2023
The 2023 edition features over 420 original works from over 150 artists working from 35 countries!
Among this enormous range of highly compelling work, Miniprint Kazanlak was pleased to award the First Prize in Classical Printmaking to Nobuko Hosokawa (Japan), and the First Prize in Experimental Printmaking to Chris Long (UK).
We wish to express our sincere gratitude to the 2023 international jury composed of Bea van der Heijden (Netherlands), Marek Grzyb (Poland) and Peter Boyadjieff (Bulgaria). Their commitment and contribution has allowed for a wide selection of varied and highly engaging work to take part in this edition, further corroborating Miniprint Kazanlak’s ambition to act as a forum for discussion and collaborative exchange between artists and art lovers for years to come!
AUSTRALIA Jan Palethorpe, Christine Porter, Andrew Weatherill AUSTRIA Vesna Klačar-Nedimović, Traude Pirker, Inge Stornig BELGIUM Bernadette Maréchal, Henry Pouillon BRAZIL Fernando Alvarez BULGARIA Peter Boyadjieff, Joanna Bradshaw, Rosen Donchev, Ivan Gaidarov, Nevelin Ivanov, Kiril Katsarov, Dimitar Koichev, Milena Krasteva, Svetoslav Ninov, Anton Radulov Petrov, Daniela Zekina CANADA Miguel Barros, Hans-Christian Behm, Alex Boya, Deborah Chapman, Micheline Couture, Doris Lamontagne, Michèle Lapointe, Carol Mannas, Lauren McKinley Renzetti, David Morrish, Anthony Shine, Jacqueline Tourigny COLOMBIA Alvaro Herrera CROATIA Ivana Gagić Kičinbači CZECH REPUBLIC Helena Kalna DENMARK Lene Bennike, Annette O. Caspeller, Inga Vestergaard Sorensen ESTONIA Kalli Kalde FINLAND Janne Laine FRANCE Frédérique Badonnel, Marcelle Benhamou, Roger Bonnet des Claustres, Lionel Bras, Kristina Buga, Florence Jalice, Jean-Jacques Lecoq GERMANY Eva Capkova, Timo Ehmke GREECE Evangelos Tasios HUNGARY Csaba Pál INDONESIA Damar Sasongko IRELAND Cróna Gallagher, Ann Gilleece, Joan Gleeson, Bernadette Madden ITALY Alberto Balletti, Albina Dealessi, Paolo Pestelli, Francesco Spallina JAPAN Haruko Cho, Akihico Haraguchi, Koichi Honda, Nobuko Hosokawa, Neriko Inouye, Takanori Iwase, Taichi Kodama, Maki Nagumo, Yukiko Nishitani, Akiko Okajima, Mutsumi Osawa, Mihoko Sekiguchi, Mika Sakimoto, Yasufumi Takano, Akito Tanimura, Yuriko Terao, Tomoko Tsuchida, Yasuyuki Uzawa MEXICO Fernando M. Diaz, Moyshen Moreno NETHERLANDS Bea van der Heijden, Hilly van Eerten, Jozina Marina van Hees NEW ZEALAND Sue Cooke, Barbara Graham, Mark Graver, Neil Johnstone NORWAY Gunn Nordheim Morstøl POLAND Marcin Bochenek, Łukasz Cywicki, Adam Czech, Agnieszka Dobosz-Bruchnalska, Agata Dworzak-Subocz, Grzegorz Frydryk, Renata Maria Gogol, Marek Grzyb, Stanislaw Kaminski, Joanna Kobiałka, Łukasz Koniuszy, Dominika Kosidło, Agnieszka Łakoma, Agnieszka Mazek, Monika Miazek, Agata Perzyńska, Katarzyna Pyka, Oliwier Radzikowski, Iwona Rypeść-Kostović, Anna Siemińska, Klaudia Skrobek, Małgorzata Stachurska, Natalia Szostakiewicz, Sandra Urbanek, Kinga Zarzeka PORTUGAL Vera Almeida, António Canau SLOVENIA Jaka Bonca, Saša Gornik, Alja Košar SOUTH AFRICA Gervasio Robles SPAIN Iñaki Elosua Urkiri, Maria Adoracion Franco Garcia, Sònia Giravent, Mary Hick, Lourdes Perlas SWEDEN Gunnar Nilmén, Elisabeth Ödmann TAIWAN Yuan-Shuo Chang, Yu-Hsuan Chiang, Tania Chou, Chen MeiJu, Hsi-Ying Wang, Yung-Chih Yeh THAILAND Thamrongsak Nimanussornkul, Napatt Piyawongwatthana TURKEY Oya Pekmener UK Ian Brown, Anne Desmet, Colin Gillespie, Marina Kim, Chris Long, Janet Sang, Ruth Thomas USA Marie Bukowski, Suzanne Chouteau, Deborah Cornell, Rosemarie Gallinari, Yuji Hiratsuka, Monica Jacobs, David Moyer, John O'Donnell
AWARDED ARTISTS
FIRST PRIZE IN CLASSICAL PRINTMAKING
Nobuko Hosokawa
Japan
Memory-mother (2023)
Copperprint / 10x10 (18x18) / 1/5
FIRST PRIZE IN EXPERIMENTAL PRINTMAKING
Chris Long
UK
Vista III (2023)
Collagraph / 10x10 (15x15) / 1/15
HONORARY MENTIONS
Łukasz Koniuszy
Poland
Memory of Place II (2023)
Digital Print / 15x15 (20x20) / 1/10
Bernadette Madden
Ireland
High Summer (2021)
Screenprint / 7x9 (18x18) / 2/10
Agnieszka Mazek
Poland
Appointment (2022)
Etching, aquatint / 10x9 (19x19) / 4/40
Napatt Piyawongwatthana
Thailand
Weird Sky (2023)
Monoprint, Collagraph / 10x10 (19x19) / 1/1
Damar Sasongko
Indonesia
Deconstructing Ramayana - Dewi Sinta (2023)
Reduction Linocut / 10x10 (19x19) / 1/6
Hilly van Eerten
Netherlands
Underground (2022)
Digital Print / 15x15 (19x19) / 1/10
JURY
Bea van der Heijden
Netherlands
Bea van der Heijden (1963) studied at the Academy of Visual Arts in Tilburg where she was trained as a visual artist and teacher of drawing. She then continued her education at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague with Graphic Design. After several years as a graphic designer and illustrator, she made the transition to autonomous visual work in 2004. Since 2006 she regularly exhibits and works on various projects.
Marek Grzyb
Poland
Born in Poland, lives in Wrocław. He studied at the Graphics Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław. University professor at the Department of Media Art at the Faculty of Graphics and Media Art. He works in the Games and Virtual Forms Design Studio.
He works with computer graphics, digital animation and designs games. In his works, the past and its manifestations become the material from which he builds artistic installations and objects. He mixes the concepts of time and space, embedding his projects in the digital world. He organized 29 individual and 150 collective exhibitions and festivals in Poland and abroad - in Germany, USA, Bulgaria, Belgium, China, Spain, Turkey and Serbia.
Peter Boyadjieff
Bulgaria
Peter Boyadjieff is an artist born in Kazanlak, Bulgaria. He holds a Masters in Visual Arts and Design at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria (1983) with additional specialization in computer graphics, at the I.C.A.R.I. Institute in Montreal, Canada (2000). His allegorical images combine physical realism and poetic imagery in order to critically engage the viewer and convey powerful ideas in a broader cultural context.
His work has been awarded many prestigious international awards, among which the First Prize at the 27e Salon du Printemps in 2012 (Canada), Highly Commended Artist award at the 8th British International Print exhibition in 2012 (UK), Gold Awards Winner in B&W Magazine in 2009 (USA), Honorary Mention at the International Art Miniature of Vieux-Lévis (Canada), First Prize and Invited Artist at the 28th Miniprint International of Cadaques in 2008 (Spain), an Honorable Mention at the 4th Muestra International de Miniprint de Rosario in 2008 (Argentina) and the 2007 Grand Prize at the 2007 International Digital Miniprint Bravo Est in Ottawa (Canada). His work has also been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions across Europe, North America, South America and Asia.
He was also a featured artist for the 2015 Art Venice Biennale in the ”Biennale Roadshow” (Italy), as well as a selected artist for Canada’s cultural program “The Living City” at the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai (China).
EXHIBITING ARTISTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Miniprint Kazanlak wishes to express its sincere gratitude to:
The Mayoral & City Council of Kazanlak
The International Jury comprised of Bea van der Heijden, Marek Grzyb & Peter Boyadjieff
The entire team at the Kazanlak Art Gallery
Our network of cultural communities of Kazanlak
and
All the participating artists whose original and personal work has made the International Contemporary
Miniprint of Kazanlak 2023 possible!