slovakia) „Naturalistic Shapes and Forms”
Hsueh Yi Ji (Taiwan) „Freedom & Equality”
Hsueh Yi Ji (Taiwan) „Stop Trampling on Human Rights”
Grzegorz Kabas (Poland) „EU Migrant Crisis”
Carilla Karahan (Kyrgyzstan/Turkey) „Peace be with You”
Carilla Karahan (Kyrgyzstan/Turkey) „Dead Flowers”
Ivan Kashlakov (Bulgaria) „Digital Inclusion, Becoming E=QUALS”
Toshifumi Kawaguchi (Japan) „Karoshi”
Łukasz Kliś (Poland) „Ęą – Polish Heritage in UK (Polish Heritage Days 2022)”
Michał Kliś (Poland) „Głowy Konsula (satyra na stałość zmienności władzy)”
Gokhan Koc (Turkey) „Peace at the Tip of your Finger”
Wojciech Korkuć (Poland) „Achtung Russia!”
Chia Hsiang Lee (Taiwan) “Lost in Direction”
Chia Hsiang Lee (Taiwan) “No War”
Xueting Li (China) „Human Trafficking”
Pengyang Lu (China) „Corruption”
Pengyang Lu (China) „Oppression”
Szymon Łacheta (Poland) „Watch your Words”
Wiesław Łysakowski (Poland) „Rozmowa na Migi”
Marek Maciejczyk (Poland) „Hell-P”
Wojciech Mazur (Poland) „Belarus 2020”
Chan Ming (Taiwan) „Kill Peace”
Grzegorz Myćka (Poland) „S.O.S.”
Lajos Nagy (Hungary) „Trafficking in Humanity”
Behnam Nasrollahzadeh (Iran) „Ukraine”
Alireza Nosrati (Iran) „The Scream of Freedom”
Paweł Pacholec (Poland) „Covid Portrait I”
Shrey Porwal & Abhay Patkar „Human Rights”
Luis Antonio Rivera Rodriguez (Mexico) „ Never”
Ana Maria Alfaro Rubbo (Brazil) „Equality Eyes”
Saidahmedov Said (Uzbekistan) „Save Nature”
Nutsa Sesiashvili (Georgia) „It’s Just Melanin!”
Eugeniusz Skorwider (Poland) „Kat”
Artur Skowroński (Poland) „Pinocchio”
Sebastian Smit (Poland) „Russia Today”
Robel Solomon (Eritrea) „A Barking Dog Never Sleeps”
Michał Stachacz (Poland) „At the Table”
Marek Szymańczuk (Poland) „Obiekt dziedzictwa kulturowego”
Nicos Terzis (Greece/Sweden) „Ukraine 2022”
Bi Tianyu (China) „No Violence to Women”
Andrzej Tuźnik (Poland) „Acceptance”
Erin Wright (USA) „Poison Pen”
Shayan Vaziri (Iran) „Feel Iran”
Sun Yao (China) „Free to Create a World of Love”
Neda Abbasali Zadeh (Iran) „No War”
Łukasz Zwolan (Poland) „Polish Democracy”
Leszek Żebrowski (Poland) „Peace”
