The jury of Boomfest 2012 – Alim Velitov, Harukichi and Varvara Pomidor.
Winners of the competition.
Age category “under 12 years old” – Nastassja Plesovskikh (Perm)
Age group “13-18 years old” – Vlada Panteleeva (Fryazino, Moscow region).
Age category “over 18 years old”
Grand Prix – Olga Shtonda (Kharkov, Ukraine)
The best story – Konstantin Dubkov (Yekaterinburg)
Best Graphics – Natalia Metlukh (San Francisco, USA)
Special prizes – Anna Morozova (Perm), Sergey Gudkov (Eagle)
The prize of the St. Petersburg comic community – Denis Soroka (Stavropol)
Congratulations to the winners!
Main days of Boomfest. Don’t miss.
September 27
17.30 vernissage of Anna Sommer(Switzerland), The Nabokov Museum, ul. Bolshaya Morskaya, 47 (m. Admiralteyskaya).
19.00 vernissages of Line Hoven (Germany), Alim Velitov (Russia), Le dernier cri (France), Choice – best competition works, Small Hall of “Manege”, nab. kan. Griboedova, 103 (m. Sadovaya, Sennaya ploshchad).
September 28
Small Hall of “Manege”, nab. kan. Griboedova, 103 (m. Sadovaya, Sennaya ploshchad), seminar “Educational processes in the comics and illustration”.
12.00-13.30 – Luigi Raffaelli – Academy of Fine Arts, Bologna (Italy), www.ababo.it
13.30-15.00 – Hans Georg (Atak) – Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design (Germany), www.burg-halle.de
15.00-16.30 – Jessica Abel – The School of Visual Arts (USA), www.sva.edu
16.30-17.30 – Victor Melamed – The British Higher School of Art and Design (Moscow), www.britishdesign.ru
18.00 vernissage of José Muñoz (Argentina), The Centre of Art and Music of Mayakovsky’s library, Nevskiy pr. 20 (m. Nevsky prospekt).
20.00 vernissage of Varvara Pomidor (Russia), Art centre «Nevsky 8» Nevskiy pr, 8 (m. Admiralteyskaya).
September 29
Small Hall of “Manege”, nab. kan. Griboedova, 103 (m. Sadovaya, Sennaya ploshchad).
12.00 – 19.00 comics market.
1 floor.
12.00-13.30 – Gert Jan Pos (Holland), lecture “Understanding Dutch Comics”
13.30-14.30 – François Ayroles (France)
14.30-16.00 – Hans Georg (Atak) (Germany)
16.00-18.00 – Hans Joachim Neyer (Germany), lecture “Wilhelm Busch – artist, illustrator, poet”
18.00-19.30 – Jessica Abel (USA)
2 floor.
13.00-14.30 – Harukichi (Japan)
15.00-16.30 – Live Bubbles (Russia)
17.00-18.30 – Pakito Bolino (France), lecture “Comics and silkscreen”.
September 30
Small Hall of “Manege”, nab. kan. Griboedova, 103 (m. Sadovaya, Sennaya ploshchad).
12.00 – 19.00 comics market.
1 floor.
12.00-13.00 – Alim Velitov (Russia)
13.00-14.30 – Line Hoven (Germany)
14.30-15.30 – Varvara Pomidor (Russia)
15.30-17.00 – Anna Sommer (Switzerland)
17.00-18.30 – José Muñoz (Argentina)
19.00 Announcement of the winners of the competition.
Entrance to all events is free. The program may change.
Tomorrow September 26 at 18.00 vernissage of Harukichi (Japan), “Saray” gallery (Liteyniy pr., 53, entrance under the arch, m. Mayakovskaya, Vladimirskaya).
Do not miss!!
Tomorrow September 21 at 19.00 will be vernissage of Tzeh illustration (Russia), Art re.FLEX gallery pr. Bakunina, 5 (m. Ploshchad Vosstaniya).
Do not miss!!
September 10 at 19.00 will be meeting with famous french comics artist André Juillard in art centre Nevsky 8 (Nevskiy pr. 8, m. Admiralteyskaya).
With support of French institute.
Dear friends,
we read all works of competition and we made the short list. These works will be presented at the exhibition and some of their authors will receive the prizes. Here is the list of foreign authors: Boris Pramatarov (Bulgaria), Jeroen Funke (Holland), Nele Bronner (Germany), Chien-Wen Wang (Taiwan), Chien Yu Hsin (Taiwan), Ladislav Bakay(Slovakia), Dominik Heilig (Germany).
As we wrote earlier, we can offer the participants older than 18 years of living in a hostel in St. Petersburg during the educational program of the festival from September 27 till October 1. Maximum 15 people. You will pay for transoprt yourself. To do this, send an email as soon as possible to info@boomfest.ru and we help you with invitation for russian visa .
Here is a poster of the festival 2012. Illustration was draw by Japanese artist Harukichi.
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