Other events
30.08.2024 - 30. 8. 2024
ORGANIZATION ORDER BIB 2025
Basic provisions
- 1 / The Biennial of Illustrations Bratislava 2025 (BIB 2025) will take place between October 3, 2025 and January 13, 2026 in Bratislava, Slovak Republic.
- 2 / The BIB organizers in respective countries as well as international artists will obtain the Statute and Organization Order BIB 2025 and Questionnaire from the organizer of BIB 2025 by...
Time schedule BIB 2025
BIB 2025
Time schedule
April 30, 2025 | Application deadline
May 31, 2025 | Deadline for sending the illustrations
Sept. 28 – Oct. 1, 2025 BIB 2025 | International Jury meetings
October 3, 2025 10:00 | International press conference
12:30 – 14:00 | BIB International Committee meeting
17:00 | BIB 2025 Festive opening
19:00 | Reception
October 4, 2025 10:00 – 18:00 |...
04.10.2023 - 4. 10. 2023
Ceremonial opening of the BIB 2023
Za prítomnosti ministerky kultúry Silvie Hroncovej sa uskutočnilo slávnostné otvorenie 29. ročníka BIB, na ktorom boli v divadle P. O. Hviezdoslava odovzdané udelené ocenenia. Záštitu nad BIB 2023 prevzala prezidentka republiky Slovenskej republiky Zuzana Čaputová, ministerka kultúry SR Silvia Hroncová a primátor hlavného mesta Bratislavy Matúš Vallo.
04.10.2023 - 4. 10. 2023
The Children’s Jury of the Biennial of Illustrations Bratislava 2023
PROTOCOL FROM A MEETING OF THE CHILDREN’S JURY...
10.10.2023 - 15. 10. 2023
THE UGLY DUCKLING'S TALE
The new approach to this story by Štúdio BIBIANA offers the chance of finding answers at least to some of them - in a sensible and humorous way.05.10.2023 - 3. 12. 2023
Author experiments in the book’s illustration and graphic design
Exhibition of young illustrators, graduates of the Bachelor's degree in Book, Illustration, Printed Graphics at the National Academy of Arts in Sofia. Those illustrations and book mock-ups have been created during the academic year 2022–2023 within the “task” named Author's edition for children with an alternative “spatial form”.
29.09.2023 - 30. 10. 2023
I come from my childhood, as if from some country
Prichádzam zo svojho detstva, akoby z nejakej krajiny. Pod týmto názvom vystavuje oceňovaná izraelská ilustrátorka Anat Warshavsky. Výstava pri príležitosti 30. výročia nadviazania diplomatických vzťahov medzi Slovenskou republikou a Izraelským štátom a 75. výročia nezávislosti Izraelského štátu predstavuje desiatky ilustrácií autorky zo štyroch detských kníh.
28.09.2023 - 3. 12. 2023
Polish Book Illustration for Children
At this exhibition, you don't even have to enter the exhibition room. A selection of 14 posters by seven contemporary Polish illustrators having participated in the BIB in the past — can be viewed and admired during a planned or just purely accidental walk in the Institute's windows. Free access (literally) “directly from the street”.
28.09.2023 - 14. 10. 2023
See you!
For the first time in Slovakia, you can visit the International Travelling Exhibition "We See Each Other!" — presenting a selection of 50 illustrations from the ten most beautiful picture books for children and the youth from 2022, having been awarded the "Panda Honorary" prize in China.
29.09.2023 - 1. 10. 2023
International Jury BIB 2023
An eleven-member international jury will judge and evaluate 2,072 original illustrations from all over the world. Its members will present their decision on the awards (Grand Prix, 5 Golden Apples, 5 Plaques and Honorable Mention to the Publisher) at an international press conference held on Wednesday 4.10.
05.10.2023 - 5. 10. 2023
BIB International Symposium
After the pandemic year 2021, when the international symposium did not take place and contributions were only published, in 2023 the symposium will take place on October 5 –October 6, 2023 in the University Library in Bratislava. The theme of the BIB 2023 international symposium is: Fairy Tale Books (National Identity of Illustration and its Communication in the International Context)
02.10.2023 - 30. 10. 2023
