Program listing
26.04.2022 - 28. 4. 2022
Bob and Hedviga - AT THE ATELIER WITH THE ILLUSTRATOR H. GUTIERREZ
Tin-Bob is the shiniest tin-can in the factory. He is definitely very proud of him, clearly seeing his "starry" future … He will be definitely filled with the most yummy fruit candies! But his conceitedness comes quickly to an end when learning that it will be just ordinary dog-food in the end. Moreover - an expired one.
15.10.2021 - 21. 11. 2021
AMIABLE PICTURES temporarily closed
Exhibition of illustrations by participants of the international BIB-UNESCO workshop of Albín Brunovský for young illustrators, which took place in Mojmírovce in 2019.
15.10.2021 - 15. 10. 2021
CHILDREN´S JURY AWARD
In addition to the professional jury, the Children's Jury has been meeting since 1993 to choose its winner. It is interesting that she never agreed in her choice with a professional jury made up of world-renowned illustrators, art theorists and publishers. The members of Children´s Jury of BIB 2021 were: Elenka Lutterová, Helena Špačková, Karin Tvrdoňová, Ondrej Benkovský and Viktória Rusňáková (author of the Children's Jury Award).
15.10.2021 - 28. 2. 2022
BOŽENA PLOCHÁŇOVÁ, illustrations
The Bratislava Biennial of Illustrations traditionally includes an exhibition of works by an important Slovak illustrator. This year, a selection of illustrations by Božena Plocháňová is prepared for the visitors of the biennial.
15.10.2021 - 28. 2. 2022
HASSAN MOUSAVI, IRAN – GRAND PRIX BIB 2019
Sayed Hasan Mousavi (Iran, 1983-), Iranian painter and illustrator, was born in a middle-class family in Qom. His artworks have been displayed in Iran, Germany, Denmark, Japan, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Italy, UAE etc. His illustrations were selected for Bologna Annual Illustration Exhibition (2017), he received honor diploma from the Children's Book Council of Iran (IBBY- Iran) (2018). The book Boxer, written and illustrated by him, was mentioned in the White Raven list (...
15.10.2021 - 28. 2. 2022
JACQUELINE WOODSON, USA HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN AWARD FOR LITERATURE 2020
Jacqueline Woodson was born in Columbus, Ohio in 1963, and shortly thereafter moved with her mother and siblings to Greenville, South Carolina where she spent much of her early formative years in the care of her maternal grandparents. At age seven she moved to Brooklyn, New York where she has since lived. She studied at Adelphi University and at the New School in New York and then worked as an editorial assistant and drama therapist for runaway children. Though a slow reader, she began writing...
13.10.2021 - 11. 11. 2021
Three : Miro Cipár, Sveťo Košický, Boris Šima
The installation on the west terrace of Bratislava Castle will present the work of three illustrators who won non-statutory prizes BIB 2019: Svetozár Košický , Miroslav Cipár and Boris Šima . The vernissage will also include the presentation of a Plaque of Ľudmila Podjavorinská.
15.10.2021 - 28. 2. 2022
ALBERTINE, SWITZERLAND (HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN AWARD FOR ILLUSTRATIONS 2020)
Albertine was born in 1967 in Dardagny, near Geneva. She studied at the École des arts décoratifs and the École supérieure d’art visuel in Geneva. She obtained her diploma in 1990 and opened a screen-printing workshop in the same year. She became a press illustrator a year later and in 1996 she married the writer Germano Zullo. Their many joint children’s publications have received several awards, including the BIB Golden Apple in 1999 for Marta et la bicyclette (Marta and the bicycle); Prix...
14.10.2021 - 14. 10. 2021
COUNTRIES AT BIB 2021
Some important numbers about BIB 2021 :NUMBER OF COUNTRIES: 42, NUMBER OF ILLUSTRATORS: 379, NUMBER OF ILLUSTRATIONS: 2768, NUMBER OF BOOKS: 487
17.09.2021 - 11. 9. 2022
FROM TOY TO TOY
A well designed and manufactured toy supports and even develops the sense of beauty, purposefulness and empathy in us. Our exhibition starts with a re-paint of a painting by Pieter Brueghel, on which the kids can look for games that are sill played today. Further they find here replicas of historic toys made according to archaeological findings, the iconic technical construction toy "Merkur" (screws and perforated sheet-metal parts), which gets manufactured since 1920 a city from a...
12.08.2021 - 12. 8. 2021
Words of memory for Dusan Roll in the Danish newspaper Politiken by Steffen Larsen
It might be too much too much to say about Dusan Roll that he succeded in bringing down the Berlin Wall and communism, but he deserves a considerable honor for the fact that childrens culture and especially the illustrative part of it was kept free of too much censorship and...
