🇵🇱 Satyrykon 2027 - rules and regulations
I. Participation conditions
1. SATYRYKON 2027 International Exhibition is an open competition.
2.
The organizer of the International SATYRYKON Exhibition – Legnica 2027
is the Henryk Karliński Legnica Cultural Centre, with its registered
office at 2 Chojnowska Street, 59-220 Legnica, Poland.
3.
The objects of the competition are drawings, graphics and other works
of fine arts and photography created with the use of optional
techniques, being originals and qualified by artists to one of the
following sections:
1️⃣ Theme: BETTER TOMORROW
2️⃣ Theme JOKE & SATIRE
1. WORKS AWARDED IN OTHER COMPETITIONS will be excluded from the SATYRYKON competition.
2. Works are to be sent via the online form by 5th January 2027 (no later than 11.59 a.m., Polish time zone) avilable at: https://satyrykon.pl/en/applications/
3.
Up to three works may be submitted for each section of the competition.
Accepted work format: A3 (297x420mm) at maximum, 5 MB per picture,
saved in JPEG format. In the case of objects that cannot be sent by
e-mail (e.g. sculptures), please contact us: satyrykon@lck.art.pl.
4.
Entries produced using AI text-to-image generating software or
platforms are not eligible to be qualified for the competition.
AI-generated artwork or entries based on AI-generated artwork will be
disqualified.
5. Each participant who submits an entry declares that they are the sole author of the entry.
6.
The competition is conducted in two stages. In the first stage, all
correctly submitted entries will undergo a preliminary evaluation and
selection by the Competition Jury. Based on the Jury’s assessment, the
list of entries qualified for the second stage will be published.
7.
A condition for participation in the second stage of the competition is
that the original works or prints of works created using digital
techniques must be sent to the Organizer . The artworks must be sent by
post by 22 February 2027.
II. Prizes
1. Works for the competition will be qualified by the international Jury.
2. Jury will award the following prizes:
🏆 Grand Prix SATYRYKON 2027 – prize in kind – pure gold key and cash prize in the amount of 15.000 PLN.
🥇 2 gold medals and cash prize in the amount of 9.000 PLN each.
🥈 2 silver medals and cash prize in the amount of 8.000 PLN each.
🥉 2 bronze medals and cash prize in the amount of 7.000 PLN each.
🏅 4 special prizes amounting to 6.000 PLN each.
💛 Additional Special prizes will be awarded:
🏅 Mayor of Legnica award in amount of 5.000 PLN.
🏅 Director of Legnica Culture Centre award in amount of 5.000 PLN.
🏅 Museum of Caricature in Warsaw award in amount of 5.000 PLN.
🏅 Satyrykon`s Andrzej Tomiałojć Foundation award in amount of 5.000 PLN.
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The organisers are expecting extra awards for laureates: for the Author
of THE BEST DEBUT and the Author of THE STUDENT DEBUT to be accompanied
by a solo exhibition at the Satyrykon Gallery within the programme of
SATYRYKON 2027 events.
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Jury has the right of final distribution of the statutory prizes, i.e.
to change their number, not to award them, or not to award the Grand
Prix SATYRYKON. Jury’s decisions are final.
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The index of works qualified for the 2nd stage of the competition will
be announced on 19th January 2027 at Satyrykon webpage: www.satyrykon.pl.
🔹 The Organizer will inform the participants who have qualified for the second stage of the competition via email.
🔹 The competition results with index of works qualified for exhibition will be announced on 12th March 2027.
4.
Participation in the competition is free of charge. The work originals
will be returned on condition that the Author donates one of the works
of her/his choice to the Satyrykon Gallery – as a form of compensation
for posting costs. In case there is no clear Author’s indication, the
organizer may post the work back on the Author’s cost. Details of
payment and return will be arranged in individual e-mail correspondence.
🚫 Note!
IN-KIND and CASH AWARDS ARE SUBJECT TO TAXATION ACCORDING TO THE CURRENT REGULATIONS.
The
payment of cash prizes to international artists is conditional upon
their attendance at the exhibition opening and collection of the prize
in cash, or upon the transfer of the prize money to a bank account in
the currency specified by the artist.
III. Participants’ privileges
1.
Authors of the works qualified to the exhibition are given a
presentation copy of the exhibition catalogue and a free-of-charge place
in the catalogue.
2. Organisers provide competition prize-winners with gratuitous participation in the SATYRYKON 2027 event on June 11-13, 2027.
3.
Works sent to the exhibitions will be exhibited in Poland and abroad
after the main exhibition, and then will be returned to their authors by
the end of 2025. WE KINDLY ASK THE AUTHORS TO NOTIFY US ABOUT ANY
CHANGES TO THEIR ADDRESS DATA – RETURN ADDRESS / PHONE / E-MAIL (please
contact us: satyrykon@lck.art.pl).
IV. Final provisions
1.
Organisers reserve the right to use the sent works for SATYRYKON
advertising purposes without any special fees paid to the authors: to be
exhibited and reproduced in a variety of advertising materials, as well
as printed and circulated in catalogues.
2. The prize-winning works become the property of the organizers and will be included in the collection of the Satyrykon Gallery.
3. The exhibition organizers are the final judges in interpretation of the regulations.
4.
The members of the Jury and the authors of projects for the current
edition of Satyrykon are excluded from participating in this edition of
the competition.
5.
Sending her/his work the artist agrees to the mentioned above rules and
regulations and agrees to publication of the author’s profile in the
post-exhibition catalogue.
6. Legnica Culture Centre (+4876 72-33-700; e-mail: satyrykon@lck.art.pl,) is the organiser of the International Exhibition SATYRYKON – Legnica 2026.
📅 Schedule:
🔹 Work acceptance deadline: 5 January, 2027 at 11:59 a.m.(Polish time zone).
🔹 Qualification for the second stage of the competition will be announced no later than 19 January 2027 at Satyrykon website www.satyrykon.pl
🔹 Jury meeting: March 5th, 2027.
🔹 Announcement of the list of participants selected for the exhibition: March 12, 2027.
🔹 Post-competition exhibition: June – August, 2027.
🔹 Return of the works after the exhibition cycle: December 31st, 2028.