Poster designed by Marcin Władyka will promote the Chopin Competition in Warsaw

The jury – professor Błażej Ostoja Lniski, professor Prot Jarnuszkiewicz, professor Mieczysław Wasilewski and dr Artur Szklener, director of the Fryderyk Chopin Institute – unanimously awarded the main prize and 40 000 Polish zlotys to dr Marcin Władyka.

The rector of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, professor Błażej Ostoja Lniski, said that the jury appreciated “the clarity and universality of the message as well as the individual approach to the tradition of representing the image of Fryderyk Chopin.” Professor Prot Jarnuszkiewicz was taken with “the compact message combined with respect for visual and cultural tradition.” In professor Mieczysław Wasilewski’s opinion the winning poster presents „everything one has to say in such a way that it will speak clearly about this august event that the Chopin Competition is”.



Dr Artur Szklener, who represented the organiser of the Chopin Competition in the jury, was very happy with the results of the poster competition: “A collaboration with the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw allowed us to open a new chapter in the visual identification of the Chopin Competition. Right now, it is of special importance to us as we are preparing the centenary of this unique piano contest first organised in 1927 by professor Jerzy Żurawlew”.

The centenary celebrations will begin on 2 October 2025, when the XIX Chopin Competition will be inaugurated in Warsaw. They will last for five years.
 
All the works submitted to the poster competition will be presented at an exhibition, which will take place on 1-31 October 2025 at the Czapski Palace, the seat of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw.