XI International Socio-Political Poster Biennale: ‘Creative for Human Rights’ – Competition Results
Report of the jury of the 11th International Socio-Political Poster Biennale
“Creative for Human Rights”
The jury of the 11th International Socio-Political Poster Biennale met at the International Youth Meeting Centre (IYMC)
in Oświęcim, Poland, on the 12th of June 2026.
The members of the jury:
Prof. dr hab. Sebastian Kubica – chairman, University of Silesia in Katowice, the Faculty of Arts and Educational Science in Cieszyn
Joanna Klęczar-Déodat, director of the IYMC in Oświęcim
Krzysztof Dydo, Cracow Poster Gallery
Dr Delfina Jałowik, Bunkier Sztuki Gallery of Contemporary Art in Cracow
Prof. dr hab. Irma Kozina, art historian, Katowice
Ewa Natkaniec, graphic designer and poster artist, Kraków
Prof. Władysław Pluta, graphic designer and poster artist, Kraków
Prof. Bernard Stein, graphic designer, Berlin
Leszek Szuster, co-founder of the International Biennale of Socio-Political Poster, Oświęcim
Dr Paweł Warchoł, artist, co-founder and curator of the International Biennale of Socio-Political Poster, Oświęcim
286 artists from 22 countries (Austria, Belarus, Bulgaria, China, Cuba, Ecuador, Germany, Greece, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Jordan, Mexico, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Taiwan, Turkey, Ukraine, USA, Uruguay) participated in the competition. From 697 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 – Ewa Engler-Herer (Poland) „Peace”
2nd Prize – Federal Republic of Germany Consul General's in Cracow Prize – Michał Łącki (Poland) „Live Stream”
3rd Prize – Starosta of Oświęcim Prize – Magdalena Marchwicka (Poland) „Freedom”
District of Dachau Prize – Lex Drewinski (Poland) „Chernobyl 40”
Prize of the Rector of the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Katowice – Jacek Doszyń (Poland) „Far East – Middle East”
Prof. Józef Hołard Prize funded by the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Educational Science in Cieszyn, University of Silesia in Katowice – Tomasz Bogusławski (Poland) „Plakat społeczy o lekkim zabarwieniu patriotycznym”
General Board of the Association of Polish Artists and Designers Prize – Xuwei Zhang (China) „No Kings”
Prize of the Mayor of the Oświęcim Municipality – Wojciech Kołek (Poland) „Rollercoaster – Głośniej”
The Future Fund of the Republic of Austria - Jouri Toreev (Belarus) „AI”
Honourable Mentions:
Ewa Engler-Herer (Poland) „Water”
Alexander Faldin (Russia) „To the Last Ukrainian”
Svetlana Faldina (Russia) „Migration”
Mario Fuentes (Ecuador) „Light of Hope”
Chia Hsiang Lee (Taiwan) „Iron Chain”
Wei Liu (China) „So Sad”
Jianfei Lu (China) „Digital Addiction & Reality Detachment”
Yufan, Li Mingliang, Feng Yang (China) „Healing”
Posters qualified for the exhibition:
Hossein Abdi (Iran) „Killer Sewing Machines”
Mirosław Adamczyk (Poland) „True False”
Łukasz Aleksandrowicz (Poland) „Zabawa ciągle trwa”
Nasko Atanasov (Bulgaria) „Remembrance Day (WWII)
Resul Ay (Turkey) „Migration”
Resul Ay (Turkey) „System”
Małgorzata Będowska (Poland) „Sharenting”
Taber Calderon (USA) „Women Life Freedom”
Maja Cebula (Poland) „Patrz pod nogi - żółty”
Maja Cebula (Poland) „Not All Violence is Loud”
Goyen Chen (Taiwan) „Empty Spoon”
Yuese Chen (China) „Pinned Thought”
Klaudia Cisek (Poland) „Knockout”
Anna Chmielnik (Poland) „New Teddy”
Anna Chmielnik (Poland) „Resistance”
Monika Chrabąszcz (Poland) „Peace is Love”
Shao-Wei Chuang (Taiwan) „Privilege”
Agnieszka Dajczak (Poland) „Lęk”
Piotr Depta-Kleśta (Poland) „Oil War”
Piotr Depta-Kleśta (Polska) „Słowo za słowo”
Wesam Haddad (Jordan/USA) „Peace Plucking”
Luis Haro Domínguez (Uruguay) „Equality”
Zlatan Dryanov (Bulgaria) „COMBat”
Dawid Drzęźla (Poland) „Traffic Jam”
Fan Fan (China) „Glass”
Erick Ginard (Cuba) „Roma, Citizen, European”
Erick Ginard (Cuba) „Summer 2026”
Ewa Grajnert-Hałupka (Poland) „Peacemakers”
Patryk Hęglewicz (Poland) „Kibic”
Dominik Jakubowski (Poland) „JUSTice”
Dominik Kamiński (Poland) „Fishbone”
Lukasz Kliś (Poland) „Message from Greenland”
Michał Kliś (Poland) „Czas abdykować”
Agata Kołowerzo (Poland) „InVisible”
Iryna Kushchova (Ukraine) „Nie zapomnimy”
Weronika Kuś (Polska) „Stop Hejt”
Jakub Kwiatkowski (Poland) „Hingstagram”
Jakub Kwiatkowski (Poland) „Jailbird”
Natalia Kwiecińska (Poland) „Find Love”
Patrycja Longawa (Poland) „Women – the Custodians of Culture and Tradition”
Wiesław Łysakowski (Poland) „Dogadacie się, to wrócę”
Bartosz Mamak (Poland) „Human Rights”
Wojciech Mazur (Poland) „Pencil”
Sławomir Mróz (Poland) „Prawa”
Grzegorz Myćka (Poland) „Mail Bait”
Alireza Nosrati (Iran) „Starvation as a Weapon”
Milena Paleczny (Poland) „Trump”
Nastassia Ramanouskaya (Belarus) „Unscannable”
Maryia Sechka (Belarus) „Gniazdowanie”
Agnieszka Srokosz (Poland) „Pułapka 1”
Michelle Surjadi (Indonesia) „Save Inuk People from Greed”
Nicos Terzis (Greece) „Quo vadis?”
Vladimir Tsesler (Belarus) „Censored”
Bartosz Tymosiewicz (Poland) „Human DNA”
Yankun Wang (China) „Zero Discrimination”
Marcin Wawrzaszek (Poland) „Star War”
Zhang Wenlong (China) „Resistance”
Franciszek Wolski (Poland) „Stop Fueling the War”
Bogna Woskowicz (Poland) „iSee”
Yan Wu (China) „Fist speaking”
Lu Zhaohui (China) „Cultural Invasion”
Ewelina Zwierzyńska-Drewniak (Poland) „Don’t Reproduce War”
Łukasz Zwolan (Poland) „Deforestation”
