// REGULATIONS //

OPENING CEREMONY

The opening ceremony of the Seventh World Biennial of Student Poster will be held on 2nd February at Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Dunavska 37, Novi Sad starting at 19.00 hours.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED

Due to the large number of participants, there have been frequent downtime of our website. We apologize for that and we decided to give a chance to all those who have failed to apply, so we extended the submission deadline until 4th December 2016.

ENTRANT CRITERIA

The Seventh World Biennial of Student Poster, organized by the University of Novi Sad and the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, is open to all undergraduate and graduate students of art colleges where the discipline of poster art is a part of the curriculum.

ENTRY DIVISIONS

All posters must represent the student's work performed within the last two school years.

COMPETITIVE CATEGORIES

Free subject: posters made during the last two school years as a part of the curriculum.
Only students at academies and colleges of arts where the discipline of poster art is part of the curriculum have the right to participate at the competition. One can take part with three works at most.

HOW TO APPLY:

All received posters will become a part of a special Biennial's collection at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad and can be used in didactic purposes. They will be presented at the Biennial's web site. By filling in the application form, the entrants accept the terms of the organizer of the Biennial exhibition.
The Selection Board is entitled to reject those works that are not in agreement with the undisputed world standards on human rights to identity, nation, religion, language and the like. The organizers of the Biennial have no authorities to transfer any rights to third party in the sense of using and reproduction of works from the Biennial. The entrants accept that their work can be used in non-commercial purposes as well as in the promotion of the Biennial.

SUBMISSION PROCEDURES

Poster entries MUST be submitted via this website as digital files, using the online ENTRY FORM. Through the electronic submission process, an entry form and labels will be automatically generated. Information on the entry form will be used in the exhibition’s catalog and other Biennial publications.
PLEASE, CAREFULLY READ ENTRY GUIDELINES
BEFORE SUBMITTING POSTERS.

ENTRY GUIDELINES

  1. All posters must be submitted digitally through this Web site.
  2. Convert your Poster files to meet these condition:
    JPG - quality 10, CMYK - 8 Bits/channel, 2756 x 3937 pixel
    or
    PDF - CMYK, 70 x 100 cm, 100 pixels/inch
    In both cases, the file size must not exceed 10 MB
  3. DO NOT SEND PRINTED COPIES. The WBESP will make print-outs for jury review, as well as exhibition prints of winning posters.
  4. DEADLINE: All entries must be received by 4th December 2016. There will be no extensions.
  5. There is no entry fee to the Biennial competition.
  6. Each student can participate with three (3) posters.

AWARDS AND PRIZES

The 1st prize winner gets the right to organize a solo exhibition at the next Biennial with ten (10) posters an optional choice. The prizes and awards consist of: monetary prizes, plaques and certificates.

STUDENT'S PRIZES
1st prize ……. €1000
2nd prize ……. €600
3rd prize ……. €300

The posters will be judged by a five-member jury. In addition to the main prizes awarded by the jury, special prizes will also be presented by companies and individuals. The judges' decision is final and the winners will be announced at the opening ceremony of the Biennial in Novi Sad in February 2017.

COPYRIGHT

The submitted posters must be designed by entrant. If the work has the intellective right or copyright dispute, the organizer will cancel the qualification of the entry right. The entrant must undertake all the consequences. The entrant should ensure the organizer not to generate any copyright or other intellective right dispute for the use of the posters. The organizer has the right to exhibit, publish (including digital publish) and collect the selected posters.

CALENDAR

The deadline for the receipt of the entries is 4th December 2016. The opening ceremony of the Biennial will be held in February 2017. The exact date will be announced at the Biennial web site.

CATALOGUE

A colour catalogue of the Seventh World Biennial of Student Poster - Novi Sad 2016 will be published in digital form. It will include works of all participants selected for exhibition by the Selection Jury. Catalogue will be presented on Biennial website and ready for free download.

ORGANIZER

AKADEMIJA UMETNOSTI
Djure Jaksica 7
21000 Novi Sad
Srbija
[email protected]