3rd FINEness Art Festival - Fineness Art Festival

About Festival

FINEness International Art Festival

Each edition of the festival has its own theme. This time, the FINEness Festival will revolve around the theme of “Man.” The Historic Ignacy Mine, the halo! Rybnik City Information Point, and the Museum in Rybnik are just a few of the venues that have agreed to host our festival. Events making up the third edition of the International FINEness Art Festival will take place in each of these locations.
The IWS Poland Association has prepared a wide range of attractions during the festival. Artists from all over the world have been invited to share their knowledge through demonstrations and workshops. So far, we have hosted watercolorists from Peru, Macedonia, India, Slovakia, Thailand, Portugal, Slovenia, and Mexico.
We would like to introduce and provide artists with access to a variety of materials during the fairs organized at the Historic Ignacy Mine. The festival has attracted artists not only from Rybnik but from all over Poland and other countries as well.
The main events will be exhibitions representing various types of art, spread across different points in the city. To bring artists from different cities and regions closer together and to build connections, we have planned a series of open-air sessions, integration activities, and artistic challenges throughout the festival.

Aneta Gajos
President of the IWS Poland Association
Organizer of the International FINEness Art Festival

Festival Programm

Friday, April 11, 2025

Rybnik Centrum
10.00-12.00
Materials fair at Marina Art, ul. Sobieskiego 7, 44-200 Rybnik

11.30-12.30
Coffee painting at Halo!Rybnik ul. Sobieskiego 20, 44-200 Rybnik

Historic Ignacy Mine, ul. Ignacego Mościckiego 3, 44-273 Rybnik-Niewiadom
13:00-13:30 Steam engine show (Kosciuszko Shaft building)
13:30-19:00
Art materials fair (Compressor building)
13:30-15:30
Plein-air event at the Ignacy Historic Mine (entire facility)
14:30-15:30
Eko-Printing Workshop (Compressor building) – free, registration required
15:30-16:30
Live painting demonstration Anastasia Mouchan Belarus (Kosciuszko Shaft building)
15:30-16:30
Live painting demonstration Amfiria Polska (Kosciuszko Shaft building)
16:30-17:15
Art performance by Aleksandra Batura Polska (Kościuszko Shaft Building)
17.30-19.30
Festival Opening Gala (Kościuszko Shaft Building)

Saturday, April 12, 2025

Historic Ignacy Mine ul. Ignacego Mościckiego 3, 44-273 Rybnik-Niewiadom
10.00-18.00
Art materials fair (Compressor building)
10.00-12.00
“Making a plaster cast in a mirror image” Sculpture workshops with Weronika Turlej (Compressor building) – free, registration required
10.00-11.30
“Still life” Painting workshops with Krzysztof Ludwin (Compressor building) – free, registration required
10.00-12.00 “Magic of graphite: pencil drawing and more” Drawing workshops with Svitlana Lagutina (Mine area) – free, registration required
11.15-14.15
“Treasures in the dark” Intergenerational painting workshops by Aleksander Batur – paid, registration required registration
12.00-13.30
Painting workshops with Anna Maciejewska – free, registration required
14.15-15.15
Live painting demonstration Kasia Wiercińska Norway, Poland (Kosciuszko Shaft building)
14.15-15.15
Live painting demonstration Alice Bottrill Canada (Kosciuszko Shaft building)
15.30-16.30
Live painting demonstration Selma Tudorova Bulgaria (Kosciuszko Shaft building)
15.30-16.30
Live painting demonstration Krasi Tudorov Bulgaria (Kosciuszko Shaft building)
16.45-17.45
Live painting demonstration Wamwimol Kesa-Ngam Thailand (Kosciuszko Shaft building)
16.45-18.45
Art performance Tawee Kesa -Ngam Thailand (Kościuszko Shaft Building)

Sunday, April 13, 2025

Juliusz Educational Center and the former St. Julius Chapel ul. Klasztorna 11, 44-200 Rybnik
10.00-11.30
Collective painting – free, no registration required
11.30-13.45
Plenair at Juliusz
11.30-13.00
Painting workshops with Amfiria (Edukatorium building) – free, registration required
11.30-13.00
Sketchbook workshops with Kate Grishakova (Edukatorium building) – free, registration required
12.00-14.00
Cyanotype with Marcin Komorowski (Edukatorium building) – free, registration required
14.00-15.00
Live painting demonstration Kate Grishakova and Artem Polosuhin Slovakia (former Chapel building)
15.15-16.15
Live painting demonstration Miguel Ruiz Spain (Chapel building)
16.30-18.00
Opening of the exhibition of the Collective of Silesian Artists (Edukatorium building)
18.00-19.00
Concert of the Julius Roger Choir (former Chapel building)
19.00-19.30
End of the festival (former Chapel building)

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This is how it look in the past

Below, you will find a video from the previous edition of the Festival. Immerse yourself in the atmosphere…

Watercolor competition

IIIrd FINEness International Art Festival 2025 organized by IWS Poland

JURY
Antonio Bartolo, Dario Percy CCallo, Tawee Kesangam, Aood Ampawa, Thanyaphorn Inthanhom, Selma Todorova

DESCRIPTION
3rd edition of FINEness International Art Festival, Rybnik, Poland.
The festival includes a watercolor competition, art exhibitions and master live demonstrations, art performance as well as plain air .
The winners (1st, 2nd and 3rd place) receive art awards, additional 4 Sponsor Awards.

UPDATE!
New deadline for submitting works: 20.12.2024
Additional category: free topic

EXHIBITION
• Date of the exhibition: 10.04.2025- 29.04.2025
• Opening ceremony and award issuing: 11.04.2025

WATERCOLOUR
• Topic: man
Additional category: free topic
• Without passepartout and without frames;
• maximum 2 years old
• format: 38x56cm or invited artists 56x76cm
• One watercolour artist can participate with maximum 1 work

INSTRUCTIONS FOR PARTICIPATION
• The watercolour artist can apply by sending photos of a maximum 1 artwork to participation@finenessfestival.art
• The professional art committee will publish the list of selected participants
• The jury will inform the selection on 10.12.2024
• All selected artists will receive an e-mail with detailed instructions about how to send the original watercolour and pay the participation fee.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SENDING DIGITAL PHOTOS OF YOUR WATERCOLOURS:
• Format: .jpg / .jpeg;
• Size: between 2 M pixels and 3 M pixels;
• Resolution: 300 dpi;
• Title: Name and Surname – Country – Title – Year – Size – Price;
• The watercolour artwork must be unframed.
• Your digital photo will appear in the catalogue so please, send us the best quality photo!

PARTICIPATION FEE
• You only pay if you are informed that your artwork is selected for the exhibition.
• Payment deadline: 15.01.2025
• The participation fee is the following:
– IWS Members 70 EUR,
Country Leaders who collect at least 5 entries :free
– non IWS Members 90 EUR.

INSTRUCTION FOR SENDING THE ORIGINAL WATERCOLOOURS:
• Send the original watercolour artwork only if your artwork has been selected for the exhibition and you have paid the participation fee.
• Deadline for sending the original watercolours from your country (EMS service)
• On the back side of every watercolour, you should attach the filled out form

RULES
Medium: 90% watercolor;
Size of artwork: min 38x56cm or 56x76cm ;
Theme: man

Please add this data in your JPEG file: Name, Title, Country
Image must be correctly oriented (vertical or horizontal).
Show only the image, no frame or mat. Image must be cropped to show painting only.
No digital enhancement is allowed.

Deadline for application submission:
01.12.2024
New deadline for submitting works: 20.12.2024
Deadline for original painting shippment:
20.01.2025

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NEWS

What’s goin on?

We have published the Festival program. And we are getting going with sponsors. We already have prepared workshop offers.

Workshop registrations coming soon.

Aneta Gajos

Art Director/Organizer

Due to numerous requests, we are extending the deadline for submitting applications and adding a thematic category.
New deadline: 20.12.2024
Topic: free