OSTEN BIENNIAL OF DRAWING SKOPJE 2012

On the open call for the competition, around 400 artists took part with more than 990 works, from 46 countries.
For the awards, international jury was in charge. It comprised of:

Nicholas Thaw, USA - President
Тrustee and program manager at IMAF (International Music and Art Foundation)

Dr.Barnaby Wright, Great Britain – member
(Daniel Katz Curator of 20th Century, Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London)
 
Pavle Pejovic МА, Montenegro – member
(Director of National Museum of Montenegro and full professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Cetinje)

Awarded artists

GRAND PRIX for Life Achievement - CHRISTO, USA
World Cultural Heritage Award - Dimitar Avramovski PANDILOV, Macedonia

FIRST AWARD for Drawing - Zlatko Glamotchak, France
FIRST AWARD for Graphics - Jiri ANDERLE, Czech Republic
FIRST AWARD for Concept - Vitaly KOMAR, USA
FIRST AWARD for Painting on Paper - Robert DANDAROV, USA
FIRST AWARD for Art of Paper - Jeongmin SUH, South Korea
FIRST AWARD for Young Artist - Blagojce Bane Naumoski, Macedonia

GOLDEN OSTEN AWARD
Marc FRISING, Luxembourg 
Muiyo GUNARSO, Indonesia
Tijana KOJIC, Serbia
Eva HNATOVA, Slovac Republic
Kai SAVELSBERG, Germany
Ivan GARDEA, Mexico

SPECIAL AWARD by the Jury
Done MILJANOVSKI, Macedonia
Alla GEORGIEVA, Bulgaria
Christel-Andrea STEIER, Germany

SPECIAL RECOGNITION by the Jury
Adolf BORN, Czech Republic
Gligor CEMERSKI, Macedonia

IMAF AWARD
Miran SABIC, Croatia

SPECIAL RECOGNITION by OSTEN - Herald of Fantastic Realism
Ernst FUCHS, Austria

SPECIAL RECOGNITION by OSTEN - for Project
Edi RAMA & Anri SALA, Albania

OSTEN AWARD
ARINA, Great Britan
Vladimir GEORGIEVSKI, Macedonia
Anka BURIC, Montenegro
Zoran MALINOVSKI, Canada
Atanas BOTEV, Macedonia