Deadline:
May 31, 2025
Location(s)
North Macedonia Online
Overview
Dear friends, CARTOONISTS, let start the year with a good news!
Pleased that during of our fifty-two-years existence we have created a network of exceptional cartoonists - collaborators and friends of OSTEN, we announce the 53rd WORLD GALLERY OF CARTOONS Skopje 2025!
Details
- The organizer of the event is OSTEN Skopje, the Republic of North Macedonia
- The SELECTOR assigned by the organizer will select the submitted works, and the INTERNATIONAL
JURY will appraise the short-listed works - Opening of the exhibition and the official awards presentation will take place in September 2025 in Skopje, N. Macedonia
APPLICATION
REGULAR APPLICANT should:
- Fill out the APPLICATION FORM (electronically or manually) and send it to the e-mail: cartoons@osten.com.mk along with a photo, short bio and digital images of the works she/he is submitting
- To send the electronically submited works BY POSTAL MAIL along with the printed and signed Application Form to our address:
OSTEN – WORLD GALLERY OF CARTOONS, “8. Udarna Brigada” 2, 1000 Skopje, Macedonia
with a note: NO COMMERCIAL VALUE! FOR EXHIBITION ONLY!!! - up to 31 May 2025 latest!
True to our commitment to preserve and foster the art on paper, ORIGINAL, hand-created works are to be expected. If the cartoonist works exclusively in digital technique, printed DIGITAL WORKS - named, numbered and signed in pencil on the front will be considered.
DEADLINES
- The process of organization of the 57th WGC Skopje 2025 is in four phases:
- APPLICATION (31 May 2025)
- SELECTION + publication of selected cartoonists (June 2025)
- JURY + announcement of finalists (July – August 2025)
- ANNOUNCEMENT OF AWARDED CARTOONISTS (September 2025)
- THE OFFICIAL EXHIBITION and AWARD GIVING (November – December 2025) in Skopje, R.N.M.
Opportunity is About
Eligibility
Candidates should be from:
Description of Ideal Candidate
CRITERIA for PARTICIPATION
- Types of works – cartoons | satirical drawing | comic/strip (onepanel of non-linguistic strip)
- Theme | Technique | Format – by the author’s choice
- Number of works – unlimited
RULES for PARTICIPATION
- Only ORIGINAL, hand-created works are eligible. If the author works exclusively in digital technique, printed DIGITAL WORKS numbered and signed in pencil on the front will be accepted
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Only original works from the NEWER PRODUCTION, which have not previously been PUBLISHED or AWARDED, will be considered
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Works that are deemed by the jury to be identical or closely similar to the known works by
another cartoonist - will NOT be judged - If detected the cartoonist has violated any of the rules for participation after the awarding - the jury has the right to withdraw the award
- According to the organizer’s directions, the selector and the international jury will pay particular attention to the visual expression of the submitted works
- REGULAR APPLICANT should:
- Fill out the APPLICATION FORM (electronically or manually) and send it to the e-mail: cartoons@osten.com.mk along with a photo, short bio and digital images of the submitted works
- To send the electronically submited works BY POSTAL MAIL along with the printed and signed Application Form
- Note: the name of the author, the title of the work and the technique should be stated on the back of each work
- By completing the application, the author gives to the organizer a NON-EXCLUSIVE RIGHT to use, exhibit, study and publish his works for the needs of the event
Dates
Deadline: May 31, 2025
Cost/funding for participants
AWARDS
- GRAND PRIX for LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT (1500 $ & Sculpture) – decision by the Ambassadors of OSTEN
- FIRST AWARD ($1000 & Plaque) – decision by the International Jury
- SECOND AWARD ($500 & Plaque) – decision by the International Jury
- 5 THIRD AWARDS (Plaque) – decision by the International Jury
- 5 SPECIAL AWARDS (Plaque) – decision by the International Jury
- CICO AWARD * for a Macedonian Cartoonist (Plaque) – decision by the OSTEN Board
* In honor of the great Macedonian cartoonist Vasilije Popovic – Cico.
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