Dear artists,
We warmly greet Your great response and the quality of the works with which You have participated on World Gallery of Drawings Skopje 2009.

We are currently in the finishing stage of our preparations for the exhibition of our World gallery of cartoons which will be opened on 10^th December 2009 at 20,20h in Osten gallery Skopje, Macedonia, and where the prizes will be granted.

On 18^th and 19^th September 2009, international jury has made their decisions.

GRAN PRIX for life work
JOZE CIUHA

Word Cultural Heritage award
VICTOR VASARELY

First prize for artistic performance
PETER HEYDECK

First prize for subject
STEFAN BERGER

First prize for futurism
VASKO TASHKOVSKI

First prize for fantasy
PAWEL WARCHOL

First prize for innovative idea
MILIVOJ HUSAK

Special prizes of the jury:
Stasys Aukstuolis – Lithuania
Song Ji Ksin – China
Nikola Milunovik – Serbia
Irina Jelagina – Russia
Nikolaj Jordanov Buzov – Bulgaria
Hugo Enrike Dinzelbacher - Argentina

Special prize of the jury for graphics:
KUDOL TADATAKA - Japan

Osten, the organizer of World Gallery of Drawings Skopje 2009 is granting the following special prizes:
Sol Kjok – USA
Done Miljanovski – Macedonia
Stefan Hadzi Nikolov – Macedonia
Yannis Stefanakis – Greece
Jordan Manasievski – Macedonia

International jury of The World Gallery of Drawings Skopje 2009:

1. Vencislav Andonov – president (director of Graphic Biennial – Varna, Bulgaria)
2. Vasil Vasilev – member (academic sculptor, Macedonia)
3. Darko Markovic – member (cartoonist, Macedonia)
4. Aleksandar Blatnik – member (painter and cartoonist, Serbia)
5. Mosha Todorovich – member (gallerist, Serbia)
6. Vlado Gjorevski – member (coordinator of the international graphic triennial Bitola, Macedonia)
7. Ljuben Paunoski – member (art critic)

President of the international jury
Vencislav Andonov

OSTEN
director
Mice Jankulovski