19.–24. September 2019

Kampus Hybernská, Prague 1

The sixth annual LUSTR contemporary illustration festival took place from September 19 to 24, 2019, at the Hybernská Campus in Prague 1, once again confirming its position as the largest and most significant exhibition of original illustration in the Czech Republic. Over the course of six days, it offered visitors a unique opportunity to see the best of contemporary illustration literally under one roof.

The central theme of this year’s event was Freedom, which resonated both in the context of historical anniversaries and in the personal and social statements of the exhibiting artists. The thematic approach was not a condition for participation; illustrators related to it freely and individually.

The festival featured the largest exhibition of contemporary illustration in the Czech Republic. From nearly 300 registered authors, a professional jury selected more than 40 illustrators from Czechia and Slovakia, who were joined by foreign guests. The exhibitors included established professionals, emerging authors, and illustrators working outside the mainstream. The Hybernská Campus was filled with original installations created specifically for this event.

Among the foreign guests was the award-winning Chinese illustrator Zhu Yingchun, author of the book The Slowpoke Snail. He presented his watercolor drawings and led a workshop focused on the magic of ink painting. His participation was organized in cooperation with the Verzone publishing house.

Other guests included Berlin-based illustrators from Random Collective, who presented a group exhibition at the festival, appeared at LUSTR Talks, and organized a workshop/masterclass on character design for animation, led by Elda Brogli and Guille Comín.

Foreign participation was complemented by an exhibition of winners from the Moscow Book Illustration Festival MORS, an international platform connecting illustrators, artists, publishers, and readers.

Among Czech illustrators, the award-winning Chrudoš Valoušek accepted our invitation.

The studio brings together world-class professional illustrators and animators. Argentine illustrators and designers Elda Broglia, Florencia Sofia, Josefina Preumayr, and Marcela Bustamante; Spanish illustrator Guille Comin; British illustrator Jack Sachs; Argentine illustrator Juan Molinet; and Slovak illustrator Martina Pauková. All of the artists are connected by their stay and work in Berlin. And their friends Cachetejack and Jose Mendez.

Random Collective Berlin & Friends:

Random Collective

Martina Paukova
Juan Molinet
Josefina Preumayr
Elda Broglio
Guille Comin
Marcela Bustamante
Joe Taylor
Cachetejack
Maria Giemza
Jose Mendez

Chrudoš Valoušek (1960) is a graphic artist and illustrator. He studied at the Secondary School of Applied Arts in Uherské Hradiště and monumental painting at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the main prize at this year’s BolognaRagazzi Award festival, the award for the Most Beautiful Czech Children’s Book of the Year, the Golden Ribbon for Artistic Achievement of the Year, and the Revolver revue award. He is also the recipient of the first ever award dedicated to linocut at Grafika roku (Graphics of the Year). In addition to Panáček, pecka, švestka, poleno a zase panáček (A little man, a stone, a plum, a log, and again little man, 2017), he has illustrated the books O zlaté mrkvi (About the golden carrot, 2003), Chrudošův mix přísloví (Chrudoš’s mix of proverbs, 2008), Zazi v metru (Zazi in the Metro, 2010), Žaloudění v Kundibále (Acorn Eating in Kundibál, 2010), Valouškova zvířátka (Valoušek’s Animals, 2014), and Chrudošův zvěřinec (Chrudoš’s Menagerie, 2014). He lives in Prague and works at the National Gallery.

MORS is an international festival of book illustration and visual representation of literary works. It is a creative space that brings together modern book illustrators, artists, publishers, writers, and readers.

Its representatives will bring a collection of works by last year’s winners to LUSTR, and our cooperation does not end there; Czech artists will also be presenting their work at this year’s festival in Moscow. Not only through their works, but also through workshops and lectures.

Patrik Antczak

Michal Bačák

Aliona Baranova

Monika Baudišová

David Černý

Jarosław Danilenko / danilenko_jr

Piotr Depta-Kleśta

Bohdan Dušek / mr. Pigdog

Marek Ehrenberger

Eugen Finkei

Alžběta Göbelová / baziliška

Ieva Gvazdaitytė / Proper Normal

Anna Havelková

Eva Horská

Barbora Idesová

Jindřich Janíček

Eva Jaroňová

Barbora Kmecová / BESSA

FIlip Tatýrek a Vojta Kočí / SULC

Martin Lacko

Dana Ledl / Myokard

Lucie Lučanská

Maria Makeeva

Pavel Mrňous

Zuzana Paterová Viková / zuzama

Helga Pavelkova / SLOV

Martin Poláček

Přemek Ponáhlý

Daniela a Denisa Ponomarevovy

Linda Retterová / ROE

Anastasia Stročkova

Tomáš Svoboda / SMOT

Viktor Svoboda

Andrea Šafaříková

Tereza Ščerbová

Kristýna Šťastná / krisstastna

Petra Štichová

Tomski&Polanski

Terezie Unzeitigová

Jan Šrámek & Veronika Vlková

Klára Zahrádková

PRAGUE PRAGUE PRAGUE PRAGUE PRAGUE PRAGUE PRAGUE PRAGUE — We greatly appreciate the support of all our partners and would like to thank the Prague City Hall and Prague 1 City District for their financial support of the festival. In addition to the financial support, this assistance shows us that Prague loves us, and that means the most! We would like to thank Kampus Hybernská for providing the venue and we wish you all the best. We would like to thank Indigoprint, which printed this catalog and all other printed materials and managed to do so before the opening (we hope). We would like to thank Barbora Idesová for the beautiful visuals, Magda Prudíková from Loners.company, and Lenka Hámošová for the graphics.