OSTEN BIENNIAL of DRAWING Skopje 2020
At the OSTEN BIENNIAL of DRAWING Skopje 2020 – 260 artists from 44 countries participated with 819 works! Out of them, 135 artists were short-listed by the selector Emil ALEKSIEV, N. Macedonia and 75 artists were selected as finalists.
Out of the finalists, the international jury: Katrin BECKER, Germany (Art Director at the “Kindl” Contemporary Art Center, Berlin), Lars KÆRULF MØLLER, Denmark (Director of the Bornholms Museum) and Zsolt PETRANYI, Hungary (Head of contemporary arts in the Hungarian National Gallery) http://www.osten.mk/en/obd-2020-jury-en/ – decided on the awards.
Awards decided by the Assembly of the Ambassadors of OSTEN at the OSTEN BIENNIAL of DRAWING Skopje 2020:
GRAND PRIX for LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT – Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Russia/USA (http://www.kabakov.net/)
WORLD CULTURAL HERITAGE Award – Oskar KOKOSCHKA, Austria (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar_Kokoschka)
SPECIAL GRAND PRIX for Extraordinary Artistic Achievements – Georgios Xenos, Greece (http://georgiosxenos.gr/)
Taki Pavlovski, N. Macedonia – SPECIAL GRAND PRIX for Extraordinary Artistic Achievements
WAVA (World Association of Visual Arts) Awards:
Artist of the World – Ezio GRIBAUDO, Italy (http://www.eziogribaudo.com/)
REMBRANDT Award for Excellence in Art – MICKO Mice Jankulovski, N. Macedonia (https://micejankulovski.mk/)
The awards by the Jury and OSTEN will be officially announced and presented (to those artists who will be present) on 18 March (Thursday) 2021 | 19 h. at the National Gallery of N. Macedopnia – Multimedia Center “Mala Stanica”.
With this event, where the promotion of the Biennial’s catalog and the 1st OSTEN ART FESTIVAL 2021 will also take place – the OSTEN BIENNIAL of DRAWING Skopje 2020 will be officially closed.
Exhibited works by:
AWARDED ARTISTS: Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Russia/USA – GRAND PRIX for LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT | Oskar KOKOSCHKA, Austria – WORLD CULTURAL HERITAGE Award | Georgios Xenos, Greece – SPECIAL GRAND PRIX for Extraordinary Artistic Achievements | Taki Pavlovski, N. Macedonia – SPECIAL GRAND PRIX for Extraordinary Artistic Achievements | Ezio GRIBAUDO, Italy – Artist of the World (by WAVA) | MICKO Mice Jankulovski, N. Macedonia – REMBRANDT Award for Excellence in Art (by WAVA)
& 75 FINALISTS: Vasilis ALEXANDROU, Greece | Sofia ANTONAKAKI, Greece | Makiko AOKI, Japan | Mustafa ARAPI, Albania | Ivora ARSENOVIC, Serbia | David ATANASOSKI, N. Macedonia | Atanas ATANASOSKI, N. Macedonia | Gosia BARTOSIK, Poland | Sonja BENSKIN MESHER, UK | Bezan BEZANOVIC, Netherlands | Goce BOZURSKI, N. Macedonia | Miroslav BROOS, Slovakia | Marion CALLIES, Germany | Alex CLOSE, Canada | Maciej DURSKI, Poland | Nermin Yağmur ERMAN, Turkey | Eva FRANCOVA, Czechia | Manolis GIANNADAKIS, Greece | Zlatko GLIGOROV, N. Macedonia | Elena GLUTH, Germany | B & V & S GRABULOSKI/ BLAZESKA / GRABULOSKI, N. Macedonia | Kenryo HARA, Japan | Milan HNAT, Slovakia | Eva HNATOVA, Slovakia | Maciej IGNATOWSKI, Poland | Biljana JEVTIc, Serbia | Kalliopi (Kalli) KASTORI, Greece | Michel KOKKINOS, Greece | Harris KONDOSPHYRIS, Greece | Marija KONESKA, N. Macedonia | Lukasz KONIUSZY, Poland | Lynne LANGTON, UK | Evaggelos LIOUGKAS, Greece | Uschi LÜDEMANN, Germany | Michael LUZSICZA, Slovakia | Katarzyna ŁYSZKOWSKA, Poland | Nobuhiro MIDO, Japan | Emily MILLER, Ireland | Zoran MISHE, Bulgaria | Sebastian MUGGE , Sweden | Aleksander MYJAK, Poland | Sandra NIKAC , Serbia | Atsuko NOMURA, Japan | Herman NOORDERMEER, Netherlands | Brendea Octavian Mihai COSMIN, Romania | Roberto Octavio P. GEORGGE, Mexico | Stavros PANAGIOTAKIS, Greece | Magdalena Parfieniuk, Poland | Vladimir Paun VRAPCIU, Romania | Maria PAVLOVSKA, USA | Lidia PEROTTI, Italy | Strahil M. Petrovski, N. Macedonia | Emilia PITUCHA, Poland | Anna PLAVINSKAYA, USA | Lubos PLNY, Czechia | Ivana RADOVANOVIC, Serbia | RIEDSTRA, Netherlands | Natalia SAJEWICZ, Poland | Jarosław SANKOWSKI, Poland | Mira SATRYAN, USA | Tomas SCHERER, Slovakia | Helen SHULKIN, Germany | Slavco SPIROVSKI, N. Macedonia | Renata SZUŁCZYŃSKA, Poland | Anna TARNOWSKA, Poland | Teja TEGELJ, Slovenia | Andreas TOMBLIN, Cyprus | George TSAKIRIS, Greece | Christina TZANI, Greece | Dominique VAN OSTA, Belgium | Vasilis VASILAKAKIS , Greece | Konstantinos VEROUTIS, Greece | Monika WANYURA-KUROSAD, Poland | Michael ZHENG, USA
& 54 GREEK ARTISTS – holders of the OSTEN AWARD for NATIONAL PRESENTATION to GREECE (National Selector Marina GONTA): Olivia AFIONIS | Vasilis ALEXANDROU | Sofia AMPERIDOU | Ioannis ANASTASIOU | Vasilis ANGELOPOULOS | Sofia ANTONAKAKI | Katerina BALODIMOU-STATHATOU | Vassiliki BLOUKOU | Aghela CHRISSOVITSANU | Marie-Christine DAPOLA BOSSIS | DITSIOS STAVROS ARt | Apostolis FILIPPOU | Stefanos FOLINAS | Gilda FRUMKIN | Efi FUNCK | Penelope GAITI | Evangelia GERAKI | Manolis GIANNADAKIS | George Houndalas | Vasiliki ILIAKOPOULOU | Ilias KARALIS | Kalliopi (Kalli) KASTORI | Vassilis KAVOURIDIS | Panos KIOKIOS | Michel KOKKINOS | Harris KONDOSPHYRIS | Konstantinos KOSTOUROS | Marina KOUTSOSPYROU | Despina KOUVATSOU | Christina LAPPA | Emmanouela LIAGKOU | Evaggelos LIOUGKAS | Alexandros MAGANIOTIS | Maria Maragkoudaki | Maria Demetra (Didi) MOURDJINIS | Panayotis NEZIS | Sotiris OIKONOMIDIS | Stavros PANAGIOTAKIS | Athanasios PANAGIOUTOU | Lukiana PAPADOPOULOU | Michail PARLAMAS | Leonora PETROVSKA – LUTSIV | Katerina RIMPATSIOU | Petr SHEVCHENKO | Marina STATHI | Yannis STEFANAKIS | Adamopoulos TERZANI | George TSAKIRIS | Eleni TSILILI | Christina TZANI | Vasilis VASILAKAKIS | Konstantinos VEROUTIS | Kleio Vlachou | Georgios XENOS