Berenika Kołomycka

Comics creator, sketch artist, sculptor, and graphic artist. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, sculpture specialization. In 2001 she won the Grand Prix in the category of comic books at the International Festival of Comics and Games in Łódź. Kołomycka takes part in collective exhibitions in Poland and abroad, and regularly conducts comics workshops for adults and children. The children’s comic book series “Tiny Fox and Great Boar” is her own project. Her books have been published in Poland and abroad. Outside of her work, Kołomycka enjoys taking care of her cat Mami and her dog Lisisław Fox, who were the inspiration for the “Tiny Fox and Great Boar” series.

Emilia Dziubak

Author and illustrator of children’s books. A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań. Winner of the Literary Award of the Capital City of Warsaw 2014; the award in Przecinek i Kropka 2016 contest for the best children’s book; the Żółta Ciżemka 2017 award; and the Soligatto 2019 award. Emilia received an honourable mention in 2016 in the The Polish Association of Book Publishers (PTWK) Most Beautiful Books of the Year 2015 for the book „Rok w lesie” (A Year in The Forest, 2015). In 2018 she was awarded in the Book of the Year competition of the Polish Section of IBBY and in 2020 she was included on the IBBY Honour List. She was also published in the White Ravens 2014 Catalog for her illustrations to „Hug Me, Please!” (2017), and in 2019 she was on the list of The Outstanding International Books (OIB) 2019 USSBY for the book „The House of Lost and Found” (2018). She has collaborated with authors and publishing houses in Poland and abroad, i.a. with the Swedish author, Martin Widmark, within several book projects that resulted in creating books: Lilla Sticka i landets Lycka (2016), Huset som vaknade (2017), Den långa vandringen (2018), Mojängen (2020), Den lilla spenatgumman (2022), published by Bonnier Carlsen.

Jenny Berggren

Swedish illustrator and visual artist based in Umeå, Sweden, where she has her studio in a studio collective consisting of about ten people active in various creative fields. As a visual artist Berggren works mainly in oil and within the field of realism. She has a diploma from the Swedish Academy of Realist Art (SARA) in Simrishamn. As an illustrator she mainly illustrates children’s books, among them the Swedish editions of works by authors such as E. B. White and Jan Brzechwa. In 2022 her first very own book was published, a book with only pictures for small children. For her illustrations, she uses various techniques such as graphite pencils, watercolour, gouache and digital painting. For Brzechwa’s „Herr Klex akademi”, which is part of this exhibition, she used ink throughout the whole book, since that element is essential for the story.

Zbigniew Lengren

Zbigniew Lengren was a legendary comic-strip artist for “Przekrój”; a caricaturist who never presented anyone in a malicious way. He invented Professor Filutek, a jolly man dressed in old-fashioned style, with a bowler hat and umbrella. In life, Lengren avoided anything that seemed arrogant or conceited, snobbish or pompous, or demanded too much respect for procedures, hierarchies and obedience. (source: PRZEKRÓJ Foundation)