OPEN CALL

Jump – spend one second in the intuitive space between earth and sky. Is it really not a flight or a moment of levitation? Jump is an infinite platform. An independent fortress. The fastest way to time travel. A shift in the system of energy. Single jump is needed to find yourself in another universe. A getaway? Rotating at a sharp angle? Dancing in a circle? What else can it mean? 

The theme of
Kaunas International Illustration
Biennial 2020 – Jump –
is open to innovative concepts
and experimental forms
​of expression.

TERMS & CONDITIONS 

Deadline

July 8th, 2020, 12:00 (EXTENDED!)

Who can participate?

Artists, graphic designers, visual communicators in general and students of these creative fields can participate regardless of age or nationality. 

​Participation is free.

​Conditions 

Illustrations should be in digital form (or digitalized from the original artworks) and we only accept digital files first and printed files later (not original ones).

There is no requirements in format but have in mind that for Biennial exhibition your printed artwork shouldn't be biger than vertical or horizontal A3 (297 x 420 mm or 420 x 297 mm) format.

One participant can submit 1 illustration or series of illustrations by the same topic "Jump". 

Illustrations must be created between January 2018 and July 2020.

All illustrations provided for the competition must be copyrighted by the contestant and must not include any third party copyright. All copyrights must be owned by the participant.

All submitted artworks are part of the archive of the Kaunas International Illustration Biennial and printed works will not be returned. Organizers have the right to exhibit and publish the works submitted for noncommercial purposes.

Selection

Illustrations will be selected by the international jury and selected participants will be informed by email before the August 1st, 2020.

Selected illustrations

Participants whose illustrations are selected have two options for sending their artworks:

1) ​​to send printed and safely packed artworks to Kaunas until August 20th, 2020. Address labels will be sent to each selected participant by email. 

2) to pay for printing in Kaunas. Payment is 10 Eur for each illustration and it should be payed until September 1st, 2020. Paying information will be send to each selected participant by email. 

​All printed artworks will not be returned to their authors.

​Awards 

All selected illustrations will be shown in Kaunas International Illustration Biennial 2020 where the winners of 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes will be congratulated.

1st prize – diploma, space for personal exhibition in Kaunas (winner will have the opportunity to select suitable dates in 2021), set of professional art supplies.
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2nd and 3rd prize – diplomas, sets of professional art supplies.

All selected competitors will get certificates of participation in Kaunas International Illustration Biennial. The digital catalog of selected illustrations and participants contacts will be published.

JURY

The jury evaluates illustrations according to the following
main criteria: interpretation of the topic, relevance, originality/creativity, ​technicality.

LI BOND (Liena Bondare) is a graphic artist who lives and works in Riga, Latvia. Liena has had eleven solo exhibitions, including solo shows in USA and Germany. She has also participated in numerous group exhibitions and projects, printmaking contests in Latvia and abroad and also had few artist residencies (China, Belgium, Germany). Liena received an honourable mention from “22 Premio Internacional de Gráfica Máximo Ramos 2012” Centro Torrente Ballester in Spain for her work Kunst >everyday nothing and 3rd prize at the 1st International Printmaking Biennial in Kaunas.
Liena Bondare was one of the organizers and the main curator of Latvian part “Et nuit illumina la nuit” of the exhibition “EXPOSITION D’ART CONTEMPORAIN BALTE” in Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris, France (2008) and contemporary printmaking exhibition “Power and man” in Novas Gallery, London, UK (2006). She has been the curator of 12 other exhibitions in Latvia and abroad.
More information: lienabondare.lv

Lina Itagaki is an illustrator and comics artist from Lithuania. In 2015, her illustrations from “A Picture Book for Tomorrow” received the 3rd place award at the Book Art exhibition “Illustration and books 2015” in Vilnius, Lithuania and TOP 10 illustrators award at COW International Design Festival „Illustration 2015“ in Ukraine. “Siberian haiku” published in 2017, was Lina’s 1st full size graphic novel and the most successful project – was nominated the Main Year’s Award at the Book Art contest, was selected as the most beautiful book of the year 2017 and won many other awards in Lithuania. The book was already published in French, Italian, English and Latvian. 
More information: linaitagaki.com

Natalia Romaniuk is a graphic artist from Poland. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice with honors in 2009. Her diploma was selected by the International Print Triennial Society to the review 'The Best Polish Graphics Diplomas'. In 2014 she defended her doctorate (PhD) consisting of a series of 16 digital prints titled „Dereconstruction of Identity”. Her essay was titled „Dereconstruction of Identity. Image in the Age of Digital Media” and is going to be published soon. 
More information: nataliaromaniuk.com

Marko Kekishev is a graphic designer who lives and works in Tallinn, Estonia. For many years, worked in various advertising agencies in Estonia and currently operating in its graphic design studio “Siirup”. He is currently a professor in the Department of Media Design at Pallas University of Applied Sciences. He is the founder and organizer of the Haapsalu Graphic Design Festival. Outside Estonia, works have been exhibited in Finland, Sweden, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, France, Italy, Germany, Iran, Bolivia, Ecuador, South Korea, Japan, China, USA, Russia, Ukraine, etc. 
Winner of several advertising and logo competitions, major recognitions: 2003 Grand Prize in the logo category of the Kyiv International Advertising Festival; Laureate of the Moscow International Graphic Design Festival "Golden Bee 7" 2006; ADC * E "Estonian Design Award 2011", in the category Graphic identity – gold award. Annual Award of the Estonian Cultural Endowment for Fine Arts and Applied Arts 2011.

Rolandas Rimkūnas is a graphic artist and graphic designer who lives and works in Kaunas, Lithuania. He has worked with such important clients as Government of the Republic of Lithuania, Prosecutor General's Office of the Republic of Lithuania, Department of Fire Protection of the Republic of Lithuania, Directorate of Vilnius Castles State Cultural Reserve, Bank of Lithuania, Lithuanian Post, Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Lithuania, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Vilnius University of Educational Sciences and others. He participated in various group exhibitions in Lithuania, Germany, Canada, Turkey, Japan, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, Portugal, Italy, etc. He has won many coin design competitions in lithuania and also he is author of the coats of arms of many Lithuanian cities.

EXHIBITION

All selected illustrations
will be shown in
Kaunas International Illustration Biennial
on October, 2020.

More info coming soon...

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