Deadline: November 07, 2025.. Theme: "Communicationand (Interhuman) Relationships"..
Remaining Time to Paricipate in the Competition:
5th International Cartoon Exhibition 2025 Zagreb Croatia
ZeGeBOOM! international cartoon exhibition: APPLICATION FORM (2025)
After the themes EARTHQUAKE (2021), CROWD (2022), IDEAL CITY (2023) and GAMES in the CITY, this year's theme is COMMUNICATION AND (INTERHUMAN) RELATIONSHIPS!
Everyone is welcome to submit their views on this topic in the form described in the competition propositions!
The topic was described in more detail by art critic and exhibition selector Branka Hlevnjak:
"COMMUNICATION AND (INTERHUMAN) RELATIONSHIPS"
Has communication become a one-way manipulation?
Has reality been replaced by its technological surrogate?
Are we sinking into an abyss of lethargy due to excess information?
Are we letting our brains out to pasture because we finally have our own intellectual assistant Chat GPT?
OR
We sharpen our critical thinking. We strengthen empathy. We become our own, international and planetary.
Have we developed into better people and a smarter humanity through enhanced communication
networks?
OR
Are we standing still, not changing our nature since the beginning of civilization?
Are we hearing each other better or just faster and more superficially?
Where has neighborly solidarity disappeared and is it really forbidden?
How is fear incited and hatred spread by the media?
The most serious form of destruction of humanity is forbidden communication, because people, despite their
imperfections, are social beings.
Mass media communication has been reduced to paid advertisements. Public speech has become vulgarized. The world is full of swearing and swearing. Interpersonal relationships are in their infancy. Technology puts a pacifier in their mouth and a rattle under their arms.
Have we taken a step forward or a step back?
What can we say to that without saying a word?
- Applications for the competition are open from October 6 to November 7, 2025, and EVERYONE interested can apply - regardless of experience, age, gender, religion, nationality or any other (more or less important) characteristic of the author.
- Authors can submit 1-3 "silent" cartoons (without text!), following the competition's suggestions and responding in their own unique and creative way to the given topic.
- After the application is complete, an expert jury will select the best among the submitted works, and then the public will be able to vote and choose the works that will be awarded. Regardless of the voting results, all participants will receive a certificate of participation, and their selected works will be published in the 3rd ZeGeBOOM! cartoon catalog.
- The winners of the competition will additionally earn valuable prizes! Online voting will be available worldwide and open from November 21 to December 3, 2024. The best works will be exhibited from December 10 to December 31, 2024 in the Small Gallery of the Trešnjevka Cultural Center, and all other submitted works will be available online - to allow everyone to enjoy the art of caricature!
SCHEDULE
- Competition/receipt of works: 06. 10. – 07. 11. 2025.
- Selection and voting of the expert jury, preparation of the catalog of all authors: 08.11.-16.11.2025.
Online public voting (e-catalog with all authors): 17.11. – 5.12.2025.
Announcement of results (e-catalog with selected and awarded authors): by 8.12.2025.
EXHIBITION OPENING 09.12. (7 pm) 5th ZeGeBOOM! exhibitions, Modulor and Small Gallery
EXHIBITION DURATION: 09.12. - 06.01.2026
Certificate delivery (email): December 2025 - January 2026
Award delivery (by post): January 2026
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PROPOSITIONS OF THE CALL
WHO CAN PARTICIPATE?
The exhibition is open to all authors regardless of nationality, age, gender, religion, experience or profession.
HOW TO PARTICIPATE?
You can participate only by sending and filling out the official application form, which you should submit within the given deadline - along with your cartoon (or cartoons).
Cartoons received in any other way, as well as cartoons received without a completed application form, will not be accepted.
APPLICATION FORM:
Application forms can be filled out in Croatian or English.
Click to enter:
APPLICATION FORM (CROATIAN) 2025
CARTOON(S):
1 – 3 cartoons WITHOUT WORDS
The cartoon(s) may have been previously published, exhibited and awarded at other competitions.
Format: A4 (210×297 mm), RGB, JPEG, 300 dpi, high resolution, maximum 10MB
DEADLINE FOR THE DELIVERY OF CARTOONS: November 07, 2025.
SELECTION
Exhibition selector, art critic M.Sc. sc. Branka Hlevnjak, selects 1 cartoon from each author.
EXPERT JURY AND PUBLIC VOTING
Branka Hlevnjak
Ivan Hromatko
Izabela Kowalska-Wieczorek
Hamid Soufi
Darko Drljević
Radko Oketič
Zdenko Puhin
Damir Novak
Dado Kovačević
+ AUDIENCE CHOICE (OPEN 17 November - 5 December 2025)
Public online voting via the official voting form:
You can vote for the best cartoons via a short online form:
EXHIBITION
09.12.-06.01.2025. at the "Small Gallery" of the Trešnjevka Culture Center (Zagreb, Croatia)
+ online exhibition open to all authors regardless of nationality, age, gender and profession.
PRIZES
- All Authors:
digital catalog delivered by email
certificate of participation
- Selected Authors:
Publication of cartoons at the exhibition (December 10-31, 2024)
Publication of cartoons in the catalog of selected cartoons on this year's theme
- 1st, 2nd and 3rd Place:
1st place IN PREPRATION + Custom T-shirt made by Dragutin Dado Kovačević, famous cartoonist
2nd place IN PREPRATION
3rd place IN PREPRATION
Audience Choice: Custom T-shirt made by Dragutin Dado Kovačević, famous cartoonist
OTHER RULES
By submitting a cartoon to the competition, the authors confirm that they are the sole author of the submitted cartoons (1-3), that they are familiar with the nature and content of the program for which they are applying, and that they give their consent to the organizer to use the collected data for this program, as well as for informational activities and media campaigns. By sending cartoon to the competition, they agree that the exhibited cartoons remain at the disposal of the organizer, who can use them for advertising and other purposes without royalties and further exhibit them, with the name, surname and country of the author and the name of the exhibition.
ORGANISER
Trešnjevka Cultural Centre
Park Stara Trešnjevka 1, 10110 Zagreb, Croatia
Project Manager: Ph.D. Ivan Hromatko (zegeboom@gmail.com)
Exhibition Selector: M.Sc. sc. Branka Hlevnjak, art critic
Professional Associate: Dragutin Dado Kovačević, academic painter/graphic artist / ARTour
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