On August 21, 2023 in the Regional Ethnographic Museum in Plovdiv took place the jurying of the caricatures that participated in The Twelfth International Biennial “Masters of Caricatures” – Plovdiv 2023. The subject this year is “The Magic in Time and Space”.
Screening and selection of caricatures was conducted by the jury:
Assoc. Prof. Angel Yankov, PhD – Director, REM – Plovdiv
Tsocho Peev – Plovdiv Cartoonists Association
Assoc. Prof. Svetla Dimitrova, PhD – President of UARD
Irien Trendafilov – Plovdiv Cartoonists Association
Nezhna Filipova – Artist
231 caricatures by 105 artists from 37 countries were received.
For “Master of Caricature” were selected the following artists:
Valeri Aleksandrov, Bulgaria
Liviu Stanila, Romania
Ronaldo Cunha Dias, Brazil
Darko Drljevic, Montenegro
Luiza Hamel, Bulgaria

Nominated were:
Pitter Klaus, Austria
Santiago Cornejo, Argentina
Marcio Leite, Brazil
Dilyana Nikolova, Bulgaria
Evgeni Nachev, Bulgaria
Steffen Jahsnowski-Herschel, Germany
Mahdieh Sabbaghkar, Iran
Yang Lijie, China
Luis Eduardo Leon, Colombia
Igor Pashchenko, Russia
Sergey Sokolov, Russia
William Lockett, USA
Engin Selcuk, Turkey
Alexander Dubovsky, Ukraine

The exhibition with the caricatures will be oppened on October 2, 2023 at 6 pm.