The Illustrator Olympus - Vienna

The exhibition presents works of artists who won the highest awards of the Biennial of Illustrations Bratislava (BIB) - Grand Prix and Golden Apples, in the half-century retrospective of this international event. Visitors are invited to browse through a collection of nearly 150 illustrated books for children and youth coming from 36 countries provided by the BIBIANA Library in Bratislava. The book collection is accompanied by the set of book illustrations that brought their authors the supreme prize, Grand Prix, providing visitors with a comprehensive view of illustration – not only as an art work on its own but as an integral part of the book product as well. The exhibition is organized as a travelling event that previously had not been open to such a large audience as over the next two years it will successively visit 26 libraries, galleries and other cultural institutions in Slovakia and neighbouring countries