14–28.10.2026
Let’s take it to the streets!
Street Poster is an event for the public space of Kraków, centered on restoring social posters to their natural environment: the street.
This year’s edition will begin with an open call for poster designs responding to the theme Reality Check. The topic serves as a starting point for reflecting on how media, technology, and dominant cultural narratives shape our understanding of truth, identity, and authenticity. The submitted posters may address issues such as disinformation, the tension between digital life and reality, and the growing crisis — intensified by AI — of the criteria that have so far helped us distinguish reality from fabrication or manipulation.
The main theme is also an invitation to explore the visible and hidden costs of life from economic, social, environmental, and ethical perspectives. Posters may engage with subjects such as overconsumption, climate responsibility, or the distribution of resources.
Organizer:
Poster Studio + Visual Communication Studio
Faculty of Graphic Arts, Jan Matejko Academy of Arts in Cracow
Partners:
Dydo Poster Gallery – Natalia Dydo / Krzysztof Dydo
14–28.10.2026
Let’s take it to the streets!
Street Poster is an event for the public space of Kraków, centered on restoring social posters to their natural environment: the street.
This year’s edition will begin with an open call for poster designs responding to the theme Reality Check. The topic serves as a starting point for reflecting on how media, technology, and dominant cultural narratives shape our understanding of truth, identity, and authenticity. The submitted posters may address issues such as disinformation, the tension between digital life and reality, and the growing crisis — intensified by AI — of the criteria that have so far helped us distinguish reality from fabrication or manipulation.
The main theme is also an invitation to explore the visible and hidden costs of life from economic, social, environmental, and ethical perspectives. Posters may engage with subjects such as overconsumption, climate responsibility, or the distribution of resources.
Organizer:
Poster Studio + Visual Communication Studio
Faculty of Graphic Arts, Jan Matejko Academy of Arts in Cracow
Partners:
Dydo Poster Gallery – Natalia Dydo / Krzysztof Dydo
Michał Jandura
A Kraków-based artist, graphic designer, and poster artist, and a graduate of the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. He is affiliated with the academy as a professor, where he leads the Poster Studio. He creates posters and applied graphics, and is also involved in electronic music, VJing, painting, installations, and scenography. He collaborates with cultural institutions in Poland and abroad, presenting his work in numerous exhibitions. He is a recipient of awards in the fields of poster design and graphic arts.
Joanna Tyborowska
A designer with a passion for both applied and artistic typography. She works across poster design, editorial graphics, and visual identity, and is a lecturer at the Poster Studio at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Her work has been recognized in numerous competitions, with awards from the Type Directors Club, the Paris Design Awards, the Communication Arts Awards, the KTR competition, STGU Project of the Year, and the PTWK Honorary Award for The Most Beautiful Polish Books.
Jakub Sowiński
A graphic designer specializing in visual communication. He teaches at the Visual Communication Studio in the Faculty of Graphic Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. In the past, he was affiliated with the editorial team of the quarterly magazine 2+3D. His portfolio includes numerous publishing projects and visual identities for cultural events, for which he is occasionally recognized with awards.
Kaja Kusztra
Designer, co-founder of the Solidarity Cultural Center "Słonecznik," and lecturer. She collaborates with cultural institutions such as the Photographer's Gallery, Office Southeast, Mies van der Rohe Foundation, Jovis Publishers, Spector Books, Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, the Museum of Art in Łódź, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, and others. Her work has been shown at the London Design Biennale, the Brno Biennale, the Salone del Mobile, the Kyiv Biennal, Warsaw Under Construction, and others. Winner of the PTWK Competition.
Student team:
Zuzanna Zięba, Alicja Stróżyk, Daniel Sypniewski, Ula Kalęba, Alexa Marcinów
May 25 – Open call for submissions begins
Submit your poster
September 14 – Submission deadline
September 15–30 – Jury selection process
October 1 – Announcement of selected posters
October 14–28 – Posters exhibited in public spaces across Kraków, Poland
October 16–18 – Opening event of Street Poster Krakow.
Further details to be announced.
Krzysztof Iwański
A visual artist and graphic designer. A member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI). He creates posters, installations, and graphic projects that respond to contemporary cultural, environmental, and political challenges. At the same time, he develops original artistic projects exploring the boundaries of visual communication in public space. His works, including Ghosts of Tomorrow, have been exhibited in Seoul, Shanghai, and Taiwan.
Małgorzata Gurowska
A visual artist, curator, and book author. She works at the intersection of art, activism, and science. Her work addresses political and social issues, critically describing the relationship between humans and non-humans as well as searching for more just and empathy-based scenarios. She is interested in bringing together different perspectives, people, and disciplines. She looks for new connections and collaborations, including across species. She creates books and drawings, and ventures outdoors (sculpture, installations, walks). Her publications include ZOEpolis. Building a Human–Nonhuman Community (Warsaw, 2020), Mandragora – Classifications (Warsaw, 2020), and Lokomotywa/IDEOLO (Warsaw, 2013). She explores the field of artistic research and is interested in generating knowledge through art practices. Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions in Poland and internationally, including MYCOsystem at the 22nd Triennale di Milano Broken Nature: Design Takes on Human Survival (2019), and The Age of Half-Light at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (2020). She is a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, where she leads the Interdisciplinary Drawing Studio at the Faculty of Sculpture.
Jakub Jezierski
A visual artist and designer who cannot stand still — he works, teaches, and constantly experiments. In his practice, he engages in a wide range of activities: from original poster design and branding to bread baking. He teaches at the Visual Confabulation Studio in the Faculty of Design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, where he shares his experience and approach to design. To maintain balance and prevent professional burnout, he happily devotes himself to pyrography.
Katarzyna Roj
A curator and author of numerous texts on material culture. From 2009 to 2023, she led the program of the Dizajn BWA Wrocław gallery, focusing on issues related to speculative design, resilience, and the use of design tools in processes of adaptation to climate change. She has curated extensive exhibition-processes such as “Żyjnia”, Fields of Regeneration (“Wrocław Irrigation Fields”), “Afterlife”, and “Una Breve Vacanza” (“A Short Vacation”). Since 2023, she has served as Deputy Director of BWA Wrocław for programming, education, and promotion.
Honorary Jury Member: Krzysztof Dydo
Born in 1945 in Kraków. Teacher, traveler, organizer of exhibitions and various poster-related projects, including publishing ventures, and a collector. The Dydo Poster Collection consists mainly of posters by Polish artists, predominantly from 1945 to 2026, as well as numerous posters by artists from around the world. He collaborates with cultural institutions and poster collectors worldwide. Since 1985, he has run the Poster Gallery in Kraków. Most exhibitions are prepared outside the gallery’s headquarters. Since 1975, he has organized dozens of major and more than 400 smaller solo and group exhibitions of artistic posters in Poland, in nearly every European country, and in other parts of the world.
Participation in the open call is free of charge. We invite graphic designers and visual artists of all ages. Both professionals and students are welcome — anyone who would like to communicate something important on a sheet of paper placed in the street. The jury will select the works to be presented in the urban space. All qualified submissions will automatically take part in the exhibition. The results of the selection will be announced no later than 1 October 2026. The opening of the outdoor exhibition will take place in mid-October 2026.
Category A – Reality Check
We invite you to reflect on how media, technology, and dominant cultural narratives shape our understanding of truth, identity, and authenticity. The themes of the works may include disinformation, the tension between digital life and reality, and the growing crisis of criteria — intensified by AI — that have so far helped us distinguish reality from creation or manipulation.
The theme is also an invitation to explore the visible and hidden costs of life from economic, social, environmental, and ethical perspectives. Posters may address topics such as overconsumption, climate responsibility, resource distribution, or degrowth — a critical perspective challenging the dominant model that equates progress with continuous economic growth.
Each participant may submit a maximum of three posters (each poster in a series is counted separately). The organizers will add the author’s name on the work, so please do not include your personal data in the design.
The design technique is open. Posters must be submitted in vertical B1 format (700 × 1000 mm), CMYK, 300 dpi, JPG, with minimal compression, without bleed or crop marks. The file name should include only the author’s first and last name and the title (optionally with numbering), e.g. Surname_Name_Title.jpg.
Category B – Advertising Column
The competition invites designers and artists to reinterpret the advertising column as a creative and engaging urban object. The project must relate to the theme defined in Category A. The aim is to combine functionality with artistic expression, transforming an everyday urban element into a work of public art that addresses social issues and provokes reflection. Each participant may submit a maximum of one advertising column project. The organizers will add the author’s name on the work, so please do not include your personal data in the design.
The design technique is open. Advertising column projects must be prepared according to the following guidelines: format 433 × 295 mm, scale 1:10, CMYK, 600 dpi, TIFF, LZW compression, without bleed or crop marks. Minimum line thickness: 3 mm. Safe area: 393 × 275 mm. Maximum file size: 400 MB. The file name should include only the author’s first and last name and the title (optionally with numbering), e.g. Surname_Name_Title.jpg.