The world’s first museum collecting posters – the Warsaw Poster Museum – is inseparably connected with this event. This year 3068 posters from 58 countries have been sent in for the competition. Only a fourth of them can be seen on show at the Poster Museum in Wilanów, a district in Warsaw. The 510 works are displayed in three categories: ideological, cultural and advertising posters. 150 posters in the Henryk Tomaszewski Golden Debut category can also be seen. The jury of the 21st International Poster Biennale announced their verdict on June 7. The exhibition is open until September 7.
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Photo. Alain Le Quernec, France – “They are Just People with Down Syndrome”

WINNERS
The jury of the 21st International Poster Biennial: Xavier Bermúdez (Mexico), Tomasz Bogusławski (Poland), Jianping He (Germany), Anette Lenz (France), Uwe Loesch (Germany, President of the jury)), Marcin Władyka (Poland) awarded the following prizes:

IN IDEOLOGICAL POSTERS CATEGHORY:
* GOLD MEDAL:
Mark Gowing, Australia
for Oil kills Peace

* SILVER MEDAL:
Alain Le Quernec, France
for They are Just People with Down Syndrome

* BRONZE MEDAL:
Christophe Gaudard, France
for Day Against Violence Against Women

IN POSTERS PROMOTING CULTURE CATEGORY:

* GOLD MEDAL:
Ronald Curchod , France
for: King Lear

* SILVER MEDAL:
Andrey Logvin, Russia
for: 10 years of the Kaliningrad Branch National Center for Contemporary Art”

* BRONZE MEDAL:
Sébastien Courtois, Nous Travaillons Ensemble, France
for: Open Doors Ginkgo 2007

IN ADVERTSIING POSTERS CATEGORY:

* GOLD MEDAL:
Yumiko Meya, Japan
for: Beauty, Neo

* SILVER MEDAL:
Gaku Ohsugi, Japan
for: Mesatex 2008 Japanese fabric

* BRONZE MEDAL:
Yukimi Sano, Japan
for: A blue dot

IN DEBUTS CATEGORY:

* HENRYK TOMASZEWSKI GOLD DEBUT
Anita Wasik, Poland
for: Corporate abuse

HONORARY AWARDS:
Malte Reinish, Germany
No id, face only

Anna Szczepańska , Poland
Victims of fashion


SPECIAL PRZIE - ICOGRADA EXCELLENCE AWARD:
Pierre Mendel, Germany
for: Flying Dutchman

JÓZEF MROSZCZAK HONORARY AWARD GRANTED BY WARSAW FINE ARTS ACADEMY RECTOR:
Joanna Górska and Jerzy Skakun, Poland
for: Shut up and shoot me