Board of the International Competition

The International Competition is put together by a selection board:

Na Kim (designer KR) - chair of the team of curators
Tomáš Celizna (designer CZ)
Adam Macháček (designer CZ)
Radek Sidun (designer CZ)
Marta Sylvestrová (design theorist CZ)
Adam Štěch (design theorist CZ)


Board of the International Competition


Statement of the team of curators of the International Competition:

One of the main qualities of the Brno Biennial is its capacity to respond and adapt to new impulses without loosing from its identity and uniqueness at the same time. The 50 years of its uninterrupted history makes the biennial one of the oldest events of its kind in the field of graphic design.

If the main goal of the International Competition in the past years was to present graphic design in the widest range of countries and authors, organized in several exhibition categories (often compromising on the qualities of the exhibition itself because of its breadth), this Biennial can be seen as an attempt to set a new direction, reflecting the changes in contemporary graphic design.

The upcoming edition of the International Competition is therefore not limited by any categories. Moreover, one of the new tasks of its board, first time conceived as a curatorial team sharing a single vision, was to devise a concept of the exhibition in close collaboration with invited architects. When selecting from the submitted works, the members of the board were looking for possible connections among the exhibits as well as to their relationship to the exhibition in its entirety.

Following a careful review of all submitted works, considering their qualitative and professional aspects, and with regard to available exhibition space and technical limitations, the team conceived an exhibition that will become, along with a three-day lecture series and guest curator's exhibition one of the fundamental components of the 25th International Biennial of Graphic Design Brno 2012.

We would like to use this opportunity to express our gratitude to all who sent in their work. This exhibition would not be possible without them. We are well aware of the fact, that the selection, due to the nature of the exhibition and various limitations, does not contain all what might be included otherwise. However, we sincerely hope, that this deliberately considered selection will result in an exhibition that will be equally inspiring for designers and general public alike.