Showcase – Illustration

This year’s Showcase exhibition once again presents a selection of illustrators and comic artists from around the world who responded to our open call. LUSTR traditionally announces this call at the beginning of each new year. We are delighted that more and more authors are applying each year, allowing us to offer the public diversity not only in terms of art but also in terms of age, gender, and geography. We are pleased that our call is reaching beyond the borders of Europe. Last year, we received a record number of applications from Asia, and this year we also received applications from South America and Mexico, and even from Kenya and New Zealand.

This year, the jury in the free illustration section is represented by illustrator Nikola Logosová, one of the winners of the audience award at LUSTR two years ago, who contributed her illustrations to last year’s visuals; illustrator and educator Jan Šrámek, curator and co-founder of the Vitríny Frýdlantska street gallery and the Otevřené ateliéry Praha festival, Petra Widžová, illustrator and teacher Michaela Kukovičová, and Tomáš Brandejs, founder of the publishing house 65. pole.