🎨 EXHIBITION
OSOR Community Center, Town of Mali Lošinj, Croatia, June - November 2026.
🖌️ PARTICIPATION
The exhibition is open to all artists, regardless of nationality, age, gender, profession...
🖼️ TOPIC
🏝️ CELEBRATION on a desert island.
(birth, birthday, anniversary, wedding, holidays, New Year's...).
- We are celebrating the coming of age of an exceptional manifestation: OSCARfest in Osor.
- What else can be celebrated, and is it even possible to celebrate something on a desert island? Peace? Perseverance? Boredom? Solitude? Confusion before life?
- The rights you get as you come of age? Voting? Driver's license? Marriage?
- What does it mean to deliver a cake to a desert island? A Trojan horse? A mob that pops out of a cake? Hospitality? Laughing at a prank? The joy of survival? Unity?
- Does coming of age also mean taking responsibility for the world's problems.
- Coming of age also brings Weltschmerz (world-pain). Let's not let our celebration end in tears.
- We celebrate the strongest medicine against stupidity and injustice – CARICATURE.
- Universal and without words. Everywhere. We celebrate humanity!
🖼️ WORKS
- 1 - 3 cartoons WITHOUT WORDS.
- Works whether they have been awarded in other contests previously will be accepted.
❌ Works produced by AI are not accepted!
📏 FORMAT
A4 (210x297 mm), RGB, .jpg (JPEG), 300 dpi, high resolution.
⏰ DEADLINE
May 15, 2026.
📧 EMAIL ADDRESS
oscarfest.croatia@gmail.com
📄 Attachments should be named as follows:
Name-Surname-ARTISTIC NAME-Country-1 (2, 3, Entry Form) .. (Example: Dragutin-Kovačević-DADO-Croatia-1).
1️⃣ 1st SELECTION
- Exhibition selector MSc. Branka Hlevnjak, art historian and art critic (Croatia 🇭🇷).
- Selects one cartoon from each registered author according to the criteria: topic, originality of the idea, artistic quality, default paper formats, completed Application form, deadline.
2️⃣ 2nd SELECTION
- First place authors at the 17th OSCARfest 2025:
Mladen Oljača (Serbia 🇷🇸), Tao Liu LT (China 🇨🇳), Tin Horvat (Croatia 🇭🇷), Branka Hlevnjak - commission president, Dragutin Dado Kovačević - OSCARfest Program leader, Zdenko Puhin - Croatian Cartoonists Association.
- Select a maximum of 200 cartoons for the exhibition.
- Selectors automatically participate in the competition.
⚖️ JURY
INTERNATIONAL JURY OF VISITORS
Exhibition visitors choose the 3 best cartoons by secret vote (1st = 3 points, 2nd = 2 points, 3rd = 1 point).
📚 CATALOG
- All participants shall be sent the results and a digital catalogue via email.
- Confirmation of participation will be sent on request.
🏆 PRIZES
First, Second, Third place and First-ranked Croatian cartoonist:
🎭 Personal exhibition at the 19th OSCARfest 2027, Diploma, sponsorship awards, and the position of selector of the 19th OSCARfest 2027.
📜 OTHER RULES
The submitted works remain at the disposal of the organizer who may use them for promotional and other non-commercial purposes (awards for voters, sponsors and donors...) with the name of the author and the festival without royalties to the authors, and continue to exhibit them.
👉 PLEASE FORWARD THE APPLICATION FORM.
ℹ️ Information by email: oscarfest.croatia@gmail.com
Organizer: ARTour-Nerezine Association.
Art selector: Branka Hlevnjak.
Program leader: Dado Kovačević.
Financial support: Town of Mali Lošinj + Mali Lošinj Tourist Board.
Support: Osor Local Commitee + Croatian Cartoonist Association.
Sponsors: DesignArt + ARTshirt + Zdjelarević Wine Selection + OPG Benvin-Nerezine + Foto studio Nadir Mavrović + friends.
Media support: Radio Mali Lošinj-Radio Jadranka + Portal otoci.net + Novi list.