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For information on the FISAE Computer-generated ex-libris competitions, please go back to the homepage and consult the appropriate section.

In nearly all competitions, about 10% of the entries are not accepted either because the size is too large, there is no owner's name inscribed, it is not made with an accepted technique, or only one print has been sent instead of three ... or some other stupid reason relating to the rules not having been read or understood!

If there is something you do not understand, just click here and ASK!!! You are welcome to use English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Serbian or Turkish. If you ask in Russian, Chinese or Arabic, it will take about 15 days before you receive an answer.

Every two years, the International Exlibris Centre of the Town of Sint-Niklaas organises an international exlibris competition. The 2009 competition is open to almost all small prints, as well as ex-libris. The rules have been greatly simplified to allow as many artists as possible, from all over the world, to take part.

Opening the competition to all small graphics is not intended as a disregard for the bookplate. That is why one of the chief Town of Sint-Niklaas awards and a number of other awards remain reserved for the best, most striking exlibris.

The participants can choose between two different topics: THE BOOK and/or SAINT NICHOLAS.

Submissions need to arrive at the following address before the 1st of November 2008:

Internationaal Exlibriscentrum (Stedelijke Musea)
Internationale tweejaarlijkse exlibris- en kleingrafiekwedstrijd Sint-Niklaas 2009
Zwijgershoek 14
B-9100 Sint-Niklaas België.

The rules may be consulted in Flemish, French, German and English by clicking on this link. Also, you can download the registration form.

The Gdańsk Archipelago of Culture is organising an international ex-libris competition on this Polish town's motif: the Gdansk Lions on its coat-of-arms. The organisers can be contacted at the following address and site:

Gdański Archipelag Kultury „Wyspa Skarbów”
ul. Turystyczna 3,
80 – 680 Gdańsk Sobieszewo
tel./fax (0 58) 323 91 15
www.wyspaskarbow.gak.gda.pl

The rules of the competition in English can be found here, with the image of the Gdansk lions...

Occasionally, there will be information here on competitions which are not for ex-libris but free graphics - when they might be of interest to our artists!

Isik University and Istanbul Museum of Graphic Arts (IMOGA) have organized an international contest that welcomes all artists around the world with the aims of bringing original work of printmaking together, forming an international knowledge of art, encouraging artists, arousing an interest of printmaking, and also helping the printmaking to become widespread. Participants can enter the 1st International Print Biennial-Istanbul 2008 with at most three works that have been created between 2004-2008. The deadline for submission is 20 June 2008.
First Prize; 7.500 USD, Second Prize; 5.000 USD, Third Prize; 3.000 USD, Special Prize (Aksanat); 7.500 USD, Special Prize (Feyziye Schools Foundation); 2.000 USD, Special Prize (The Coca-Cola Company); 2.000 USD, Special Prize (Garanti Koza Construction); 2.000 USD, Special Prize (Turkish Cultural Foundation); 2.000 USD, Three Honorable Mentions: 1.000 USD. Rules can be consulted here.

The Gdańsk Archipelago of Culture is organising an international exlibris competition devoted to the lion,Gdańsk’s (Polish city) coat of arms. We intend to invite international exlibris authors to this contest. We have English, Russian and Ukrainian version of these texts and the copy of the picture of The Great Coat of Arms of the City of Gdańsk. All these is attachted do this e-mail. Could you, please, spread the enclosed information among the authors of exlibrises? All the best in 2008 year!

Best regards,

Anna Urbańczyk

Manager

Treasure Island

Gdańsk Archipelago of Culture

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Gdański Archipelag Kultury „Wyspa Skarbów”
ul. Turystyczna 3,
80 – 680 Gdańsk Sobieszewo
tel./fax (0 58) 323 91 15
www.wyspaskarbow.gak.gda.pl

The Catalan association has just sent me the rules for the Contratalla Graphic Arts Biennial. There is a Special Prize for ex-libris. The documentation is in Spanish and English and can be consulted here. Limit date March 10 2008

The municipality of Bodio in the Province of Varese (Italy) is organising the fourth competition of the "Library of Bodio Lomnago". This time, the theme is 'The Bicycle'. You can access here the rules of the competition in Italian, in English and in German. Careful: limit date 30 April 2008

Dear artist... Do you make woodcuts, wood engravings or linoleum prints? Are you normally a maker of intaglio prints and think you could launch into a relief technique? If so, take the plunge! There is a new award which has been launched by Graphia, the new Gerard Gaudaen Prize.

Gaudaen (1927-2003) was one of the virtuoso engravers of his generation, a maker of many subtle and memorable images - often on simple and homely themes, with objects relating to nature. He was also Director of the National Higher Institute and Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp and founder of the Sint-Niklaas museum. The single prize of €2'500 is gifted by mevrouw Josée Gaudaen-Dieltjens, the widow of the artist. The regulations can be found here in Flemish, German, French and English.

Please mind the warning: entries which do not conform to the regulations will not be submitted to the jury!

The Italian ex-libris and short story competition 'Il bosco stregato' (the enchanted wood) is at it's fourth version and has always had a good response from artists - the theme is a delight. If you click here, you will find the regulations for the competition. And visit the web site, http://www.boscostregato.com/home.html

The results of the Remo Palmirani competitions can be seen on http://www.exlibrismed.it/ and the rules for the new competition can be seen here!

23.04.07

F.I.S.A.E. Fédération Internationale des Sociétés d'Amateurs d'Ex-libris Competition Rules:
3rd International CGD (Computer Generated Design) Ex-libris Competition 2008
Material for the competition must be sent to the following address:
MARTIN R. BAEYENS, 3rd CGD Ex-libris Competition, Schildekensstraat 55, B-9340 Smetlede, BELGIUM
Many artists have participated in the 1st and 2nd competitions. The winners of the formers competition (2004 & 2006) can been seen on www.fisae.org
The computer, as an artist's creative tool, is steadily gaining ground. Images made using this technique however is sometimes considered of a lesser artistic and printing quality than that of traditionally-made graphic art prints, particularly in the small-format applied arts field of ex-libris. This competition is organised to give artists the possibility to show that digital technology can be used as brilliantly as the burin or engraving needle to produce 'art jewels on paper'. It will also enable them to demonstrate how classical techniques can be brought in to support digital technology.

Our friends from Malbork in Poland have sent us information as to the 21st International Biennial exhibition of modern ex-libris which will open in June 2007. All about the regulations, deadline and prizes can be consulted here. You can also download the application form as a .pdf file by clicking here! All other info, ask Bogumiła Omieczyńska, at b.omieczynska@zamek.malbork.pl .

The BALKANKULT Foundation (Belgrade), the EricArts Institute (Germany), the Ankara Ex-libris Society, The Belgrade Ex-libris Circle and the Bread Museum of Ulm (Germany) have pooled their resources to organise the Second Balkan International Ex-libris Competition TRIBEL, on the theme of 'Bread - a cultural heritage'. The regulations can be found at http://www.aed.org.tr/balkanComp.doc . The limit for sending works is December 15th 2006.

Dear artists, don't forget that the 2nd International Biennale of Ex-libris of Ankara has been announced by the Ankara bookplate association. The theme is free, but the works submitted must have been made in 2004-2007. The rules can be found here in English, here in French, here in German and here in Russian... and if you want to read them in Turkish, please visit http://www.aed.org.tr/ ! The limit for sending work is January 30, 2007. There are 11 special awards, and prizes amount to 15'000 US$...

The rules for the 23rd Biennial of Sint Niklaas on the theme 'The beauty and forces of nature' are available on line at http://www.sint-niklaas.be/modules/news/article.php?storyid=96, as well as an explanatory letter, registration form and technical symbols list. Limit for sending work: November 1st, 2006.

We hope Nicola Carlone will forgive the delay in posting here the results of the international ex-libris competition he organised for the IX winter paralympic games in Torino, Italy (March 10-19, 2006). Some 170 artists sent a total of 250 ex-libris for the competition. The awards ceremony took place in the Aula Magna of University of Torino, in the presence of the city authorities, the Rector, the Governor of the Lions Club international of District 108 Ia1, Officers of Lions Clubs, the President of AIE, artists and collectors on March 8th 2006. The same day, the exhibition resulting from the competition was opened at the Old Library of the University of Torino. The competition winners were: 1st prize Vincenzo Gatti, 2nd prize Peter Velikov, 3rd prize Juri Jakovenko, Prize for xylography: Virginius A. Burba, CGD and young artist's prize: Azatuhi Mnatsakanyan. The catalogue can be obtained from Nicola Carlone, whose e-mail is nicola.carlone@unito.it

Oh dear! Your webmaster has been so busy preparing the Nyon Congress that a lot of news has been put aside for later publication...Including the regulations for the second triennial of the Balkans, TRIBEL, which can be consulted here.

Those of you who read the text last month about the Ex Libris Mediterraneo museum will remember that this institution announced it would create two Remo Palmirani Prizes - one for an artist and one for a scholar, alternating each year. Click here and find out more, and the regulations for the 2006 artist's prize...

Where can I find something which was posted and has been removed?
Competition results, in memoriam notices and all other material except what refers to ephemeral events such as meetings and exhibitions are posted to the 'Archive' section of this site. Consult it!