International Exhibition
SATYRYKON – LEGNICA 2022

During the opening of the exhibition – on 15 September 2022 – the Satyrykon Needles (Szpila Satyrykonu) award will be presented, for the tenth time, rewarding unruly and inspiring personalities. The awards have been presented since 2013. Previous recipients of the Pin include: Maria Peszek, Joanna Kołaczkowska, Maria Czubaszek, Wojciech Młynarski, Maciej Stuhr, Stanisław Tym, Henryk Sawka, Wojciech Mann, Piotr Bukartyk, Andrzej Poniedzielski or the "Szkła Kontaktowe" team.

The pins are awarded for an open mind, sense of humour, distance to oneself and the surrounding world, for activities that move the social intellect and for going against the tide of façade correctness and dubious normality.

The selection of the winners is made by the annually changing Satyrykon Pins Comitee, representing the Polish opinion-forming community. This year, the comitee included Katarzyna Kasia, Beata Tadla, Henryk Sawka, Mateusz Różański and Grzegorz Szczepaniak.

Minutes of the Jury meeting of the International Exhibition SATYRYKON - Legnica 2022, 5 March 2022.

Jury composed of:

SZYMON SZYMANKIEWICZ - chairman
and VASCO GARGALO (Portugal), JANUSZ KAPUSTA (Poland), ALI MIRAEE (Iran), PETER NIEUWENDIJK (Netherlands), KAJA RENKAS (Poland), ANITA WINCENCJUSZ-PATYNA (Poland)

after viewing 2500 works by 764 authors from 65 countries around the world, qualified 188 works for the post-competition exhibition and decided to award the following statutory prizes:

SATYRYKON 2022 Grand Prix and a cash prize of PLN 10,000 - FUENTES HIERREZUELO CARLOS DAVID (Cuba) for an untitled work

SECTION: SCHOOL

First prize, gold medal and a cash prize of PLN 7,000 - MIROSŁAW GRYŃ (Poland) for his work 'Lesson of Religion'

Second prize, silver medal and a cash prize of PLN 6,000 - AGIM SULAJ (Italy) for his work 'School 2'.

Third prize, bronze medal and cash prize of PLN 5,000 - JAREK BUJNY (Poland) for the work "Home skull"

and two equivalent distinctions of PLN 4,000 each:

PIOTR DEPTA-KLEŚTA (Poland) for the work "History and the present"
JACEK LANCKOROŃSKI (Poland) for an untitled work

SECTION: JOKE and SATIRE

First prize, gold medal and a cash prize of PLN 7 000 - JUGOSLAV VLAHOVIĆ (Serbia) for the work "Freedom"

Second prize, silver medal and a cash prize of PLN 6,000 - YURII LEVSHYN (Poland) for the work "Censorship"

Third prize, bronze medal and cash prize of PLN 5,000 - SAMAN TORABI (Iran) for the work "The memories"

and two equivalent distinctions of PLN 4,000 each:

MOHAMMAD AMIN AGHAEI (Iran) for his work "Crucified"

FRANEK WOLSKI (Poland) for the work "Fejsbóg".

special awards

Award of the Mayor of the City of Legnica in the amount of PLN 4 000 - ARISTIDES ESTEBAN HERNADEZ GUERRERO (Cuba) for an untitled work

Award of the Director of the Legnica Cultural Centre in the amount of PLN 4,000 - NORBERT SARNECKI (Poland) for the work "Kidnapping Europe"

Andrzej Tomiałojcio Satyrykon Foundation Award of PLN 4,000 - PAWEŁ KUCZYŃSKI (Poland) for the work "Justice"

The Director's Award of director of the Museum of Caricature in Warsaw in the amount of PLN 4,000 - JOANNA GĘBAL (Poland) for the work "Lesson".

The Andrzej Waligórski prize of Legnica journalists - PAWEŁ KUCZYŃSKI (Poland) for the work "Education".

Yurii Levshyn

Born in 1995, graduate of the Graphic Design Department at Collegium da Vinci in Poznań. He works in graphic design, printmaking and illustration.

With his works, he tries to talk about things close to him and everyday things - about what bothers and delights him. In his prints, one can often see a commentary on current and important events.

When creating his works, he does not confine himself to a single technique - he uses both traditional media (such as drawing, painting or printmaking) and a wide range of digital tools.

Joanna Gębal - born in 1989, works in illustration and applied graphics, currently lives and works in Warsaw. She graduated from the Faculty of Graphic Design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. 

Works as illustrator with various magazines, illustrates books, works in animation, designs patterns for fabrics, product packaging and visual identification.